Amy Klobuchar states he position on the renewal of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.

Two anti-abortion legislators have asked Gov. Mark Dayton to sign a bill that requires abortion clinics to pay an annual license fee and face regular inspections.

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.

According to People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch, former Minnesota Governor and potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty chose an interesting venue to promote his new book – the American Family Association’s radio program with Bryan Fischer. Fischer is infamous for his ugly statements about not only the Muslim community but lgbts, calling them biased, sexually deviant felons and pedophiles. Pawlenty in the interview stated "I have been a public supporter of maintaining Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and I would supp...

Republican Secretary of State candidate Dan Severson has been hitting the religious right radio circuit over the past few weeks, doing interviews with headline-making figures like Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide and Pastor Brad Brandon of Berean Bible Baptist Church in Hastings. Severson told his interviewers that he believes the constitutional clause calling for the separation of church and state doesn’t exist, and that he feels there was “fraud, in a major way” in the U.S. Senate recount of 2008.

Pulpit endorsements get attention of group pushing church-state separation.

There’s one problem with the National Organization for Marriage’s pro-Tom Emmer ad that invokes Martin Luther King, Jr.’s message of equality and tolerance to oppose gay marriage: According to his late widow, King supported gay equality.

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...

Minnesota has joined Arizona in the racial profiling law

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.”

Tim Pawlenty as governor of Minnesota in 2007 vetoed spending bills including those that would have supported transportation infrastructure. But 30 years before, Ronald Reagan cut income taxes on the very rich from 70% down to 27%. Corporate tax rates were cut so severely that they went from representing over 33% of total federal tax receipts in 1951 to less than 9% in 1983 (they're still in that neighborhood, the lowest in the industrialized world).The result was devastating. Our government was suddenly so badly awash in r...