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Keith Ellison: "Really disappointing" Apple won't pay more taxes than it legally owes [VIDEO]

During a congressional hearing last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook came under fire for keeping more than $100 billion of the company's money overseas in order to avoid paying American taxes.SEE ALSO: Republicans sound the trumpet as Obamacare contributes to St. Jude's Minnesota layoffsCongress members did ... More >>

MNGOP Rep. Tony Cornish says Jesus would pack heat if he were alive today

Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Good Thunder, is the stanchest pro-gun legislator in the state, and today, nobody was more outspoken in opposition to a bill that would mandate universal background checks for guy buyers.SEE ALSO: Rep. Tony Cornish wore a semi-automatic rifle pin to today's gun control hearing [ ... More >>

Ousting Michele Bachmann from Intelligence wasn't a no-brainer for Boehner

As we told you last month, during the run up to committee appointments for the new Congress, a petition was circulating to oust Rep. Michele Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee. SEE ALSO: Michele Bachmann goes on apocalyptic radio show, says Obama supports Sharia lawThe petition ended up ... More >>

MNGOP leaders want Dayton to veto insufficiently patriotic social studies standards

Yesterday, the Minnesota Department of Education held a public hearing about new proposed social studies standards that have drawn the ire of the MNGOP's House leadership.SEE ALSO: VFW flag controversy: MnDOT compromises, will allow flag to fly above overpasses after allThe standards prompted House ... More >>

Michele Bachmann is running for president. Wait, no she's not

Squirrels For Bachmann​Two right wing websites are duking it out for credibility this morning over rumors that Michele Bachmann will announce a presidential bid before the end of the month in Iowa. The Daily Caller got the ball rolling by quoting one Iowa politico who heard that her staffers ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty to make presidential announcement today

Pawlenty will officially be thinking about running.​After years of inching toward a 2012 presidential bid, former-Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to actually make a formal step toward the nomination. This afternoon, Pawlenty will announce plans to launch a presidential exploratory committee, ac ... More >>

Lucas Baiano makes Tim Pawlenty's over-the-top campaign ads

Lucas Baiano turned T-Paw into an action hero.​Every time we see another of those hilariously over-the-top campaign ads for Tim Pawlenty, with their pulsating soundtracks, cut-away shots, weird angles, and contrived lighting, we ask ourselves the same question: Who made those things? Lucas Baiano ... More >>

Barack Obama: Who is Tim Pawlenty?

Who is this guy?​A couple of weeks ago at the Arizona teabagger confab, Tim Pawlenty grabbed a few laughs with a conspiracy theory jab at President Barack Obama. He wasn't going to "question the existence of the president's birth certificate," T-Paw said. "But when you listen to his policies, ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty thinks he's a Southern preacher [UPDATE]

wikiLost in translation?​Tim Pawlenty appears to have lost his compass bearings while he gears up for an announcement about his White House dreams in a few weeks. As he dashes around the country courting the GOP base, he's drawling more and more like Jimmy Swaggart, not the son of a St. Paul ... More >>

Keith Ellison accuses Tim Pawlenty of drinking "the Kool-Aid"

Keith Ellison: T-Paw's a phoney.​Who is Tim Pawlenty? Recent polls suggest that few Republicans know or care when it comes to the 2012 presidential race. And a lot of Minnesotans are scratching their heads as he moves further and further to the right to court tea partiers. Now comes Rep. Keit ... More >>

Obama thrashes Pawlenty in NBC-Wall Street Journal poll

What does T-Paw have to do to get noticed?​Fancy campaign videos can only get a guy so far. If the presidential election were held today, Barack Obama would beat Tim Pawlenty in a landslide, 50-31 percent, according to a new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. T-Paw would likely ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty second in Arizona tea party poll

Matt VisionquestTim Pawlenty, tea party hero​All his threats about pushing gays back into the closet, shutting down the federal government, busting unions, and insulting the president seem to finally be paying off for Tim Pawlenty. He keynoted a steeped-in-tea confab over the weekend in Arizona c ... More >>

Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty also-rans in Gallup poll

Running for president? Whatever.​Tim Pawlenty has been on the road and in front of TV cameras incessantly to promote his book and his White House ambitions. Michele Bachmann happily feeds rumors that she wants to be president, too; she practically has an endowed chair at Fox News; and her attacks ... More >>

Pawlenty chides Obama for not denouncing Libya violence that Obama already denounced

Obama denounced Muammar al-Gaddafi last week.​Tim Pawlenty issued a scornful statement today condemning President Barack Obama for not denouncing the recent violent clampdown on anti-government protesters in Libya. Maybe T-Paw wasn't paying attention, running from one tea party to another, bu ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty is National Review's cover boy

Former Governor Hockey Puck?​National Review, the gold standard of conservative opinion magazines, features Tim Pawlenty on its March 7 cover -- in skates and a green T-Paw jersey. "Pawlenty's Shot: The former Minnesota governor is a strong contender" the 2012 Republican presidential nominati ... More >>

Michele Bachmann in Iowa to "set the table" for 2012

Bachmann's headed south of the (Minnesota) border.​Our very own Rep. Michele Bachmann is off to Des Moines today to break bread with Republican big wigs, "set the table" for the 2012 presidential election cycle, and remind everyone there that she's not really Minnesotan, she's Iowan. Maybe she'll ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty again trails badly in a New Hampshire poll

​Tim Pawlenty has been making the media rounds, giving speeches and spreading campaign cash in the Granite State, but New Hampshire Republicans just don't seem to care when it comes to his potential race for the White House. He finds just 3 percent support there in a new Public Policy Polling ... More >>

Karl Rove booked by U of M College Republicans

​Bush's brain, revered Republican tactician, and Democratic bete noir Karl Rove will speak and sign copies of his White House memoir on Thursday, April 22, from noon to 2 p.m. at Smith Hall on the university's East Bank campus. Check out reviews of the book at the Washington Post, Los Angele ... More >>

Michele Bachmann calls Barack Obama the "first post-American president"

She also accused Obama of tyranny and declared that, "The government is working against us."

Cartoon: Michele Bachmann can teach you "how to speak teabag"

CNN's wingnut of the year gets rolled into an animated editorial cartoon that takes a shot at right wing crazies.

Righty fans cry foul over Bachmann-as-welfare queen data

To which it's hard to resist paraphrasing a favorite GOP campaign attack: She was for the crop subsidies before she was against them.

Crop subsidy data suggests Michele Bachmann is a welfare queen

As Michele Bachmann rails against government handouts, some of her critics point out she's feeding at the government trough.

PiPress mom blog is finalist for national journalism award

The Daily Juggle, "the blog from moms in the Pioneer Press newsroom," is the only entry from Minnesota to make the list of finalists this year.

Norm Coleman - Go Away!

Seriously, go away Norm. We've already pled. Now others are chiming in...

Bachmann faux pas; nuts on a plane

Blotter has all the weird news that's fit to print

007: Man of the Left

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above," said Noam Chomsky last week. "They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what's next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it."In Haiti and Bolivia, Chomsky went o ... More >>

Exit polls: race between McCain, Mittens too close to call

The mendacity of Katherine Kersten

The Smiling Face of Pain

The "new" Tim Pawlenty looks a lot like the old one

Savage Love

Exit poll buzz: something to confuse everyone

5/31: Morning Communique

Off The Cliff

Gremlin's 'On the Verge' stumbles through time

12/02: Morning Communique

The aftermath of Katrina in punditry

9/1: Morning Communique

Savage Love

The Blogger at War

James Lileks used to be content with writing about his toddler's toilet training. Then Iraq gave him the chance to become the state's most famous conservative.

Brown Shirt, Blue Collar

Dick Gephardt's New Clothes

There's less to the House minority leader's budget opposition than meets the eye

Drug of Choice

Why Washington can't give up the drug war.