Word to the wise: Instead of consuming the rhetoric from an agenda-driven media, perhaps you might wanna get out and hear from people who are actually living in the real world.
Exhibit A:
All it takes is 1 date with Miss Universe, Noa Cochva, to learn what's happening between Israel and Hamas. #FactsForPeace pic.twitter.com/zfgKwZWyX4
— FactsForPeace (@Facts_For_Peace) April 24, 2024
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Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmaker, was arrested early Monday morning after police found her inside the home, according to charging documents filed Tuesday in Becker County District Court.
Charges say the senator told arresting officers her father had recently died and her stepmother had stopped communicating with family members, and that she wanted her late father’s ashes, and belongings including pictures, a flannel shirt, and other items of sentimental value.
Public records and an obituary posted by a Detroit Lakes funeral home show that Mitchell’s father, who died last month, and stepmother lived on the same block of the same road in Detroit Lakes as where the senator was arrested.
When first hearing of the details of this burglary, it sounded disturbingly similar to someone who was having a mental health episode. Please understand I don't say that to be flip. It's just that too many high profile individuals have had their inner demons play out in the public and it hasn't ended particularly well.
However, the list of charges indicate that this incident was very much premeditated.
At around 4:45 a.m. Monday, Detroit Lakes police responded to a 911 call from a woman reporting a burglary of her home in the 700 block of Granger Road in Detroit Lakes. When officers arrived, they searched the house and found a person inside.
Officers then arrested Mitchell, 49, who while being detained told the stepmother “something to the effect of” she was “just trying to get a couple of my dad’s things because you wouldn’t talk to me anymore.”
The senator was dressed in all-black clothing and was wearing a black hat. Officers also discovered a flashlight in a sock covering which court documents said appeared to be a modification to reduce the amount of light that it would emit.
Mitchell told police she had made the roughly 200-mile drive from Woodbury to Detroit Lakes starting at around 1 a.m. early Sunday morning, court documents said. She admitted to entering her stepmother’s home through a basement window where she had left a backpack containing her drivers’ license, two laptop computers and a cell phone.
Given Sen. Mitchell's position, there are obvious political ramifications to this.
DFLers have 34 seats in the Senate, compared with the 33 held by Republicans. If Mitchell can’t return to the Capitol, Democrats may have trouble passing partisan legislation between now and the end of session later next month.
Considering the untold damage the Dem trifecta caused with their "buffet of lunacy" last year as well as additional draconian proposals being floated this session, it would be a dereliction of duty if the Senate Republicans even entertain working with DFLers on anything as long as Ms. Mitchell remains absent. It is literally the only leverage they have in the remaining few weeks of the legislative session. I say they use it.
UPDATE: Via her Facebook page, Sen. Mitchell releases a statement which seems to contradict what she told police.
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About three months before he was elected President (and on the third anniversary of the Charlotteville, VA white supremacist rally), Joe Biden conveyed the following:
Three years ago today, the world watched in horror as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and far-right extremists with torches in hand descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, spewing the same anti-Semitic bile that was heard in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. It was a moment of testing for our country, and a wake-up call to the fact that hate never dies — it only hides. And when our leaders give it oxygen, it can come roaring back to life.
What happened next is seared in all our memories — a violent clash between the white nationalists and those who came together to stand against hate. Tragically, a brave young woman lost her life.
And then our president claimed that there were “very fine people on both sides.” Donald Trump had the audacity to assign moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those who stood against it.
I knew then that we were in a battle for the soul of this nation. And I knew then that I could not stand by and let Donald Trump destroy the core values of this nation. Now, three years later, we can see even more clearly that everything that has made America, America, is at stake.
Despite our imperfections as a nation, the American people have never given up or walked away from the founding ideals of our nation: that everyone is entitled to be treated equally and with dignity and respect. That is who we are. And together, we are far more powerful than the hatred we saw on that dark day three years ago, and in so many acts of hatred and violence since.
Perhaps the person who occupies the Oval Office today needs to read this statement in the light of there having been daily Charlottesville-like events over the past half year.
As despicable as the 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally was, peoples' ability to perform normal everyday tasks (i.e. student and faculty at Columbia University attending class) were not in danger.
Reporter: "Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 22, 2024
Biden: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."
Reporter: "Should the… pic.twitter.com/bW5j9Nde0v
Kinda of the same vibe as "fine people on both sides," no?
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson throws down a challenge to Biden.
You know as well as I that Biden absolutely will not do this simply because it would cost him a key swing state like Michigan where the heavily Muslim city of Dearborn is threatening to sit it out this November.
As Seth Mandel at Commentary points out, the white supremacists and the Jew-hating progs are basically two sides of the same coin.
“Jews will not replace us” was the favored chant in Charlottesville. At the progressive campus rallies and beyond, “From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” has made quite the comeback. In the past, the second half of that line was often “Palestine will be free,” a slightly more politically savvy version of the slogan that calls for the murder and enslavement of all Jews in the land of Israel. “Palestine is Arab” is even more openly violent than “Jews will not replace us,” a white nationalist chant that seeks to hide its bloodlust behind anti-immigration euphemisms. (It does not hide it well; a man radicalized by these theories massacred Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.)
“From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” establishes as its baseline a Nazi-like racial hierarchy. What that means is that regardless of political or governmental structures and constitutions, that racial hierarchy is baked into society: Jews would be treated this way even if they no longer had a state, just as they were treated this way in the 20th century before Israeli sovereignty was established. Put simply, ethnic cleansing of the Jews would be the goal in a one-state solution as well.
Because this racial hierarchy is fundamental to its proponents’ worldview, opposition to coexistence with Jews is global. The skinheads in Charlottesville weren’t deterred from their version of this ideology just because they live outside of Germany. Similarly, those who chant “Palestine is Arab” subscribe to this racial hierarchy wherever they are. That this chant was delivered outside the White House, for example, is not a protest of Israeli policy but rather a challenge to the foundational ideas and values of the United States.
Although the expression of this worldview isn’t limited to college campuses, those campuses are the main reason we are now witnessing three Charlottesvilles a day. After all, it means students are paying attention in class.
Yup. These profs are literally telling us who they are at this point (WARNING: an f-bomb or two):
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Teacher’s Rant Promotes Anarchy.
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 22, 2024
⚠️ “Don’t work, don’t go to class, don’t research. Act out your Marxist and post-colonial ideas!”
📢 This is out of control.
Is there just complete lawlessness at @Columbia?
👉 FOLLOW @ShirionOrg for more exposure of the… pic.twitter.com/QDdhdf96wG
I honestly don't know if America can be salvaged at this point.
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Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals - April 13, 1980.
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Royals pitcher Dan Quisenberry entered the game in the 7th inning. Catching for KC was Jamie Quirk. As such, this was the first battery in MLB history with both last names beginning with "Q."
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I'll be back in the Patriot bunker today for my 2-hour radio show The Closer. We'll get started right at 1:00 PM Central Time.
In the first hour, I'll weigh in on the latest in presidential politics and how both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have drawn the media's ire. I will also talk about National Public Radio disgracing itself.
At 2:30, longtime friend of the broadcast Andrew Richter will join the broadcast to discuss his new book The Golden Age - A History of Baseball from 1900-1960.
So please call (651) 289-4488 if you'd like to weigh in on any of the topics we plan on addressing.
CNN is out here like the final scene of Matt Damon in The Departed. pic.twitter.com/3DAIT9IEai
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 18, 2024
Yes, the White House fact checkers who went all Claude Rains as of January 20, 2021 are suddenly awakened from their slumber.
Check out this headline from Daniel Dale's CNN piece on Friday.
Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing.
The fact is Biden has been a serial fabulist at least since his first run for President back in the 1980s. However, the media was essentially willing to turn a blind a eye four years ago because Trump's ouster was of paramount importance. But now that Trump is once again a threat given Biden's dismal job approval numbers, the perpetual tall tales from the White House's walking cadaver are suddenly problematic.
Good thing for Dems that the media has long stopped caring that they're coming off as whorish.
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When longtime National Public Radio employee Uri Berliner came out with a piece detailing its insufferable left wing bias, the essay was more a confirmation than a revelation. But it was a noteworthy post nonetheless given it was penned by someone on the inside who admittedly "fit the NPR mode."
While I've always believed it's possible for employees of a news organization to simultaneously have deeply held beliefs and report with impartiality on events which may undermine said beliefs, the election of Donald J. Trump as President shattered that ability in many. Berliner cited the Trump years as the point of no return for NPR.
As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.
Shortly after his piece was published, Berliner was suspended by NPR. I'm going to guess the excerpt where he suggested his org had an obligation to cover Trump fairly is what likely caused execs to react in a way which bore resemblance to the Linda Blair character's head-spinning projectile vomiting in the film The Exorcist.
In the days following Berliner's suspension, he was maligned by management and employees to the point where he realized there was no coming back. As such, he tendered his resignation on Wednesday.
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
In the event you're curious about the worldview of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, here are a couple of her greatest hits.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
NPR’s far-left CEO Katherine Maher: "Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done." pic.twitter.com/yuFCKBjzjT
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) April 17, 2024
I'm really having a tough time imagining a sane world where the top exec of a major news organization (one which is funded by the American taxpayers to boot) insinuates that truth and the First Amendment are barriers to their agenda.
As Jim Geraghty of National Review points out, NPR will likely ride out the storm and then just go about business as usual.
There’s something a bit refreshing, if depressing, about the way NPR responded to 25-year veteran Uri Berliner’s comprehensive indictment of his employer, published in The Free Press: NPR management denied all of his accusations and suspended him for a week, and then he resigned. “I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by the new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay,” he said.
Chris Rufo has gone through the Twitter feed of NPR CEO Katherine Maher and found her to be a platonic ideal of left-wing, “woke,” progressive orthodoxy, sprinkled with corporate buzzwords.
This time at NPR, there is no rubbing of the chin, furrowed brows, or begrudging concession that the critic has a point, and that they must do better. Nope, NPR’s management thinks they’re doing a terrific job, and they don’t see any reason to change. In their minds, the true villain of this story is Berliner, for criticizing his employer in another publication. (Admittedly, very few employers are big fans of that move.)
I mean, if decrepit nonagenarian hack Dan Rather can have his career rehabbed, NPR surely can find a way to clear this hurdle. You know they'll have plenty of accomplices/allies in the agenda-driven media circuit.
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Erick Erickson, who began his career as an elections lawyer, gives the best explainer of the case Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg is bringing against Donald Trump.
Trump is, essentially, charged with documentation fraud — claiming payment for a past debt was a legal fee.
However, the statute of limitations is well past the time to charge Trump with that.
So, the New York District Attorney has decided to elevate the issue to a felony and get it within the statute of limitations.
To do this, Alvin Bragg has to accuse Trump of engaging in documentation fraud to hide an underlying crime. The underlying crime is a federal campaign finance violation. That violation is Trump paying off the porn star through his lawyer and failing to disclose it on his campaign finance forms because it was a campaign-related expense.
It was a campaign expense because if Trump had not paid off Stormy Daniels, she could have gone public and cost Trump the election. Yes, the left argues that the man who, on video, said he could grab women by their you-know-what would have been undone by this revelation.
The rule for a campaign expense is this: Would the transaction have still happened even if the candidate were not running for office? Trump’s wife had a prenuptial agreement. Trump would have had to pay her millions for adultery. So, even if Trump were not running for office, it is still very likely he would have had to pay Stormy Daniels.
Therefore, this was not a campaign finance violation. Therefore, there is no underlying felony. Therefore, there is no New York felony. Therefore, the case falls apart.
But, even if it were a campaign finance violation, federal law states that only the federal government can prosecute campaign finance violations. Neither the Federal Elections Commission nor the Department of Justice have chosen to prosecute or charge Trump, so Trump has not been found guilty of a federal campaign finance violation.
To repeat myself: therefore, this was not a campaign finance violation. Therefore, there is no underlying felony. Therefore, there is no New York felony. Therefore, the case falls apart.
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds - September 4, 1927.
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In this particular game, Pirates teammates (and brothers) Lloyd and Paul Waner each homered. They became the first sibling teammates in MLB history to each hit a home run in the same game.
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Huh. Whoever could've seen this coming?!?!?!
Minneapolis will delay the start date of a new policy that sets the pay for drivers of Uber, Lyft and other rideshare services.
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously Thursday to push the ordinance's effective date back two months, from May 1 to July 1. Council members praised the move, saying it would allow more time for new rideshare companies to start up and potentially fill gaps left by Uber and Lyft, which have pledged to leave Minneapolis once the ordinance takes effect.
"I am confident that this small delay in implementation will lead to better outcomes for drivers and riders statewide and also lay a stronger foundation for a Minnesota rideshare industry that is more equitable instead of extremely exploitive, which it is now," said Council Member Robin Wonsley, who co-sponsored the original rideshare pay plan.
Translation - "We thought Uber and Lyft were bluffing when they said they'd leave the area, so we're just winging it at this point."
This saga perfectly encapsulates government hubris. The vast majority of these people have never run (nor worked for) a private sector business, so they have no concept of basic economics. Nevertheless they press forward with awful policies that will make goods & services far more expensive (assuming they even continue to exist) and less convenient for the citizens they purport to faithfully represent.....all the while criticizing businesses who pass on the higher costs to consumers. But in literally a matter of hours after the Minneapolis City Council overrode Mayor Jacob Frey's veto of their ordinance, both Uber and Lyft indicated their plan to leave the Minneapolis market effective May 1.
As Minnesota State Sen. Zach Duckworth (R-Lakeville) pointed out, the economics of this decision won't be the only area to suffer.
In the absence of decisive leadership, with no solution in sight, it’s incumbent upon the Legislature to step up & govern responsibly on behalf of Minnesotans. Our neighbors with disabilities & the elderly depend upon the service provided by Uber & Lyft as does our local economy. pic.twitter.com/BKGYRiusoB
— 🇺🇸Zach Duckworth🇺🇸 (@ZachDuckworth) April 12, 2024
So what now? I find it hard to believe the prog infested Minneapolis City Council will do the right thing and reverse course. And I am also very skeptical that an adequate rideshare system can be developed in that time frame, to say nothing of one which can measure up to Uber or Lyft.
Once again, Dennis Prager is proven correct: Whatever the left touches, it destroys.
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Didn't see this one coming.
O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later was found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
The family announced on Simpson's official X account that Simpson died Wednesday after battling prostate cancer. He died in Las Vegas, officials there said Thursday.
"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace," the family posted on Simpson's X account.
Until the summer of 1994, Simpson was known as a hall of fame running back, movie actor and prolific pitchman. But as of June 1994, Simpson was seen by many as a celeb who murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Even though Simpson was acquitted in October 1995, I would venture to say the majority of people familiar with the case still believe he had gotten away with double murder.
It was 30 years ago this summer when Simpson was charged with double murder and thus was going to be placed under arrest. However, when arresting officers did not find him at his home, it was soon thereafter he was declared a "fugitive of justice." And thus the "White Bronco chase" saga was born.
If OJ Simpson had blown out his knee at USC, you would never have heard of the Kardashians. #ButterflyEffect
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 20, 2012
Hospice??? pic.twitter.com/OXLzs9jWO6
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) February 9, 2024
While he denied any health problems in that video, two days later he posted a Super Bowl Sunday tweet where he acknowledged via video he was "dealing with some issues" but insisted that he'd be back to normal in no time.
That would be his last post.
I really don't have much to say about O.J. himself, except to express sincere hope that he repented and accepted Christ as his savior.
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“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state,” Trump said in the video.
“Many states will be different. Many states will have a different number of weeks…at the end of the day it is all about the will of the people.”
I'm as staunch a pro life person as there is, so I believe there is not only a moral obligation to protect life but also a legal one. And while a fetus that is, say, six weeks along would obviously not be viable outside the womb, I believe their personhood is established and thus should be protected from an intentional homicide. Sure, my position is considered "outside the mainstream," but legislation allowing abortion until moments before birth is as well. Heck, I could argue "late term abortion" is far more inhumane than advocating that an unplanned pregnancy be carried until birth.
Of course, Trump is making the politically expedient move here. While he's previously indicated that he believes abortion should be allowed up until 15 weeks, he didn't advocate for such legislation to be passed were he to win the presidency. Ever since Roe v. Wade was overturned nearly 2 years ago, progs have desired to codify Roe into federal law. But as Charles C.W. Cooke argued back in March 2022, such a move would be flatly unconstitutional.
Like the Supreme Court, Congress simply does not have the power to decide this question for the states. That is not what Congress is for, or has ever been for. There is no generalized police power vested in the federal government, and it is not permitted to exercise one simple because Americans feel strongly about the question from both sides. There exist a handful circumstances in which the federal government may regulate the killing of human brings — if a murder victim is a federal judge, federal official, federal law enforcement officer, or is killed at sea or on federal property, for example — but, outside of those narrow confines, there are no national laws prohibiting (or mandating) homicide, because there is no federal power to prohibit (or mandate) homicide.
As I've said many times on this blog as well as on my radio show is we could have the most radical pro abortion laws possibly conjured up (and in Minnesota, we pretty much do), but the battle for hearts and minds on the issue can never cease. Yes, I get there are going to be obstacles given the fact terminating an unwanted pregnancy has been given the Orwellian relabel of "women's healthcare." As such, love and compassion is essential when broaching the issue.
In the end, having the issue remain unresolved may more valuable to the left. They believed they effectively used the abortion issue to stave off bigger GOP gains in the 2022 midterms, so they are hoping to use it as a wedge yet again in this year's presidential cycle. But in a rare instance of borderline political savvy, Trump didn't give them a lifeline.
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Welcome to April! I'll be back in the Patriot bunker for today's edition of my radio show The Closer. The 2-hour blitz gets started at 1:00 PM Central Time.
In the first hour, I'll discuss how President Joe Biden has sold out Israel so as to attempt to lock in his far left kook base. On the local level, the DFL trifecta in St. Paul continues to bring forth absolutely insane policy proposals.
At 2:15, I.T. guru Greg Scott will join the broadcast to discuss revelations of Facebook spying on the competition. He'll also share tips on how to prevent high profile hackings which companies like Sony have been subjected to.
If I've learned anything from the past two years with Minnesota Dems controlling all of state government is that I can retire the phrase "There's no way they can come up with any more outlandish ideas."
The most recent galaxy brain suggestion is.....a full-time Legislature?!?!?!
I mean, they blew through a historic budget surplus (and then some) in the five-month long legislative session last year. Can you imagine what they could do while being in session year round????
Rep. Jim Nash (R-Waconia) had some thoughts, and they're not at all appealing.
I'm not being the least bit hyperbolic when I say that if indeed such a thing comes to fruition, a "For Sale" sign will be pounded into my front yard that very day.
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- Am I supposed to be outraged by this?
"We saw a white girl in Iowa do it to a bunch of Black girls. That gained my respect...I didn't expect that." - Paul Pierce pic.twitter.com/StyugFiG67
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 2, 2024
To be honest, I'm not able to muster anything more than an eyeroll.
All that said, I would be curious if, say, a retired pro hockey player like a Brett Hull expressed surprise that a black dude on an NHL team overwhelmed the opposing club with his stellar play. I'm gonna guess it wouldn't quite be met with the same wave off.
- Speaking of NCAA Women's hoops, their Final Four will take place this weekend in Cleveland. The last time this event occurred in The Land was 2007, about which Cleveland's WEWS-TV news reporter John Kosich reminisced via Instagram.
The caption from that post:
Pulling up a story from the last time the Women’s NCAA Final Four was in Cleveland 17 years ago I came across this clip talking with Rutgers Head Coach C. Vivian Stringer. Totally forgetting that a few days after this interview, Don Imus would make a racist comment about her team that would lead to his firing by MSNBC. It left the network, which simulcast his radio show, with a 3-hour hole in their programming which they eventually filled by creating a new show, Morning Joe.
That fact Morning Joe sprung from that debacle means that Imus's undeniably despicable comments weren't the only regrettable incident from 17 years ago.
- This November there's a nonzero chance that Donald Trump could be elected President and the U.S. Senate could flip to the GOP. With that in mind, progs are feeling a slight sense of deja vu.
Democratic senators are not joining calls on the left for liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. But for the first time, they’re publicly expressing an unease that history could repeat itself after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to step down in 2014 ended in the Supreme Court lurching sharply to the right.
Ginsburg, then 81 and a cancer survivor, could have retired and been replaced by a Democratic appointee when President Barack Obama was in office and his party controlled 55 Senate seats. She rejected the calls — and died in September 2020, allowing then-President Donald Trump to replace her.
It was a history-making moment: Ginsburg’s successor, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, gave rise to a 6-3 conservative majority. Barrett went on to cast a deciding vote to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling less than two years later.
With that humbling history in mind, some liberal commentators say Sotomayor — who is 69, a lifelong diabetic and the oldest member of the court’s liberal wing — should retire while Joe Biden is president and Democrats control the Senate, echoing similar calls directed at Ginsburg a decade ago that went unheeded.
I guess progs have grown weary of trying to goad the black guy (Clarence Thomas) into retiring and are now proclaiming that the first ever Hispanic woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court oughta call it a career.
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Florida Marlins at Philadelphia Phillies - September 10, 2002.
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Given this post was dated April Fool's Day, let's go with a game which features tomfoolery.
This "slide" by the Marlins' Kevin Millar certainly qualifies.
Yes, there will be an original broadcast of my radio show The Closer today. The 2-hour Easter broadcast gets started at 1:00 PM Central Time.
In the first hour I'll weigh in on the gutless wonders at NBCUniversal, who caved in to their on air personalities' snit fit over the hiring of Ronna McDaniel as a network contributor.
At 1:30, I will chat with longtime Wall Street worker Paul Tice regarding his latest book The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing will Crater the Global Financial System.
And of course......He is risen!!
It was late August of 2016 when then GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump toured hurricane ravaged Louisiana. After witnessing the thorough destruction a recent storm had caused, Trump donated money and a truckload of supplies to residents in an effort to help in the region's recovery. There was even a photo showing him assisting in unloading trucks upon arrival of supplies. Naturally this was dismissed as "opportunism" by supporters of his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton. But whether or not this was a publicity stunt by Trump, it was undeniable that those who were suffering received some welcome relief thanks to his generosity. And it also wasn't lost on the American people that Mrs. Clinton herself was conspicuously absent.
Fast forward to Thursday of this week when Trump was invited to New York to attend the wake of Jonathan Diller, a 31-year old member of the NYPD who was killed in the line of duty.
And what was the White House's current occupant up to that evening in the very same area?
President Biden participated in a star-studded fundraiser with former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York City in an event expected to raise more than $25 million for the president's re-election campaign.
Thursday's New York City fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall was hosted by actress Mindy Kaling and featured performances by several musical guests and artists, including Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and Lea Michele. The event was capped off with a nearly hourlong discussion between Mr. Biden, Obama and Clinton moderated by "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert.
I wonder how many of those celebs named support some sort of "defund the police" initiative?
Yeah, I know. We are still a little more than 7 months away from Election Day, so a lot could happen between now and then. But what we can't get around is how Biden ran in 2020 on "restoring decency and compassion" but has failed to deliver on that campaign pledge. Whether it was taking more than a year to visit East Palestine, OH in the aftermath of a severe train derailment or bizarrely inserting himself into the Maui tragedy with a fabricated story or butchering the name of a murdered college woman only express regret for how he described her killer, Biden's reputation as an empathetic figure has proven to be an urban myth. Meanwhile, Trump is making inroads with Americans who are feeling marginalized......just like he did in 2016.
I'm not here to suggest that Trump is this 100% genuinely compassionate figure, but I'm guessing people will accept his goodwill (contrived or not) over someone who claims to have empathy but shows the exact opposite.
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NBC News has cut ties with former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, just days after she was announced as a paid analyst for the network. There had been a growing internal backlash at the division over her hire.
Meanwhile, CAA also has dropped McDaniel as a client, sources familiar with the situation tell Deadline.
A source also confirmed reports that McDaniel was seeking potential legal options for her next steps.
NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde made the announcement about McDaniel’s exit in an memo to staffers. In his missive, Conde took responsibility for what happened, but it was unclear whether there will be further repercussions.
“No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal,” Conde wrote in the memo.
He added, “I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down. While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”
I was especially amused by Conde's assertion that it's imperative for a newsroom to be "cohesive and aligned."
You mean everyone should be as anti-Semitic as Rev. Al Sharpton? Or as bigoted as Joy Reid? Or being prone to spread election disinformation as Little Red Lying Hood Jen Psaki has?
Look, it's not like McDaniel was going to have her own show. She was set to be a contributor. So if these NBC personalities were so concerned about her viewpoints and the alleged danger they pose, then they should be able to easily refute said views when sitting on the same panel with her. Or better yet if she appeared as a solo contributor on one of the primetime programs (all hosted by far leftists), then any of the program hosts should be able to successfully rebut her commentary. Is there a better, more effective way to poke holes in objectionable worldviews than through intellectual discourse? The fact the network brass would rather acquiesce to their thumb-sucking TV hosts says to me that they're not all that secure in the validity of their personalities' talking points.
While the NBC & MSNBC personalities can high five each other for standing in solidarity against the hiring of McDaniel while also continuing to receive the proverbial dopamine hit that occurs when shouting into their echo chamber, there are behind-the-scenes employees who have to live in the real world where there's repercussions for such a debacle.
Now, NBC staffers are bracing for Republican backlash, fielding texts from angry GOP sources.
“Political reporters here didn’t take part in the backlash, nor did they get to give input on the hire,” one NBC News journalist said. “But they’ll be the ones who have to pick up the pieces with sources who are now dismayed with the organization.”
Four NBC News staffers expressed concern that instead of fixing the problem, hiring and then firing McDaniel had only alienated liberal viewers while confirming Republican fears. Two Republican aides told Semafor they’d texted their NBC News contacts to express their anger with the decision.
For a collective that got the vapors over then President Donald Trump declaring them the "enemy of the people," they sure as heck work overtime to give off that impression........at least towards about 74 million people.
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Baseball is back!!
Yeah, I know. The regular season got started last week with a couple of games in Seoul, South Korea, but this week's games feel more official.
Anyhow, to honor Opening Day, let's check out a game from the 2018 opener - Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers.
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As he did in the 2017 opener, the Astros' George Springer led off the game with a home run. As such, Springer became the first player in MLB history to hit leadoff home runs on Opening Day in consecutive seasons.
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There may or may not be a spring snowmageddon, but either way I'll be ensconced in the Patriot bunker for today's edition of my radio show The Closer. The 2-hour broadcast kicks off at 1:00 PM Central Time.
In the first hour I'll discuss how Trump Derangement Syndrome has gone off the charts, so much so that progs and their media lapdogs aren't even trying to hide it anymore. At 1:30, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute Dr. Phillip W. Magness will join the broadcast to discuss President Joe Biden's insane Federal budget proposal.
In the 2:00 hour, there are plenty of Minnesota based stories to discuss, including Democrats' continued hostility towards civil liberties.
So please call (651) 289-4488 if you'd like to weigh in on any of the topics we plan on addressing.
I said just last week how elected Dems' approach to stemming the tide of "gun violence" was long on grandstanding and woefully short on substance.
Kudos to Minnesota State Senator (and longtime friend of the Northern Alliance Radio Network) Julia Coleman for calling 'em on it.
There is also a federal straw purchase law.
— Corin Hoggard (@corinhoggard) March 21, 2024
Shooter had straw purchased weapons. His girlfriend, the alleged buyer, is charged federally and faces a longer sentence as a result.https://t.co/B4c8b6p1R8
She offered the GOP author, Sen. Coleman, to be listed as co-author, but Coleman declined.
— Corin Hoggard (@corinhoggard) March 21, 2024
This is a function of being drunk on power. I don't doubt that DFLers got such a high over leftist media fawning over they and their 2023 passed legislation that they just aren't willing to allow anyone else (i.e. eeeeeeevil Republicans) an opportunity to pass substantive measures which will actually benefit all Minnesotans.
So the next time the progressive death cult accuses right wingers of playing politics with people's lives, this incident alone is validation that it's Imax theater level projection.
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- I admit I rolled my eyes when some Minnesota talking heads contended that this year's MN legislative session would not be as intense as last year. After all, the far left progs have hijacked the DFL, so never underestimate the party's desire to perpetuate their radicalism. For starters, their attempts to gut the First and Second Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Religious freedom is under an unprecedented attack in Minnesota. Last week a fundamental consensus was broken, and the foundations of the 1st Amendment are threatened. Please listen, get informed, and get active.
— Rep. Harry Niska (@HarryNiska) March 4, 2024
You can help me fight back here: https://t.co/Qtt6TvY0nu pic.twitter.com/Ygm1ZoO5Hn
“The Senate Democrats had a chance to restore the law to our long-held consensus that religious communities in Minnesota have the autonomy to decide questions of faith,” Niska said. “House Democrats, Senate Democrats and Gov. Walz had more than two weeks to step back off the ledge and do what’s right for Minnesotans. Instead, they only further entrenched themselves in their radical position that your religious freedoms take a back seat to the state’s rule, and the separation of church and state no longer exists in Minnesota.”
Before last year, when gender identity was included (or subsumed) within the MHRA definition of sexual orientation, the still-existing religious exemption for sexual orientation covered gender identity claims as well. When a new, separate definition of gender identity was created last year, there was no corresponding religious exemption added. This issue caused alarm among Minnesota’s faith community and Niska worked with religious leaders to craft an amendment to MHRA legislation S.F. 4292. House Democrats and Senate Democrats then voted to keep that language off the overriding bill.
Kinda puts a whole new spin on Gov. Walz's goal for a "One Minnesota," eh?
- In the event you think progs can't be any more deranged, get a load of this one.
Bottom line: if Barron Trump ever engages in similar nefarious activities, then I would concur he's opened himself up to criticism. But to declare him "fair game" for maligning just because of who his father is? You might wanna see a shrink posthaste.
- A good number of Donald Trump supporters in my social network have been sharing this photo lately.
.....,the leftist media and other progs do not at all believe Donald Trump's warning of a "bloodbath" is a call to violence in the event President Joe Biden is reelected . They just think you're easily manipulated.
You want proof?
SUPERCUT!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 17, 2024
Trump critics would never use a term like “bloodbath” pic.twitter.com/6dSTMwsfJa
Also, Andy McCarthy with the truth bomb:
The irony is that everyone knows Trump’s election would lead to violent rioting, and that the same people clutching pearls over the ‘bloodbath’ kerfuffle would describe *that* as ‘mostly peaceful protest.’
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) March 18, 2024
You only need to look back at the aftermath of Trump's victorious election in 2016 to know that isn't exactly a stretch. But since the prog media gave such incidents merely a cursory mention (or flat out justified said incidents), you're forgiven if you are unable to find anything in the news archives.
If indeed Trump is elected this November, the media will once again ignore its culpability in manifesting something they worked overtime to prevent.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm not even a little bit Irish, so I'll be in my usual spot on today, 1-3 PM Central Time. Yep, my radio show The Closer will be live from the Patriot bunker as regularly scheduled.
Right at 1:00, I'll be joined by Minnesota State Senator Jim Abeler (R-Anoka). Sen. Abeler will be on to discuss recent legislation to provide clarification for School Resource Officers who were not present in schools over the past year-plus.
A lotta other local stories to get to, including more DFL efforts to enact "gun control," Uber & Lyft ceasing operations in Minneapolis as of May 1, and a task force to address mental health issues due to....climate change?!?!
And as a Minnesota sports fan, I'll weigh in on QB Kirk Cousins leaving the Vikings to go play for the Atlanta Falcons.
My friend and NARN colleague Mitch Berg (who has forgotten more about firearms legalese than I will ever know) has said often that "gun control" advocates "have never, not once, made a statement about guns, gun rights, gun laws, gun crime, gun crime stats, gun rights groups, or the history, construction or meaning of the 2nd Amendment that is simultaneously substantial, original and true."
Right on cue, not one single gun control proposal that gun-grabbing politicians have brought up lately would have prevented this tragedy.
The two AR-15-style firearms used to kill three Burnsville first responders and wound another last month were bought by the shooter's girlfriend just weeks before he used them to unload more than 100 rounds during an hourslong standoff at the couple's home, according to new federal charges unsealed Thursday.
A federal grand jury indicted Ashley Anne Dyrdahl, 35, on 11 counts, including conspiracy, straw purchasing and making false statements for procuring five firearms on behalf of (the shooter), who was prohibited from having them based on a prior conviction.
Two rifles used in the Feb. 18 shooting were bought by Dyrdahl on Jan. 5 and Jan. 25, respectively, weeks before (the shooter) shot and killed officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth, 40, then took his own life. Dyrdahl was living at the home with (the shooter)on the day police were called in response to a domestic abuse call, where (the shooter) barricaded himself inside with seven children present. (The shooter) also wounded Burnsville police Sgt. Adam Medlicott during the shootout.
As has been mentioned before, staunch Second Amendment advocates have been more than willing to work with anti-gun politicos in an attempt to prevent people like the Burnsville shooter (who had his 2A rights revoked due to felony convictions) from ever acquiring guns. And it is certainly plausible to craft legislation that will accomplish that while not undermining the rights of law abiding citizens.
Unfortunately, gun-grabbing elected officials pay little more than lip service when they insist they want to curb "gun violence."
Rep Dave Pinto, arguing AGAINST hiking the penalty for straw purchasers, says that criminals are not charged under the existing law because it is only a gross misdemeanor and not a felony.
— MN House GOP War Room (@MNHRCWarRoom) March 14, 2024
Rep. Scott's bill would have increased the penalty from a gross misdemeanor to a felony. pic.twitter.com/LwZLdk6QX0
In essence, a bill that would directly address the loopholes present in the Burnsville tragedy while preserving the right of law-abiding gun owners did not receive enough support of those who claim to be the biggest advocates for victims of "gun violence."
It's almost as if the anti-2A crowd has ulterior motives when putting forth their draconian proposals.
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- When Donald Trump first ran for President 8 years ago, his main appeal was he claimed to eschew "politics as usual." In fact, one of the rallying cries from his staunch supporters was that he would go to Washington, D.C. to "drain the swamp" of corruption, bloated bureaucracy, etc.
So when bipartisan agreement was reached by the U.S. House of Representatives demanding TikTok divest from its parent company ByteDance (which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party who in turn controls the app's algorithm to spy on and spread disinformation to Americans), Trump was not on board. Why?
A couple of reasons really. First is this legislation isn't supported by a GOP megadonor who has a significant financial stake in ByteDance (rather "swampy" to be bought and paid for by a wealthy donor, no?). The other (and, sadly, more plausible) scenario? Trump's general pettiness, specifically how such legislation, while perhaps beneficial to America, might give an advantage to a Trump enemy.
If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!
At least Mark Zuckerberg can absolve himself from being a stooge for the CCP.
- I don't know that this year's Minnesota Legislative session could approach the dark lunacy that occurred in 2023, but the prog majority is going to do its part to make it competitive.
SF 4846 dropped on Monday. Here's its description:
Climate change effects on mental health advisory task force establishment and appropriation.
For decades now you've had leftists play the role of "Chicken Little" by constantly giving arbitrary timelines of our planet reaching a "point of no return" if we don't address "climate change," and then feel the need to establish another layer of bureaucracy in an effort to mitigate a problem (i.e. Americans convinced we're on the verge of the apocalypse) they essentially created. They do this with economic and social issues as well.
Not a bad gig, eh?
- No amount of spin is going to convince enough Americans that President Joe Biden is not a feeble man with a poor memory. Nevertheless, prog politicians (and their media lapdogs) aren't going down without a fight, hence the attempts to undermine the credibility of Special Counsel Robert Hur, who interviewed Biden over his mishandling of classified documents.
But once the transcript of the Hur's interview with Biden was released recently, leftists and anti-Trumpers were flailing in their attempts to refute the notion that the White House's current occupant was as forgetful as the Special Counsel suggested.
Ah, but Axios (hardly a conservative rag) pointed out some pretty damning excerpts.
Over the course of the two-day interview, which took place in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Biden repeatedly asked for help remembering certain important dates — and his lawyers frequently stepped in.
- "When did I announce for President [in 2019]?," he asked.
- "If it was 2013 — when did I stop being vice president?"
- "In 2009, am I still vice president?"
- "Trump gets elected in November of 2017?," Biden asked, before someone noted it was November 2016.
Since Biden gave off a vibe in last week's State of the Union address that it will require an ether-soaked rag and a lead pipe to keep him from running for reelection, gaslighting is the only tactic available to leftists and non-Trump Republicans in an effort to drag him to the winner's circle. And the fact it isn't the least bit effective has them downright freaked.
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It's been rumored for weeks that the Minnesota Vikings' franchise quarterback would be moving on.
It became official on Monday.
The Atlanta Falcons have finally solved their franchise quarterback issues.
The club agreed to terms on a four-year deal with former Minnesota Vikings free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins on Monday, according to his agent, Mike McCartney.
A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Cousins' deal is worth $180 million ($45 million per season), including $100 million guaranteed.
As I write this, only the Vikings' GM has made an official team statement.
"After significant and positive dialogue with Kirk and his representatives, we were unable to reach agreement on a contract that fits the short- and long-term visions for both Kirk and the Minnesota Vikings," Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah said in a statement. "Kirk holds a special place in Vikings history, and we appreciate his leadership and contributions to the team and the Minneapolis-St. Paul community over the past six seasons. We wish him; his wife, Julie; and their children all the best. Our approach heading into free agency always included layers of contingencies regarding the quarterback position. We are moving forward with plans that allow us to continue building a roster that can compete for a championship."
Despite operating on one less hour of sleep than normal, I'll be rarin' to go at 1:00 PM Central Time for today's edition of my radio show The Closer.
Say, does anyone remember how this year's Minnesota legislative session wasn't going to be as loony as 2023? Good times! Yeah, the DFL trifecta is looking to effectively gut the U.S. Constitution.
At 2:00, political commentator Jon Gabriel will join the broadcast to discuss national political news occurring in his home state of Arizona as well as the latest goings-on in the presidential race.
Then at 2:30, addiction specialist Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will be on to discuss how the toxic impact of our tech obsession and corrosive social media (especially on teenagers and young adults) contributes to the decline of our young people’s mental health.
