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Some in Congress Get Smart on Iran

Patrick Disney | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Internet, Patrick Disney Iran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Election, Iran Twitter, Iran Sanctions, Iran Protests, Iranian People, Iran Elections, Stand With Iranian People, Patrick Disney, Keith Ellison, Iranian Digital Empowerment Act, Jim Moran, World News

When it comes to sanctions, bigger is not always better. If Washington wants to do something on Iran, it should first stop helping the Ahmadinejad government repress its people.

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Anti-Muslim Challenger Vies For Minnesota Congressional Seat

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Keith Ellison, Anti-Muslim, Cair, Muslims, Lynn Torgerson, Minnesota Congressional Race, St. Cloud, Minnesota Politics, Torgerson, Politics News

Lynne Torgerson, an independent challenger to Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, has strong feelings about Islam, and they...

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Addressing Race at the White House Jobs Summit

Cynthia Gordy | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Ellison, White House, Jobs, Unemployment, Robert Gibbs, Race, African Americans, Politics News

Young black men between the ages of 16 and 24 who are facing joblessness at 34.5 percent. It didn't strike me that the issue ranks particularly high on the White House radar.

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Systemic Risk Panel Would Lack Independence; Treasury Secretary Would Call The Shots

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, White House, Treasury Department, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Keith Ellison, Barack Obama, Consumer Federation of America, Tim Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Systemic Risk Regulator, Systemic Risk, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, Financial Regulation, Business News

If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial m...

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Pelosi To Dems: Time To Take A Stand On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi Public Option, Pelosi Health Care, Democratic Caucus, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Keith Ellison, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Politics News

Nancy Pelosi is ready to rumble. The House Speaker told her Democratic caucus Tuesday night that she plans to bring a health care reform bill with a r...

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Congressional Progressives Will Cave to Obama on Health Care

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Ellison, Public Option, John Conyers President Obama, Lynn Woolsey, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Maxine Waters, Democrats, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Politics News

House Progressives will talk loudly about breaking ranks with Obama on his health care bill, but they won't. It's simply too personally and politically painful for them.

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Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama's Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Contradictions

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Global-Marshall-Plan, Fear, Progressives, Media, Keith Ellison, Obama, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama wishes to relieve the suffering of Americans, but he does not wish to challenge the old "Bottom Line" of the competitive marketplace. Unfortunately for him and for most Americans, he can't have it both ways.

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Progressive Lawmakers Plead: Don't "Get Cynical About The President"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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Two progressive members of Congress who have pledged not to support a health care bill without a public option came to the White House's defense on Th...

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Discovering America

Frankie Martin | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Religion, Islam, American University, July 4th, Politics, Media, Keith Ellison, Isna, Thomas Jefferson, Journey Into America, America, Muslims, Entertainment, Independence Day, Akbar Ahmed, Benjamin Franklin, Entertainment News

In every country that we visited, the idea that Americans harbored negative opinions of Muslims was named as the "number one threat to the Muslim world" in surveys we distributed.

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Jane Hamsher's Call to Action Against the War/IMF Supplemental

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Maxine Waters, Firedoglake, Jan Schakowsky, International Monetary Fund, Rahm Emmanuel, War, IMF Bailout, Keith Ellison, Imf, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Congress, Jim McGovern, Jane Hamsher, War Supplemental, World News

The White House and the House leadership want progressive Democrats in the House to abandon their constituents, their commitments, and their principles and vote for the War/IMF supplemental. But when progressive Democrats tried to have input into the process earlier, they were locked out by the leadership, on orders from the White House and Treasury.

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Keith Ellison Explains The Significance Of Obama's Trip To The Middle East

Essence | Keith Ellison | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Middle East Trip, Keith Ellison, Obama Mideast Trip, Barack Obama, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Politics News

President Obama embarks this week on a long-anticipated visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in North Africa and the Middle East. It's a region that, accor...

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Voters To Congress: What's Wrong With Single-Payer Health Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darcy Burner, Progressive Caucus, Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation, Jan Schakowsky, Health, Health Care Reform, Lynn Woolsey, Keith Ellison, Mazie Hirono, Health Care, Health Reform, Politics News

Give voters a voice in the debate over health care reform and they ask about the one thing most lawmakers decided from the start would not be consider...

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Did Barack Obama "Kill" the Progressive Movement?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Matters, Rahm Emanuel, Dana Milbank, Keith Ellison, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Leo Gerard, America's Future Now, Cramdown, Barack Obama, Naomi Klein, Center for American Progress, Progressives, Obama Progressives, Progressive Movement, Politics News

I understand that nobody wants to be on the outside like they were during the Bush years, but the price of a few cocktail parties at the White House -- and the threat of lost donors -- is buying a lot more than it should.

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Why I Am a Progressive

Mike Lux | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Ellison, Progressive Movement, Liberals, Progressives, Politics News

I am a progressive because progressives embrace the idea of a government of, by, and for the people instead of a government run by the wealthy and powerful.

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"Michele Bachmann" Revealed as Elaborate "Borat" Style Hoax

Will Menaker | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

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Unfortunately, recent studies of programs like The Colbert Report have shown that Americans' ability to distinguish satire from reality has been dramatically degraded in recent years,.

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A Spiritual Guide for Economic Bailout

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Administration, Keith Ellison, Global Marshall Plan, Network of Spiritual Progressives, Tikkun, Spirituality and Politics, Strategy of Generosity, Economic Crisis, Business News

This is the moment in which biblical ethics and the wisdom of spiritual traditions are actually more realistic than the plans of the capitalist economists.

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John Kerry Visits Gaza

AFP | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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GAZA CITY (AFP) - US Senator John Kerry on Thursday made a rare visit to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but stressed this did not reflect a change of pol...

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Kucinich Leads Trend for Even Handed Foreign Policy

Michael Carmichael | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Lee, Neil Abercrombie, Sam Farr, George MItchell, James McDermott, Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Fortney Stark, Keith Ellison, Todd Tiahrt, John Dingell, Frederick Boucher, William Delahunt, John Oliver, Henry Johnson, Dennis Kucinich, Brian Baird, Council for the National Interest, Robert Berry, Donna Edwards, Gwen Moore, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Paul Ronald, Nick Rahall, Raul Grijalva, Donald Payne, Lynn Woolsey, Earl Blumenauer, Loretta Sanchez, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Betty McCollum, John Shadegg, Samuel Graves, Victor Snyder, Barack Obama, James Moran, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Hilda Solis, Maurice Hinchey, Steve Kagan, Peter DeFazio, Kay Granger, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Jeb Hensarling, Henry Brown, George Miller, Israel Gaza Operation, Elton Gallegly, Politics News

According to astute observers -- there is a new trend in Congress in favor of a more even-handed approach to foreign policy. The bipartisan group, Co...

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Fox News Attacks Muslim Rep. With Fake "Terrorism Expert"

Minnesota Independent | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News Keith Ellison, Steven Emerson, Fox News, Keith Ellison Mecca, Keith Ellison, Steven Emerson Fox News, Politics News

Fox News published a report Thursday slamming Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison by featuring a discredited "terrorism expert." Ellison's hajj pilgrimage t...

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First Muslim Congressman Makes Pilgramage To Mecca

Star Tribune | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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There was no fanfare, no press release when Keith Ellison made the pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca last week. "We weren't really trying t...

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Rescue Ratchet

Michael Markarian | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

While serving in Iraq, Army Sgt. Beberg adopted a stray puppy named Ratchet. But the military snatched the pup before he could reach the Baghdad Airport to catch a flight bound for the US.

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Army Nixes Iraq Puppy Returning With Soldier, Despite Petition 10,000 Strong

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Animals, Iraq, War Wire, Puppy, Iraq Puppy, Army, Keith Ellison, Ratchet, Politics News

WASHINGTON — More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a Minnesota soldier, wh...

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Wrong...Wrong...Wrong: Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Zalmay Khalilzad, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Muslim, Zero Sum Game, Secularist, Muslim American, Mustafa Barghouti, Scott Mcclellan, Ehud Ohlmert, George W. Bush, Palestine, Keith Ellison, Robert Malley, Bill Burton, Hamas, Paul Volcker, Jeremiah Wright, Palestinians, Barack Obama, Jewish, Religion, Muslim, Ted Sorensen, Buddhist, Israel, Islamic, William Ayers, Mazen Asbahi, Head Scarves, Christian, Eric Shinseki, Politics News