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July 06, 2008 Don't be lazy; get informed

Keith Ellison, US representative from Minnesota used the Quran for his swearing in. Citgo, not Conoco-Philips, is owned by Venezuela. ...

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Source: BlueRidgeNow.com, NC


July 04, 2008 Communist Party Backs Obama

She reproduces Maki’s email on Davis, which notes that copies were sent to such left-wing luminaries as Rep. Keith Ellison, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club, ...

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Source: Canada Free Press, Canada


July 03, 2008 What to do about votes a candidate doesn't want

And last December, when Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, America's first elected Muslim congressman, offered to campaign for Obama he was told no thanks. ...

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Source: Village Times Herald, NY


July 03, 2008 My Take on NCMR 2008

From the Congressional perspective, Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), spoke candidly about the significant problems within the mainstream media.

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Source: The Young Turks, CA


July 03, 2008 Ellison among frustrated Muslim Obama supporters

Now another incident has surfaced and it involves US Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Ellison is quoted in a June 24 New York Times story by Andrea Elliott, ...

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Source: MinnPost.com, MN


July 02, 2008 Obama: wind of change or feeble breeze?

... at a recent rally in Detroit, and Obama has cancelled a media appearance with Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim congressman (7). ...

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Source: Spiked, UK


July 02, 2008 Happy Birthday USA!

Here’s Rep. Keith Ellison (you remember: the dude with the Koran) questioning Yoo: “The memo was implemented at some point. Is that right? ...

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Source: LA City Beat, CA


July 02, 2008 An Open Letter To Senator Barack Obama

--When Rep. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim in the House, asked you to appear at a mosque, your campaign refused. In explaining why, one of your aides told ...

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Source: CounterCurrents.org, India


July 02, 2008 Mindy Belz

In December Obama workers asked Rep. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim member of Congress and a fellow member of the Illinois delegation, to cancel an Iowa ...

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Source: World Magazine, NC


July 02, 2008 Cowardice on religion is disservice

We know that he has, in response, kept the Rep. Keith Ellison, the country's first Muslim congressman and an Obama supporter, at arm's length, ...

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Source: Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC


July 01, 2008 What, No Manufactured Outrage Over Norm Coleman's Sweetheart Deal?

Betty McCollum (DFL-4th District) and Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-5th District) joined in the fray with the Republicans to condemn candidate Al Franken. ...

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Source: OpEdNews, PA


June 30, 2008 Rumpus takes centre stage at Pakistani meeting in New York

He also opposed some epithets against the president of Pakistan and PPP co-chairman, saying that as Pakistan’s representative he could not allow any ...

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Source: Daily Times, Pakistan


June 29, 2008 Obama Supporters Take His Name as Their Own

Aides canceled a December appearance on behalf of Mr. Obama by Representative Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim congressman. ...

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Source: New York Times, United States


June 29, 2008 Some Muslims fret over Obama distancing himself from them

Paulson did feel Obama's camp erred, however, in directing Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, to cancel his plans to campaign for ...

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Source: New Haven Register (subscription), CT


June 28, 2008 Legislation could save county $300000

Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Amy Klobuchar, DFL-Minn., pushed for the delay, as well as Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-5th District. “In these difficult economic ...

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Source: Bemidji Pioneer, MN


June 27, 2008 America's ugly side surfaces

In another incident, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Muslim, says he was discouraged by the Obama campaign from speaking on its behalf at a Cedar Rapids, ...

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Source: The Jersey Journal - NJ.com, NJ


June 27, 2008 Michael Smerconish: Obama slips starting to show

Rep. Keith Ellison, an actual Muslim, says fellow Muslims haven't been "fully engaged" in Obama's message of inclusion, and says he was recently asked not ...

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, PA


June 27, 2008 House Panel Passes Bill To Reduce Allowable Lead Levels In Paint

According to bill sponsor Rep. Keith Ellison (R-Minn.) and other lawmakers, despite a 1992 law that restricted the use of lead-based paint in houses, ...

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Source: Medical News Today (press release), UK


June 27, 2008 Congress votes to delay Medicaid rule | KXNet.com North Dakota News

The delay was pushed by Minnesota Senators Norm Coleman, a Republican, and Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and in the House by Representative Keith Ellison, ...

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Source: Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck, ND


June 27, 2008 Yet Another House GOPer Caught Spreading Tall-Tale About China ...

The latest: Virgil Goode, the Virginia Republican best known for denouncing the election of Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, on the grounds that ...

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Source: TPM, NY


June 27, 2008 Obama Risks Muslim Backlash

Now it is revealed that Obama's aides, not an untrained volunteer, stopped Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim, from speaking on his behalf at a ...

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Source: Hartford Courant, United States


June 26, 2008 Cheney aide Addington says he didn't write memos

At one point, Yoo debated the meaning of "implement" with Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who asked whether the 2002 memo had been implemented. ...

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Source: The Associated Press


June 26, 2008 The Santa Fe New Mexican Steve Terrell column: Roundhouse Roundup ...

The removal of the women caused outrage in the US Muslim community, including a rebuke from US Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to ...

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Source: TMCnet


June 26, 2008 White House insiders refuse to shed light on interrogations

"You're testifying before a congressional committee," Nadler said, interrupting a line of questioning from Rep. Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, ...

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Source: CNN


June 26, 2008 House Panel Passes Bill To Reduce Allowable Lead Levels in Paint

According to bill sponsor Rep. Keith Ellison (R-Minn.) and other lawmakers, despite a 1992 law that restricted the use of lead-based paint in houses, ...

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Source: Kaiser network.org, DC


June 26, 2008 Addington, Yoo Offer Little Info In Hostile Hearing

Yoo was unintentionally funny some occassions, refusing to tell Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) what the definition of the word "implement" meant. ...

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Source: CBS News, NY


June 26, 2008 Obama’s Mosque Avoidance: Shhhh! Don’t Say the M-Word

The Obama campaignhas refused Rep. Keith Ellison’s offer to speak at an Iowa mosque, “because it might stir controversy.” Ellison, from Minnesota,is the one ...

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Source: Agoravox, France


June 25, 2008 Race card up his sleeve

... and such displays as smooching the buttocks of the American Islamic community and Muslim agitator Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., are all disturbing as ...

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Source: WorldNetDaily, OR


June 25, 2008 KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY: Obama mustn't use people of color as props

But he hasn't apologized yet for telling Rep. Keith Ellison, the Muslim-American congressman from Minnesota, that he couldn't speak for Obama at a mosque. ...

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Source: Belleville News Democrat,  USA


June 24, 2008 Stephanopoulos Defends Obama's Muslim Exclusion as Response to Smears

(Representative Keith Ellison claims that he offered to speak on behalf of Obama at a Mosque in Iowa, but was rebuffed by the campaign. ...

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Source: NewsBusters


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