Shot in the Dark

Tag: MN CD5

  • Minnesota’s Intellectual Titan Strikes Again

    Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan lights up Rep. Ilhan Omar – and Muslim extremism: “Omar does not represent me as a Muslim, (she) does not represent millions of Muslims in the Middle East. You know like in Arab countries we call her the Muslim Brotherhood,” Idan, 29, said on the podcast The Sara Carter Show on…

  • The Best Way To Get Publicity As A Republican “Candidate” In A One-Party District…

    …is to be anywhere off the mainstream. To say nothing of getting arrested. of getting arrested. “Danielle Stella”, of whom nearly nobody in the Fifth CD GOP has ever heard, and who has absolutely no chance of getting the nomination to run against, much less beat, Ilhan Omar, is making all sorts of international headlines:…

  • If You Live In The Fifth CD

    I interviewed Lacy Johnson during his run for the State House two years ago. He was a very impressive guy – North side businessman, incredibly sharp. And he’s thrown his hat in the ring against Ilhan…well, Omar, officially. Who knows anymore? Anyway – any race in Minneapolis is a long shot for Republicans, but give…

  • Keith Ellison And That Famous DFL Civility

    Here’s a blast from the past:  Keith Ellison, in an interview on KFAI (a little community station that serves as the drum-pounding id of the loony liberal West Bank, and for which I was a news guy for a while in the early ’90s) exhibits that reach-across-the-aisle comity that Lori Sturdevant is always demanding (from…

  • While Out And About Thursday Night

    The CD4 and CD5 Republican Party committees are presenting the first ever “Liberty Gala”, Thursday night at the MN History Center. From the event website: As an unofficial countdown to the 2014 State Republican Convention, you’ll have the opportunity to visit personally with all the candidates, chat with legislators, and meet fellow Republicans from around…

  • Republicans In The City: The Good News, Part 2

    Yesterday, we looked at the changes in voting in the 4th Congressional District after redestricting, and tried to give some context to what were, at face value, disappointing election results.  As I noted yesterday, the Tony Hernandez for Congress campaign had some big handicaps – fundraising was as terrible for him as it was for…

  • With Apologies To Jesse Ventura

    Former Governor Ventura, if you’re reading this – and I am sure you are – I have to tell you that an apology is in order. I am sorry. For four years – including the first year of this blog’s life – I claimed that you were the biggest embarassment in the history of the…

  • What The Hell Is Up With The MNGOP?: Truth And Consequences

    There has been much sturm und drang within, and especially outside of, the Minnesota GOP over last spring’s coup de main by the Ron Paul campaign in Minnesota.  Paul activists, organized as tightly as a Marine basic training company, swarmed the precinct caucuses, the BPOU conventions, the CD conventions, and finally the state convention.  They completely took over…

  • A Contest!

    Chris Fields, as we’ve noted before in this space, is running for Congress in the 5th CD. He’s running a design contest to pick his campaign logo. Go and chime in!

  • Dilatory

    Joe Doakes from Como Park writes re Keith Ellison’s letter to Hamas: What, already? It’s only been 5 years. What’s the rush, Congressman? And why such forceful action? Co-signing a letter to Hamas Leader-For-Now Khaled Mashaal, coming without warning, without any preliminary negotiation or preconditions, joined only by 11 other headline-seekers . . . that…

  • They Can Have ‘Em

    New bill in Texas would provide a destination for illegals: This should get their attention. A measure filed by State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) would allow any law enforcement agency that has custody of an illegal immigrant to take the illegal to ‘the office of a U.S. Senator or Representative’ and leave them there. 1200…

  • Belsen Was A Gas

    I was born 17 years after the Holocaust ended was shut down by American, Soviet, British and Free French troops. I’d say “Genocide is a bad thing”.  But then Glenn Maxham of Duluth would get mad at me. Who is Maxham? I dunno.  He’s a guy who claims to have “worked for three decades as…

  • A Look Ahead To The 2011 Session

    January 3: Session kicks off.  Mark Dayton throws a “blue jeans” inaugural.  Musical highlight: the “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” Choir singing “Look For The Union Label”.  For four solid hours. January 4:  The Humphrey Institute releases a poll showing that 80% of Minnesotans want the Legislature to pass Mark Dayton’s budget immediately.  Bloggers point…

  • Take The Fifth And Shove It.

    The question “will Minnesota keep its eight representatives” is still very, very much up in the air. The when the population count comes out today, it is – by all accounts – touch and go whether we’ll keep all eight seats and ten electoral votes: Depending on which of several estimates is right, the state…

  • Loyalties

    Reading the roll call for House Resolution 1737 – the censure of Charlie Rangel – it’s interesting to look at who voted what. The resolution passed with a solid 333-79 margin.   The 77 “nays” were a very partisan set, of course – 77 Democrats. Of Minnesota’s entire delegation, only Keith Ellison voted “nay”  – saying…

  • Hey, Wait!

    Hasn’t the Twin Cities media – especially the “alternative”, liberal version – been barbering for years about how Rep. Michele Bachmann just doesn’t do “mainstream” media? Why, yes – they have!  But – did I hear Michele Bachmann doing an extended interview with Cathy Wurzer on MPR’s Morning Edition this morning? Why, yes I did!…

  • Ellison: “I’ll Answer Questions To The Press“

    Keith Ellison crashes the Minnesota Majority’s “Election Integrity Watch” press conference. (Note:  Lefties are repeatedly getting this video taken off Youtube by reporting it as “abusive”.  Why do they hate the First Amendment?  Why do you hate keeping “representatives” accountable?) He gets busted in a lie – at 4:03, about his appearance in a video…

  • They All Look The Same To The DFL

    It’s the second stupid, bigoted attack by the DFL in as many weeks – and it involves my good friend and longtime Northern Alliance colleague King Banaian. Can you imagine the uproar if a Republican campaign would be stupid enough to drop a campaign piece saying…: “Keith Ellison: Too involved in Saudi Arabian politics to…

  • Buyer’s Remorse

    The DFL – and their national benefactors – went all-in on Tarryl Clark against their bete noir, Michele Bachmann. Clark is getting clobbered. Hammered. Beaten like a cheap steak. She’s going to lose by 10 points, and I actually starting to think I’m being conservative. And the regional left is starting to have second thoughts…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Bachmann And The Friendly Media

    They never learn. It’s been a little over two years since Andy Birkey of the Minnesota “Independent” first sniffed that Rep. Michele Bachmann “only does sympathetic media”. Of course, it makes perfect sense for Bachmann; she represents a conservative district; talking with hostile media (and when it comes to the Twin Cities media, “hostile” is…

  • You Know Them By Their Enemies

    Watching this piece from “UN Watch” – in which a retired British army officer defends the IDF’s relentlessly-scrupulous efforts to avoid civilian casualties during their last counter-terror assaults against Hamas in Gaza… …I’m reminded of my conversation with Keith Ellison last year on Marty Owings’ “Radio Free Nation”. ME:  (after reading the part of the…

  • Of Professors And Pretenders

    Last winter, there was a leftyblogger conference in downtown Saint Paul. Someone must have run a session on how to play investigative reporter. “Minnesota Observer”, writing at “Cucking Stool”, thinks she’s onto something. Let’s read the story… D’oh.  Not that link  It’s a dead link.  Because MNob had to pull the story down and retool it…

  • Monster

    Joel Demos may need more than a great web ad to beat Keith Ellison in the Fifth District. He’ll probably need the National Guard. The Fifth, aka “Berkeley on the Prairie”, is one of those districts where the DFL could endorse a package of pork chops and get 50% of the vote. Still – if…

  • Remember The Phrase That Pays, Put Your Brain On Vacation

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism from 9AM-3PM. Volume I “The First Team” –  Brian and John or some combination thereof kick off from 11-1. Volume II “The Headliner” – Ed and I follow from 1-3PM Central.  We’ll be talking about the week’s news – and with Barb…

  • Who Do Minnesota Liberals Hate: The Pack

    GREETINGS MERCURY RISING “Reader”/”s”:  “Phoenix Woman”  (has anyone ever noticed that her and Ken “Avidor” Weiner have never been seen in the same place?) apparently thinks that any reference to Bradlee Dean is not only a) a wholehearted endorsement of every minute facet of his worldview, and b) since I am a Republican, proof that…