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U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman received $2,300 from the family of Isaac Robert Toussie. Toussie, who is convicted of fraud, had his Dec. 23 presidential pardon revoked the next day by President Bush. Bush’s reversal came after large donations from Toussie’s father and other family members to the Republican Party and Republican candidates, including Coleman, came to light.
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The religious right had a bad day on Tuesday. The election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in the U.S. Senate and House put support for religious right policies further out of reach, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Some say Republican John McCain coddled Obama on the issues, and others point to President Bush’s noncommittal attitude for issues the religious right cares about the most: gay marriage and abortion. The one bit of post-election hope seems to be the ascension of Sarah Palin as a religious right figurehead.

The global impact of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Disease Laboratory on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus may not be instantly recognizable, but in the midst of a global food crisis its mission is critical. “We protect small grain cereal crops from the most devastating diseases,” the Cereal Disease Laboratory Web site [...]

As reported on KSTP, President Bush has just arrived.  Earlier this morning there was a notice of irritating fumes that some described as perfumy, others as peppery, possibly coming from something tossed into a trash can in the area.  19 people were taken to the hospital.

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