Crime
November 28, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The famous quote from Upton Sinclair will always be true, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. For just over four years, I have been engaged in the business of trying to convince a wide swath of the public of facts they would otherwise not want to believe. Some of those truths include: Renewable energy is more expensive,
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November 27, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, University of Minnesota professor enters Hennepin County attorney race as ‘innovator’ candidate. Hennepin County is Minnesota’s largest by population and includes the city of Minneapolis. The current county prosecutor is the infamously soft-on-crime Mary Moriarty. She has wisely declined to run for reelection and a host of candidates have entered the race that will be on the ballot in November 2026. The latest to enter
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November 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
A gunman ambushed and shot two National Guardsmen this afternoon, within a few blocks of the White House. News reports indicate that both are in critical condition. There are conflicting reports as to whether either or both have died, but I don’t believe that has been confirmed as of this writing. This is the “suspect”: Alleged photo of the suspect involved in today’s shooting possibly targeting two members of the
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November 26, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From KARE-11 TV (NBC, Minneapolis), Hennepin County Judge tosses out jury’s guilty verdict in $7.2 million home healthcare fraud case. Jurors tell KARE 11 News their decision wasn’t difficult after seeing evidence of “obvious fraud” committed by Abdifatah Yusuf. The way jury nullification usually works is that a jury will ignore the law and acquit a guilty defendant with whom they sympathize, an act in defiance of authority. Here we
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November 26, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Democrats and local media (but I repeat myself) are in denial about the scale of fraud in Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star Tribune puts on a master class today in political propaganda. The paper is trying to counter this article from the City Journal headlined, “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” How some of the state’s welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group. City
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November 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On November 12 the Department of Justice announced the indictment of former Gavin Newsom chief of staff Dana Williamson. The Department of Justice has posted the 31-page indictment online. The Department of Justce press release summarizes the case: Political consultant Dana Williamson, 53, of Carmichael, was charged by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States
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November 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Ryan Thorpe/Chris Rufo City Journal column “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” is, as Drudge would say, impacting. It attracted the attention of the White House and elicited President Trump’s statement that he has terminated Teporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. The Star Tribune story by Christopher Vondracek on Trump’s statement is a glorified editorial of the party-line lyin’ kind. Vondracek baldly asserts: “Trump’s post
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November 22, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, Shooting at Chicago’s Christmas tree lighting event leaves one dead and eight hurt with terrified families forced to run for their lives. Part and parcel of living in a big city. Details, Seven teens, aged 13 to 17, were hit and rushed to Stroger and Lurie Children’s hospitals in fair to good condition. Police have not identified a motive, and no arrests have been made.
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November 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
More than a year after he nearly succeeded in assassinating President Trump, the official attitude toward Thomas Crooks seems to be incuriosity. Who was he, and why did he want to kill Trump? These are questions that no one has seemed anxious to answer. The New York Post has information from internet sleuths that I don’t think has been reported before: Thomas Crooks used they/them pronouns and posted threats of
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November 12, 2025 — Bill Glahn
I wrote the cover story for the current issue (Fall 2025) of American Experiment’s magazine, Thinking Minnesota. The subject is the many, many fraud scandals plaguing the North Star State under the blind eye of Gov. Tim Walz. The full article can be read here. The cover art, If I may say so myself, “Read the whole thing.”
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November 11, 2025 — Bill Glahn
This story, from KTLA out of Orange County, California, has just about everything. Let’s atart at the beginning. [Alejandro] Tobarfuentes, a Chilean national, was arrested last summer after he and a partner, Jorge Navarretecorvalan, allegedly broke into a home in San Juan Capistrano and made off with several designer handbags, jewelry and a safe. A wrong-way car chase ensued where an innocent motorist suffered serious injuries in a head-on collision.
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November 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats tell us that Antifa doesn’t really exist. It is just an idea–an idea that distributes AR-15s and organizes attacks on federal law enforcement. President Trump has designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization; I don’t know what legal effect that has, but the Department of Justice responded quickly, bringing the first terrorism prosecution against that detestable group. The prosecution arises out of an armed attack on an ICE facility
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November 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Sun, TRAIN BLOODBATH Huntingdon stabbing LIVE: British man, 32, treated as sole suspect – as ‘heroic’ member of train staff fights for life. Details, In an update this evening cops confirmed a 32-year-old British national, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the bloody rampage, is now being treated as the only suspect. You may recall that another, unnamed 35-year-old man described as being of
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November 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Another crime story soon to be disappeared. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Halloween overnight shooting kills one, injures two in Dinkytown. For those who don’t know, Dinkytown is the small commercial/retail neighborhood adjacent to the University of Minnesota’s main campus in central Minneapolis. Details on the incident that occurred around 2:40 a.m. Saturday morning. Police suspect that automatic gunfire killed one person and injured two others, including a student, overnight
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October 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
There’s something about Masih — Masih Alinejad — that the Iranian regime doesn’t like. An Iranian expatriate and American citizen, she was a target of the mullahs. They hired some hit men to kill her at her home in New York. She posted a video in 2022 to document what was happening. These are the scary scenes capturing a man who tried to enter my house in New York with
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October 27, 2025 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, 29-year-old anarchist arrested for alleged $45K hit on Pam Bondi: FBI. It looks like I’m going to need to launch an “Area Man” series alongside my “Minnesota Man” posts to keep track of all the local crime stories making national news. The only places where I’m aware that “anarchist” can be described as a profession are Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle. Details from the Post, An
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October 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I’m not a gambling man, but I bet the indictments handed up last week against Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, and others will be hard to beat for human drama. It may be time for The Godfather Part IV and Godfather Part V. Either one might rival Part II as a sequel. I want to focus on Chauncey Billups in these comments as a
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