Tim Walz
January 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Most people likely think of political corruption in terms of bribe-taking. But there are more dangerous forms of corruption than bribery–obtaining power by violating election laws, for example, and maintaining power through lies and deceit, and buying votes by scattering public funds in disregard of legal standards. Minnesota, once regarded as a politically “clean” state, is now awash in these and other forms of corruption. Minnesota is sometimes seen as
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December 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ovid tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Book X of his Metamorphoses. Orpheus goes to the underworld to retrieve Eurydice but loses her for good when he disobeys the god’s injunction that he not look back at her before they emerge. I looked back at the course I took on Ovid’s epic as a college freshman 42 years later with my teacher himself in “Speaking of metamorphoses.” In
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Throughout yesterday afternoon I corresponded with Minnesota Department of Administration spokesmen Julie Nelsen. I was trying to understand how the Minnesota Satanists’ exhibit was approved for display inside our beautiful capitol building in St. Paul. I was looking for the substantive criteria such exhibits must satisfy for approval. As I found none, I finally asked Ms. Nelsen for a copy of the Minnesota Satanists’ application. Ms. Nelsen responded late this
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December 20, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We have a literally satanic display inside Minnesota’s beautiful capitol building. It’s a perversely offensive Christmas season special. Offense seems to be its reason for being and it has garnered some of the notoriety it seeks. The Center of the American Experiment’s Bill Glahn takes it in here. Other coverage of the exhibit is not as illuminating as Bill’s. FOX9’s Mike Manzoni begins his story on the display in the
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December 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Observers around the country wondered how Minnesota Governor Tim Walz could possibly have been chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate. His performance as a VP candidate ranged from inept to buffoonish. His description of himself as a “knucklehead” during his disastrous debate with J.D. Vance will go down in the history of remarkable debate moments. Plainly, he didn’t do Harris much good, if any. Not even in Minnesota: the results
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December 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The entire country met Minnesota’s own Tampon Tim Walz this past August when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. The more the country saw him, the less it liked him. Walz thrilled Democrats in convention assembled when he called Trump running mate J.D. Vance “weird.” That proved an unfortunate choice of words on Walz’s part. The more the country saw Walz, the weirder it thought he was. He
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December 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My organization, Center of the American Experiment, has been battling for four years to keep leftist indoctrination out of Minnesota’s public schools. A climax of sorts came in 2023, when Minnesota’s Democrat-controlled legislature mandated that Ethnic Studies be incorporated into every K-12 class. So, welcome to the world of Ethnic Algebra. Governor Tim Walz’s Department of Education appointed a committee to implement that legislation by drawing up Guidelines to be
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November 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Democrats have released a message from Kamala Harris. As posted on X, it runs 29 seconds. It is illustrative of Harris’s vacuity and weakness as a national candidate running on her own steam. It’s so bad, you have to wonder — as the title of one of David Crosby’s contributions to the Byrds’ Fifth Dimension album puts it — “What’s Happening?!?!” Vice President @KamalaHarris’ message to supporters. pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz —
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November 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I anticipated that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would be a flop as the vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket with Kamala Harris. However, the campaign brought us a Walz we had never previously seen back home. I did not anticipate he would prove to be a freak. What was it with the mock humility? With the effeminate theatrics? With that wave? If only he were saying goodbye. Jake Schneider
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November 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This is my November 7 Washington Free Beacon column on the failed 2024 vice presidential candidacy of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (republished with permission). * * * * * ST. PAUL, Minn.—A week before Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate, I facetiously urged her to “Take My Governor—Please.” Walz has compiled an uber-woke record as Minnesota governor. When he was elected to a second term in November
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November 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In hindsight, Kamala Harris’s crushing loss to Donald Trump seems overdetermined. The Biden/Harris administration’s poor record and Kamala’s lack of political ability were more than enough to account for the outcome. But the New York Post is reporting on an exit poll that suggests that Harris would have run better with Jewish voters in Pennsylvania if she had stuck with her original decision to select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as
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November 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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,
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November 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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November 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
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
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November 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In the last days of the presidential campaign, Democrats have cranked the hysteria up to 12. Start with Tim Walz, who referred to Elon Musk as “that gay guy,” and then, with a malicious leer, said “Michigan knows that word.” Walz’s aides now say he “misspoke,” and blamed it on a “stutter.” We have listened to Walz’s endless yammering for some years now, and we can assure you, he does
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October 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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October 30, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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