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Religious right’s Worldview Weekend rally coming to Rochester

By Andy Birkey | 02.22.10 | 10:55 am

brannonhowseThe Tea Party and religious right movements will collide — or coalesce — when the Worldview Weekend rally comes to Rochester April 9. Worldview Weekend founder Brannon Howse (pictured) will present his brand of evangelical Christianity, sprinkled with…

Pawlenty’s Twitter page looks socialist

By Chris Steller | 04.24.09 | 7:48 am

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled his new Twitter home page only yesterday. Then why does the color scheme suggest it was designed for a Soviet socialist in the 1920s? (After the jump is Aleksandr Rodchenko‘s cover for…

St. Cloud abhors a vacuum: Socialist Angela Davis and cusser Joe Biden fill void

By Chris Steller | 03.16.09 | 9:17 am

davis-bidenSixth-district podiums left empty by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann are getting grabbed by public figures who pepper their talk with revolution and profanity. Avowed socialist, one-time Most-Wanted radical and now University of California-Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis

Sign season: Obama sign with red star now ‘socialist’ red meat

By Chris Steller | 10.30.08 | 12:38 pm

Barry Clegg wanted to irritate Republicans who had scheduled an offshoot event from their national convention a couple blocks from his house on Nicollet Island near downtown Minneapolis. So he ordered a large Obama banner to hang in his yard from an Iowa-based vendor he found online. Now the banner’s decidely unofficial red-star design (which the vendor, not Clegg, came up with) has taken on new meaning in the context of Republicans taunts that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a “socialist.”