Minnesota Attorney General announced despite much speculation that she will not run to be the next Minnesota Governor.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson was “considered a top contender for her party’s nomination for governor,” and was assumed to be preparing a run. But as the Star Tribune reports, Swanson ended “months of speculation that she would enter the race for governor” and decided to run for re-election instead.

The Star Tribune explains that as a result, “DFL candidates and operatives say the party’s voters are concerned about winning” the governor’s race.

She will face the presumptive Republican Attorney General Candidate Doug Wardlow.

Democrats will soon release fundraising numbers but Congressman Tim Walz and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman are expected to lead the pack in fundraising. State Representative Erin Murphy, State Auditor Rebecca Otto, State Representative Paul Thissen, and State Representative Tina Liebling, however, are all in contention to get the Democrat Party Endorsement.

In recent weeks there has been tension between Democrat Candidates as they all try to prove which of them is more liberal. Some examples of Rebecca Otto attacking Tim Walz are below

A loyal reader shared another ad where @RepTimWalz is being attcked by @Rebecca_Otto for not supporting single payer pic.twitter.com/S3W5ErwXBr

— Morning Take (@morningtake) January 16, 2018

On the web, @Rebecca_Otto is running ads critical of @RepTimWalz on Syria. pic.twitter.com/7mCBUcd8nF

— Morning Take (@morningtake) January 16, 2018

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Sen. Jim Abeler, together with a clutch of other Minnesota legislators, recently introduced a bill that would provide money to solve what they see as a problem: the poverty stricken, unskilled, poorly educated Somali community. This is, literally, the only thing many legislators know how to do: throw money at a perceived problem, pretending such a gesture is capable of providing a solution.

They mean well but well meaning people are the worst. Consult your own life for the truth of this aphorism.

Forced Somali migration into Minnesota, as well as other parts of America, has been a demonstrable failure by any objective measure. This example alone conclusively makes the case for a merit based immigration system. Measured by skill, talent, ability to support themselves, or other metric that assesses how an immigrant would benefit current citizens of America, few would be allowed into the country.

Alpha News’ Christine Bauman reported that ’[t]he bill proposes creating a Somali community development pilot grant program to ‘identify and support community initiatives.’ The grant program would set aside $18 million of taxpayer money over the next two years to go towards health care, education, housing, and economic development in Somali communities.’

Abeler later withdrew the bill in an email notification to constituents who were concerned about funding specific ethnic groups instead of all Minnesotans. To his credit, Abeler speaks a truth that Minnesota media refuse to admit: “Currently many are on welfare and have low job skills. And they are costing our taxpayers a lot of money.” Again, the point of a merit based immigration system is obvious to anyone except Democrats, who need to change Minnesota and America demographically if they are to stay in power.

In withdrawing his bill, Abeler said the goal of the legislation was simply to have an “informational hearing,” which was accomplished last year. The House version of the bill remains, however, although I could find nothing about its prospects this session. Still, it’s worth looking at the language.

Abeler also said “The goal was by focused education, training, and mentoring that they would not require government supports any more. Projections were that the program would entirely pay back over time so it would be cost-neutral or even be a positive.”

Projections like these are never reliable because they’re created in the first instance in order to support the funding of the project at hand. They almost never pan out and the goals of programs which merely throw money at a problem are rarely achieved.

What is achieved, however, is the enrichment of a well connected network of “non-profit” types who get the money and proceed to consume it, without benefiting the intended class toward which it is ostensibly directed.

In this way, the bill mirrors the useless but lucrative gravy train charade of “CVE,” countering violent extremism. This program was designed to push money around in order to help young Somalis in Minnesota contain their urge to stab citizens at local malls, run away to join ISIS or otherwise support them. There were zero results but a select group of “community activists” got the money. Simply to talk about CVE is to expose it.

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Forced Somali migration into America has generated a litany of horror stories, most barely reported on, or if they are, quickly forgotten. Ask yourself why, after the Saint Cloud Crossroads Mall attack, local media never ran any of those “how are they doing now?” stories. They do this routinely after tragedies but to do so here would only remind Minnesotans of the poor fit this group had made into civilized, Western society. Minnesota media has no truck with the truth. They exist to push a narrative that runs counter to lived experience.

In Portland, for example, young Somali Muslim girls went public with well founded allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of a local imam, Hassan Mohamedhaji Noor. They were strongly pressured by the Somali community to keep their mouths shut. As Oregon Live, to its great credit, reported:

“The girls also had explained how unsupportive their mothers, fathers, aunts or other adults had been after they confided in them about the abuse. The girls said those trusted adults warned them that if they reported the abuse to police, no one would believe them and no one would want to marry them. The adults also told them it was up to Allah to decide Noor’s guilt, not a court of law, investigators said.

In the months leading up to trial, two of Noor’s victims recanted. The third — who stuck by her story — testified her parents had disowned her.

A fourth young woman also testified that she’d been disowned for coming forward about Noor’s abuse of her.

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During recorded police interrogations, Noor defended himself by saying he couldn’t have done such terrible things because he is a religious man who prays five times a day.”

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Noor was sentenced to 12 years in prison; he and his thirty-some supporters in the courtroom wept when sentence was passed.

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Somalis are far from the only group who would not be in America had we an immigration system built on talent and need, like Canada & Australia. But they are here in Minnesota in large numbers, a rote voting bloc for the DFL which panders to them endlessly, reinforcing their default position not to assimilate and to demand special privileges not given to current citizens. This is identity politics at its most corrosive and damaging.

That said, Somalis are entitled to equal treatment under the law and to the natural respect and dignity that comes from their upgraded status as American citizens. I say this despite it being obvious because the Regressive Left insists–somehow–that if you object to female genital mutilation, daycare fraud or terrorism in your midst that you are the problem. The apogee of this mindless mindset was best encapsulated by Gov. Dayton, saying in response to white youths in Saint Cloud now too afraid of Somali bullies to go to their favorite playgrounds, “find another state.”

MPR preens that it has Somali language based news reports, incapable of recognizing that this condescending pandering only isolates and harms them, only encourages them not to assimilate and to remain the latest minority voting bloc for Democrats and the Regressive Left.

Local media refuse to call the Bloomington mosque Dar Al Farooq what it is: terrorist affiliated. Justine Damond paid with her life for the foolish affirmative action programs of Betsy Hodges and Janee Harteau. Katie Hopkins warns outright for the US not to become Great Britain, with forced immigration that destroys a unifying common culture and pits one group against another.

Terrorist linked CAIR and its Minnesota chapter set the talking points that media lazily repeats. Muslim reformers, like Raheel Raza recently brought in to speak by Rep. Roz Peterson, are accused of being the radicals by CAIR, a complete inversion of the truth.

But a wholly dishonest media failed to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president and, on a state basis, will fail to persuade Minnesotans that all is well within the Somali community, that, in fact, they are better than you. That’s why they deserve more of your money, on top of the money you’re already giving them.

The nostrum that “diversity” is our strength is as false as claiming Islam is a religion of peace. “Diversity” has to be forced on people with destructive consequences for social trust and cohesion.

Somalis in Minnesota can succeed in their new state by doing what other immigrants to this great country have done: assimilate, learn the language and work hard for what they want, rather than wait for the political party to which they are captive to provide handouts. Somalis can have great success through this path.

They only have to choose it.

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In addition to Alpha News, John Gilmore is also a contributor to The Hill. He is the founder and executive director of Minnesota Media Monitor. He blogs at MinnesotaConservatives.org and is on Twitter under @Shabbosgoy. He can be reached at John@alphanewsmn.com.

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A curious thing happened after the FBI announced charges against three Illinois men for bombing the radical Islamist mosque in Bloomington, Dar Al-Farooq. I was taken to task by a leading Minnesota Regressive Leftist, Sally Jo Sorensen, on her blog Bluestem Prairie. Sorensen currently lives in my home state of South Dakota, where the real prairie begins.

The “Regressive Left” describes left-wing politics that paradoxically hold reactionary views because of their tolerance of illiberal principles and ideologies, particularly tolerance of Islamism, for the sake of multiculturalism and cultural relativism. Minnesota’s Democrats and media fall into this category entirely.

The Wrong Think crime I was accused of by Sorensen? Wondering in these pages, after months of the FBI steadfastly refusing to call the incident terrorism, and offering a reward, whether the terrorist generating mosque hadn’t engaged in a hoax. Sorensen claims I actually declared the bombing to be a hoax. I didn’t.

She outsources the balance of her hit job by quoting Cory Zukowski (sic) of City Pages fame, who likewise wrongly states I declared the bombing to be a hoax. Zurowski was fired by City Pages for false, invented, unethical reporting, a fact Sorensen knows but deliberately withholds from her readers. Imagine being so awful you get sent packing in shame from City Pages.

On the other hand, who knew City Pages had any standards? Still, for the purpose at hand, Zurowski is good enough for Bluestem Prairie. Cue the picture of Sally Jo, standing tall in the foreground in a bonnet and prairie dress, amidst her large garden, an unbroken sightline to the horizon, beneath the sheltering sky.

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Fake Muslim hate crimes are legion. That’s just a reality. There are reasons for this and “Fake Hate Crimes: An Islamist Weapon” crisply sets them out. Robert Spencer has a video worth viewing on the epidemic of fake “anti-Muslim hate crimes.”

Daniel Pipes destroys CAIR’s invented narrative of oppression in “CAIR’s Hate Crimes Nonsense.” In “Debunking the Myth of a Growing Trend in Muslim Victimization,” the Center for Security Policy reveals what CAIR doesn’t want you to know.

Late last year the Associated Press ran a story, dutifully carried by the Star Tribune and added to by Regressive Leftist reporter Stephen Montemayor, claiming “hate crimes” were up. There’s no standard definition for what constitutes one. Does my, historically accurate, observation that Mohammed was a butcher count as one? Could be! That’s how lame the category is and how easily the statistics are manipulated. Worse, the FBI simply collects “reports.” It does not investigate to see if any of them are hoaxes. That’s right: the FBI does not track fake hate crimes.

There’s a website that tries to keep track of all fake hate crimes, not just fake Muslim ones: Fake Hate Crimes. There’s even a fake hate hoax map. After Trump’s election, a wave of fake hate crimes were spread by an angry media. Reason Magazine debunked the notion, including a fake hate crime by an Asian student at the University of Minnesota.

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Sorensen appends to her story tweets by Wilhelm Davis, the DFL deputy communications director, that contain screenshots of Facebook comments from Republicans about the bombing. The Star Tribune’s Patrick Cooligan, disliked even (especially?) by his own media peers, included it in his “Morning Hotdish” nonsense newsletter. I saw the tweets in real time.

When it was announced that Billy Graham would lie in state in the nation’s Capitol rotunda, Davis called him “garbage” on Twitter. Laugh at those posing as your moral superiors.

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Eventually the hive mind of MPR got wind of my original Alpha News column. Laura Yuen, who likely couldn’t explain the difference between Sunni & Shia muslims, tweeted it out for denigration and to favorably contrast it to her Somali reporter colleague Mukhtar Ibrahim. His story reads like a CAIR press release although to be fair all his stories do. Relentless Islamist propaganda is all you get from this reporter. In addition to terrorist affiliated CAIR, Ibrahim also quoted terrorist affiliated MAS (Muslim American Society). He’s dishonesty incarnate.

I responded directly to Yuen, who didn’t tag me in her tweet for some reason, providing her with a link to my blog post The Islamization of Minnesota Media. I hope she read it. I have no way of knowing if she did.

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I got to thinking: did Sorensen or Yuen read my original column? I wondered because I reported there that the Imam of the radical Bloomington mosque–Waleed Idris al-Maneesey (also spelled Meneese)– preaches that Muslims have an obligation to kill and destroy the Jews. I can’t find where Sorensen or Yuen objected to this sentiment.

Have you ever seen a single Minnesota media story about Waleed Idris al-Maneesey? You have not because they don’t exist. Ask yourself why.

Instead, I’m the one who’s dragged on social media for wondering if the bombing was just the latest in a long line of Muslim hate crime hoaxes. Given the same circumstances, I’d ask the same question again. As Ryan Mauro puts it “claims about anti-Muslim hate crimes always should be taken with a grain of salt. CAIR and other Islamist groups thrive off of convincing Muslims that they are under constant assault from roving bigots and an oppressive state. Individual Muslims then feel empowered to fabricate hate crimes in order to paint themselves as victims.” The Regressive Left in Minnesota, including the media, also thrive off of the same false narrative.

What are the chances of Mukhtar Ibrahim reporting honestly on what the Imam of Dar Al Farooq teaches? Where is the rest of Minnesota media?

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I’ve written for some time now about how Minnesotans should support Muslim reformers. My decade old blog Minnesota Conservatives is a literal open book on the subject. Minnesota media coverage on the subject slavishly follows the narrative of terrorist affiliated CAIR and so, apparently, does Sorensen.

She ends her piece by quoting a Wilmer newspaper: “the Twin Cities community showed compassion and came to the aid of those who worshiped in the mosque. . . .”

In her own voice she concludes “Well, not everyone.” She means me.

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Let’s be plain about what’s going on here: the Regressive Left in Minnesota, in and out of media, are trying to silence those of us who are noticing what is going on. The only approved narrative from them will be the radical, Islamist one promoted by CAIR and echoed by them. Anything to the contrary is a threat, hence the attacks on me and my column.

Unfortunately for Minnesota’s Regressive Left, there’s simply too much other legitimate information available for them to be successful. Dar Al-Farooq is a radical Islamist mosque but will never be covered as such. Brave Muslim reformers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, Maajid Nawaz, Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza will never be given coverage by them. To do so, as I’ve previously written, is to explode the construct that CAIR and MAS speak for all Muslims. They don’t.

The attacks by Sorensen, Davis and MPR are designed to silence us, to exact a cost for the simple act of paying attention. Someone once said that political correctness is a war on noticing.

That’s why it’s up to us not to remain silent. Silence is their goal, their current jihad. “Silence is death,” as was said in another context. But we won’t stay silent. And if the forces of the Regressive Left don’t like it, they can find another state.

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In addition to Alpha News, John Gilmore is also a contributor to The Hill. He is the founder and executive director of Minnesota Media Monitor. He blogs at MinnesotaConservatives.org and is on Twitter under @Shabbosgoy. He can be reached at John@alphanewsmn.com.

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I’m not from Minnesota so the battle of mutual animosities between Edina and other Twin Cities suburbs never interested me. They were just suburbs, after all, essentially uninteresting places with only minor degrees of distraction on offer to compensate for the inexplicable choice people made to live there.

You could blindfold me, throw me out of a car in the middle of a Twin Cities suburb and I’d have no idea which one I was in. That’s kind of the point of them, isn’t it? In college, a Korean monk professor of mine, who affected an intellectual mandarin style, dropping the names of those with whom he’d studied and knew personally, like Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow and John Berryman, once described suburbs as “a peculiar kind of nowhere.” I can still say those words in his precise accent.

That was game over, I’m afraid, as far as suburbs concerned me. As I lived in different cities after college and law school, I would occasionally hear people discuss the merits of one suburb over another. I could never really understand the arguments, let alone care about them, because I could never comprehend living in one. Life was proving to be full of existential terrors; why would anyone voluntarily compound the situation?

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After moving to the Twin Cities and finally exploring Edina, I felt like James Comey: “That’s it?” To be sure, Edina was nice, possessing a veneer of insecure affluence. Like many things in life, the tell was in trying too hard. Gradually, I came to understand Edina was a kind of Minnesota talisman, a totem, indeed a fetish. What people thought about it, I realized, said as much about them as it did the suburb. Mostly, though, it was on a par with talking about the best fast food: why was the subject even being discussed?

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I came across the term “blue locusts” in one of my late night forrays down certain mystical Twitter rabbit holes found on a private list I keep only for myself. Much wrong think, there. It refers to liberals fleeing to other areas once they’ve made a mess of their own places through bad policies of all stripes, bringing with them identity politics and a personal nastiness you don’t often find on the conservative side, only to begin all over again the ruination of their new environment.

Edina is not the only suburb in the Twin Cities to have suffered a blue locust infestation but it currently is the most dramatic and severe. Culturally and politically, Edina has fallen to the onslaught both because residents weren’t alert to the dangers early on, but also because conservatives there thought that by being accommodating they could blunt the force of the impact.

Politically, Republicans were wiped out in Edina in 2012, losing their state senate and two house seats in one neat execution. As the saying goes, things happen gradually, then all at once.

Culturally, I knew the battle was lost when I read in 2015 that Edina would allow backyard chickens, or as it called them, “residential chickens.” From this beachhead there is no recovery. The official Edina Twitter account’s avatar has a tutti frutti rainbow and the Cultural Marxist slogan “All are welcome here.” Really? Edina has only token Section 8 housing.

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Since then things have gone, as they do, from bad to worse. Edina schools have become national laughingstocks due to their extreme social justice warrior makeover but a Republican led effort to take back the school board failed. Last week, a school board meeting was canceled at the last minute that would have removed one of the two (or three, depending on how you count) Republican members. The crime? One of her social media posts offended the Cultural Marxists. This is but a battle delayed, not won.

Erik Paulsen is on track to lose his seat in Congress. Once this district goes Democrat, there’s little chance of taking it back. Three political tracking groups have moved the race from leans Republican to toss up. Paulsen has little connection to the activist base in CD 3 and by design. Bleating on about human trafficking is seen as leadership by him when in fact it’s ridiculously easy, but also ineffective for his chances in November.

The insular career politician last week was one of only two Republicans in Congress to vote against the “Right to Try” bill, which gives grievously ill people the opportunity to try experimental drugs in a last ditch attempt to save their lives. What kind of person votes against this?

Dario Anselmo, representing House district 49A, is on a similar glide path to defeat but with substantially more panache. Does that lessen the sting of the loss? Anselmo never misses a chance to promote himself alongside Ilhan Omar, CAIR’s successful trojan horse. Has he ever heard of her close friend, Linda Sarsour? Am I the only one with an internet connection and a search engine in Minnesota? He can save himself time by reading my column “United In Hate: Ilhan Omar & Linda Sarsour.”

As with Paulsen, we’re told Anselmo has a tricky district. That may be but so does Jason Lewis, who is in a vastly superior electoral position in a similar environment. Being less Republican, less conservative, is one way to approach such districts but the cold truth is that after too much of that, voters will go for the real thing. Eroding distinctions at the ballot box ultimately doesn’t work for Republicans, especially in Minnesota where the drivers of media and culture are increasingly on the Far Left.

Tweeting pictures of himself with Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis’ Justin Trudeau as a friend of mine calls him, won’t cut it. Trying too hard. At some point, Anselmo has to stand for something, has to offer voters a real choice. Raising the age in Minnesota to buy cigarettes to 21 is Anselmo’s desperate, cost-free analog to Paulsen’s obsession with human trafficking. Neither works.

By positioning himself closer to his opponent than to a real alternative, Anselmo makes it easy for that choice to cut against him. If my measure of the man is correct, he’ll pride himself on the eloquence of his concession speech.  

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Blue locusts infest more than Edina, of course. They infect increasingly large areas of Minnesota and with similar, dire consequences. Rural areas are being massaged by earth mothers and aging hippies in order to dilute, hopefully negate, their essentially conservative nature. Left unchecked, this will happen. Is anyone awake to the danger?

Blue locusts also infect states. California is Third World but its residents are fleeing to other states. Too many of them will do in their new states what people fleeing Minneapolis have done to Edina and other suburbs.

Unfettered illegal immigration from Mexico and other Third World countries is the Democrats’ unabashed plan to change the demographic makeup of traditional America in order to win elections. As Ann Coulter has said, if any other attempt to reduce white Americans from historic levels to the present was examined, it would be called genocide. We’re expected not to complain, to acquiesce in this monstrous “fundamental change” to make us Brazil North.

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The lesson, it seems to me, is for other suburbs and locales to hold fast to those local institutions we most take for granted. City councils, school boards and other hyper local bodies provide the first line of defense against blue locusts. Don’t let them get a toehold, an entry point. From there, like the destructive pests that they are, they will go on to do great damage and quickly the ability to reverse their gains will vanish.

It may be too late for Edina. Katherine Kersten columns can factually describe the disease but not save the patient. Too many think otherwise, think shining a spotlight is the same as an effective response. It’s a beginning but with no follow through of substance, it remains a blanket with which we swaddle ourselves, sucking our thumbs as we succumb.

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In addition to Alpha News, John Gilmore is also a contributor to The Hill. He is the founder and executive director of Minnesota Media Monitor. He blogs at MinnesotaConservatives.org and is on Twitter under @Shabbosgoy. He can be reached at John@alphanewsmn.com.

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Congratulations to Rep. Dan Fabian, a Republican who represents Minnesota House district 1A and who is this week’s local media bias contest winner. We can’t give the usual $50 award, not only because he didn’t submit this outstanding mark up of the dishonest Star Tribune story about wild rice guidelines, but because Alpha News can’t really give money to a sitting legislator, at least during session. But thank you, Rep. Fabian, for what you did with a few pen strokes to the article and posting it on Facebook.

I’m not going to insult your intelligence by recapitulating what you can easily see at a glance in the image above. The appalling distortions speak for themselves and what they say is that you simply cannot trust much of local media to be factually honest, let alone unbiased. I say much because it would be wrong to say all of local media is this way. It isn’t and it is important that we keep that in mind.

Different media outlets have better track records than others. Even within those outlets that are pretty bad, reporters exist who try to get things right, cover both sides of the stories and let the readers come to their own conclusion about the matter at hand. We do a disservice to them and to our painful awareness of media bias when we default to a position that says all of them are the same.

That said, well done Star Tribune for being transparently dishonest. And thanks again to Rep. Fabian who shows how easy it is to point out media bias whatever its origin. Please keep those submissions coming. Click on the banner ad at the top to learn how.

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The Pioneer Press disgraced itself this week by running a story on “Citizens for the St. Croix Valley, which earlier this year the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) added to its list of hate groups, citing its anti-Muslim language and actions.” The SPLC is the biggest fraud in the country and if the ridiculous, weaponized term “hate group” is used at all, it must be applied to them first and foremost. It has won this week’s media bias award. Thanks to Darla Meyers for her submission.

To learn more about these brave citizens, go to www.CitizensForTheStCroixValley.com

Recall that previously this wretched group put Ayaan Hirsi Ali and other brave Muslim reformers on its so called “hate list.” They have since been forced to remove them but only after a furious outcry and strenuous effort. This is the group for which the Pioneer Press is carrying water.

The speaker at the event in question, which was the subject of this hit job, is Aynaz Anni Cyrus, a well known defender of women under Islam and opponent of sharia law. “I am a human-rights activist,” Cyrus said. “I am an anti-Islam activist. However, I have nothing against Muslims and I do not preach against Muslims.”

Such crucial distinctions are lost, of course, in a story that paints any rational person with legitimate misgivings about Islam as bigots and that’s the goal: silencing people. But people are increasingly unafraid of the bullying that is advanced by the corrupt dishonest media, the Pioneer Press in this particular instance.

Just today the United Kingdom jailed for thirteen months anti-Islamist activist Tommy Robinson and imposed a media blackout on the matter. One only needs to follow events in that country, which Katie Hopkins has rightly claimed “has fallen,” in order to understand that speech and freedom to object are taken away by degrees, then permanently.

Fact based discussions led by groups such as Citizens for St. Croix Valley are crucial in American society which (still) values our Constitutional right to free speech. Perversely, our media assists those who don’t want certain truths to be widely known in the effort to take them away from you. Resist.

Thank you to others who submitted stories for the bias award. We’re grateful for each and every submission. Another winner will be announced next week because local media bias never stops. Click on the banner ad above to enter.

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President Trump is holding a rally in Duluth on Wednesday this week, the first in a state he didn’t win in 2016 and the first since his triumph in Singapore. My Alpha News colleague Christine Bauman has put in for media credentials for the two of us. If we get them, I’ll be there.

There’s a lot going on with this rally, not least of all the underscoring of the President’s determination to win Minnesota in 2020. There’s no doubt that he’s the heavy favorite to be reelected, given the lack of a substantive agenda by Democrats, to say nothing of having no candidate who can win Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Pete Stauber, Republican candidate for Congress from Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District, will surely benefit from the President’s appearance and will likely be on stage with him. Stauber is an outstanding candidate and is the odds on favorite to win in the general election.

Republican endorsed gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson said he was attending the Trump rally. To date, I’ve not heard that Tim Pawlenty is. There, in a nutshell, is the Republican gubernatorial primary on August 14th. Smartly, Johnson said to local media that he desired and would be honored by the President’s endorsement, for the obvious reason that Trump’s endorsing tweet alone would guarantee Johnson a primary victory. He was smart to go public because it puts this race, and Trump’s decisive influence on it, on the radar.

Just back from denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, President Trump tweeted his support of Katie Arrington over incumbent swamp creature Mark Sanford in the GOP primary in South Carolina. Katie won, leaving Mark to hike the Appalachian Trail for real this time. Local MNGOPe types were weirdly silent on Twitter, the ones who bray that “the establishment always wins.” Only this time it didn’t. Worse for them, the establishment is becoming Trumpian.

Trump remembers well what Pawlenty said about him: “unsound, uninformed, unhinged and unfit.” This bit of aliteracy made his comms team think highly of themselves. To be fair, it takes little.

We’ve seen instances in which this sort of criticism has been overcome and when it has not. Pawlenty is pulling out all the stops in order to convince the President to stay out of this race. Yet with the mood solidly behind him in Minnesota, Trump may well conclude that with his primary support of Johnson he has a loyal ally in 2020 and Trump can help fund his general election campaign. In other words, President Trump won’t ignore Johnson after the primary, he’ll help him win in the coming Red Wave.

Pawlenty this week tweeted praise of Trump’s diplomacy in Singapore vis-a-vis North Korea. It must have killed Brian McClung to send it. The artifice of Pawlenty so far bodes poorly for his chances in November. The talking points, the constructs, the shop worn & no longer operative conventional wisdom advantages are wearing thin even now. A tweet from Trump strikes fear, rightly, into the heart of this brittle campaign.

Pawlenty recently released his list of “co-chairs.” This is supposed to have some effect among the primary voter rubes, an appeal to authority whose authority never existed in the first instance and which in the Age of Trump has been vaporized. Those co-chairs are the reason Republicans haven’t won a statewide race in more than a decade. His “grassroots” leaders are anything but, a rogues gallery of the politically incompetent who voted for Evan McMullin.

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Pawlenty wants Trump to stay out of this primary race and for good reason. Johnson wants the opposite, for equally good reason. It’s even money what the Emperor will do.

On Pawlenty’s side, he can call in chits from the still extant swamp in DC, telling Trump’s inner circle that the Republican Governors Association is all in behind him, with their two point something million dollar media buy already “reserved.” Reserved media can be cancelled in a flash with no penalty. Rubes aren’t supposed to know this; the threat of it going away is the salient point. Think of it as a fake bargaining chip for an artificial candidate.

Jeff Johnson, on the other hand, can appeal to what Trump himself experienced: generally discounted, not the Establishment favorite but with a wide base of grassroots support. The question of money for the general largely vanishes once Trump has endorsed your candidacy.

Don’t look for any endorsement when he comes to Duluth this week, though. It’s far too early and the President wants to showcase Pete Stauber, as well as hold forth to the American people on Singapore, the IG report, trade, immigration, the economy and wherever else his mind goes to once off the TelePrompter. His rally had to be moved to accommodate the crowds expected. What does it say about his chances in the general that Pawlenty is staying away?

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Pawlenty and his supporters disparage the endorsement system, mostly because they no longer own it. They say it’s a small group of 3,000 who ought not be allowed to speak for all Minnesota Republicans. Friday the Pawlenty campaign congratulated itself for raising 1.7 million dollars. This mostly consisted of 274 people willing to write checks for the maxxed out amount of $4,000. But yes, the Vision Caster said, more openness and democracy was his goal. Pawlenty’s populist approach is as inauthentic as his painfully robotic tweets in support of President Trump. No one believes either but they’re counting on you not noticing what’s being stolen: your party.

Team Grifters genuinely believes that with a lot of money they can blow by the primary because TIM PAWLENTY. That really is how they think. I know these people, literally. It rises to nothing else except for programming the candidate for what his handlers think those awful people who voted for Trump want to hear. Those handlers loathe Trump, didn’t vote for him. Fortunately, you’re stupid enough to be conned because of television, radio and social media ads. Again, I give you their literal thinking.

Speaker Kurt Daudt said after the MNGOP convention in Duluth that he thought Pawlenty made a mistake by not participating in it and would find the primary more challenging than he thinks. This outburst of truth telling was quickly walked back but it remains true. Honesty looks good on the Speaker. He should try it more often.

Pawlenty’s campaign is already a disaster: insular, tone deaf, phony, filled with Never Trumpers. Pawlenty comes across as the Stepford Candidate. If I’m stuck with him, I want him to win. But if what we’ve seen so far from his unasked for political reappearance is any clue, he’ll lose in November, a political crime for which neither he nor his supporters will accept ever responsibility. They’ll blame the rubes, they always do, it’s all they know.

Pawlenty’s campaign is an anti-Trump coup. Everything else in the nation’s politics can change, but not for the dumbest Republicans in it. Yet for them, the night of August 14, 2018 just might turn out to be as unpleasant as was the night of November 8, 2016.

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The worst nightmare for the DFL came true this week: illegal immigration, and the violent crime it brings, in addition to ruining the quality of life for Americans already here, moved front and center in this year’s election cycle. It should remain that way from now through November.

Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was murdered by an illegal alien, Cristhian Bahena Rivera. There had been saturation coverage of Tibbetts’ disappearance but media immediately backed off once the immigration status of her murderer became known. Media exist to propagate and advance Leftist political narratives. As I wrote earlier this week about the Star Tribune’s editorial board giving Keith Ellison a pass on domestic abuse allegations, they’re beneath contempt.

Jeff Johnson clearly understands the power of the illegal alien crisis and a voting populace desperate for someone to take them seriously over their concerns of people unfit to be in this country. His one tweet “I will not allow Minnesota to become a sanctuary state” was easily his most favorited and retweeted of any he has sent to date.

As he’s said in numerous appearances and in debates, the Left’s old playbook of calling anyone who objects “racist” is demonstrably false and designed simply to silence people from voicing their opinion on an issue to which they have every right. So far on Twitter, I’ve been called a white supremacist twice and, this week, a white nationalist.  

This doesn’t work anymore but Minnesota Republicans finally have a statewide candidate who understands that and won’t be cowed into not raising the issue in the gubernatorial campaign. This is what frightens the DFL and our local media.

Before the death of Tibbetts, Johnson had already gone on record as saying he’d fight for a refugee moratorium into Minnesota. As he notes on his website: “Minnesota has 2% of the nation’s population, but 13% of the nation’s refugees. In addition, in the most recent two-year period, Minnesota’s secondary refugee migration (those who came first to another state but moved to Minnesota) was greater than all 49 other states combined.” The DFL needs a mindless, ethnic voting block, just like Democrats nationally, so they’re all in when it comes to replacing you. That jig is up.

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Karin Housley, running against former Planned Parenthood vice-president, Our Lady of the Curette Tina Smith, came out with a strong statement in the wake of Tibbetts’ death. In fact, Tom Hauser (KSTP) and Patrick Coolican (Star Tribune) are said to have contacted the campaign directly to make certain she meant what she had said in it. I told you the DFL is panicking.

What happened, and what these reporters, among others, were hoping to have her walk back, was that Housley spoke the truth that the DFL cannot allow to be said in Minnesota: “This was a preventable tragedy that happened because liberal Democrats and open border advocates are more concerned about protecting criminal aliens than protecting innocent lives like Molly Tibbetts.” She’s completely correct. Here is a second statewide candidate, this one for federal office, understanding an important issue that Minnesota Republicans have traditionally ignored, through weakness or intimidation by the corporate thugs of the Chamber or the Minnesota Business Partnership.

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As punishment for speaking the truth that mortally imperils the far Left DFL, Coolican mailed in a story that was abject even by his own low and unprofessional standards. Housley apparently gave him an interview but Coolican leaves it until the third to the last paragraph of his story before quoting: “‘It was a wake-up call for all of us to have a young innocent girl lace up her shoes and go for a run and be raped and murdered. It makes me think of my own daughters and how it could happen in any community,’ Housley said in a Star Tribune interview. ‘Tina Smith and the Democrats are part of the problem,’ she said.’”

You have to wade through a lot of Leftist spin and propaganda before you get to that paragraph, something of a signature style among the liberal reporters at the Star Tribune. Not to be outdone, state sponsored Minnesota Public Radio, too lazy to do its own reporting and instead running with the the Associated Press, headlined its story “Man charged with murder in death of missing Iowa woman.” No “illegal” in their titles, thank you.

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Illegal aliens commit grossly more crimes than do Americans. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise and by anyone I mean virtually the entirety of our media, the entertainment complex and most politicians. You’ll hear just the opposite, of course, but that’s because it’s propaganda in service to a fundamental demographic replacement you neither asked nor voted for.

“Illegal Immigrants Are Far More Likely to Commit Serious Crimes Than the U.S. Public” sets out in detail the sorry factual record. The upshot? “When it comes to illegal immigration and crime, media outlets often lavish attention on fatally flawed studies while ignoringstraightforward, comprehensive, and rigorously documented facts about this issue.”

Recently, Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, appeared with Tucker Carlson to discuss the facts about illegal alien crime. Referring to a 30 year study by the scholar John Lott, he said “what he showed is that illegal aliens don’t just commit more crime or more serious crimes by say, 5 percent more or 10 percent more than awful residents, but by 250 percent more.” You have to torture the truth, live in a fantasyland or ignore common sense to come to any other conclusion. Yet that’s exactly what you get from the varied interests who either want to replace you with a dependent underclass in order to vote for them or to get cheap labor because wage stagnation benefits corporatist and globalist American businesses.

Kirsanow concludes his interview with the brutal truth our dominant culture wishes to suppress: “Americans are being slaughtered. Americans are suffering property damage in the billions of dollars. Americans are spending billions of tax dollars to address this problem, both from the law enforcement standpoint and incarceration standpoint and the social carnage. . .”

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Johnson has an advantage in some ways on the illegal immigration issue because he opposes Minnesota becoming a sanctuary state. Walz, moreover, wants to reward those who break into our country by giving them drivers licenses. In other ways, it’s Housley who has an advantage, given that immigration is primarily a federal issue.

But she needs to fix her blunder in January when she said the wall “wasn’t feasible.” Ask Israel, Hungary, and now Bulgaria about how feasible and effective they are. She needs to minimize in her campaign going forward the person that gave her such quintessentially stupid MNGOPe advice. If she doesn’t, Housley will blow an otherwise winning issue and she alone will be to blame.

If she doesn’t support building the wall, there’s no reason to vote for her. 

A friend suggested that Johnson run solely on immigration and Walz’s proposed increased gas tax, repeat until victory. He was serious and not far off the mark. Johnson’s already shown the vast drawbacks to an open borders policy advanced by the now far Left DFL. Additional taxes proposed by Walz, and his other policies, would turn Minnesota into a cold California.

With a homeless “camp” already fouling Minneapolis, we’re on the way. The refugee resettlement industry has made the state a dumping ground for a low skilled, low educated diaspora from the seventh century that shows every sign of not wanting to assimilate into the country they’re so fortunate to live in.

Minneapolis recently pledged to build a literal wall (maybe someone forgot to tell them they aren’t feasible?) around one ethnic community in Cedar Riverside. This is the very definition of a ghetto.

Minnesota is in the balance this November. If Johnson & Housley can continue their honest discussion of illegal immigration and other issues previously muzzled by political correctness, they’ll win.

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In addition to Alpha News, John Gilmore is also a contributor to The Hill. He is the founder and executive director of Minnesota Media Monitor. He blogs at MinnesotaConservatives.org and is on Twitter under @Shabbosgoy. He can be reached at John@alphanewsmn.com

Photo credit: WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio

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Thanks and congratulations to Gerald Keiser of Saint Cloud who submitted this week’s winner of Alpha News’ weekly media bias contest. He directed my attention to an article published by the St. Cloud Times that was so mindlessly pro forced refugee resettlement that it could have been written by one of the organizations that, until recently, made money hand over fist dumping the Third World onto hapless communities across America and then walking away.

Saint Cloud has been disfigured and in many ways ruined by refugee resettlement. The beneficiaries of these programs have little to offer the community, are welfare dependent and proudly seek not to integrate into America but to replicate the cultural conditions of their failed, backward cultures. In the teeth of this, local residents are told by the Regressive Left that it is they who have to change, not the newly arrived.

The St. Cloud Times piece highlights one of those “interfaith” groups which is simply religious cover for liberal activism. One of the liberal professors organizing the sadness-fest is quoted as saying “The main emphasis will be on ‘Welcoming the stranger.’ That’s a biblical phrase. We picked that right up from the Bible.”

Garsh: right from the Bible, you rubes. This means you can’t object when your children are bullied by feral Somali youth so that they can’t go to the playgrounds they previously enjoyed for years. Rest assured local and state media won’t give any coverage to the downsides of people who have nothing in common being given free reign to behave in any way they like. The professional racers will cry “racism.”

Oddly enough, I wouldn’t expect these organizers to get favorable coverage if they prominently promoted say, oh, Leviticus when supporting traditional marriage. No, their biblical acumen ceases when any sort of actual morality is involved. It’s a sham and everyone knows it, including themselves.

The Dalia Lama this week said that “Europe belongs to the Europeans” and that refugees ought to go back to their home countries and rebuild. From all we’ve heard about their vibrancy, this should be an easy task. He’s right, of course, but such honesty has thrown the Left. Still, it’s not beyond the realm of the possible that the Southern Poverty Law Center could put him on their laughable list of haters, a personal goal that still eludes me.

Please keep your submissions of media bias coming. I’m especially grateful to Alpha News readers who point out coverage outside the metro area. I do my best to pay attention to the rest of Minnesota but there’s no substitute for sharp eyed readers monitoring their local communities. Click on the banner ad to learn how to submit your nomination.

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This week CAIR MN, the state chapter of the Council on Islamic American Relations, released a badly written jeremiad targeting its critics. CAIR is a terrorist linked organization that claims to speak for all Muslims. It does not but local media, those supine creatures, do their best to make it appear so.

CAIR MN was joined in this Regressive Left agitprop effort by ISAIAH, a fake, far Left faux religious group that pretends to spirituality and transcendence. Neither organization has any credibility outside of our media which carries their water.

CAIR is a front group in America for Hamas. This is never pointed out by Minnesota media because they’ve gone along with the mirage that CAIR is simply another civil rights organization. It is anything but.

Daniel Pipes wrote the definitive article about who and what CAIR is; naturally you’ll never read about it in the local press. “CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment” should be required reading for our local media but honestly, they’re not a bright lot. I say this with no personal rancor but simply as a conclusion after having followed them closely for some time.

They are easy marks for the propagandists at CAIR and “ISAIAH.” Minnesota media dutifully parrot whatever the talking points of the day are without much question. Media are lazy in the extreme as well and so by holding themselves out as the go to source on topics they claim exclusive control over, media are easily led. In turn, you’re mislead.

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In the conclusion to its badly written broadside, CAIR MN writes:

“Those who organize and finance anti-Muslim propaganda have insulated themselves from scrutiny. They have built a network of nonprofits, carefully maintaining respectable brands while actively guiding the creation of vitriolic, cynical, embarrassing propaganda. The publishers and profiteers must be held to account, not just interchangeable, generic propagandists such as John Gilmore. Brent Robbins, the VP from General Mills; John Gibbs, the VP from Comcast; Robert Cummins, the largest donor in the Minnesota Republican party; John Hinderaker, the President and CEO of the Center of the American Experience and former partner at Faegre Baker Daniels; Kim Crockett, VP of the Center and frequent contributor to local newspapers including the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press; Ronald Eibensteiner, the former chair of the Minnesota Republican party; Mitch Perlstein (sic), the founder of the Center; Alex Kharam, the Executive Director of the Freedom Club; Jeff Johnson, the Republican Gubernatorial candidate; and everyone one else who sits on the boards of or works for Freedom Club and Center of the American Experiment merit public condemnation from across the political spectrum.”

In a word, kill the witches.

Unfortunately, and despite being quoted at length in their turgid piece, CAIR MN left out my friends Donna Azarian and Andrea Mayer Bruestle, of Deplorable Housewives, in their conclusion. They, too, need to be tied to the stake in this Islamist auto-da-fé.

For myself, I’m disappointed that I don’t appear in the cheesy infographic “Mapping the network.” And yet Azarain & Mayer Bruestle do, despite being omitted in the conclusion. Did anyone edit this thing? Or should we blame jinns?

I also take exception that I’m an “interchangeable, generic propagandist.” Islamofascist CAIR MN may not like my voice but the last thing it is, is interchangeable.

In America we get to criticize any and all religions. Islam is no exception. CAIR MN attempts to impose through dhimmitude what is de rigueur in the world’s many backward Muslim-majority countries: silence, submission.

Speaking of submission, I wrote last October that Minnesotans would do well to read the foremost living French author Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission.” That story is one in which the likes of CAIR MN gets its way with an entire nation. “Islam” itself means submission. Did you know that?

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For an example of how perverse CAIR MN is in its analysis of what constitutes “anti-Muslim” bigotry, let’s take the case of me. One of the things that makes me a hater in this terrorist front group’s mind is that I supported Rep. Roz Peterson bringing in a Canadian Muslim reformer, a woman by the name of Raheel Raza.

Raza has been recognized not just by the Canadian government but by governments and organizations the world over. Her list of plaudits is longer than my relatively long arms.

Why did this make me a hater of local note? Because the fraudulent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) had listed this woman, a Muslim, a reformer, as an “anti-Muslim bigot.” I know people say too often that you can’t make it up, but here, you really can’t.

I’m a hater because I supported the free speech rights of a Muslim woman who wants to reform her religion. Peace be upon her.

The SPLC has also listed Maajid Nawaz as a hater. He used to be an Islamofascist and ur terrorist until he changed his ways. He wrote a book about it: Radical: My Journey Out of Islamic Extremism. Nawaz sued the SPLC for slander and settled for $3.375 million. If I’m in the company of Nawaz, I’m in good company albeit without the payout.

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Minnesotans are asked, bullied really, into not noticing the forced importation of peoples who not only have nothing in common with America and its values and traditions, but who want nothing to do with them. For the trouble of noticing, you will be become a target, accused of all sorts of things in the hopes that your voice will be silenced.

When you take those forcibly imported people and their religious, totalitarian ideology from the seventh century at face value, you’ll be declared to be the problem. I live this daily and I’m no hero.

What I am is someone who tries to speak honestly about what I see and why I see it the way that I do. I’m amused, somewhat, at being caught up with the blue rinse hair supporters of the Center of the American Experiment, which, praise Kek, has given the fearless Katherine Kersten a home, but which at the same time isn’t used to being on the receiving end of Minnesota’s Islamofascist attacks, abetted by our local media.

Welcome.

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In addition to Alpha News, John Gilmore is also a contributor to The Hill. He is the founder and executive director of Minnesota Media Monitor. He blogs at MinnesotaConservatives.org and is on Twitter under @Shabbosgoy. He can be reached at John@alphanewsmn.com

Photo credit: Jaylani Hussein, Executive Director of terrorist linked CAIR MN, St. Cloud Times

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