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Almanac hosts Mike Lindell-Kendall Qualls debate

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Friday night, Almanac hosted the first televised debate between top GOP gubernatorial candidates. Kendall Qualls and Mike Lindell participated. Lisa Demuth couldn't attend because of scheduling conflicts. Follow this link to view the debate for yourself. The debate introductions start at the 20:00 mark, with Kendall Qualls getting the first question. The first question was asked by Co-Anchor Cathy Wurzer about whether he'd call a special session to address the wildfire situation in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Qualls quickly affirmed that he'd call that special session. For the record, Lindell also affirmed that he'd call a special session. When Wurzer asked if he'd tack anything else onto the widfire bill, Qualls said that he'd add tax relief for everyone to the wildfire relief bill. Qualls also mentioned that the paid family medical leave was already running a deficit. When Wurzer replied that paid family medical leave was popular, Qualls questi...

President Trump, listen to Aaron Cohen & Marc Thiessen ASAP

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At his campaign rallies, President Trump frequently told people that they'd get tired of winning. At this point, people are tired of negotiations. Thankfully, today's early guests (Marc Thiessen and Aaron Cohen) told Kudlow that President Trump gave Iran a veto over winning by giving Iran the opportunity to negotiate. In this interview , Aaron Cohen said something that popped Kudlow out of Kudlow's bubble. Cohen said "Larry, I want to tell you where my head is really at right now. Right now, we're treating this like it's conventional warfare and it's not. This is a low-intensity conflict, Larry. This is what special operations and clandestine intelligence units were set up for. They were set up to go after terrorist organizations masked as states, which is what the mullahs are. So if I were advising President Trump, here's what I'd tell him to do. I'd tell him to take a look at what the Shah warned 50 years ago. You can not approach the mullahs ...

Will Donald Trump FINALLY learn that Iran is playing him?

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It's astonishing that the Trump administration has spent more days negotiating with Iran than it's spent waging war against Iran. That's particularly astonishing considering the fact that the U.S. just hit Iran 13 straight days. Yesterday, President Trump said " We're Going to Beat the F--king S--t Out of Them ." It's fun hearing that type of machismo from the commander-in-chief but I'd rather that he just take out Iran's theocrats and the people who protect them, aka the IRGC and the Basij. Wipe them out and the regime topples. We've proven that we can take out Iran's Air force and Navy. It's time to finish the job. If there's a theocrat still breathing inside Iran, then the job isn't finished. FINISH THE JOB! We don't need an endless war, which we aren't close to. We don't need endless negotiations, either, with an enemy that isn't negotiating in good faith. That's what's happening right now. Take out t...

Mike Lindell's epic amnesty plan

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It isn't easy outdoing Joe Biden when it comes to opening the U.S.'s borders but Mike Lindell's given it a good shot. Lindell didn't smash it. He didn't even break it. Still, Lindell gave it a good shot. According to quotes in this Alpha News article , one "of the most prominent immigration think tanks in the United States is calling out Mike Lindell’s recent proposal to provide permanent work visas to illegal aliens." In short, CIS is calling Lindell out. CIS resident fellow Andrew Arthur said "This proposal is an amnesty. It’s an amnesty for a population of undetermined size. It has all of the deficiencies of any amnesty, and it threatens to have a huge impact on the working population in the United States." First, let's dig into some of the particulars of Lindell's proposal. According to the article, "Lindell, a Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, has proposed the creation of a six-month deportation moratorium during w...

Is Minneapolis soft-on-crime capitol of US?

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Minneapolis is getting softer on crime by the day. I'm convinced of that after reading this Alpha News article . According to the article, "A north Minneapolis man now charged with murder in connection to a fatal shooting earlier this month should have been serving time in prison, court records show, but was instead free due to sentencing departures on two prior violent crime convictions." This time, the culprit isn't Mary Moriarty. The article continues, reporting "A witness later told police that the two men were arguing before Cole lifted a black bag wrapped around his hand and apparently shot Byrd. Cole then fled on foot but was located by police a short time later. Police also found a discarded drawstring bag on Washington Avenue with a gun inside and a hole in the bottom corner where the muzzle was pointed." That's bad anough but it gets worse: Cole was charged in September 2020 with second-degree attempted murder for seriously injuring a man in a ...

Tim WaIz leads the elimination of fact-based learning

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Which Came First? Input or Output? Facts or Narratives? by Ramblin’ Rose American linguist and educational researcher Stephen Krashen advocates some theories that are research based but also make a lot of sense. Let’s start with his theory related to input vs. output. Parents and other caregivers speak to babies/children before the children speak. They also use language at a comprehensible level. They speak using vocabulary and structures that children can understand and imitate in their own attempts at communication. The caregivers also tailor their language slightly above what the child can produce. According to Krashen, this is the Input Hypothesis with comprehensible input + 1 (i + 1). For caregivers that means naming food, clothing, and family before espousing political or economic opinions. The child receives beneficial input. Nor does a caregiver expect a child to speak automatically (output) without first hearing and processing words before attempting to imitate them and months...

Destroying the DFL/DSA narrative

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I'm tired of hearing pundit after pundit talk about the supposed socialist takeover that the DSA Revolution is enacting. Since I refuse to believe that the U.S. is a nation of idiots, I choose to believe that nobody taught people the art of communicating. First, communicating is one thing. The art of communicating is quite different. The art of cummunicating starts with winning word wars. You win word wars before the first word is spoken. You win word wars through preparation and studying the underlying principles of the issue. For instance, if you want to defeat a Democrat Socialist of America, aka a member of the DSA, you start by studying socialism. Socialism doesn't create wealth. It redistributes wealth. That comes with an asterisk. It redistributes the serfs' wealth. It doesn't redistribute the oligarchs' wealth. I'm not certain but I think that's where the saying comes from that 'what's mine is their's and what's their's is their...