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Robert Lilligren's campaign accuses Somali challenger of using homophobic tactics

At Minneapolis's Sixth Ward DFL precinct caucus in April, Abdi Warsame won the party's endorsement over incumbent City Council member Robert Lilligren.SEE ALSO: Glenn Beck blames federal investigation into Bachmann on Minnesota's Somali population [VIDEO] But Lilligren's campaign contested the resul ... More >>

John Piper, former Mpls megachurch pastor, deletes insensitive tweets about OKC tornado

John Piper, the recently retired pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, has made a cottage industry out of attributing natural disasters to God's vindictive will.SEE ALSO: Glenn Beck comes to Lizz Winstead's defense over Oklahoma tornado jokes For instance, in response to the 2004 Asian ... More >>

The Fracking Fiasco

America's latest gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Prince adds Welcome 2 Chicago show supporting ex-Obama staffer Van Jones

See Also:Prince's rumored St. Paul concert isn't happeningPrince announces five-show run in NYCPrince has decided to nail down an actual concert -- not in St. Paul, but Chicago. The announcement of a Welcome 2 Chicago show, his first in the area since 2004, came in Friday morning -- via Live Nation. ... More >>

Thomas Caffall, Texas A&M shooter, was a Michele Bachmann supporter

SEE ALSO: -- Wade Michael Page, Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter: Image circulating [PHOTO]-- The Onion's "Bachmann Thankful No Americans Died In Sikh Shooting" story dupes dozensOn Monday, Thomas Caffall opened fire on an officer approaching his College Station, Texas house to serve an eviction notice ... More >>

Macalester President Brian Rosenberg appalled by Santorum

Macalester President Brian Rosenberg is appalled by Rick Santorum. The liberal arts college bigwig has come out against the Republican presidential candidate despite the potential for alienating his conservative alumni. Rosenberg spends part of a recently-published essay ruminating on the responsib ... More >>

Michele Bachmann warns of the Hezbollah Cuban Missile Crisis that isn't happening

Michele Bachmann is here to warn you about Cuba, Hezbollah, and everything else.​Michele Bachmann is plunging deeper and deeper into the informational abyss these days, pulling out whatever kind of fact-like thing she stumbles on and throwing it at her wide-eyed audiences, which grow smaller and l ... More >>

Target had a good month in August, stock drops anyway

Target, now with less "Super."​Target Corporation reported a 5 percent spike in retail sales in the month of August. No matter: Target stock is dropping today.Oh, no. This is it. George Soros bought all that Target stock, and now he's deliberately tanking the company, before he drags the rest of A ... More >>

Singer-songwriter Kevin Steinman checks in from Norway to talk about the aftermath of the Oslo tragedy

​Minneapolis singer-songwriter Kevin Steinman is abroad in Norway right now visiting family with his wife Ina. As the horrific Oslo attacks were taking place, Steinman was an hour away from the city, watching and waiting for the news as it all happened. We spoke to Kevin via email about his ex ... More >>

Dolly Parton coming to Mystic Lake, tickets on sale tomorrow

​What do Dolly Parton and ABC's 1990 primetime lineup have in common?

Michele Bachmann gushed bunk about Obama oil drilling permits

The former federal tax attorney strings together some fuzzy math.​"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office," Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Conservative Principles PAC on March 26. It was a great red meat line. It helped her st ... More >>

Dan Savage invites Tim Pawlenty to film "It Gets Better" video

​In the latest issue of Time magazine, sex columnist Dan Savage calls on former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to record a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.When the alt weekly sex columnist is asked who should record a public service spot against gay suicide, he named Pawlenty along with longt ... More >>

Michele Bachmann co-sponsors English-only bill

Don't know much about history.​Fresh off doubling down with the birthers, history-challenged Rep. Michele Bachmann is now throwing in with the English-only crowd. Bachmann has co-sponsored a bill from Iowa Rep. Steve King, "To declare English as the official language of the United States, to ... More >>

Michele Bachmann for president: The website

weneedmichele.comRun, Michele, run!​Michele Bachmann's inescapable media-grandstanding has been a constant throughout her political career. But if you've tracked her lately, you've probably noticed she's more omnipresent than ever, and you've heard the relentless drum of approaching thunder: ... More >>

Michele Bachmann won't show her birth certificate

ABCMichele Bachmann is a Birther again.​On a conservative talk radio show this week, Michele Bachmann declared that before her first presidential debate, she'd produce her birth certificate. We figured, why wait until then? We sent her team a request to see the document. So far, the Bachmann ca ... More >>

Michele Bachmann blames reporters for her American Revolution gaffe

​Just the other day, Rep. Michele Bachmann single-handedly relocated the opening battle of the American Revolution from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. Journalists took note. Embarrassing headlines were written. Now Bachmann, who has previously funked the history of slavery, the Founding Fat ... More >>

Michele Bachmann fails American Revolution history

Bachmann fails history again.​Someone go find the dunce cap. Michele Bachmann tackled American history again in public, and once again gave America good reason to laugh at Minnesota. She's already flubbed the history of the Founding Fathers and forgotten slavery. This time around, in a heav ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's health care funding conspiracy theory debunked

​Rep. Michele Bachmann insisted over and over again on Sunday's Meet the Press and on Facebook that she was privy to a sinister plot by President Barack Obama to hide $105 billion worth of funding in the health care reform law. The story has about as much truth as the hogwash she peddled about t ... More >>

Michele Bachmann promises White House plans by summer

Michele Bachmann wants to be president.​Fresh off informing the world that she didn't read the health care reform bill before it enacted in March 2010, Michele Bachmann says she'll soon let everyone know what her 2012 White House tea party plans are. "We need a nominee who really understands ... More >>

Michele Bachmann on Meet The Press: Barack Obama is anti-American

Michele Bachmann loses perspective.​"Meet The Press" host David Gregory tried to get Rep. Michele Bachmann to answer some basic questions on Sunday morning. She wouldn't. She ducked and weaved like a prize fighter as Gregory asked repeatedly whether she'd vote for shutting down the government ... More >>

Michele Bachmann is a student of foreign policy

Now that she's seen Mexico, Bachmann might have to revise her criteria for what makes a gangsta​Rep. Michele Bachmann, who has compared the federal government to a "cartel" and called it "gangster government," has returned from visiting some real gangstas. Now, she is calling herself "a stude ... More >>

Dim-bulb Bachmann brings back lightbulb bill

Dottie MaeBachmann doesn't trust a lighting technology if it's less than 120 years old.​They can have Michele Bachmann's incandescent light bulbs when they pry them from her cold dead fingers. The Tea Party receptacle doesn't want big government intruding into her sockets, and she's reintrodu ... More >>

Michele Bachmann says federal law doesn't apply to pet bridge project

Bachmann's porking for a bridge to Wisconsin.​Rep. Michele Bachmann insists America is headed for socialism and bankruptcy because "porking" has gotten way out of control--unless, of course, you're talking about her pet bridge project to Wisconsin. She's about to submit a bill that does an end ru ... More >>

Tea Party Caucus membership declines under Queen Bachmann

Bachmann leads a shrinking Tea Party Caucus.​So much for a movement sweeping through the halls of Congress: Since Michele Bachmann founded the House Tea Party Caucus last summer and declared herself Receptacle in Chief, it has actually lost members. The Hill reports that the caucus now has 50 ... More >>

Michele Bachmann fights narcoterrorism

Like this Mexican soldier, Bachmann will have deal with real gangstas.​Rep. Michele Bachmann, who hid in the bushes from gays and lesbians in St. Paul, is now meeting with foreign leaders in the war against narcoterrorism. She's just back from undisclosed locations in Mexico and Colombia on ... More >>

Michele Bachmann fails again on campaign finance reports

Who's watching the books?​For a budget hawk and a former tax pro, Rep. Michele Bachmann sure seems to have an issue with math. Maybe it's because she's got more money than she knows what to do with. The Federal Election Commission has informed her--again--that her year-end campaign finance repo ... More >>

Michele Bachmann votes to defund AmeriCorps, which her son joined

Mother knows best.​Rep. Michele Bachmann has voted to defund AmeriCorps, the popular community service organization that her son opted to join in 2009. Guess she showed him who's boss.

Rep. Keith Ellison: Muslim Brotherhood irrelevant [TRANSCRIPT]

Ellison: Ignore the Muslim Brotherhood.​Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has made a run for the border after three weeks of protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Egyptians have thrown off decades of autocratic, humiliating rule. The country seems poised for the advent of democracy. Good, ... More >>

Keith Ellison defended by Baptist, Jewish leaders after Allen West attacks

Allen West: Constitutional principles for me, but not for thee.​Muslim Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison just isn't American enough for Rep. Allen West. The Florida Republican told radio host Richard Peritz that Ellison is the "antithesis of the principles on which this country was established." Now, ... More >>

Michael Blodgett ran gold scams in Minnesota long before Jason Meyer

This week's cover​Our cover story this week describes the varied schemes of Jason Meyer, a Rochester entrepreneur who bilked his clients out of money with promises of huge returns on lucrative investments--sometimes in gold mines.Recently, Meyer was raided by the FBI and the IRS, and he's up on ch ... More >>

Betty McCollum speaks out on Arizona shootings [VIDEO]

Betty McCollum calls for an end to incendiary rhetoric in this video.​Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) on Monday decried the kind of heated political rhetoric that some are blaming for the Arizona shootings. McCollum held office hours Monday for people to express their sympathy and support for ... More >>

Michele Bachmann: The Year In Crazy

Wingnut of the Year.​Rep. Michele Bachmann took us all on another ride aboard the crazy train this year, questioning the president's patriotism, defending BP, proclaiming herself the queen tea partier -- and winning re-election in the 6th congressional district. Here's a look back.

Michele Bachmann says even $5.4 million isn't enough

​Michele Bachmann may not have, as Tarryl Clark put it, done @#%! for the 6th congressional district. But the incumbent Republican is now wallowing in so much money that it probably doesn't matter what Clark has to say.

Michele Bachmann's crazy Census talk may not cost MN a House seat

​Despite Michele Bachmann's paranoid ravings about ACORN workers sullying the 2010 Census, and her suggestion that we duck the count, Minnesotans turned out in enough numbers to ensure that we will likely hold on to all our congressional seats. But barely, according Election Data Resources, a ... More >>

Patton Oswalt on Twitter, Diablo Cody, and hipsters

Screwface Patton​If you don't recognize Patton Oswalt by name, you'll recognize him by his voice or face. The popular comedian nailed roles like Remy the rat in Pixar's Ratatouille and his unique mug is splashed all over Comedy Central like he's the sole breadwinner. Patton is returning to Minneap ... More >>

Billy Bragg at the Cedar Cultural Center, 9/8/2010

Photos by Alexa Jones​Billy BraggSeptember 8, 2010Cedar Cultural CenterWednesday night proved to be the perfect time for Billy Bragg to come rolling through Minneapolis (when isn't it, really), with the political winds starting to blow fitfully, and frustration being felt by all classes of soci ... More >>

Gag Order

Terror becomes Arizona policy

Michele Bachmann listed among dangerous "Patriots"

​The Southern Poverty Law Center, long known for tracking right wing extremist groups, has released a new report on the "Patriot" movement, and Michele Bachmann is prominently featured.The report lists 40 prominent men and women involved with the "Patriot" movement, anti-government militia-minded ... More >>

Mitch Berg ponders death of conservative talk radio at KSTP

Lot's of hemming and hawing over KSTP AM1500 getting assimilated into the ESPN collective and rebranding as The SportsTalk Station.

Tim Pawlenty delivers State of the State address

Given his conspicuous presidential ambitions, today's chat was less a debriefing and more a stump speech.

Steven Levitt on his controversial new book, Super Freakonomics

Levitt: It's not about partisanship, it's about the truth

Bad week for Michele Bachmann

Our crazy Congresswoman hits the trifecta

Ellison foe Torgerson says Islam promotes criminal behavior

Lynne Torgerson says she's big on freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but not, evidently, when it comes to Muslims.

Mall of America to foreign press covering Palin: We're sorry

She wasn't elected vice president, she quit her job as Alaska's governor and fans treat her like a rock star.

Hannity's sorry for bogus Bachmann rally video

Size matters at the "Superbowl of Freedom," and sometimes it's hard keep track of one's right wing rallies.

Target, high school streakers, and swine offend everybody

Minnesota corporation mistakenly sells "Illegal Alien" costume

ALIPAC prez to conduct interviews in "Illegal Alien" costume

Anti-immigrant groups are urging followers to buy the costume and wear it this Halloween to protest Target's decision.

Glenn Beck helps Bachmann spread Census internment camp fears

Fox News has decided to let Bachmann have the floor on yet another one of their shows to scare people into thinking the government will use their Census data to create internment camps like they did to the Japanese during WWII.

Readers respond to Michele Bachmann comix