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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
From Reuters, No Evidence of Political Motive in Murder of Former UK Minister Widdecombe, Police Say. Ann Widdecombe was a prominent figure on the right in Britain. She served in government under former Prime Minister John Major as a Conservative and member of the U.K. Parliament. Later in life she joined the Reform party as a spokesperson and member of the European Parliament. She also did some reality TV shows.
Writing about my quarrel with Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s 2018 New York Times profile of Ilhan Omar, I incorrectly stated that Ms. Stolberg failed to respond to my inquiries about her story in writing. She did. However, she asked me to keep her response off the record. She was a gracious and friendly correspondent. She also took my phone call as I stated in the linked post. I didn’t think to
President Trump gave the thugs calling the shots in Iran a deadline of Saturday evening to declare the Strait of Hormuz open. No threats, no tolls, no shooting, no drones. In other words, he sought a statement of compliance with our understnading of previous agreements. The Wall Street Journal summarized the state of play as of Friday night: The Trump administration believes that a nuclear deal with Iran is growing
This morning comes the shocking news that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham died yesterday evening. He had just turned 71 this past Thursday. According to his office, he died after a “brief and sudden illness.” He was completing his fourth term in the Senate and gliding to reelection in November. Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). pic.twitter.com/CQ5yVvqTH1 — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 12, 2026 What
My first experience with law enforcement being sold out to partisan interests arose out of a program, in which, as I recall, New York University Law School was involved, to place anti-fossil fuel lawyers in state attorney generals’ offices to sue oil companies. The effort was funded by left-wing money. So the far left was able to use public authorities to pursue its extremist agenda, courtesy of secret left-wing donors.
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
President Trump says the Iranian government may try to assassinate him: “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!” Trump wrote on Truth
News that the New York Times will launch a Twin Cities newsletter brings to mind a few of the Twin Cities stories that the Times has covered over the years. Some of them overlapped my own work on Power Line and gave me a fresh perspective on how the Times works. When Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2018, then-Times congressional reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The week began with Independence Day, and it featured a lot of World Cup action. If you can call anything that happens in soccer action. Europe sweltered under a non-air conditioned heat wave, and the Iran conflict resumed. But what motivated meme-makers more than anything else was the spectacular implosion of the Graham Platner Senate campaign. I suppose because it was so unexpected: who would have imagined that the campaign
