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November 11, 2016 — Scott Johnson
In a delicious coda to the defeat of Lady Clinton in the election on Tuesday, Minneapolis Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison has emerged as a leading contender to take the helm of the Democratic National Committee. He hasn’t yet announced his bid, but he has won the support of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (from the Senate’s Marxist subcaucus, no surprise) as well as prospective Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
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September 10, 2016 — Scott Johnson
I’m speaking this morning to the Maple Grove Critical Thinking Discussion Group at the Maple Grove Community Center. The meeting convenes at 10:00 a.m. The title of my talk is “The Secret History of Keith Ellison.” Now the title is facetious. Ellison’s history only became “secret” when he ran for Congress in 2006 and staked his campaign on three lies about his involvement with the Nation of Islam. I have
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December 23, 2014 — Scott Johnson
Joanne Chesimard/Assata Shakur was a member and leader of the cop-killing Black Liberation Army. In 1973 she participated in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which Trooper Werner Foerster was murdered and Trooper James Harper seriously injured. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of Foerster and of seven other felonies related to the shootout. Chesimard escaped from prison in New Jersey and has been on
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December 22, 2014 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison has blocked me on Twitter, so I am unable to follow him. Searching Twitter to take a look at his emissions, however, I found that Star Tribune political reporter Rachel Stassen-Berger has posted an Ellison fundraising letter that she received in which Ellison draws on my Star Tribune op-ed column “Rep. Keith Ellison remembers to forget.” Ellison’s letter responds to these two paragraphs of
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December 5, 2013 — Scott Johnson
Ebony has a featured column that it calls [THE SPIRITUAL LIFE]. In the December installment of the column, contributing editor Brooke Obie gives us “From Catholic to Muslim: Congressman Keith Ellison speaks.” Ellison represents Minnesota’s Fifth District (Minneapolis and inner ring suburbs). I think he’s an important and ambitious man. We’ve had our eye on him since he secured the endorsement for the seat at the DFL Fifth District convention
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August 4, 2013 — Steven Hayward
Minnesota’s socialist Rep. Keith Ellison really let the mask slip big time the other day. From the CNS report: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told a gathering of Democrats, “The bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it.” (Emphasis added.) I can’t top Walter Hudson’s observation: We can induce from Ellison’s comments that he believes the government cannot go broke so long
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November 1, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Tom Friedman calls his column on going home to St. Louis Park “Minnesota mirror.” John ably dissected Friedman’s canned history of Minnesota politics here last night. Perhaps predictably, Friedman sees the higher wisdom of Tom Friedman reflected in the mirror. I want to add no more than a footnote regarding Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison, whose district includes St. Louis Park and whom Friedman salutes as “an African-American Muslim
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August 28, 2011 — Scott Johnson
After he unexpectedly won the endorsement of the DFL nominating convention for Minnesota’s Fifth District congressional seat on May 6, 2006, Keith Ellison faced a serious problem. The problem was how to deal with his well-known involvement with the Nation of Islam. Had Ellison not managed to dispose of the problem, his candidacy would likely have been irreparably weakened in the competitive DFL primary field. Ellison chose to deal with
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August 27, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Stanley Kurtz observes that “[o]utgoing New York Times editor Bill Keller has kicked up a controversy by placing on the table a series of religious questions for the Republican candidates for president.” I want to get in on the act and pose a set of questions for Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison, America’s first Muslim congressman. I summarized my research on Ellison just before he was elected to Congress
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April 14, 2011 — Scott Johnson
I think I’ve had Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison’s number for quite a while. I took a shot at sizing him up for Weekly Standard readers in “Louis Farrakhan’s first congressman,” just before Ellison was elected to Congress in 2006. What Rep. Vito Marcantonio was to World War II and the Cold War (a Communist tool), Rep. Keith Ellison is to the war on terrorism. One of Ellison’s best
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March 11, 2011 — Scott Johnson
It’s weird watching Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison take his place on the national stage in opposition to Peter King’s hearing on homegrown Islamic extremism this week. Yesterday he played his role to the hilt in his testimony at the hearings, turning on the waterworks in the conclusion of his testimony. The Star Tribune was duly impressed. Today the Star Tribune reports that “Ellison could not fight back the
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March 8, 2011 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison embodies the superficially odd alliance between Islamist forces and the left. He is not useful for much, but he is useful to illustrate the phenomenon. He is also useful to those who seek to minimize the threat posed by radical Islam to Americans. Americans probably don’t need to be persuaded that the threat is real. The Christian Science Monitor reports that in the years
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October 24, 2010 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison made his name as the first Muslim elected to Congress. It was therefore all but obligatory for him to weigh in on the firing of Juan Williams from NPR as a result of Williams’s expression of his feelings on Fox News about seeing air passengers dressed in “Muslim garb,” as he did last week on Ed Schultz’s MSNBC show. It’s always illuminating to hear
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April 19, 2010 — Scott Johnson
In today’s New York Times Andrea Elliott traces the Obama administration’s efforts to “reach out” to American Muslims. Elliott’s story covers ground that we have gone over here at some length, such as John Brennan’s mind-boggling talk to Muslims at NYU Law School and the appointment of Rashad Hussain to be the administration’s representative to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. If I do say so myself, readers wanting to
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January 31, 2010 — Paul Mirengoff
Rep. Keith Ellison has written a letter to President Obama urging him to use diplomatic pressure to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza. 50 members of the House have signed the letter, including Ellison’s fellow Minnesotans Betty McCollum and James Oberstar. The letter pays lip service to the security needs of Southern Israel, which had been subject to repeated attacks from Gaza — attacks which, to my knowledge, never prompted Ellison
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January 7, 2009 — Scott Johnson
…on Al Jazeera English. He speaks to Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi about the Israeli offensive in Gaza “and why he feels so few US politicians understand the Middle East.” Ellison represents Minnesota’s Fifth District in Congress. I wrote about him here in a series of posts titled “Who is Keith Ellison” from his nomination by the Democratic Party at the Fifth District convention in May 2006, to the Democratic primary
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October 31, 2008 — Scott Johnson
After Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination this past June, I set out a comparison between Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison and Barack Obama. (Minnesota’s Fifth District covers Minneapolis and its inner-ring suburbs.) I think the comparison remains both valid and illuminating. I am taking the liberty of revisiting my argument this morning. Watching the emergence of Barack Obama this year I have experienced at least a slight
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