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Quist: Liberals seek ‘worldwide education system’ to push ‘left-wing propaganda’

By Andy Birkey | 03.30.10 | 1:15 pm

GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio show this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”

Bachmann headed to St. Louis with Glenn Beck

By Andy Birkey | 01.25.10 | 1:03 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann will head to St. Louis next week to speak at the Educational Policy Conference 21 put on by the Constitutional Coalition, a Missouri-based conservative group. The conference, “What makes America work?,” will be headlined by Fox’s…

Is Quist still the religious right candidate?

By Andy Birkey | 12.16.09 | 2:46 pm

Former state legislator and conservative Christian figurehead Allen Quist says his campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Tim Walz will focus not on the social-conservative issues he’s targeted in the past but on “Tea Party” issues. But during the last few months, he had been working closely with some of the religious right’s top leaders as he’s done throughout much of his 27-year political career.

Religious right leader Phyllis Schlafly urges support for Bachmann

By Andy Birkey | 11.24.09 | 8:47 pm

Octogenarian religious right leader Phyllis Schlafly urged members of her Eagle Forum on Tuesday to rush to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s support to “stand with her through all the vicious attacks being directed her way from the Left for daring…

Bachmann to address nat’l Tea Party confab; Clark fundraises off such gigs

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.24.09 | 5:23 pm

Just as DFL congressional candidate Tarryl Clark uses Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance at a conservative conference in Florida in a fundraising appeal, word comes out that Bachmann will be showcased at yet another such affair: the

Religious right watch: September conference promises birthers, Bachmann, infidels

By Andy Birkey | 09.02.09 | 12:19 pm

Some of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s comments in Denver this week — notably, that opponents of health care reform should “slit our wrists, be blood brothers” — generated plenty of attention in the media and blogosphere. But in just three weeks, she’ll have plenty of competition for those headlines. Speaking at the “How to Take Back America” conference later this month, she’ll be sharing the stage with a pastor who says conference attendees will be trained to “turn out the infidels”; a radio host who doubts President Obama is a U.S. citizen; and a columnist who opposes statehood for Puerto Rico because he says it’s a “Caribbean dogpatch.”

Post-Senate, is Coleman lurching to the right?

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.04.09 | 11:18 am

Norm Coleman is giving the keynote speech at the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference, which began in St. Louis today. The two-day conference features such hard-right…

MnIndy video: Protesters plague RNC pro-life party in honor of (no-show) Sarah Palin

By Andy Birkey | 09.03.08 | 8:08 am

Three-hundred-year-old religious right gadfly Phyllis Schlafly organized a “Life of the Party” party on Tuesday for pro-life delegates and politicians. The event was rife with bitter disappointments for the crowd, however. First delegates were met at the door by…

The Bachmann-Palin connection: Is their RNC get-together still on?

By Steve Perry | 08.29.08 | 2:18 pm

We’re publishing this item especially for our RSS readers, to call your attention to Karl Bremer’s MnIndy piece last Monday reporting that Michele Bachmann is (was?) to be a featured guest at a convention-week reception for Palin hosted by ancient…

Bachmann to be featured guest at reception honoring scandal-plagued Alaska governor Palin

By Karl Bremer | 08.29.08 | 12:00 pm

Editor’s note: MnIndy published this piece on Monday, and we’re foregrounding it again now in light of Palin’s VP nod today.
Michele Bachmann will be a featured guest at the “The Life of the Party Party,” a reception…