MINNEAPOLIS – No longer a U.S. senator, Republican Norm Coleman was headed to court Tuesday, seeking to overturn a state board's certification that Democrat Al Franken won the U.S. Senate recount. C...

These clips from the Connecticut Forum show a truly historic event between two radical extremes from the left and the right: Ann Coulter and Al Franken. It is evident that both Coulter and Franken are...

According to a Star Tribune report from November 6th, Coleman urged Franken to waive his right to a recount, citing the “remote” chance the results will be overturned in his favor and the large co...

"I am proud to stand before you as the next senator from Minnesota," Franken told reporters Monday night. "It's clear that we have a lot of important work to do ... I'm ready to go to Washington and g...

Choke on the history, America: After 62 days of counts and recounts, a Saturday Night Live alumnus has officially been elected to represent an actual state in the US Senate. ...

Roland Burris proclaimed himself the new junior senator from Illinois -- but it appeared only one fellow Democrat in the U.S. Senate chamber publicly agreed with him.

WASHINGTONa 'Roland Burris failed to capture President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat yesterday in a wild piece of political theatre a ' but the Democrats' opposition cracked when a key member s...

The man appointed to replace President-elect Obama in the U.S. Senate arrived Tuesday morning at the Capitol.

Roland Burris makes his way through a crowd of reporters as he arrives on Capitol Hill to claim President-elect Obama's Senate seat Tuesday.

Port isn't the only good wine coming out of Portugal these days. Beppi Crosariol tells you about a burgeoning style of red wine from the Douro region, historically famous only for fortified, sweet por...

Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest...

Coleman refuses board's decision that Al Franken won more vote in Nov. election.

The 2009 Senate has holes in it; the race in Minnesota is going to the courts, and the Senate refused to seat the Blagojevich appointee Roland Burris. Wyatt Andrews reports.

Jan. 6: Controversy gave way to ceremony Tuesday as the new Congress was sworn in without Illinois' appointed Senator Roland Burris or winner of the Minnesota recount Al Franken....

Republican Norm Coleman said Tuesday he is suing to challenge Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest...

Wow 2008 had some crazy times huh. Well 2009 will be better.

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The Minnesota State Canvassing board has certified results showing that Al Franken has won the Minnesota Senate recount, beating Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) by 225 votes. But the race is still "in limbo,...

Uncanny!

Walter Mondale has urged him to concede. The editorial staff of the Worthington Daily Globe, which endorsed Coleman, congratulated Franken on his win and subtly rebuked Coleman for being a jerk and n...

From 2007... who knew they both would be having such days today!

Oh no Minnesota, you think I jest but, a Mick Jagger Impersonator and your likely new senator Al Franken are one and the same. Sure there are plenty of SNL clips that could be dug up but one wonders i...

The House stands at 256 to 178 with one vacancy. If Al Franken is sworn in, Dems will hold 59 seats in the Senate.

Franken campaign rolls out new (repeatedly used) title for Norm Coleman: "former Senator Coleman".

Will he concede? Vow to fight on in the courts? Try to prove he's got a better stand-up routine than Franken?

A short time ago, Norm Coleman announced his intention to file a legal challenge to Al Franken's victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race.

Harry Reid just delivered a message to Norm Coleman from the floor of the United States Senate, calling Al Franken the "Senator-elect" from the state...

...is anyone’s guess.  When I talked to her she had no memory of the recent election and the contentious aftermath of the Coleman-Franken race.

It might take a LONG time to get to a ruling, and under Minnesota law, Franken can't take the seat until then. That's half of the battle at this...

As Coleman contests a recount that gave Franken the win, the people throw up their hands. The process, they say, isn't funny anymore...

— Republican Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race...

Serious question, not being argumentative: From listening to your neighbors, etc., do the majority of voters in Minnesota support Al Franken,...

FOXNews.com - Found 3 hours agoU.S. Senator-to-be Al Franken, I find it hard not to laugh. And I mean that respectfully.Originally, on "Saturday Night Live," Franken riffed...

Fox News - Found 19 hours agoA Minnesota board has certified election results showing Democrat Al Franken has won the U.S. Senate recount -- by 225 votes. But that doesn't mean...

Washington Post - Found Jan. 5, 2009... the seating of Franken without full state certification, and leading Democrats last night reconsidered their plans to have Franken sworn in...

CBS News - Found Jan. 5, 2009A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose ...

Daily Beast - Found Jan. 5, 2009Tags: absentee ballots, Al Franken, Al Franken wins, Associated Press, Coleman challenge, Franken senate, Franken to be declared senate victor...

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DFL candidate for United States Senate.

Hyperlinked biography of the writer, Air America host, and former SNL performer, Al Franken.

Minneapolis TV Station Latches on to Mighty Thin Gruel to Get Franken Into Senate ... Media Skipping Over Al Franken's Acidulous Mockery of Christians ...

Official site for Al Franken. Includes bibliography, Al in the news, and author tour information.

The facts of Franken and his 14 Harvard researchers are addressed here ... Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and The Truth (With Jokes) ...

WASHINGTON - As the new Senate opened for business Tuesday, it offered more story lines than a soap opera. In one corner stood Sen. Joe Biden , who soon will resign his Senate seat to assume the vice...

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Most new U.S. senators are lucky to attract one reporter from their home state when they are sworn in. Roland Burris , appointed by the disgraced governor of Illinois, had swarms...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's New York watchdog, under fire for failing to uncover Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme - despite a dead-on tip by a whistleblower - yesterday t...

CBS boss Les Moonves scored a major coup in his fervent bid to get cable operators to pay for the right to retransmit its broadcast signal yesterday. Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest cab...

Democrat Roland Burris , calling himself "the junior senator from the state of Illinois ," was denied a seat in the U.S. Senate yesterday as the new Congress convened for a ceremonial swearing-in. "I...

As Coleman contests a recount that gave Franken the win, the people throw up their hands. The process, they say, isn't funny anymoreSource : Time (subscribe)Explore : Actors and Actresses, Al Franken...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Republican Norm Coleman said yesterday he was suing to challenge Democrat Al Franken's apparent recount victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, delaying a resolution of the contest...

... race, the Gore/Bush/Florida fiasico, and the recent Minnesota Senatorial race featuring the Al Franken comedy(of errors) show — close races have been decided by recounts of questionable ballots,...

... Republicans, meanwhile, declared that under no circumstances would they agree to seat Democrat Al Franken of Minnesota, who is clinging to a 49-vote lead in the recount of his race against Sen. No...

No…not for this—at least, not yet. Rather, the former Senator Norm Coleman is challenging his loss to Senator-elect Al Franken. We know that Franken can get at least this vote removed from Coleman...

I love debates. I have spent four years studying the practice of public discourse. These clips from the Connecticut Forum show a truly historic event between two radical extremes from the left an...

We are watching the petty bickering in the United States Senate over the embattled Illinois governor’s selection to replace Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Today they refused to allow him admission to...

The Demorats are picking themselves apart already, less than 14 days from Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration on January 20th (Wish to go? Bring cash.) as 44th President of the United States. Things a...

In The spirit of poor sportsmanship Before I begin what I am sure is to be another award winning paragraph's long diatribe about nothing I would like to take the time to spike the football on the glo...

Or perhaps I should say, more ignorant?  Less educated?  Less literate? AS much as the Dems and Progs like to paint the right-wing crowd as mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging neanderthal thr...