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Eileen Clancy and I-Witness Surrounded By Police at RNC

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Allison Kilkenny

I have just received an e-mail from I-Witness founder, Eileen Clancy: Police have arrived at our office in St. Paul. They say that they have receive...

RNC Video Diary: African-American Republicans Weigh in on Obama

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

Walking through the Xcel Energy Center, I encountered a group of African-American Republicans, and asked them for their take on the historic nature of Barack Obama's nomination. Check it out: 2008-09-04-shortenedpull.jpg

Why the Republican Convention Is Like Burning Man

Jessica Olien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jessica Olien

Watching the Republican National Convention tonight, I realized that it has eerie similarities to another gathering which makes my skin crawl: Burning Man.

Republicans hail John McCain, assail Barack Obama

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republicans assailed Barack Obama as the most liberal, least experienced White House nominee in history Tuesday night and enth...

RNC Video Diary: Mika and Joe Channel Hepburn and Tracy, Moose Stew, and More Palin Reactions

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

At HuffPost's lunch on the new media -- and later at the Xcel Energy Center, where the convention is being held -- I asked people to tell me where they were when they heard that McCain had picked Palin and what their first reaction was. 2008-09-02-rnc_palin_300.jpg

GOP Wants Convention Back On Track After Scandal, Hurricane

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republicans assailed Barack Obama as the most liberal, least experienced White House nominee in history Tuesday night and enth...

Palin's Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Scheer

Looking to Palin for advice on helping the rest of us during the oil crunch is a bit like asking Putin to provide a model for our nation's economic woes. They hardly feel our pain at the pump.

DeLay Hailed As Hero By Republican Party He Disgraced

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Tom DeLay, the former House GOP majority leader whose connections to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff brought scandal and disgrace to the Republican p...

McCain Negotiating With Ron Paul To Win Backing

Washington Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The McCain campaign, acting through the Republican National Committee, has been negotiating with Rep. Ron Paul to win his support and acquire the name...

Abandoning Bipartisanship

Ned Lamont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ned Lamont

This evening at the RNC, Senator Lieberman will likely reprise Reagan by claiming that he has not left the Democratic Party, but that it has left him.

Networks, GOP Focus On Hurricane Over Convention

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- "It's like showing up at a party and realizing you're at the wrong place" is how CBS News Washington bureau chief Christopher Isham...

Rare Behind-the-Scenes of CODEPINK Prepping For RNC

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Linda Milazzo

The above video, courtesy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and videographer, Jeffrey Thompson, is one of the first behind-the-scenes views of th...

RNC Tuesday Schedule

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Watch the Republican National Convention live courtesy of the CNN player below. loadCNNLiveModule("myCNNLiveModule",300); ***Scroll Down For A Co...

GOP Platform: No Gays in the Military

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Aubrey Sarvis

"Don't Ask Don't Tell" is not an issue of one party versus another. It's a matter of military readiness and what's best for the country.

Thomas B. Edsall

GOP's Desperate Bid For Minnesota -- Will It Work?

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

St. Paul, Minnesota -- For decade after decade, Minnesota has been a state Democrats could count on. Since 1932, the Gopher State defected to the GOP...

VIDEO>> McCain Refuses To Meet With Anti-War Iraq Veterans

The Uptake | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
The Uptake

Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War marched to the convention center in St. Paul yesterday, as they did in Denver, where they delivered a letter to Obama. The GOP nominee would not meet with the vets.

McCain Plans To Use Hurricane To His Advantage

Time | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

As often as not, presidential campaigns are won or lost because of the unexpected, not the predictable. In the heat of a final push towards Election D...

Amy Goodman Violently Arrested Today at RNC

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Tom D'Antoni

Story from Democracy Now site: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Democracy Now Site September 1, 2008 Contact: Dennis Moynihan Mike Burke ST. PAUL, MN--Democ...

Republican National Convention Opens: Cindy McCain, Laura Bush, Governors Focus On Gustav

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republicans, determined to propel John McCain to the White House, opened their storm-shortened national convention on Monday a...

Donna Brazile Hit By Pepper Spray At RNC

Washington Post | Holly Watt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

ST. PAUL -- Donna Brazile was hit by pepper spray as she walked to the Xcel Center at the start of the Republican Convention here. The well-known Dem...

Palindromes: It Started with Hillary Clinton and It's Got to End with Hillary Clinton

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Hillary and Palin occupy the same social caste -- white, professional women of faith, with families and they, in this way, are 'allowed' to attack each other, without the danger of it being too unseemly.

Republicans Should Have Been Careful What They Prayed For

Monroe Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Monroe Anderson

Republicans were performing a rain dance this time last week hoping and praying that a thunderstorm might wash out Barack Obama's parade.

Gustav Looms over RNC Mood in St. Paul

Ed Kashi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ed Kashi

It all now hinges on what Mother Nature decides to do and what a cruel twist of fate this could all turn out to be for the Republicans, three years to the day after Katrina hit.

Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested/Released In MN (Update With Press Conference)

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Linda Milazzo

Amy Goodman of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota, while trying to free two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddo...

The Party of Big (and tiny) Flags

Paul Peete | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Paul Peete

The Republicans have had their share of problems this week: their convention opening was delayed by Hurricane Gustav, Congressmen were avoiding St. Pa...