The 1st Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann is running for president to bring a new voice to the White House¬ a voice of constitutional conservatism, limited government, and a safe and secure America.

Elected in 2006, Michele is the 1st Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. From the beginning, she has demonstrated bold reform, pushing to fix Washington's broken ways.

Michele is a leading advocate for tax reform, a staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, and a strong proponent of adherence to the Constitution, as intended by the Founding Fathers. She believes government has grown exponentially, with Obamacare being the most recent example of its uninhibited growth. Michele wants government to make the kind of serious spending decisions that many families and small businesses have been forced to make. She is a champion of free markets and she believes in the vitality of the family as the 1st unit of government. She is also a defender of the unborn and staunchly stands for religious liberties.

Prior to serving in the U.S. Congress, Michele was elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2000 where she championed the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. Before that, she spent 5 years as a federal tax litigation attorney, working on hundreds of civil and criminal cases. That experience solidified her strong support for efforts to simplify the Tax Code and reduce tax burdens on family and small business budgets. Michele also led the charge on education issues in Minnesota calling for the abolishment of Goals 2000 and the Profiles of Learning in its school. She recognized the need for quality schools and subsequently started a charter school for at risk kids in Minnesota.

Michele sits on the Financial Services Committee (FSC) and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This experience has given her keen insight into the housing crisis and credit crunch, leading Michele to be a staunch opponent of the taxpayer funded bailout of Wall Street and the Dodd Frank legislation. Serving on the Intelligence Committee, she has consistently advocated peace through strength to ensure America's national security. She has proudly taken a vow to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.




In July 2010, Michele hosted the 1st Tea Party Caucus meeting. She is seen as a champion of Tea Party values including the call for lower taxes, renewed focus on the Constitution and the need to shrink the size of government.

Michele is a graduate of Anoka High School and Winona State University. She received her J.D. at the O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University and an L.L.M. in Tax Law at the College of William and Mary. She has been married to Marcus for more than thirty years and they live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs nearly 50 people. Michele and Marcus have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmann family has opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Michele to become one of Congress' leading advocates for foster and adopted children, earning her bipartisan praise for her efforts.

"My Soulmate" of Courtney Stodden, 16 & Husband Doug Hutchison, 51

Lost's Doug Hutchison and his wife Courtney Stodden faced a great deal of criticism for their marriage in May. Hutchison, 51, is 35 years older than his 16 year old wife.

The Green Mile star met Stodden, an aspiring actress and pop singer, when she signed up for his acting workshop online. After a four months courtship over the internet, Hutchison learned that the attractive blonde he'd been flirting with was still just a teenager.

"My world turned upside down," he admitted in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America. "[Online communication] is a really unique and beautiful way to get to know someone," he gushed. "We didn't have the distraction of the physical."

Stoddard's mother monitored her daughter's exchanges with the actor, and was "fully aware" of their staggering age difference.

Hutchison said, "I said [that] if you and [Courtney's father] have any misgivings whatsoever about this, if you are uncomfortable with it, I will respect you, and Courtney will respect you, and we will step back."

Stodden's mother and father trusted their daughter's judgment and ultimately gave parental consent for her to marry her much older beau. It was actually Stodden's mom who first suggested the duo get married in a state that would allow it.

So how the 51 year old did's relationship with an underage girl not break any laws? Up until their marriage, they were never physically intimate.

Stodden said, "I was a virgin. I knew that if I kept that, I would be blessed with a beautiful gift. And God did! He blessed me with my soulmate."

But not everyone is okay with this May December romance. Hutchison's agent and manager dropped him, and his own mother cut ties with him. He said, "We knew this was gonna happen. We knew we were gonna have to weather the repercussions of our decision and our union. This is just the beginning. It brought us closer together."

Launches as episode one of Food Investigations series by Pharmaburger documentary

The Pharmaburger mini documentary takes issue with the doctor from Imperial College London whose study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, led him to recommend that stat in drugs be handed out like ketchup packets at fast food restaurants. This, he claims, would "counteract" the heart risk dangers of fast foods.

Just pop a pill every time you chow down a junk food cheeseburger, in other words, and the health risks will be cancelled out. It is a juvenile, short sighted point of view about health and nutrition, of course, but the idea has a surprisingly large number of followers among practitioners of mainstream medicine (many of which are arguably illiterate when it comes to nutrition in the first place).

Ultimately, the idea seeks to turn fast food restaurants into pharmacies, lining up gullible customers to be dosed with powerful prescription pharmaceuticals based on no diagnosis, no doctor visits, and absolutely no consideration of their current health condition or possible drug interactions. To call it "medicine" is an insult to the very definition of the word.

The sad truth of the matter is that some members of the medication profession want to intoxicate everyone with dangerous chemical medications, and they are hoping to use fast food restaurants to achieve that goal. This Pharmaburger mini documentary tells the rest of this story which will surprise most viewers.