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Students in Austin, Texas; Source: Mary Tuma, The Texas Independent

Inspired by Wall Street protests, students walkout nationwide

Source: Flickr,  David_Shankbone
By Jon Collins | 10.06.11 | 7:16 am

Students at schools across the country voiced grievances about rocketing student debt and spiraling job opportunities.

Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Republican Conference, Flickr

HuffPo says Bachmann plagiarized GOP talking points

By Andy Birkey | 09.27.10 | 8:26 am

The Huffington Post says Rep. Michele Bachmann is among many congressional Republicans who have taken talking points from the GOP and used them in public statements, often without any changes and without acknowledgment that they were actually statements by the GOP. HuffPo conducted an “extensive review” of both Democratic and Republican floor speeches, campaign websites and other public statements using plagiarism detection software.

‘Amarica’s Congress Woman’: Rep. Michele Bachmann

By Andy Birkey | 03.22.10 | 7:45 am

bachmannamaricaHuffington Post’s Jason Linkins discovered something strange when he put “Michele Bachmann” into Yahoo’s search engine on Saturday: Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign website says she is “Amarica’s Congress Woman.”

HuffPo: Minnesotan interviewed by FBI agents investigating Kazeminy charges

By Chris Steller | 05.13.09 | 9:41 pm

colemannormThe Huffington Post is reporting that the FBI conducted an interview with a person in Minnesota as part of an investigation of so-called “Suitgate” charges leveled against Norm Coleman last summer. HuffPo doesn’t name the person and…

FBI vet Rowley rips RNC report, readies WAMM complaints, pursues police data

By Chris Steller | 02.23.09 | 1:58 pm

FBI whistleblower-turned-activist Coleen Rowley is on a roll. She rips into the City of St. Paul’s report on Republican National Convention law enforcement in a new commentary column, and Tuesday she will join others from Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) in filing formal complaints with Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher over RNC policing tactics. And Rowley’s inquiries into what she suspects was overbroad surveillance during the RNC are starting to bear fruit — of a sort.

Faith-based Minnesota Teen Challenge cannot evade scrutiny

By Andy Birkey | 12.17.08 | 10:19 am

If you accept taxpayer money, you have to accept that you’re going to receive public scrutiny. That simple point seems to be eluding Minnesota Teen Challenge (MNTC), the faith-based drug treatment program which secured a federal earmark in early 2008 arranged by Rep. Jim Ramstad, for its “Know the Truth” program which aims to prevent drug use.

Last week, the program sent two nearly identical letters to both the Minnesota Independent and the Huffington Post responding to articles critical of their programming.

Recount Day Off: Is Norm a wiener or a whiner?

By Chris Steller | 11.24.08 | 10:56 am

Sunday was so quiet. After four days of sometimes frenetic, more often attention-taxing activity, Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount teams took a deserved day of rest. A thrilling Minnesota Independent traffic spike from a Huffington Post pickup of story I wrote about…

What’s the word? Tinklenberg!

By Paul Demko | 10.23.08 | 5:22 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s moment of infamy on Hardball has now been immortalized in song. Huffington Post’s Paul Hipp created this infectious ditty. “Let’s do all we can for the man whose name sounds like peeing in the snow!!!” Hipp…

Video: Obama’s (annotated) debate criticisms of McCain on Iraq

By Steve Perry | 09.29.08 | 10:29 am

HuffPost has assembled a short video of the passage from Friday night’s debate when Barack Obama ran down a laundry list of John McCain’s errors in judgments about the Iraq War, inserting clips of McCain’s own contemporaneous words on the…

Got Polled? New Media-Blogger Alliance Wants to Hear from You

By Robin Marty | 11.27.07 | 2:29 pm

Minnesota Monitor’s parent organization, the Center for Independent Media, has teamed up with a bipartisan array of blogs, traditional media and online news networks for a first-ever national survey of political polls.

“Our aim is simple: to…