Crime
January 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Every Democratic elected official in Minnesota is singing the same tune: ICE is a threat to normal citizens, there is no reason for ICE to be here, ICE is doing no good, ICE is creating chaos–“chaos” is the universal term–ICE is the problem. Completely lost is any understanding of ICE’s mission. In fact, ICE has done an amazing amount of good in Minnesota, despite the universal opposition from politicians and
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January 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The establishment has lined up to attack ICE and eulogize Renee Good. All the best people tell us that the ICE agent murdered Good: Governor Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, as far as I have seen all other Democratic Party politicians, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Minnesota Star Tribune, various television networks, and so on. The most nauseating instance of the phalanx of anti-law enforcement sentiment may
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January 7, 2026 — John Hinderaker
ICE agents are out in force in Minneapolis, arresting criminal illegal aliens. They encountered opposition from the beginning, with local officials denouncing their presence and supporting the violation of our immigration laws. Liberal “protesters” turned out as well, illegally interfering with the ICE agents. The inevitable happened: a liberal woman used her vehicle to block a street so that ICE agents were hemmed in and could not leave a residential
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January 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
You may have seen the news story about an attack on J.D. Vance’s Ohio home. Someone smashed windows with a hammer. There was no danger of physical injury, as Vance and his family were not at home. Still, this is the kind of thing that not long ago would have been unthinkable. The perpetrator, no master criminal, has been apprehended. William DeFoor is the son of left-wing parents who are
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January 6, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As we have recorded over the last several years, the State of Minnesota has been defrauded out of billions of dollars by criminals taking advantage of multiple federal/state welfare programs. The Tim Walz administration did nothing to prevent the frauds, and nothing to investigate or prosecute them. On the contrary, the Walz administration, if anything, enabled the fraudsters. It was the FBI that investigated the crimes, and the United States
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January 1, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I don’t know why Nick Shirley’s video has gotten so much attention. For the most part the attention is welcome, but it has engendered quite a few misunderstandings. The national commentary in the wake of Shirley’s video has been almost entirely ill-informed. Those who attack Shirley and try to undermine his video are missing the point. Whatever the merits of that video, there is absolutely zero doubt that there has
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December 31, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s fraud scandal has gone fully national. Citizen journalists in other states are investigating their versions of the programs that have been defrauded to the tune of billions of dollars in Minnesota. And James Comer’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has announced hearings to begin on January 7: NEW: House Oversight Committee Chairman @RepJamesComer announces the committee’s first hearing into the MN Somali fraud scandal will be on
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December 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s welfare fraud scandals dominate the national news, and calls are rising for Governor Tim Walz to resign. The Minnesota Star Tribune, a longtime DFL mouthpiece that is now run by a former Walz cabinet member, is doing its best to fend off criticism of the Walz regime. Toward that end, its “reporters” are desperately looking for a way to discredit the Nick Shirley video of Somali day care centers
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December 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
If you are sick of hearing about the multi-billion dollar frauds in Minnesota, you can skip this one. But news outlets across the country keep asking us about them. This morning, I was on Chicago drive-time radio on the Morning Answer, with Chris Krok filling in for Dan Proft. Chris was knowledgeable about the story and asked good questions; I think the interview is as good an introduction as any
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December 27, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I spent countless hours in 2025 sitting in the back of federal courtrooms in Minnesota observing two types of cases play out: illegal immigration and welfare fraud. The one thing that both had in common was the application of Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals Rule No. 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” It’s a distillation of the Cloward-Piven “overwhelm the system” strategy. Federal bureaucracy
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December 26, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Just because we are in the inter-holiday doldrums, doesn’t mean that national media coverage is taking a rest. A Boxing Day roundup, Fox News (video): Minnesota lieutenant governor dons hijab in visit to Somali market as fraud scandal unfolds. Fox News (video): NY state rep warns Hochul could face same wrath as Minnesota’s Walz. Fox News (video): Minnesota mayors warn ‘fraud and overspending’ could spike property taxes. Miami Herald: Rooting
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December 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The press solemnly tells us that most politically-motivated violence comes from the right, with the last few years apparently a deviation from the norm. But they don’t fool anyone, as the left-wing violence just keeps on coming: Two suspects in a far-left “anti-capitalist, anti-government” extremist group have been charged with plotting to detonate weapons of mass destruction in and around Los Angeles in a bombshell grand jury indictment. Their alleged
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December 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Working as a law clerk to Eighth Circuit Judge Myron Bright, I accompanied him to many of his engagements outside the court. He was a pioneer in the jurist-in-residence programs that many law schools have adopted. Speaking at St. Louis University Law School’s first such program in 1980, Judge Bright recounted a Hollywood party he attended with his wife, Fritzie. He was seated next to Tina Louise, who had become
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December 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
A group from Code Pink harassed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a Washington restaurant, and posted video of it because they are proud of their actions: This is what I called “liberal privilege” in a recent interview. Liberals do things all the time that the rest of us, out of common decency, would never do. They seriously believe that they have the right to harass people with whom they disagree
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December 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The man suspected of carrying out two murderous attacks — one at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine more, and another that killed the MIT professor in his Brookline home — was found dead in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire last night. The murderer apparently took the coward’s way out. Listening to the Providence press conference last night — it was followed by one featuring
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December 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
is staggering. So said First Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson at an intense press conference at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. It concluded at 12:45 (Central) this afternoon. I walked in with the cameraman from KARE 11 who told me it would be live streamed and then uploaded to the KARE 11 YouTube channel. I have posted the video below. If you have been following our coverage of
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December 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Local law enforcement is coming under heavy pressure as, after four days, they have been unable to apprehend a man who walked into a ground-floor classroom at Brown University, fired 40 or more rounds from a 9 mm pistol, and simply walked away. I have seen no reference to a silencer, so I assume the shooter made a lot of noise. (And silenced bullets are not silent, either.) It was
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