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Still from Pawlenty's video, dubbed 'Nighttime in America' by Iowa Democrats

Video: Pawlenty’s doom-and-gloom response to Obama’s reelection announcement

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.04.11 | 11:50 am

The same morning President Obama announced he’s running for re-election, Tim Pawlenty countered with a video rebuttal. Like his previous Hollywood-style offerings, this one combines a cinematic soundtrack with quick-cut editing. It’s a compilation of doom-and-gloom footage — complete with a shot of lightning ominously striking the White House — about unemployment, foreclosures and high gas prices that concludes with Pawlenty’s response to Obama’s “win the future” rhetoric: “How can America win the future when we’re losing the present?”

Bachmann’s ‘armed and dangerous’ becomes example of ‘toxic political environment’

By Andy Birkey | 01.10.11 | 1:18 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s statement saying she wants Minnesotans “armed and dangerous” during a radio interview in 2009 has become a target of liberals in the wake of the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona this weekend. Rep. Keith Ellison, Bachmann’s neighbor to the south, said such statements have consequences, while New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used it as an example of the “climate of hate.”

Crystal ball: The future looks (extreme) right

By Molly Priesmeyer | 11.03.08 | 10:24 am

There’s little doubt Sarah Palin is poising herself to become the new voice of the Republican party. As she campaigns for McCain, going rogue has not only become her norm, it’s become her platform. Her pro-”redneck” America, her “real”…

NYT’s Krugman chortles over Powerline’s past lunacy about housing bubble

By Andy Birkey | 10.01.08 | 1:00 pm

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went after Minnesota conservative blog Powerline for criticizing Krugman’s 2005 column warning of a housing bubble that was about to burst.
Powerline’s John Hinderaker wrote at the time: “[T]here is little reason…