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**satire warning** Barack Obama today came out in support of the Minnesota Senate bid of comedienne Al Franken over rejected former Senator Norm Coleman. It's time that we stopped counting the votes, now that all the votes that we want counted got counted, Obama said. Al Franken has shown that he's got The Right Stuff for my administration, Obama said. Number one, Franken's a tax cheat, and therefore uniquely qualified to serve in my new government. I would have named him to my cabinet, but I found out that there is no Department of Leftist Hate. I know that I...

Freeper Seaplaner has come up with a BRILLIANT idea:Franken...failed to pay at least $70,000 in taxes to 17 states prior to running for office. I would bet that a careful, thorough, and scrupulous audit would turn up much more tax dodgery on the part of tax-cheat-Franken. It's a mere suspicion, mind you. But it's based on a lifetime of marveling about how people like this (selfish, dishonest, mendacious) are habitually so. I'm suggesting that this is a mere clue of his typical behavior.Perhaps Senator Coleman should challenge Mister Franken for a "recount" of his taxes for the past, say, seven...

President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Daschle have been getting some attention regarding their failure to pay taxes, but what about Al Franken? Franken, who is still fighting incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman for Minnesota’s Senate seat, failed to pay at least $70,000 in taxes to 17 states prior to running for office. Minnesota’s Star Tribune reported Franken was paid to appear at a number of celebrity appearances across the country and file taxes appropriately in those states since 2003. Franken’s team released a spreadsheet to media detailing the debt through the...

This report (link), hot off the press, signifies a victory for Norm Coleman in the election contest with Al Franken: the court hearing the contest has ruled that "all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the voter." Franken has been trying to prevent a number of ballots that complied with state law from being counted.

MINNESOTA (AP) ― It's been two months since the U.S. Senate election that pitted Democrat Al Franken against incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, but it's still impossible to say who actually won. Their contest enters a new phase Monday when a panel of three judges begins hearing Coleman's lawsuit over a recount that left him out in the cold. Coleman argues that ballot irregularities and improperly rejected absentees are the reasons Franken holds a narrow lead. But legal experts say it is Coleman who faces the bigger challenge. That's because Franken is sitting on a state-declared 225-vote lead, giving Coleman two...

I don't know about you, but the more I read about the Senate recount battle between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, the more upset I am with the slipshod way the election was conducted. Now, I want to make clear that I am not referring here to Morrison County Auditor Russ Nygren, his staff or this county's many election judges. This county was involved in six recounts (two city council, three legislative and the Coleman-Franken race) and except for a few counting errors, and perhaps one improperly rejected absentee ballot, no other mistakes were uncovered. The recounts of the council...

- - Will Ask Three Judge Panel To Determine Which Ballots Were Wrongly Rejected ST. PAUL – Fritz Knaak, lead recount attorney for the Coleman for Senate campaign today made the following statement: “Next week begins an important step in getting to an accurate and valid number, and to determine who really won the 2008 United States Senate election. As we indicated at the end of the canvassing board proceedings, we believe the process was broken. And, one area where it clearly broke and has yet to be fixed is in the area of rejected absentee ballots. The discrepancies, problems...

A special judges panel held its first meeting with campaign lawyers today, a day after DFLer Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman dueled over how broad Coleman's legal challenge to the U.S. Senate recount should be and how long it should take. After the closed-door meeting in St. Paul, attorneys for both campaigns said the three-judge panel is likely to issue an order later today saying when the trial will begin and what the schedule will be. They also said a hearing will be held Wednesday at which the panel will consider Franken's motion to dismiss Coleman's lawsuit. One of...

Conditions are beginning to deteriorate rapidly across southern and southwestern Minnesota where snow is falling steadily and strong winds are whipping it around creating reducing visibility. The main concern comes late this afternoon and evening as winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour accompany a Siberian-type air mass barreling into the state. Temperatures in the metro area could fall from a high in the low teens this afternoon to a bone chilling 14 degrees below zero tonight and even lower wind chill readings, the Weather Service said.

George Soros is the biggest sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, and naturally wants to ensure that the Democrats have a monopoly of power in America. Recently, I wrote an article for American Thinker on the role that George Soros has played in helping the Democrat Al Franken in his race against the Republican incumbent Norm Coleman for a Senate seat in Minnesota. However, there may be one other reason that Soros was determined that Norm Coleman in particular lose his seat. This was personal. Norm Coleman was the chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and as...

The recount process didn't work or, more accurately, could not reasonably determine a winner. Al Franken no more won the U.S. Senate race than your pet cat, Zuba, who somebody probably voted for as a write-in candidate. It would have been more plausible had Norm Coleman won the recount, having won on Election Night but by such a slim margin that it was mathematically unacceptable and thus triggered a recount. In Minnesota, a victory margin of less than one-half of 1 percent triggers a recount. That's ridiculous, because the process that followed resulted in even less than a one-half of...