Minnesota
May 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fourth District Rep. Betty McCollum is a malicious nobody and pre-Squad Israel hater. She has stayed around long enough to become the ranking Democratic member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. As such, she attended President Biden’s announcement this past Thursday of his intent to nominate General Charles Q. Brown, the Air Force chief of staff, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The
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May 25, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I covered the Supreme Court oral argument in Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County last month in “Geraldine Tyler’s day in court.” The following week I stepped back for a broader view of the case in “Argumentum interruptum — live on FOX News!” In the latter post I wrote (link omitted): Ms. Tyler lost in the district court and on appeal because the courts felt bound to apply the 1956 Supreme
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May 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski has compiled this list of the Democrats’ “accomplishments” in the legislative session that concluded earlier this week. Anthony introduces the list with the observation that “Democrats returned to St. Paul in January with a $17.5 billion surplus and total control of state government, which hinges on their one-seat majority in the Senate that was decided by just a few hundred votes.” In just 120 legislative
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May 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
My friend Howard Root is the founder of Vascular Solutions and the author of Cardiac Arrest. He announced his departure from corporate America in the Wall Street Journal column “Sally Yates’s legacy of injustice.” Howard now waves goodbye to Minnesota in a Star Tribune column. Howard’s criticisms of the local scene focus on the doings of the DFL in the legislative session that concluded earlier this week and make for
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May 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
John and I are based in Minnesota and can’t help drawing on the politics of the local scene in our commentary. It is of interest in itself and of interest for illustrative purposes. Minnesota Democrats — the DFL — took control of the political branches following the elections this past November. Governor Walz was reelected by a wide margin over a weak Republican gubernatorial candidate. However, the margin of victory
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May 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s legislature is nearing the end of an orgy of radical legislation. It seems that every day, a new outrage emerges. Last night, my wife received this from Uber: So Uber is threatening to pull out of Minnesota. I asked one of the policy fellows in my organization what this is all about. He responded: This was news to me today. I watched a portion of the testimony from the
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May 15, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I did a lot of digging to report on the case of Alexis Saborit, the illegal alien who beheaded American Thayer in Shakopee, Minnesota on July 28, 2021. I focused on Saborit’s status as an illegal immigrant because the Star Tribune kept this aspect of the case a deep secret. (By contrast, the current story on Saborit’s case by Crime Watch MN published by Alpha News leads with it.) America
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May 14, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minneapolis’s Ward 10 bisects Lake Bde Maka Spa, formerly known as Lake Calhoun. It includes the Uptown neighborhood running up to the lake as well as the Whittier neighborhood running from Lake Street to Franklin Avenue. It is, you might say in the current lingo, “diverse,” insofar as such diversity is understood to be consistent with one-party rule. Minneapolis’s one party called a convention to endorse a candidate for the
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May 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Democrats enacted a so-called “trans refuge” bill — H.F. 146 — on April 21, effective April 28. It represents a leading edge of the “let’s go crazy” campaign waged by Democrats now that they control the political branches of state government. Fox News covered the enactment of the bill here. Among other things, the bill protects the provision of “gender-affirming health care” to children in the state regardless of
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May 6, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I have sought to draw attention to the case of JaycCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting. Filed in Ramsey County District Court and assigned to Judge Patrick Diamond, the case raises the question whether USAP’s separation of men from women in USAP’s Minnesota competitions must yield to Cooper’s self-identification as a woman. Although a biological male, Cooper seeks to compete with the ladies. Cooper alleges that USAP’s refusal to yield to
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May 4, 2023 — Scott Johnson
We have followed the case of JayCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting in a series of posts I call “A lift too far.” Ramsey County District Judge Patrick Diamond has held USA Powerlifting to be in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act by separating “trans women” from women in its weightlifting competitions. He has ordered USA Powerlifting to let “trans woman” JayCee Cooper compete as a woman. He (Judge Diamond)
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May 3, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I worked all day preparing for what was to be a three-minute segment with Lawrence Jones on Fox News last night. The segment was to discuss the case of Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County that is pending in the United States Supreme Court. The Court held oral argument on April 26. It is likely to decide the case in June. I anticipated that more urgent news would result in
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April 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
My colleague Bill Glahn has taken a dive into the data now available on political spending in Minnesota during the 2022 election cycle. He has written several posts on his research at AmericanExperiment.org. Bill’s most recent findings are disturbing: 23 of America’s richest billionaire families donated to Minnesota Democrats (DFL) in the past three years. Collectively, they donated over $6.2 million to the MN DFL in that time. These 23
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April 27, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Supreme Court heard the case of Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County yesterday. C-SPAN has posted audio of oral argument in the Supreme Court here. The Eighth Circuit decision in the case — the one that the Supreme Court accepted for review — is posted online here. Hennepin County consists mostly of the sinkhole of Minneapolis. It is the sinkhole in our back yard, and yet we haven’t gotten around
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April 23, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I first read about the absurd case of JayCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting in the March 1 Star Tribune op-ed column by Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve celebrating the court’s decision in the case. Ramsey County District Judge Patrick Diamond has found USA Powerlifting to be in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act by separating the men from the women in its weightlifting competitions. In her Star Tribune column
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April 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In today’s Orwellian world, surgery that slices off or mutilates a child’s genitals, thereby negating his or her gender, is styled “gender affirming.” Crazy as it may seem, the mania to carve up children has seized control of Minnesota’s legislature. Today the Minnesota Senate passed a “trans refuge” bill that had already passed the House and will soon become law. The language of the law is, in my view, opaque,
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April 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell held an August 2021 “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls to provide a forum for his claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He convened the symposium under the auspices of Lindell Management LLC, which I will refer to in this post as Lindell. The event took place over three days. Speakers included Ronald Watkins, Steve Bannon, and the son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. I would
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