Ellison said Congress didn't know as much as Obama would have you believe.

Yesterday, Keith Ellison took part in a panel discussion about the Obama administration's Prism surveillance program on George Stephanopoulos's This Week show. Joining him were George Will, Matthew Dowd, Paul Krugman, and Greta Van Susteren.

SEE ALSO: Al Franken defends Prism, says of leaks: "Nothing surprised me"

One question that has emerged following the leak of classified documents about Prism (read this Guardian report for background information) pertains to how much Congress actually knew about it. Obama has pointed out that Congress was repeatedly briefed about the program in closed sessions, but if comments Ellison made yesterday on ABC can be believed, those briefings didn't provide members with enough information for them to play an effective supervisory role.

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Birk is Catholic and believes abortion is tantamount to "ending lives."

Yesterday, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens took the standard trip to the White House to meet, greet, and pose for a photo with President Obama.

SEE ALSO: Jesse Ventura says Obama is basically the black George W. Bush

But the starting center on that team -- St. Paul native and longtime Viking Matt Birk, who announced his retirement after the season -- refused to attend. The reason? A comment Obama made in support of Planned Parenthood during an April speech.

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Bachmann said Minnesotans she speaks with are clamoring for Obama's impeachment.

In the wake of revelations the IRS improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status during the last election cycle, Michele Bachmann is worried the Obama administration's apparent desire to make life difficult for conservatives might extend into other walks of life.

SEE ALSO: Barack Obama zings Michele Bachmann during White House correspondents' dinner [VIDEO]

Specifically, she's concerned the president and his cronies might deny health care coverage to conservatives once Obamacare is fully implemented.

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We'd imagine these two would have a hard time agreeing on books to burn. Maybe Fifty Shades of Grey?

Barack Obama got a laugh or two at Michele Bachmann's expense Saturday night during his White House correspondents' dinner speech.

SEE ALSO: Dana Wessel's fake Obama quote reprinted without attribution in San Jose Mercury News

The president began by noting he's not "the strapping young Muslim socialist" he used to be. Later, he discussed his plans to forge closer relationships with Republicans by joining them for activities near and dear to their hearts.

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Obama expects the Gophers to get their first NCAA tourney win in 15 years.

After a disappointing collapse from eighth in the country in January to ninth in the Big Ten Tournament in March, Tubby Smith doesn't have many supporters left.

THE BEST OF TIMES: Rodney Williams Jr.'s insane block seals Gophers' upset win over #1 Indiana [VIDEO]

There's Sid Hartman. And believe it or not, there's also the POTUS himself, Barack Obama.

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Obama's powers include ordering indefinite detention, killing American citizens with drone strikes, and instigating brawls at Minneapolis South High School, apparently.

Last week's scary food fight-turned-brawl at Minneapolis South High School reportedly stemmed from racial tensions between the school's Somali and and African-American students.

SEE ALSO: Teens allegedly steal cop radio, say "F**k the police"

And who's to blame for those racial tensions? Well, if former San Diego mayor turned conservative radio shock jock Roger Hedgecock is to be believed, it's all President Obama's fault.

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The senators threaten that if they might hold up Obama's national security appointments if they don't get more information.

Al Franken is among a group of senators who wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to clarify the legal rationale underpinning the administration's authority to kill Americans deemed to be terrorists.

SEE ALSO: For Franken and Klobuchar, does money from big media mean support for PIPA?

Yesterday, NBC News unearthed a "Department of Justice White Paper" that sheds a big of light on the policy. "Here the Department of Justice concludes only that where the following three conditions are met, a U.S. operation using lethal force in a foreign country against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or an associated force would be lawful: (1) an informed, high-level official of the U.S. government has determined that the targeted individual poses and imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; (2) capture is infeasible, and the United States continues to monitor whether capture becomes feasible; and (3) the operation would be conducted in a maner consistent with applicable law of war principles," the paper says.

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Obama was flanked by local law enforcement during his North Minneapolis speech.

President Obama traveled to North Minneapolis this afternoon to deliver a speech in support of his new gun control proposals. His remarks didn't contain anything anything distinct from what he laid out on January 16, but he did offer up some praise for what the city of Minneapolis has gone to reduce gun violence.

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"No law or set of laws can keep our children completely safe, but if there's even one thing we can do, even one life we can save, we have an obligation to try. That's been the philosophy here in Minneapolis," Obama said, adding that the number of young people injured by guns in the city has decreased by 40 percent. (He drew that number from this city document, which shows a dramatic decrease in the number of Minneapolis youth and young adults injured in firearm-related assaults from 2005-06 to 2011.)

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After his speech last night, Coleman characterized Obama as "a superb healing force in wake of the Newtown tragedy."

Last night, President Obama traveled to Newtown, Connecticut, and gave a speech at a memorial service for the victims of Friday's school shooting.

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-- Al Franken didn't want to talk gun control on Friday; Betty McCollum did
-- Andy Parrish's response to Newtown school shooting: Arm teachers

His remarks received praise from both both liberals and conservatives, but some have dinged the president for not actually using the word "guns" in the course of making his strongest pro-gun-control statement yet.

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It seems Ron Paul was on to something here...

Constituents of the 6th District who voted for Michele Bachmann instead of Jim Graves last month can't be happy to hear their Congresswoman say she spent a "whole year" fretting about Obama administration's alleged efforts to implement Sharia law here in the United States.

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-- Bachmann doesn't back down from Muslim Brotherhood "deep penetration" accusation
-- Michele Bachmann suggests Islam is America's enemy
-- Michele Bachmann's reelection: She's as resilient as a cockroach during a carpet bombing

But that's what Bachmann said during an interview on the radio show of Jan Markell, a right-wing radio host who discusses "current events in light of biblical end-time prophecy." And there was plenty more looniness where that came from.


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