Summary: Dateline October 19, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Center for Public Integrity revealed that Rep. Michelle Bachmann wrote behind-the-scenes letters requesting stimulus funds from the federal government, even while publicly opposing the economic stimulus package.

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Summary: Dateline October 18, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman announced an informal meet-and-greet around the issue of higher education on behalf of Independent candidate for Minnesota governor, Tom Horner, at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn.

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Summary: Dateline October 17, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the day marked the second anniversary of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s infamous Oct. 17, 2008 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, which propelled her into the national spotlight when she called for a media investigation reminiscent of McCarthy-era witch hunts to “find out [which members of Congress] are pro-America or anti-America.”

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Summary: Dateline October 16, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. law enforcement authorities received two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, with the Pakistani extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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Summary: Dateline October 15, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that unmanned U.S. aircraft launched two missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine people in a continuing escalation of drone strikes targeting leaders of the Taliban insurgency.

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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 14, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: A string of coordinated explosions targeting security officials and first responders rushing to the scene killed at least 10 people and injured twice that many in western Baghdad. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 11, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that North Korea celebrated the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party founded by “Great Leader” Kim Il-sung and anointed “Young General” Kim Jong-un as “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il’s successor.

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Summary: Dateline October 10, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that — paralleling the political trend in the United States with its Tea Party movement — the far-right in Austria resurged in local elections in the capital city of Vienna, securing the largest gains following a campaign laced with anti-Islamic rhetoric.

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Summary: Iraq has joined Iran in offering key moral and financial support to Syria, undermining a central U.S. foreign policy objective in the Middle East and raising fresh concerns that Iraq is drifting further into Iran’s sphere of influence. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 9, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI thanking him for opposing Florida pastor Terry Jones’s threat to burn the Quran and calling for cooperation against secularism.

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Summary: Hundreds of Afghans marched through Kabul on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan to condemn the United States as occupiers and demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 8, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the United States, continuing a surge in CIA-run, drone-fired attacks, conducted two missile strikes in the northwestern Pakistan tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine suspected militants.

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