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Like someone lighting a match during the right conditions, a little wildfire is catching fire. In this instance, the firestarter is "Crosslake Mayor Jackson Purfeerst, who is leading the coalition." According to this Alpha News article , "In a Dec. 1 letter, eight mayors representing communities in the Brainerd Lakes Area sounded the alarm on Minnesota’s 'economic decline.' The coalition grew to 98 signatures in a Dec. 22 letter, as the signatories warned that recent property tax spikes 'stem directly from state policies, mandates and cost shifts that leave cities with no choice but to pass these burdens onto homeowners and businesses.'" Unfunded mandates shouldn't be called that. They're really hidden tax hikes, where the state tell cities, contractors or public schools what to do, then tell cities contractors and schools that they'll have to pay for the mandate themselves. This is utterly flawed in multiple ways. First, it assumes that...

Are Tim Walz, Minnesota's DFL governor, and Jacob Frey, Minneapolis's DFL mayor, attempting to incite violence in their jurisdictions? With each passing day, I inch closer to thinking that that's what they're attempting to do. After Renee Good's death, Mayor Frey insisted that the people ICE was arresting were "neighbors" of the people of Minneapolis. I'm skeptical of that claim. How many adult men have sodomized children under the age of 13? How many of YOUR NEIGHBORS have committed homicide? How many of YOUR NEIGHBORS have raped or trafficked women? Thanks to Bill Melugin's reporting , we know that 18 people that ICE arrested fit that description: Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018. Tou Vang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deporta...

A month ago, a letter signed by 98 Minnesota mayors caught people's attention for all the right reasons. That group of 98 mayors just grew to 241 mayors . Alpha News reported that "In a Dec. 1 letter, eight mayors representing communities in the Brainerd Lakes Area sounded the alarm on Minnesota’s 'economic decline.' The coalition grew to 98 signatures in a Dec. 22 letter, as the signatories warned that recent property tax spikes 'stem directly from state policies, mandates, and cost shifts that leave cities with no choice but to pass these burdens onto homeowners and businesses.'" This is a full-fledged grassroots movement. When 98 mayors signed onto the letter, the total population represented by those 98 mayors totaled 541,000 people. According to Alpha News's reporting, "According to Purfeerst, the group of 241 mayors represent ' a combined population of 1,092,189 Minnesotans ' and 'have united to call out fraud, failed economic p...

Ilhan Omar was on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday. During her interview, she said "It is just creating fear. What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people from being able to exercise their regular normal activities that they would. There is no justification in any of the things that they say." She continued, saying "The 87 people that you’ve described as being investigated, many of them adjudicated, all happened under the Biden Administration. There is no justification for the surge. We know that ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] has the ability to conduct raids. There is no reason to have over 2,000 people coming into our city and creating the level of terror that they have created." This is BS. First, finding fraud is different than finding illegal aliens. Next, the Feeding Our Future fraud happened during the Biden administration but that's just the starting point. Next, the U.S. Attorney and his investigators star...

I had a brief email conversation this weekend with a liberal friend of mine. During the brief conversation, my friend semi-defended Renee Good's tactics the day she died. This friend defended Jacob Frey, too. I suspect that the conversation was brief because the conversation was tense, too, tense enough to cut with a knife. Yesterday, I wrote this article about Jacob Frey's 'neighbors' who were captured by ICE because they're felons. Thanks to Bill Melugin's reporting, we learned that 18 of the people arrested are the nastiest of the nastiest people imaginable. Here's that list: Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018. Tou Vang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deportation order since 2006. Chong Vue, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of the strong-a...

It isn't surprising that Bill Melugin's great reporting has humiliated Jacob Frey, Minneapolis's boy toy mayor. Saturday afternoon, Melugin reported "BREAKING: ICE has provided @FoxNews a list of the most egregious criminal aliens they've arrested during their surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, & it's the most disturbing list I've ever seen , including numerous convicted child rapists/sodomizers & ten convicted killers, most with deportation orders going back many years. Several from Laos, Somalia, and Sudan." These are the criminals that Frey, Walz, Ellison and Good tried protecting. Frey even tried peddling the BS that ICE, not these violent criminals, were making Minnesota less safe. Put in objective terms, that means Frey thinks that "convicted child rapists/sodomizers" make Minneapolis safer than a large contingent of ICE agents. In the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate, Tim Walz said that he could sometimes be a knucklehe...