Media
April 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune has yet to name the perpetrators of the attack on TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez at the Whipple Federal Building “resistance” protest this past Saturday. Anyone who follows the news on X knows that the ringleader of the family that protests together — protests and assaults together — is the family of Chris Ostroushko. The Star Tribune introduced Ostroushko to its readers this past January as a “suburban
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April 14, 2026 — Scott Johnson
President Trump recently posted a video of illegal Haitian alien Robert Joachin beating a woman to death with a hammer in Fort Myers, Florida. All (mainstream media) hell broke loose — in reaction to Trump sharing the video. Heather Mac Donald comments in her City Journal column “Illegal Immigrant Bludgeons Victim—Blame Trump.” She writes (links omitted): * * * * * Trump was right to post the video and right
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April 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Dems depantsed the repulsive Eric Swalwell over the weekend in an attack with something like the Pearl Harbor effect. It swiftly sunk Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. We followed the depantsing, but without quite the humorous detachment of Wall Street Journal Free Expression editor Matthew Hennessey. There are several interesting angles to the story and he inflicts glancing blows on most of them. He doesn’t expressly mention the apparent knowledge of
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April 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The Whipple Building houses ICE within the confines of Fort Snelling, adjacent to the Minnneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. If you’re driving toward downtown Minneapolis on Highway 62 from St. Paul or back the other way, you can peek inside the gates just beyond the Mendota Bridge that spans the Minnesota River where it flows into the Mississippi. Whipple was one of the hotbeds of the celebrated anti-ICE resistance during Operation
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April 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Ira Stoll provides a valuable lesson in how to read the news — not just the New York Times, but its lesser counterparts all across the land — in his Free Beacon story “On Defense Spending, a New York Times Double Standard” (“‘Highest level in modern history’ is spin”). Here is the opening of this eductional and entertaining column: The rule of byline inflation holds that the reliability of any
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April 8, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Steve Grove is the publisher and CEO of the Minnesota Star Tribune (formerly the Minneapolis Star Tribune). He served as a commissioner in the Walz administration. Both the newspaper and the administration have done untold damage to the state. The state would be better off if the Star Tribune did not exist and if Walz had remained an idiotic congressional backbencher from rural Minnesota. The Star Tribune, by the way,
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April 7, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In his press conference on the miraculous rescue missions, President Trump decried the report that disclosed our rescue of the F-15E Strike Eagle pilot — the guy flying DUDE 44. President Trump said the report was based on a leak that endangered and complicated the mission to rescue the weapons systems officer. He pledged to track down the leaker via the unidentified outlet that reported the story. “We’re going to
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April 6, 2026 — Bill Glahn
This post on Twitter (X) from Rasmussen Reports reads, Trump Overnight Presidential Job Approval – is in. Today he returns to 47% in the 5-day rolling approval average. A level not seen since March 11th. March 11. Think about how much has happened in the past four weeks. The Iran war, gas prices. That’s 26 days with 99 percent negative headlines. 26 days with “Trump approval plummeting” headlines, and we
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April 6, 2026 — Scott Johnson
CNN’s Sunday morning State of the Union gabfest included EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as a guest on its August 2, 2025 edition. We somehow missed it! CNN’s Kasie Hunt pressed Zeldin “over his push to gut the government’s ability to fight climate change by rolling back regulations on greenhouse gases,” as CNN’s tendentious summary put it. Now in a long post on X Michael Roth analyzes Zeldin’s performance with a
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April 5, 2026 — Bill Glahn
A curious headline post on Twitter (X) from the U.K. Daily Mail reporting on the miraculous rescue of that downed airman behind enemy lines in Irain, The underlying Tweet was later deleted. I have seen no news reports of any American lives lost in the operation, much less “dozens.’ It was truly an Easter Miracle It pointed to this Daily Mail article. It appears that the article is no longer
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April 4, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday on X I made the simple observation that Minnesota would be better off if the Star Tribune did not exist. Many concurred with, liked, or retweeted my observation. A few fans of the Star Tribune disputed it. I made the observation in response to 2022 Republican Attorney General candidate Jim Schultz’s statement: “The Minnesota media needs to look in the mirror. With some exceptions, it has for a long
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April 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Every day I see a headline like these: from The Hill newspaper this morning, Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy. “New low.” The Hill headline from yesterday read, Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling. “Record low.” The Tuesday headline in The Hill reads, Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has ‘profound problems’ On Monday, The Hill
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April 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K Daily Mail, Second Somali fraudster handed light sentence by Minneapolis judge. The Daily Mail reports, A second Somali fraudster, who stole half a million dollars, was handed a mere six months in jail by a Minneapolis judge, just a day after one of her co-conspirators was sentenced to a year. Zamzam Jama was ordered to pay back $491,000 and will spend half a year in jail for
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April 1, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Citing two recent New York Times stories that recount the actual progress made by American and Israeli forces fighting Iran’s political leaders and military assets, Abe Greenwald adds a dose of optimism in the daily Commentary newsletter: “The Iranian regime is dysfunctional, and its air defenses are negligible—and the New York Times has been forced to admit it. Which means that in addition to destroying key targets in Iran, the
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March 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Rich McHugh is an investigative reporter for NewsNation. He has taken an interest in Minnesota’s Somali fraud scandals. In the video clip below, he catches up with Scott Stillman. Stillman “blew the whistle on Minnesota daycare fraud NINE YEARS AGO in 2017. A digital forensics supervisor for the Minnesota Dep[artment] of Human Services in 2017, Stillman says when he sounded the alarm formally in writing, the political machine destroyed him.
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March 29, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, ‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn. The Post reports, No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. There was no immediate word on arrests. The
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March 29, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Treasury Secretary Bessent took issue in a big way with a story published by the Financial Times last week (behind the FT paywall). I found his beef of interest: By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants. Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a
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