FROM THE ARCHIVES

One Year Ago — October 19, 2010

Porkulus Bachmann

Michele Bachmann: “I continue to oppose the so-called stimulus package because it has been a failure.” (Photo credit: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque via MinnPost)

One year ago today, I reported that the Center for Public Integrity revealed that Rep. Michele Bachmann wrote behind-the-scenes letters requesting stimulus dollars from the federal government, even while publicly opposing the economic stimulus.

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Two Years Ago — October 19, 2009

U.S. Troops ‘Sitting Ducks’

An Army honor guard with the casket of Army Spc. Stephen Mace during his funeral at Arlington Cemetery on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. (Photo credit: Susan Walsh / AP)

Two years ago today, on October 19, 2009, I reported that the father of Army Spc. Stephan Mace, killed in action near Kamdesh, Afghanistan, when several hundred Taliban fighters armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked and nearly overran Combat Outpost Keating, said the U.S. was “fighting a war with too few people” and that the troops at Kamdesh were “sitting ducks.”

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Three Years Ago — October 19, 2008

Gen. Colin Powell’s Stinging Rebuke of Michele Bachmann

Three years ago today, on October 19, 2008 — the first day after announcing a write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District — I featured former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s stinging rebuke of Bachmann for alleging Barack Obama “may hold anti-American views” and suggesting that the media investigate which members of Congress are “pro-America or anti-America.” I also reported on halting progress in the U.S.-Iraq status-of-forces agreement, ongoing violence in Iraq, and escalating violence in Afghanistan.