Members of the Twin Cities' thriving Somali community say they are being questioned by the FBI as it investigates whether some young men are being "radicalized" in Minnesota and recruited to fight with terror groups in their homeland. If members of your community are suicide bombers, why wouldn't th...

A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to "even fake an interest in foreign policy". The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You'r...

Investors fled Wall Street as fear grew about the stability of the nation's largest banks and worries mounted about General Motors Corp. The major market indicators resumed their slide Thursday after a one-day rally, falling to levels not seen in more than a decade as investors contended with more d...

Some Obamatons are now seeing the Messiah for the statist that he always has been. David Brooks The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment. Yet the Obama budget is predicated on a class divide. The president issued a read-my-lips pledge that no new burdens will fall on 95 percent of...

Inheriting countless challenges, Congress and the Obama administration have moved quickly on many fronts to implement their economic agenda. After two months of drastic interventions, has hope replaced fear, and confidence pushed aside uncertainty? Hardly. The budget the president released last week...

Looking ahead to the current January-to-March quarter, economists believe it is also shaping up to be quite weak, with many projecting an annualized drop of 5 percent. Given the dismal state of the jobs market, some economists believe an even sharper decline in first-quarter GDP is possible. "It doe...

We at the Anti-Strib are strong supporters of Israel. We are amazed that American Jews continue to vote against Israel's best interests. As a group they lean to the left, which means Democrats are forced to lie to Jews while they run for office. Lucky for the Democrats, the Jews seem to like being l...

I have been telling people for a while that MN's "progressive" (ie. screw the rich) tax policy is the source of many of our budget problems. Today I have the statistics to back that up. Under Minnesota's progressive income tax, the bottom half of filers, those households making under $45,000 per yea...

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore. Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence. The activists who staged the break-in belong to the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACO...

They LME couldn't believe this story. I told her that it is true and that the St. Paul city council is trying very hard to beat the Minneapolis city council in a race to enact the stupidest,most damaging legislation possible. This bone head move would seem to give St. Paul the lead, for now. Andrew ...