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November 30, 2015 — Scott Johnson
Bill Bennett has invited me to appear for a segment on his Morning in America radio program tomorrow morning to discuss my Weekly Standard article “The threat from ‘Minnesota men.'” I’m scheduled to appear at the top of the hour around 8:05 a.m. (Eastern). You can find a local station carrying Bill’s show here. I think you can also listen to the show via live stream accessible here. I’m grateful
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September 26, 2022 — Scott Johnson
I’m observing Rosh Hashanah today. My friend Howard Root is lending a hand to a few Republican campaigns this year. Yesterday I asked him if he would respond to my comments on Trafalgar’s Minnesota poll that I could schedule to post this morning. Howard offered these observations (and I thank him for helping me take the day off): 1. What I find so refreshing about Robert Cahaly and his Trafalgar
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December 4, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Kevin Roche is the former general counsel of UnitedHealth Group and former chief executive officer of its Ingenix division. We were law school classmates and these many years later wrote “False alarm” for the Summer issue of the Center of the American Experiment’s Thinking Minnesota magazine together. Kevin is the Minnesota version of Alex Berenson. He brings a highly informed but heterodox perspective to the public health issues raised by
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February 11, 2013 — Scott Johnson
Having read Suzanne Garment’s column “With words we govern men,” inspired by Gil Troy’s new book on Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the American opposition to the UN’s 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution, I invited Professor Troy to write something for us following up on his book. He has graciously obliged with a column that highlights the local Minnesota connection to the story. Professor Troy writes: With President Obama’s announcement that
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February 10, 2013 — Scott Johnson
Suzanne Garment’s excellent column “With words we govern men” alerted me to Gil Troy’s new book, Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism As Racism. Moynihan’s moment was his moment of greatness at the United Nations opposing the adoption of the Soviet-inspired “Zionism is racism” resolution by the General Assembly in 1975. The damage lives on, but the resolution was undone at the insistence of the United States in the administration
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March 23, 2010 — John Hinderaker
My son tells me that the most frequent Google search in Minnesota today was, “Is Joe Mauer married?” The answer, for what it’s worth, is No.
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March 20, 2004 — John Hinderaker
The Minneapolis Star Tribune notes ruefully that women have, indeed, achieved parity in Minnesota politics. But the result is not quite what the feminists had in mind: Whenever Minnesota’s top elected officials gather these days, women are well represented — not a terrible surprise in a state historically known for its liberalism. What’s unexpected is that Minnesota’s female political powerhouses are mostly conservative Republicans. The state’s pace-setting Republican women include
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April 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
A few days ago, in “State of the Race,” I passed along the latest Bloomberg poll showing Trump surging back into a significant lead over Biden. Today it is CNN’s turn: Trump’s support in the poll among registered voters holds steady at 49% in a head-to-head matchup against Biden, the same as in CNN’s last national poll on the race in January, while Biden’s stands at 43%, not significantly different
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April 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It depends on how you define waste, of course. I would define whole branches of government as wasteful or worse. And one can say that all money spent by governments on DEI programs is wasted, regardless of how efficiently the programs are carried out. If you ask taxpayers, they think the government wastes a lot of their money. Our Thinking Minnesota Poll most recently found that, on average, Minnesotans–not known
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April 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I want to strike a Nietzschean note in this comment on the rideshare ordinance enacted by the City of Minneapolis this past month. Under the ordinance, Uber and Lyft would be required to pay drivers a minimum rate of $1.40 per mile and 51 cents per minute to ensure that they earn the equivalent of local minimum wage of $15.57 per hour — effective May 1. The city council overrode
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March 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
On the local front, I have sought to draw attention to the case of JaycCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting in several posts accessible here. Filed in Ramsey County District Court and assigned to Judge Patrick Diamond, the case raises the question whether USAP’s separation of men from women in USAP’s Minnesota competitions must yield to Cooper’s self-identification as a woman. Although a biological male, Cooper seeks to compete with the
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January 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota was famously the scene of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent criminal prosecution of four police officers, most notably Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted of second degree murder and is currently in prison, having survived an attack on his life. In my opinion, Chauvin’s conviction was wrong on both legal and factual grounds. His case was tried in an atmosphere of anti-police hysteria and threats of violence, so that
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January 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged State Trooper Ryan Londregan with second degree murder in the death of a felon that arose out of a traffic stop. Here we go again. State troopers stopped the felon, Ricky Cobb, at 1:50 am because he was driving on a major highway without proper lights. When they ran his identity through their system, they found that there was a “pick up” warrant
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January 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The dogma that American law enforcement is “systemically” racist is one of the chief pillars of what passes for liberal thought. In truth, that theory has been perhaps the most damaging of all leftist shibboleths. A recent meta-study concludes that there is no empirical evidence that our criminal justice system discriminates against blacks, but that academics nevertheless continue to assert that claim–even in studies whose data actually refute it: An
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December 6, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As government at all levels continues to grow, as our federal debt spirals out of control, and as the constitutional ideal of limited government fades into history, it is good to know that most Americans at least claim to believe in smaller government. Rasmussen reports: By a 14-point margin, most voters still prefer a limited-government agenda. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely
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August 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Martha Njolomole is one of the most extraordinary people I know. She grew up in Malawi, in East Africa. Her family was poor, although not particularly so by Malawian standards. Her home had neither electricity nor running water. She walked a considerable distance to and from school, and when she got home she walked a mile or two to a well for water, which she carried home in a bucket
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August 18, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Not only has Joe Biden conceded that the “Inflation Reduction Act” (this week celebrating its one year anniversary) is misnamed, and is really just a green energy pork-barrel program, but it turns out that even as pork barrel it fails the most basic political test, which is that pork barrel spending should go to districts that your party controls. That’s the whole point of pork barrel redistributionism. But guess what?
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