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Bradlee Dean chastises Obama for public-school assembly appearances

By Andy Birkey | 11.05.09 | 1:53 pm

The two leaders of evangelical ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCR) have chastised President Obama twice in the past two weeks for appearing at public school assemblies in Chicago while he was a U.S. senator. Bradlee Dean…

Bachmann endorses conference featuring speaker who links Obama, Hitler

By Andy Birkey | 10.30.09 | 8:53 am

Picture 12On Nov. 9, the Citizens Council on Health Care will host a fundraiser with a woman who says Obama’s policies are similar to those that brought the rise of Nazi Germany and that Obama could be paving the way…

AM.MN: Suits scare Pawlenty, Minneapolis officials

By Chris Steller | 10.30.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoLawsuit Day often comes before Halloween and Election Day (ask Norm Coleman). Sure enough, Thursday saw a federal judge give President Obama a treat, confirming his U.S. citizenship in throwing out a “birther” suit. In Minnesota,…

The anti-abortion lobby’s full court press against health reform light on the facts

By Andy Birkey | 10.29.09 | 10:40 am

caduceus healthcareMinnesota’s largest anti-abortion group, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, is vigorously opposing all of the health reform proposals being offered by Democrats in Congress — and it’s not just about abortion. Several Republican talking points have crept into the…

Obama signs hate crimes bill

By Andy Birkey | 10.28.09 | 2:17 pm

President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard Act into law on Wednesday ending a decade of efforts by LGBT and human rights groups to get sexual orientation and gender identity included in federal hate crime laws.

Pawlenty gives Obama ‘corrosive’ treatment

By Chris Steller | 10.26.09 | 10:08 am

tpaw pretzel DC pacGov. Pawlenty continued his attacks on Barack Obama today, saying the president is “spending the country into bankruptcy,” is “projecting potential weakness” to America’s enemies, and has “governed in an extremely liberal way.”

AM.MN: Ask Big Pharma if Franken’s bill is right for Brian Williams

By Chris Steller | 10.26.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoU.S. Sen. Al Franken has it in for Brian Williams. That’s one conclusion to be drawn from Franken’s backing of a bill that would end tax breaks for pharmaceutical ads of the sort that pepper TV network…

Speaker for local rightwing fundraiser likens Obama to Hitler

By Andy Birkey | 10.15.09 | 12:20 pm

Picture 5The New York Times noted on Monday that rightwing opposition to the Democrats’ health care reform plans contains plenty of references to Nazis. On Wednesday, a Minnesota-based, rightwing health care group offered a local example, announcing a former…

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer: Nobel Peace Prize for Obama ‘deeply problematic’

By Chris Steller | 10.09.09 | 4:28 pm

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, perhaps the only Minnesota politician with the word “peace” in his job title, says the Nobel Peace Prize for President Obama is “deeply problematic. It rewards rhetoric over substance.”

Pawlenty congrats for Obama draw notice

By Chris Steller | 10.09.09 | 12:31 pm

Gov. Pawlenty has made a big enough name for himself — in part with relentless Obama-bashing in his own pursuit of the presidency — that his ever-so-qualified words of congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize drew…