Shot in the Dark

Tag: Ilhan Omar

  • Dissonance

    Followers of the party that has undercut Israel for 40 years, many of whom cuddle up to Louis Farrakhan, and where Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar are leading emergent figures… …says Donald Trump’s rhetoric promoted an anti-semitic attack.

  • Alinsky Has No “Reverse” Gear

    Joe Doakes from Como Park sends one of his timeliest and, dare I say, brilliant emails: Several Conservative commentators have made the same mistake recently.  They point to Democrat excesses and claim Republicans are now free to use harsher tactics because “the rules have changed.”  No, they haven’t. Alinsky says: “Make the enemy live up…

  • If You Think Movies Are Expensive Now, Wait Until They’re Free

    MoviePass is a particularly dimwitted startup – it sells, basically, transit cards to movies, in theaters, allowing people admittance to n movies per month, which in the age of Netflix and Hulu seems a bit like selling season tickets to Jesse Ventura’s old Indoor Football league. As one might expect, the company – which seems a throwback…

  • This Is Today’s DFL

    Ilhan Omar – DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th CD – is a raving anti-semite. State representative Ilhan Omar has yet to complete her first term in the Minnesota legislature, where she has accomplished approximately nothing of substance, though she has now secured the DFL endorsement to succeed Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith…

  • You Never Count Your Money When You’re Sitting At The Table

    Conservatives watched, amused, yesterday as the DFL played a long, comical game of musical chairs with their candidacies. And it’s going to continue until the filing deadline of 5PM today. Keith Ellison jumped into the race for Attorney General – evidence he wants to run for Governor someday.  In turn, Ilhan Omar filed to run…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Why Is Erin Maye Quade Lying?

    Last week, after the collapse of the DFL effort (for now) to ram through a couple of gun control bills (including Rep. Linda Slocum’s gun grab bill, HF 3022), the names of several DFL legislators quietly disappeared from the “jackets” – the cover sheets that accompany the bills and list the signatures of Representatives who…

  • A Time For Calling BS

    This flyer was apparently slipped under peoples’ doors in Cedar Riverside – a Minneapolis neighborhood with a large Somali population – “an hour before the caucuses” this past Tuesday: Give it a read. I don’t know about you, but to me it reads like someone who wants to caricature what they think an ignorant Republican…

  • The MN House’s Four Multiculturalists

    Here was the MN House vote on the Genital Mutilation bill yesterday. The bill would – how can I put just the right point on this – hold parents responsible for the genital mutilation of their children, with felony charges against parents who facilitated any of the wide array of culturally-based, barbaric genital mutilation practices. There were four…

  • More Or Lesch

    First, the good news:  Rep. Mary Franson has introduced a bill that would expose parents who subject their children to ritual genital mutilation to felony charges and potential loss of custody.  It’s currently illegal for a doctor to perform the procedure; if passed into law, Franson’s bill would spread the onus to the parents. This is a good thing –…

  • A Slip Of The Lip. Or Typing Finger. Whatever.

    Preya Samsundar continues to beat the stuffing out of the Twin Cities institutional media in reporting on Minneapolis DFL legislative candidate Ilhan Omar’s fuzzy marital history. Only this time, she may have done it with the unwitting help of the City Pages’ DFLer-with-byline Cory Zurowski: Whether or not Mr. Zurowski realizes it, he has shed new…

  • From Thin Air

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is ordering a cup of coffee and a bagel. Brian FURIOUS, liberal opionblogger for “”MinnesotaLIberalAlliance.blogspot.com”, walks into the coffee shop. FURIOUS:  Merg! BERG:  Oh, hey, Brian… FURIOUS:  I am Brian Furious, defender of fact, crusader of truth! BERG:  Right.  Or…hey, Brian. FURIOUS:  Don’t you deny it!  You’ve been writing about Ilhan Omar! BERG:…

  • Faith And Law

    Ilhan Omar has released a statement about the questions about her, at first and second and third glance, unusual marital history. Faith:  I’m going to add bits and pieces of emphasis to Omar’s statement: In 2002, when I was 19 years old, Ahmed Hirsi (whose name before he received citizenship was Ahmed Aden), the father…

  • More Smoke

    After Power Line broke the story of Ilhan Omar’s apparent sham marriage to her brother (which we touched on yesterday), Channel 9 notes that there seems to be no divorce on file between Ilhan Omar and the man who is apparently her brother. Omar’s response: “It matters that I am a woman. It matters that…

  • Smoke

    Last week’s big Minnesota political news was the Ilhan Omar defeating 2343-term representative Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary (the election that actually matters in that benighted part of Minneapolis, unfortunately).  The Minneapolis media turned cartwheels over The First Somali Woman nominee. Scott Johnson found a story behind the story at Powerline: A reader has…