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Nov 2nd, 2011

Summary: Dateline November 2, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 2, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that 16 bombs exploded in at least 10 neighborhoods across Iraq’s capital of Baghdad, many at restaurants and coffee shops full of civilians. The death toll climbed to 76 in the first hours following the blasts, with nearly 300 wounded.


Nov 1st, 2011

Summary: Dateline November 1, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman observed that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s criticism of Barack Obama for attending the church of the “anti-American” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was rank hypocrisy, considering that for many years she sat in the pews of a church that professes that the Pope is the anti-Christ.


Oct 31st, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 31, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 31, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that at least 58 Iraqi Catholics died and more than 70 were wounded when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al-Qaida-prisoners were not released. Since the war began, Iraq has lost half of its 1.5 million Christians.



Summary: A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into an armored NATO bus, killing 17 people, including 12 Americans and a Canadian in the deadliest attack on the U.S.-led coalition in Kabul since the war began. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 30, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that investigators believed the same al-Qaida-affiliated group responsible for the Christmas Day underwear bomb were behind the PETN-based devices hidden in packages sent from Yemen.


Oct 29th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 29, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman endorsed Tom Horner as the best choice for governor of Minnesota.


Oct 28th, 2011

Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 28, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.



Summary: Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing income growth for all other groups and underscoring the sharply increased U.S. income disparity between rich and poor. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Osama bin Laden threatened to kill French citizens to avenge France’s support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law banning face-covering Muslim veils.


Oct 26th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 26, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that voters in Minnesota 6th Congressional District (MN-06) had two fiscally conservative options on the Nov. 2, 2010 general election ballot as sane, rational alternatives to the radically extreme Michele Bachmann — Independence Party nominee Bob Anderson and unaffiliated, independent conservative Aubrey Immelman.


Oct 25th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 25, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iran began loading fuel into the core of its Bushehr nuclear power plant amid fears its nuclear enrichment activities are aimed at developing nuclear weapons.


Oct 24th, 2011

Summary: Dateline October 24, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Independent candidate for Minnesota governor, Tom Horner, received endorsements from all of the major newspapers in Minnesota, including the Star Tribune, the Duluth News Tribune, and the St. Cloud Times.