A church in Iowa recently attended by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has decided to force its child-care staffers to adhere to a "Christian Lifestyle Commitment".

Radio show host Stephanie Miller has promised to french kiss Fred Karger if he appears at a GOP debate and blasts Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann with Lady Gaga's gay anthem Born This Way.

The Huffington Post analyzed hundreds of public documents and interviewed more than a dozen veteran nonprofit and civic leaders in and around her hometown of Stillwater, Minn. The investigation reveals a long record of Bachmann's personal involvement -- as opposed to financial support.

In early 2007, I got a tip that led me to something pretty strange -- well, somewhere between delusional or apocalyptic, really -- that Rep. Michele Bachmann had said, on tape and beyond dispute about an important national security matter, in a podcast interview with a St. Cloud reporter.

Don Lemon calls out Michelle Bachmann on her use of planned talking points, rhetoric and her reliance on key phrases during the Iowa Straw Poll. He has a segment on his show that

In all of my years covering politics on the local, state and national level, many stories have earned the “Are you serious?” look. The newest one? The so-called sexist cover of Newsweek depicting Rep. Michele Bachmann.

As his congresswoman wife Michele continues to make progress in her terrifying death march toward Washington, Marcus Bachmann has become a focus of the media, and the things we've found out about him have been a bit unsettling, like the fact that he runs one of those pray-the-gay-away facilities.

Michelle Goldberg reports on the radical roots of Bachmann's ideology...a born again Christian at age 16, her politics where her signature issue was opposition to gay marriage: "This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay."

Matthew Yglesias reports that Bachmann's "positioning herself as the rightmost candidate in the field" is a part of her campaign to "practice incredibly savage generational warfare"...directed at Medicare, Social Security and axing whole departs including the Department of Education.

Adele Stan of AlterNet writes that Tea Party activists seek to save future generations from the crushing demands of big government. Yet the agenda they advocate, dictated by the big-money players behind the muscular interest groups that keep the movement growing, will likely render the Tea Partiers themselves the economically squeezed subjects of a corporate state, one in which the elderly will be left to scrounge for crumbs, small businesses will be crushed by lack of capital, and their own ground-level online organizing s...

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has asked that the Office of Congressional Ethics investigate whether Rep. Michele Bachmann violated House rules when she organized an event against the Democrats’ health care reform legislation earlier this month. Politico raised the issue last week, stating that the 6th District Republican used her U.S. House webpage to rally health-care reform protesters, even though House rules specify that member sites “may not include grass-roots lobbying or solicit support for a me...

The religious right is ramping up its campaign against health care reform, even joining with the “tea party” movement to encourage conservative Christians to swamp town hall meetings. Minnesota’s religious right leaders say that the health care reform package is against God’s plan for health care and that Christians should go to community forums and “read them the riot act.”