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The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey points to a recent interview Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) gave to the conservative Website WorldNetDaily, in which

Here’s Mairead Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, blasting today’s surprise announcement that President Obama has been named the newest

Mormons take over the White House. Michele Bachmann is not a fan of the minimum wage increase. For your reading pleasure, here’s the police report on the

On the campaign trail in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, TWI’s David Weigel took the time to record a conversation with the Center for American

A Dept. of Environmental Quality sampling device in Lansing has detected a small amount of radioactive iodine-131 in the air, a likely result of the Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan

Our Minnesota colleague Chris Steller posts this seed art tribute to President Obama’s certificate of live birth, put together over 10 hours by Mark Dahlager,

John Gizzi talked to departing Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey, who breaks from Norm Coleman’s position on the Senate result and argues that the

I’m not sure if Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched down in India yet, but she’s released a statement condemning last night’s bombing of an

A new poll (PDF) by Public Policy Polling shows voter opinion of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law Senate Bill 5 remains extremely unfavorable. According to

Mark Kirk, the Republican senator-elect from Illinois, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 29 due to special circumstances regarding his seat, which used to

The National Organization for Marriage, a Washington, D.C.–based group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, has hired Christopher Plante to run its Minnesota operations in the run-up to a 2012 vote that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota’s constitution. Plante is the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage Rhode Island

Time’s Michael Crowley has published a good overview of the current independent expenditure landscape heading into midterm elections. It covers mostly trodden

Mike Allen has a dizzying scoop about the American Conservative Union: The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in

The only one on the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning who says the defense budget should be on the table for President Obama’s spending freeze is a

DES MOINES — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) called to abolish the Federal Reserve amid cheers and applause Monday during a meet and greet at a coffeehouse in the capital city.

Judge Clay Land of the Middle District of Georgia has tossed out Maj. Stefan Cook’s lawsuit demanding proof of President Obama’s citizenship before deploying

Monday, U.S.

Aaron Blake has some background on the retirement of Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.), the 75-year-old conservative who nearly lost in a 2008 upset, that paints a

In an op-ed for USA Today that makes the arguments that Tea Party Convention organizers want out there -- while broadcasting that the event has become a

Alas, I wasn’t on Air Force One this morning or I could have reported this at 11 a.m., but the transcript of the press gaggle has just come to me. And in it,

Julian Barnes reports: I don’t think there’s a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or the Congress, Pelosi