Several area lawmakers have returned from a trip to Israel. The idea of the trip was to foster better ties to the country.
According to the House DFL Caucus, the group, which consisted of some nine lawmakers, had some 40 meetings/tours during the visit.
Local lawmakers on the trip were Rep. Sandra [...]
Former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been something of a news generating machine of late, thanks to the publicity tour for her recently released memoir, “Going Rogue.”
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How to get a conservative to say “I’m sorry”: put your gripe on video. It worked for U.S. Rep. Steve Israel with his Minnesota counterpart, Michele Bachmann, and for cable host Jon Stewart with his opposite at Fox, Sean Hannity.
Both complaints involved Bachmann’s Nov. [...]
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On Thursday, Rep. Michele Bachmann condemned the Goldstone report, a United Nations-commissioned report on possible war crimes during the Israel-Palestine conflict in the Gaza strip in 2008 and 2009. But it is clear from her press release that she either didn’t read the report [...]
Rep. Steve Israel is demanding that Michele Bachmann apologize because one sign at last Thursday’s health care rally had images of the Holocaust:
Rep. Steve Israel is still waiting for an apology four days after people protesting health care reform legislation used Holocaust imagery at a rally organized by Rep. [...]
Rep. Steve Israel is demanding that Michele Bachmann apologize because one sign at last Thursday's health care rally had images of the Holocaust:
Rep. Steve Israel is still waiting for an apology four days after people protesting health care reform legislation used Holocaust imagery at a rally organized by Rep. [...]
It's not often we see press release photos this strong, but I love photography and these images from the House of Representatives caught my eye. Here's the news release:
This week, a Minnesota legislative delegation led by Rep. Frank Hornstein touring Israel and the [...]
State Rep. Bernie Lieder, a World War II veteran who helped liberate several Nazi slave labor camps, was honored in a ceremony at Israel's Holocaust museum this week.
During a Minnesota legislative delegation tour of Israel, Lieder had the privilege of rekindling the eternal flame and laying a wreath' [...]
J Street, the new kid on the American pro-Israel advocacy block, recently held its first national conference. The lobbying group, which characterizes itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace," has attained a heightened profile in the highly over-organized Jewish community, and attracted a measure of controversy, [...]
Representative Steve Israel is calling on Representative Bachmann to apologize for the use of Holocaust imagery during the rally she organized against health care reform on Thursday, November 5th.Yesterday I slammed Obama for being so indecisive that even the French were fed up with him. Well it turns out we’re not just annoying to the French, we ARE the French.
The Palestinian leadership accused the US of caving in over Israeli settlements after Hillary Clinton, the Secretary [...]
Few people think that Obama is post-partisan any more as he continues to ram legislation through without any input from Republicans. Few think he is post racial after implying that the police are racists. I think time has come to admit that Obama is no friend of Israel and is [...]
A group of Minnesota legislators led by Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, will go to Israel for nine days in November.
The group’s schedule includes meeting with the parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit, who has been held captive in the Gaza Strip since the summer of 2006.
The trip is scheduled [...]
JERUSALEM — Human-rights reports condemning Israel's dealings with the Palestinians have become so frequent of late they're like the dripping of Chinese water torture. In the last few months, there have been reports on the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, on restrictions on medical supplies and food entering Gaza' [...]
JERUSALEM — Since the 1950s the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been the mainstream voice of the Jewish-American community and its efforts to strengthen support for Israel in Washington.
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