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Jesse Ventura poses with Dayton, Carlson, and Pawlenty, wears tie dye [PHOTO]

Last Friday, Minnesota's current Governor and his three predecessors got together at the Capitol for a sendoff to Tony Policano, who worked as a security guard for all of them.SEE ALSO: Jon Stewart slams Jesse Ventura's gun control view on Daily Show [VIDEO] At one point, Policano posed for a shot w ... More >>

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Wisconsin gun club wants to have gun show at elementary school

Last night, the school board in Spooner, Wisconsin, postponed a scheduled vote on whether to allow the Indianhead Rifle and Pistol Club to hold its annual April gun show at Spooner Elementary School.SEE ALSO:-- Jon Stewart slams Jesse Ventura's gun control view on Daily Show [VIDEO] -- Minnesota law ... More >>

Porn Prom-hating Chairwoman Marjorie Holsten chasing MNGOP leadership spot

A loud critic of Tartan High School's not-to-be Porn Prom is eyeing a Minnesota GOP leadership spot. Marjorie Holsten, currently Senate District 34 Chairwoman, is one of a handful of candidates in the running for the next Republican Party of Minnesota state chair, Politics in Minnesota reports. ... More >>

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Top Five ways Tim Pawlenty is just like Donald Trump

Pawlenty and Trump: Not so different.​Tim Pawlenty has struggled to get attention for his presidential run with action movie promos and appearances with Jon Stewart. Meanwhile, Donald Trump merely pretends to run and is the talk of CNN. T-Paw just can't win! Perhaps the solution is for The T ... More >>

Ten Reasons to Elect Tim Pawlenty President of the United States of America

In Tim We Trust.​For Tim Pawlenty, the hour of reckoning is near. He's signed innumerable copies of a book that hardly anyone's actually read. He's ground through countless speeches and hobnobbing sessions in New Hampshire, Iowa, and anywhere else teabaggers will have him. He's worked overtime t ... More >>

Ruth Adams dies at 79

Ruth Adams, Accordion legend.​Ruth Adams, the accordion player for Minneapolis's beloved World's Most Dangerous Polka Band, a mainstay at Nye's Polonaise Room, has died at age 79 of cancer. She started WMDPB in 1975, and quickly became a fixture at Nye's, where her love for the music drew in youn ... More >>

Scott Walker's "David Koch" phone fail: GOP seeks to outlaw prank calls

Republicans don't want anyone getting "Koch'd" again.​Two Wisconsin Republicans insist up and down that their bill to outlaw prank phone calls has nothing to do with their governor being humiliated by a blogger posing as billionaire GOP financier David Koch.

Scott Walker: Wisconsin has buyer's remorse

Maybe Wisconsinites are embarrassed by Scott Walker's epic phone fail.​Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker gives his big budget address today in Madison, where he's expected to defend not just trying to neuter public employee unions, but also slashing funding for public education and local ... More >>

Glenn Beck dropped by Madison radio station WTDY

Devoid of "actual content."​Glenn Beck has been booted off the air by Madison radio station WTDY-AM because he slagged on the broadcaster's hometown, and because of a "lack of actual content." Beck usually occupied the 10 a.m. to noon slot at a station that features a lot of business coverage fro ... More >>

Madison union supporters plan Minneapolis demonstration Monday afternoon

The rally starts at 4 p.m. Monday.​More than 1,000 people turned out on Saturday in St. Paul to demonstrate solidarity with union workers in Madison, and now a march has been scheduled for 4 p.m. today in downtown Minneapolis. A rally will begin at 4 p.m. at the Hennepin County Government Cen ... More >>

Scott Walker nears triumph: Wisconsin Assembly passes union-busting bill [UPDATES]

Walker's close to getting his wish.​Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one step closer to getting his union-busting bill, now that the GOP-controlled state Assembly snuck in an early-morning vote on the measure while Democrats were caught flat-footed. Now if only he could get those pesky state Senate ... More >>

Gov. Scott Walker's "damage control" is laughable: Comment Of The Day

Punk'd​Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is dispatching state troopers again today in his never-ending effort to hunt down Senate Democrats. But elsewhere he's a laughing stock for having been punk'd into revealing his plans for trying to bust his state's public employee unions. "The 'damage cont ... More >>

Madison police chief, mayor troubled by Scott Walker's comments

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.​There's more bad news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after his embarrassing conversation with a phone prankster posing as a billionaire Republican donor. Walker was caught in a very Nixonian moment admitting he'd thought about placing undercover troublemakers ... More >>

Mark Dayton promises no union-busting laws [UPDATE]

Mark Dayton supports unions in Wisconsin.​Gov. Mark Dayton told about 1,000 pro-union demonstrators in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday that he'd block any attempt by Republican legislators to pass a union-busting bill similar to the one raising a ruckus in Wisconsin. That bill, being pushed by ... More >>

Ian Murphy prank call to Gov. Scott Walker didn't break law cause Wis. is one-party state

Did Ian Murphy break the law with his prank call to Scott Walker?​Everyone is talking about the 20-minute phony phone call in which Scott Walker unwittingly reveals his master plan to a liberal newspaper editor posing as a conservative financier.The Buffalo Beast, an alternative weekly, posted the ... More >>

Bachmann wants Obama to be more like Wisconsin governor, but Americans don't

Whose side is she on?​Rep. Michele Bachmann is appalled that President Barack Obama has sided with public employee unions in Wisconsin opposed to a union-busting bill being pushed by Gov. Scott Walker. And she complained today on Facebook that Obama ought to be more like Walker when it comes ... More >>

Michele Bachmann not qualified to be president, says former chief of staff Ron Carey

Bachmann: Not ready for prime time, according to her former chief of staff.​Ron Carey is one of Rep. Michele Bachmann's former chiefs of staff. He's the former chairman of the Minnesota GOP. Now, as Bachmann gets ready to deliver an important speech this morning to conservatives in Washington, D.C ... More >>

Paul Ryan: Michele Bachmann threw SNL, Jon Stewart off my trail [VIDEO]

Paul Ryan, right, figures Michele Bachmann helped him look serious.​Tapped to give the official GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union address, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan should have had the nation's undivided attention. Instead, Michele Bachmann decided to freelance with her own Stat ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty's new movie trailer is awesomely over-the-top [VIDEO]

One man has the courage to make a blockbuster movie preview about himself.​The magic of Hollywood knows no limit. It can even make Tim Pawlenty seem like a compelling figure for 90 seconds. The erstwhile governor of Minnesota is on a book tour, or running for president, or something, but no one h ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty eighth in new GOP presidential poll

Pawlenty appeared on "The Daily Show" last week.​Tim Pawlenty spent a week-long media blitz in support of his new book and presidential ambitions, chatting up everyone from Jon Stewart to Bryan Fischer. But it's hard to get the attention of the Republican base when you're facing off against a ... More >>

Michele Bachmann wants to be president [UPDATES]

What could possibly go wrong?​Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the pride of Waterloo, wants to be president. ABC News is out with a story today saying that she's soon going to huddle with GOP powerbrokers in the state of her birth about a potential White House run. Not that she or her staff ... More >>

"NOT the whiteman's bitch," also NOT elected

"NOT the Whiteman's bitch" does "The Daily Show."​Ieshuh Griffin's decision to brand herself "NOT the Whiteman's Bitch" as a part of her campaign strategy for Wisconsin Assembly managed to capture the attention of local and national media. But that was about it.

"Not the white man's bitch" meets "The Daily Show"

Ieshuh Griffin is "not the white man's bitch.​Since Wisconsin won't let Ieshuh Griffin her put her campaign slogan, "NOT the white man's bitch," on the ballot in her run for a seat in the state Assembly, she's looking for other megaphones. Last night, John Oliver gave her one on "The Daily Sh ... More >>

David Feldman

Michele Bachmann's 5th chief of staff, Ron Carey, is out

"When your captain's crazy, it's time to find a new ship," a GOP congressman said of Bachmann last year.​You'd think there'd be some rejoicing on Team Bachmann (and maybe there was) after she hauled in $1.7 million in campaign funds for the second quarter, and a new KSTP/SurbeyUSA poll showed ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty tries to blame Barack Obama for BP debacle

Screen grab via GMATim Pawlenty talked politics on "Good Morning America"​He got to mix wonk with wisecracks last night on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, but this morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty put on a necktie and did a little breakfast-time jousting with "Good Morning America" host George St ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty author phone number leads to N.H. Applebees

Who is J.A. McClure?​ Who is J.A. McClure? According to Amazon.com, he's the author of a freebie smooch for Gov. Tim Pawlenty. But the Star Tribune's been trying to track the guy down, and the the closest they've come is a phone number for an Applebee's restaurant in New Hampshire (where it so ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty booked for "Daily Show" slot

​Minnesotans got over it a long time ago, but Tim Pawlenty keeps reminding us he's breaking up with us, that he's moving on, that he's got a whole nation to woo.Of course, before he can woo the country, our home-grown presidential hopeful has to overcome the problem that nobody knows who he is.

Larry Craig airport bathroom sex still hilarious on the The Daily Show

​Remember the greatest moment in Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport history? Who doesn't?! In 2007, then-Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho was arrested in the airport after soliciting sex in the men's bathroom with the infamous wide stance and foot tap. He pled guilty hoping it would make the in ... More >>

Sarah Palin endorses Tom Emmer for governor

Palin endorses Emmer. Does it matter?​She bailed out on her own first term as Alaska's governor, but Sarah Palin has become a full-blown Tea Party celebrity since then, and today she endorsed Tom Emmer in his race for the Minnesota GOP gubernatorial race from her Facebook page. "A patriotic ... More >>

Jon Stewart fact checks Michele Bachmann

​ ... And Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity and Fox News in general, bullshitters all. The gleeful evisceration of Bachmann and Palin comes five minutes into the video clip below, as they invoke the name of Ronald Reagan during their Minneapolis love-fest to smear Obama for being a pie- ... More >>

The Decemberists, Dave Matthews, many more record music for Haiti

Many sites are offering free, exclusive music in exchange for Haiti donations.

Palin crushes Bachmann in PolitiFact's "Lie Of The Year"

"Death panels" is voted the biggest crock of the year, far outpacing the district six congresswoman's offering.

Bachmann on PolitiFact's 'Lie of the year' list for Hannity quote

The GOP congresswoman is a nominee for a reality-challenged rant on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.

Republicans still steamed over Franken's rape amendment

A two-month-old vote on a bill to protect rape victims still ties Republican senators in knots.

Bachmann, Palin booked for tea party convention

The District 6 congresswoman gets to share the limelight with Sarah "Going Rogue" Palin.

Watchdog calls for Bachmann ethics investigation

That anti-health care reform rally on Nov. 5 keeps coming back to make a nuisance of itself.

Hannity uses old protest footage to make Bachmann rally look bigger

Hannity does the best trick in the book: Reuse old video from an earlier rally that was much more successful. Unfortunately the footage is from different seasons.

Tim Slagle

Republicans called "pro-rape" for Franken amendment vote, but what about the White House?

Republicans were called "pro-rape" for voting against Franken's amendment, but what about the Department of Defense and the White House? They were against it too.

Daily Show calls David Carr a badass

All other NYTimes journalists: pansies.

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