Minnesota

Pete Hegseth reports for duty

Featured image President Trump has announced his nomination of Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense. pic.twitter.com/qqerJdVj8V — Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) November 13, 2024 Pete is a native of Forest Lake, Minnesota, and an old friend of Power Line. Pete first wrote us in 2005 regarding his service at Guantanamo. He subsequently filed several reports with us during his service in Afghanistan. In a previous »

Myself am hell

Featured image Minnesota’s own Governor Tim Walz and the missus returned to Minnesota on the losing end of the stick last week. They each made a post-election statement at Eagan High School. The whole shebang is accessible here on YouTube. MinnPost has a straight news account here. Walz expressed a conciliatory sentiment or two. His ticket only carried Minnesota by four points. If he hopes to have a future in state politics, »

Tim Walz is returned to sender

Featured image The selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Vice President Harris’s running mate and his performance on the campaign trail are not exactly at the top of analysts’ considerations in explaining the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. However, they give us a local hook on a national story and rate high in terms of the amusement factor. A week before she settled on Walz as her running mate I »

A Post-Election Minnesota Postscript

Featured image The New York Post headlines: “Failed veep candidate Tim Walz couldn’t even beat Trump in his home county in telling final blow.” Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz didn’t just lose the overall election to Donald Trump — he lost his home county to him, too. President-elect Trump’s overwhelming win saw him net 49.6% of the vote in Minnesota’s Blue Earth County, where Walz’s family lived for »

Follow the Law? Why?

Featured image Minnesota law dictates that the validity of absentee ballots be evaluated in a bipartisan fashion. The law requires each county and other authority “with responsibility to accept and reject absentee ballots or to administer early voting” to “establish a ballot board.” Ballot boards must consist of election judges. Each party provides the county with a Party List, and county authorities are required to use these Party Lists to recruit election »

His hometown

Featured image Liz Collin is the Emmy Award-winning reporter who now works for Alpha News. Liz had Minnesota Governor Tim Walz nailed as a compulsive liar years before he was exposed as such in the glare of the national spotlight — not that anyone vetting Walz for Kamala Harris picked up on her work. They were certainly aware of Barack Obama’s approval and perhaps even of the cheerleading of the Star Tribune »

Endorse this again

Featured image Since I wrote the post below this past Sunday, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has explained his decision to revert to the Post’s non-endorsement policy in “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media.” My post was triggered by my old Weekly Standard editor Jonathan Last’s Bulwark column asserting that the Post’s non-endorsement and Elon Musk’s support of President Trump were inspired by fear of a pending Trump victory »

In the Walz regime

Featured image Today Alpha News has released the documentary Minnesota v. We the People. The related Alpha News story explains: The documentary was made in memory of five first responders who were murdered in the line of duty over a span of 13 months in Minnesota. Matthew Ruge, Paul Elmstrand, Adam Finseth, Jamal Mitchell, and Joshua Owen were all brutally killed while sacrificing their lives for the people of Minnesota. “Minnesota v. »

Welcome to Minnesota!

Featured image We have striven hard to bring national attention to Tim Walz’s disastrous record as Governor of Minnesota. If you want to see the basic facts in easily digestible form, go here. Meanwhile, someone–I don’t know who–has produced this Minnesota tourism ad. Lest any “fact-checkers” misunderstand, it is a parody. But then again, is it really? This Minnesota tourism ad goes hard. pic.twitter.com/Siq3HjZX46 — Power Tie (@realPowerTie) October 15, 2024 »

J.D. comes to town

Featured image Senator Vance came to town yesterday. I take it that his principal mission was fundraising, but he made a public appearance outside the site of the former Minneapolis Police Department Third Precinct building and declared Minneapolis a city in decline. J.D.’s opposite number on the Democratic ticket of course let the building burn in the signal event of the George Floyd riots of 2020. The Star Tribune attempts to rebut »

The Other Record the Democrats Don’t Mention

Featured image One of the remarkable features of this year’s presidential election is the Democrats’ avoidance of any discussion of the last four years, under the Biden/Harris administration. The reason is obvious: the Biden/Harris record is indefensible. Another thing they don’t want to talk about is Tim Walz’s record as Governor of Minnesota. Unfortunately, the conservative press hasn’t focused as much on that record as it might have. This is understandable, given »

In the tall grass

Featured image I saw an amazing thing in the Twin Cities yesterday. Driving down West 69th Street as it passes from Richfield into Edina, I found a Trump lawn sign. I think it was my first sighting of a Trump sign here this season. Our state Republican Party is barely functioning. We have a disgraceful Republican Senate candidate. I assume many Republican supporters of Trump would prefer not to self-identify. All things »

The Walz variations

Featured image Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz appeared on a segment of Fox News Sunday for an interview by Shannon Bream yesterday. I have posted the video at the bottom. The interview was notable insofar as it constituted Walz’s first appearance on one of the Sunday morning gabfests since he was named Kamala Harris’s running mate. Walz’s continuing lies and evasions are of interest in themselves, but his »

Feeding his lies

Featured image It was inconceivable to me that Kamala Harris would select Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate because of his record in office. His record as governor ranges from the horrible to the despicable. I made this point, by the way, before Harris selected Walz, in the July 30 Free Beacon column “Take my governor — please.” In that column I wrote that Walz would never live down the »

When Tim Met Mohamed

Featured image Back in 2017 in Minneapolis, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual citizen of Australia and the United States, heard a woman being assaulted and called 911. When police arrived, Damond approached their car and Somali-born officer Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Expert witnesses testified that Noor’s use of force was objectionable, unreasonable and violated police policies and training. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) drew criticism for its investigation of »

Fact-check this

Featured image Among the corporate media “fact-checks” of the great debate between Senator Vance and our overmatched Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, I have yet to find one that homes in on the fundamental question of free speech. When Vance brought it up, Walz vomited up his ignorant take on the law of free speech: “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. That’s the test. That’s the Supreme court test.” That’s what »

Economic Collapse In Slow Motion

Featured image The commercial real estate market is in the doldrums across much of the U.S., but it is especially bad in some places. Like Minneapolis. John Phelan relates the bad news: Last week, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported: Two downtown Minneapolis office towers have sold in a deal representing one of the core’s steepest discounts in recent history. The 634,000-square-foot Forum buildings, previously known as International Centre and Oracle Centre, »