Crime
October 26, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Some headlines from around the globe that may have escaped your attention. London: London police nab sex offender, asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison in wild gaffe: ‘Serious failure.” Details, The mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu from prison caused his 14-year-old victim “so much stress and anxiety”, her father has said as he condemned the error as “unbelievably irresponsible”. Paris: Woman gets rare whole-life sentence for murder of French schoolgirl Details,
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October 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On Thursday, activists and illegal aliens attacked ICE agents who were carrying out law enforcement duties in Chicago. This was posted by one of the insurgents: BREAKING – CHICAGO, IL: Earlier today, our partner Alejandro was on the ground in Little Village near the intersection of 27th and Whipple. Awareness of ICE activity prompted the rapid response networks to mobilize to the scene, and at some point, ICE deployed at
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October 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The insurrection continues apace. California officials, including Nancy Pelosi, have threatened to arrest and criminally prosecute ICE agents who allegedly violate California law. Pelosi and Congressman Kevin Mullin issued this press release on Wednesday: Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are an appalling abuse of law enforcement power. Broad sweeps that target families and terrorize law-abiding residents betray our nation’s values and waste resources that
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October 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday evening I attended the opening of this year’s Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood. A uniformed security officer stood guard conspicuously packing heat. The film — Midas Man, a biopic telling the story of Beatles manager Brian Epstein — was of course open to the public, but the film festival is notably “Jewish,” the name of the festival was included on the
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October 23, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I broke some news this afternoon in Minnesota, being the first in the media to report (by eight (8) minutes) the federal indictment on 5 wire and bank fraud charges of Jonathan Weinhagen, age 42. The Feds accuse Weinhagen of embezzling more than $200,000 from his former employer, the prominent Minneapolis-area Chamber of Commerce. He had served as the Chamber’s CEO for eight years, and was paid around $280,000 per
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October 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News spotlights the massive defrauding of Minnesota state programs in the report “What the fraud?” The four-minute clip below has nothing that will be new to Power Line readers, but it flags the scope of the problem. Former Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson is the star of the clip. With the swearing-in of Dan Rosen as United States Attorney on October 10, Joe has accepted Dan’s
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October 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Antifa is a fascist, terrorist organization that has conspired to commit countless crimes across the United States. Democrats assert, absurdly, that Antifa doesn’t really exist–it is just an idea! But ideas don’t organize riots, every night for three months or more. Ideas don’t compensate the people who participate in those riots, or bail them out of jail, or pay for their signs or their plane tickets. There is a great
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October 19, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, A gang of brazen thieves dropped the priceless Eugénie Crown outside the Louvre in Paris during a jaw-dropping daylight heist of the world’s most visited museum. Here is my No. 1 suspect, An early headline on the caper invoked the Mission Impossible franchise. But as I read the details, all I could hear in my head were the opening notes on the saxophone of the
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October 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As I was searching for something else this past week I came across an old file holding a column I wrote for City Journal in May 2018. Titled “Mogadishu, Minnesota,” the column covered the daycare fraud in America’s most welcoming state. I had forgotten the column, but it has become timely again with the Feeding Our Future fraud and the doors it has opened doors on other massive frauds committed
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October 17, 2025 — Scott Johnson
A Maryland grand jury handed up an 18-count indictment against former Trump national security adviser John Bolton yesterday. The indictment charges Bolton with eight counts of transmission of national defense information (NDI) and 10 counts of unlawful retention of NDI. The Department of Justice has posted statements in the form of a press release. The release specifies: The indictment alleges that Bolton illegally transmitted NDI by using personal email and
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October 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Democratic Party has become the party of the rich, but its members haven’t figured out how to deal with that fact. They still pretend to be the party of the working man, even as working men and women have been abandoning the Democrats in droves. Thus, the DFL Party smeared my organization in a press release last week, intimating that we are an organization supported by plutocrats. This is
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October 12, 2025 — Bill Glahn
…soon to be forgotten. From Newsweek, 4 Dead, 20 Injured in Mass Shooting at South Carolina Bar, Sheriff Says. This one occurred late last night in coastal South Carolina. From NPR News, 6 dead in a shooting after Mississippi homecoming game. Another 20 were injured in the incident which occurred after a Friday night high school football game. NPR is quick to note, The Gun Violence Archive says that so far this
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October 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I generally agree with Bill Glahn’s observation in “The dog that never barked” (the adjacent post): “Not a single person in authority, not any elected official, no one in law enforcement, the judiciary, the state bureaucracy, the media, or elsewhere have linked these fraud scandals [i.e., Feeding Our Future, housing consultants, autism clinics, etc.] to any ethnic group or groups.” A discreet silence obtains in the case of the frauds
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October 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
…is too obvious to ignore. The latest Democrat to yearn for violence against a Republican is Richard Ojeda, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s Ninth District. Ojeda wants to “kick the shit out of” Stephen Miller: Democrat Congressional Candidate for NC-09 Richard Ojeda on Stephen Miller: “I'd be willing to go to jail to kick the shit out of him.” pic.twitter.com/XztDEuHrqi — ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx)
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October 4, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, ‘Iryna’s Law’ takes aim at cashless bail in NC after Ukrainian refugee was butchered on train. You have all seen the horrific photos and the footage from the Charlotte light rail as Iryna was murdered by that career criminal. To paraphrase Milton Friedman, the key to lasting progress is creating the environment where the wrong people will feel compelled to do the correct thing. After
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October 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Defendant Salim Said was one of the most successful players in the Feeding Our Future fraud. On trial with fraud ringleader Aimee Bock earlier this year, Said sought to introduce the campaign video (below) featuring Ilhan Omar in his defense. The video shows Omar talking up Said’s Safari restaurant in Somali and bringing meals outside to waiting cars. Lead prosecutor Joe Thompson objected to Omar’s part in the video as
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October 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The man whose motive remains a mystery in the Yom Kippur murders at the Manchester synagogue yesterday left a clue in his name. His name was Jihad al-Shamie. The authorities appear to have withheld it for some reason yesterday. The motive remains unclear. His appears in the penultimate entry of the New York Times series of live updates on the story. A native of Syria, Jihad was granted British citizenship
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