“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.” With that line, former Gov. Jesse Ventura cemented a place for himself alongside U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, rapper…
Hundreds of Minnesotans braved Alaskan temperatures before dawn Monday outside the Mall of America to wait for Sarah Palin to sign their copies of her book, “Going Rogue.” They warmed up when talking about Palin with the Minnesota Independent.
Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine carried a quizzical interview by Deborah Solomon with President George W. Bush’s former senior adviser, Karl Rove. Across 21 questions, Rove and Solomon covered a lot of political and even emotional territory, with an often-combative…
Newsweek is rolling out its “How He Did It, 2008″ series of untold secrets from inside the presidential campaigns that were embargoed until after the election. Even among revelations about foreign cyber attacks against both campaigns, the Sarah…
During my tour of northern Minnesota with Todd Palin last week, I spoke with Robert Leiseth at a rally in Moorhead. Plastered with “Sportsmen for McCain” stickers, he discussed his fears that Obama “is steering us into socialism,” his praise for Sarah Palin and his concerns about Joe Biden’s experience. But his most pointed words were about Obama’s ethnicity. Leiseth believes Obama is “an Arab who is a little tiny bit African American.”
Todd Palin’s five-city, two-day campaign across northern Minnesota ended in the city of Moorhead in the northwestern part of the state, just across the Red River of the North from the bigger city of Fargo, N.D. There, Minnesota Independent reporter Paul Demko took in one last T-Pal stump speech at Scheel’s sporting goods store before interviewing people outside the store, some of whom had traveled two hours or more for the short, five-minute speech. Here are highlights, in a seven-minute video clip that touches on Abraham Lincoln, Saul Alinsky and Pythagoras.
Barack Obama’s visit to Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken in Fayetteville, N.C. on Sunday afternoon drew some nasty responses from patrons, according to a report from Politico. While many diners applauded his arrival, Diane Fanning began yelling “socialist,…
Does “First Dude” Todd Palin believe Alaska should secede from the United States? The journey continues to Moorhead and Duluth.
Though he is not officially a member of the executive branch, Todd Palin is renowned for attending meetings with the governor and legislators or other public officials, many of whom have described his (almost totally silent) presence as odd or even discomfiting. Todd Palin, for example, has been copied on e-mails related to policy and personnel matters, and he’s taken numerous trips — with and without his wife — as a representative of the state.
By his own account, Palin regards none of this as inappropriate.
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