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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.


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 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.



Summary: President Barack Obama declared an end to U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Michele Bachmann had asked the Minnesota Secretary of State to remove her name from the publicly available voter registration records under a legal provision designed to protect past or potential victims of domestic abuse, and commented that the real problem with Michele Bachmann is not her self-centeredness, her unresponsiveness to the needs of her constituents, her meager legislative accomplishments, or even her voting record, but her delusion-like paranoia, her shameless conspiracy-peddling, and her incessant fear-mongering.



Summary: The 22nd anniversary of the abduction of Jacob Wetterling is being marked with a large donation to the AMBER Alert program, which notifies the community about missing children. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the 21st anniversary of Jacob Wetterling’s abduction on October 22, 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn.


Oct 21st, 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 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Oct 20th, 2011

Summary: Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed near his home town of Sirte. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 20, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that an internal investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency documented a litany of intelligence breakdowns leading to the Dec. 30, 2009 suicide attack in Afghanistan by Jordanian double agent Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi that killed seven CIA employees.