Minnesota
July 17, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I dubbed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “Governor Isuzu” a while back. The blather and lying come so naturally to him. It’s a gift of some kind. He perfected it during his reign as our one-man ruler by emergency decree during the Covid nightmare. You know Walz is lying when his lips are moving. Walz knows he’s lying. We know he’s lying. He knows that we know he’s lying. He remains
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July 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Successful Transfer of Abdikerm Eidleh from Somalia to Minnesota to Face Charges for Role in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme. A headline that I would not have thought possible as recently as last month. Eidleh is defendant No. 2 (out of 80) in the half-billion-dollar free-food scandal, and was a former employee of the nonprofit company Feeding Our Future. Since the scandal broke in
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July 15, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Republicans have not won a statewide election since Tim Pawlenty was reelected governor in 2006. We have a road that has been made more difficult this year by the performance of ICE during Operation Metro Surge. The performance of ICE has done much to offset the disgust of Minnesotans with the massive fraud that has proliferated under Governor Tim Walz. It resulted in Walz abandoning his quest for an
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July 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Comments by MN state Clemency Review Commission members raise more questions about the controversial pardon of convicted child rapist, Tou Lue Vang. From Fox News, Exposed docs reveal why Tim Walz board awarded repeat child rapist pardon: ‘No future’ Tue Lue Vang, convicted of raping a girl starting at age 10, has been deported to Laos after Rubio intervened By now, everyone is familiar with the three-person membership of the state Board of
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July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The pardon of child rapist Tou Vang by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison continues to reverberate. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted on X today, So, if deporting a single child rapist doesn’t make the state better or safer, how about deporting a thousand rapists? 10,000? Comments like these appear to deny the existence of a tipping point. It’s the logical fallacy of faulty generalization:
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July 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has begun announcing their endorsements for the 2026 election cycle. First up was their re-endorsement of state Sen. Omar Mahmood Fateh, representing a district in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh has played a prominent role in the infamous Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, among other irregularities. Of course, none of this has/will matter to voters in south Minneapolis. Sen. Fateh is
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July 11, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Minnesota produces more news than can be consumed locally. From the U.K. Daily Mail, Former Obama staffer accused of stealing from colleagues to fund drug habit. The Daily Mail reports, Adam Fetcher, 42, was let go from his role as Chief Communications Officer for the City of Minneapolis last week amid a police probe, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported. According to the outlet, Fetcher, who earned $186,495 a year in
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July 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is something I haven’t seen noted anywhere–the New York Times is expanding geographically, by adding “local newsletters” for metro areas outside of New York. The first one will be in the Twin Cities: The New York Times is piloting a local newsletter for the Twin Cities. It said: "Our hope is that The Local: Twin Cities can serve as a model for similar future efforts elsewhere around the country"
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July 10, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Every now and again, justice prevails. As John noted earlier, Tou Lue Vang, pardoned child rapist and Laotian national, has been deported: Some backstory here. There are a handful of southeast Asian men who arrived in Minnesota as refugees decades ago who went on to be convicted of serious felony crimes. As a result, they lost their legal immigration status and were ordered deported back to their home countries. But
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July 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Well, this is great: Bill Glahn wrote about the Tou Vang case here. Briefly, Vang was convicted in 2005 of repeatedly raping a ten year old girl, something he said was “normal in his culture.” Vang had a legal status in the U.S., but he lost it because of the rape conviction. He was ordered deported, but as so often happens, the order achieved nothing. Twenty years later, he came
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July 6, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Stranger than fiction. Last month, on the heels of the great Bemidji (MN) roofing raid where ICE nabbed more than a dozen illegal aliens at a residential job site, federal immigration authorities did a similar raid in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. According to federal court filings, the raid in Thief River Falls took place at a commercial roofing job site, believe it or not, of all places, at the Pennington
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July 5, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The number of habeas corpus cases filed in Minnesota is ramping back up again, reflecting both renewed ICE enforcement activity and increasingly lenient judges. Since March 25, when the federal 8th Circuit court of appeals ruled that “shall be detained” meant exactly that in relation to illegal aliens, some 222 new habeas cases have been filed in the federal district of Minnesota. These habeas corpus petitions seek the release of illegal aliens held
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July 3, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It seems wherever in America that Democrats enjoy a complete monopoly on power, “Democratic Socialists” are in the ascendency. Here in Minnesota, the local outlet is close to assuming complete control of the state’s largest cities, so I was curious to see what their plan is for governing. The agenda includes everything that you were expecting: “free Palestine,” “abolish ICE,” rent control, higher minimum wages, “free” health care, etc. But
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July 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Independence Day is always a good time to recall the heroes of American history, even more so during our 250th anniversary. So let’s take a moment to remember Minnesota’s First Volunteer Regiment. The First Minnesota was the first unit to be volunteered in response to President Lincoln’s call for troops following Fort Sumter. Because the U.S. Army had not yet organized itself into Eastern and Western departments, the First was
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July 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From Bill Melugin of Fox News, For Tou Vang, child rape is “normal in his culture.” Then let us each act according to our national customs and deport Vang back to his homeland, where he can practice his cultural traditions as he sees fit, and see where that leads. The details of the Vang case are horrific enough. But now we have the added outrage of Democratic politicians trying so
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July 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The Minneapolis Star Tribune finally found an illegal alien that it’s OK for you to hate. No institution in Minnesota, let alone any media outlet, has been more opposed to the enforcement of America’s immigration laws. Today, they published this story, ICE says it’s after the ‘Worst of the Worst,’ but didn’t detain this sex offender: Federal immigration officials decided that a Minnesota parolee facing deportation should instead be subject
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June 27, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, Minnesota school board member under fire after saying dogs should urinate on ‘White corpses’ in cemeteries. Lovely. Such a good example for our yutes. The Post reports, A Minnesota school board member is facing backlash after suggesting that dogs should be allowed to relieve themselves in Christian cemeteries, writing in a social media post that people should “leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the
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