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FMJRA 2.0: Can’t Blame The Offense

Posted on | September 13, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

In previous seasons, we’ve had good starting pitching, an okay bullpen, and terrible offense. This season, we have a good offense for once, a fine bullpen…and a miserable starting rotation.* Still, we managed a split in our two-game series against the Orioles before coming home to RFK and dropping two of three to the Cubs. At least we won one at home for once. This leaves us tied with the Red Sox at 10-18, 4 1/2 games behind the Twins.
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FMJRA 2.0: More Misery At Home
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How Minnesota Became a Crime Magnet
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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.11.26
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Better Late than Never
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In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Evening Edition)
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Fritz is still evading the Canuckistani fishing wardens, but thanks to everyone else for all the links!

*Exactly three of our wins have gone to our starters: one to Jim Kaat, and two to Joe Coleman, who somehow eked out a couple of wins despite an ERA over 6.

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The Permanent Problem of Liberalism

Posted on | September 12, 2026 | No Comments

Every time I use the word liberalism — as it has been commonly used in the United States for decades, describing the belief system associated with the Democratic Party — some pedant will invariably show up in the comments to scold me with a lecture about “classical liberalism” as if I’m an ignorant schoolboy in need of their tutelage, which I am not. Nobody needs to teach me about John Locke, Adam Smith, et al., whose books have been on my shelves for 30 years. Nor am I ignorant of the fact that most young left-wingers nowadays make a point of scorning liberals, instead referring to themselves as progressives or socialists.

Yes, I know that Friedrich Hayek, among others, did not call himself a “conservative,” and that when Bill Buckley started out in the long career that would make him the de facto intellectual leader of the conservative movement in America, he saw his role in the conflict as a defense of “individualism” against “collectivism.” Petty quarrels over labels, however, are a waste of mental energy, and if you have nothing better to do, you really need to reassess your priorities. We march onward.

Nearly all public commentary Friday was devoted to the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Shane Hachey is a particular type of conservative, a Midwesterner who enlisted in the Army, then went to college, eventually getting a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University before adding a law degree from Harvard. His 9/11 anniversary column was remarkable:

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was starting my second semester at Columbia University. I had transferred from a state school in Minnesota at the start of the year, and was embarking on my own little slice of life New York adventure.
The aftermath of Sept. 11 was my first real-world collision with moral relativism. I honestly don’t know if I had ever thought consciously about it before then. But I encountered it everywhere in the months and years afterwards.
But before the relativism came cowardice.
Days after the attack, I was sitting on the steps at Columbia, talking to a sophomore I knew. We were ruminating over what had happened and what may happen, and he said something that jarred me: “If there’s a draft, I’m moving to Canada.” . . .
As odious as that sentiment was, the more common feeling I encountered was one of resigned relativism, perhaps mixed with or used as an excuse for cowardice. For example, someone once asked me at a student party, “What do you expect when you build towers to the sky…? Someone’s going to try to knock them down.” As if we brought it on ourselves, with our own Babylonian hubris. In one of my classes that semester, another student said that he was “really disturbed by all the flag-waving” that had been happening since the attack. . . .
I soon learned that Columbia students, like other New York intellectuals, were too smart for simple-minded concepts like patriotism. . . .
When I talk to normal people in the rest of America about coastal elites, relativism, and intellectual snobbery, I often tell these stories, and I end with this: however depraved, nihilistic, and relativistic you think these people are, they are far worse than that. You have no idea. Only by seeing their immediate, instinctive reaction mere miles from where the World Trade Center collapsed, in the city they call home, can you see the fruits of their philosophy in full bloom.

You can read the whole thing. What struck me was how, 25 years later, we’re still stuck with the same problem — the decadent elites haven’t changed, except insofar as they’ve gotten worse. And, in point of fact, the problem hasn’t really changed since before I was born.

In 1959, Buckley published Up From Liberalism, in which he recounted an early controversy of his career involving Eleanor Roosevelt. FDR’s widow was more or less the living symbol of liberalism in the 1950s, viewed as the guardian of her late husband’s legacy. During the uproar over Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist investigations, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote a column “likening McCarthyism to Hitlerism,” as Buckley explained and, during a television appearance, Buckley suggested that, if Mrs. Roosevelt encountered McCarthy at a cocktail party, she would refuse to shake his hand, whereas she would have no such compunction about shaking hands with Andrey Vyshinsky, who was at the time the Soviet Union’s representative at the United Nations.

Buckley’s point was that Vyshinsky had infamously presided over the show trials during Stalin’s “Great Purge” in the 1930s, and certainly was guilty of sending many men to their deaths on false charges (the total executed during the “Great Purge” was nearly 700,000, it has been calculated). Obviously, Vyshinsky’s actions were far worse than anything that Joe McCarthy was ever accused of doing and, it should be noted, McCarthy was an American trying to protect his country from the deadly evils of Communism. Yet liberals like Mrs. Roosevelt could not accept that Communism was an evil worth fighting, and the fact that McCarthy was investigating Communist subversion made him a veritable Hitler.

This attitude (“anti-anti-Communism,” as it was sometimes called) foreshadowed the similar attitude toward Islamic terrorism that Shane Hachey encountered at Columbia University after 9/11. If liberalism means anything, it means a commitment to equality — or Equality, with a capital “E,” denoting its quasi-religious status in the liberal mind. The liberal is unable to say that Islam (or Communism) is wrong and bad, because the Muslim or the Communist must be treated as an equal. The fact that an avowed enemy seeks to kill us — well, who are we to say that he is wrong for this? Instead, the liberal believes, we must critically examine ourselves to see what we have done to provoke the enemy’s murderous rage. Of course, it’s lunacy to think like this, but the liberal never breaks down his arguments into the form of a syllogism, with the premises clearly delineated and the structure of the argument made evident. Instead, his fanatical commitment to Equality is an unexamined prejudice from which every error of his belief emerges.

Up From Liberalism was published the same year I was born, and America today faces the same basic problem that Buckley encountered when dealing with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt. Liberals are so certain of their moral and intellectual superiority that, even when their errors are pointed out with the utmost precision — as Buckley did — they refuse to acknowledge they have been proven wrong. No matter how skillfully you deploy facts and logic to contradict them, nothing can persuade them to admit their mistake or change their policy, because this would be tantamount to confessing that they are not actually so superior.

Andrey Vyshinsky was a despicable monster, but Eleanor Roosevelt could not bring herself to say this, in the same way that liberals (or “progressives,” or whatever else they may call themselves) nowadays cannot bring themselves to denounce Hamas terrorists or the murderous regime in Iran. No, because to do so would be to agree with Republicans, and admitting that Republicans are right about something — anything — is simply unthinkable to them. Republicans are always the villains in the soap opera melodrama scripted by liberals, whether it’s Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush or Donald Trump.

You see the point of this narrative — the emotional payoff of the melodrama — is that the liberal is always the hero, deserving praise and admiration for his courage in opposing the Republican villain. Once you recognize this, you realize why there is no point arguing with the liberal. He cannot be persuaded by facts or logic, because facts and logic are not the basis of his belief system. And this is why I say that liberalism is a permanent problem. If we could not vanquish liberalism in 70 years, during which time we had such brilliant minds as Buckley advocating for the conservative cause, isn’t it the height of folly to imagine we’ll be able to declare a final victory anytime in the foreseeable future?

Keep marching, boys. We’ve still got a long way to go.



 

Category: Intellectuals, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 12, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Prayer For 9/11
357 Magnum: Chicago Teachers Union in a State of Panic
EBL: Fish Puttanesca, September 11, 2001 – As It Happened, Where Were You, So long Sassafras, and Have You Forgotten?
Twitchy: Media Moving Forward With Sick Effort To Smear Lone Holdout Juror, Gov. Hochul Ditches Ground Zero Ceremony For CNN Pow-Wow, and Talarico Shares His “Banned” Jimmy Kimmel Interview & It Doesn’t Go The Way He Wants
Louder With Crowder: Lone Holdout Juror on Clancy Trial Was the Only Black Person on the Jury, Al Green Held A Press Conference Just To Demand ICE Cover The Cost Of Hormones For Illegal Troons In Custody, Dalilah Coleman’s Dad Blasts California Democrats For Policies That Led To Car Crash That Harmed His Daughter, Emir Mamdani and Occasional Cortex Seen Laughing During 9/11 Ceremony as Families Mourn Victims, and U.C. Berkeley Law School Found to Have Discriminated Against White and Asian Applicants
Vox Popoli: You Never Stand Alone, Translating the Palacesprache, Reconquesta II, Remigration Jetzt, and Juries are Unjust in a Diverse Society
According To Hoyt: A Clear Day In September, The Corrupt Stupid Leading The Delusional, Double Edged Compassion, The Collective, and Labor
Cedar Sanderson: They Have A Big Heart
Stoic Observations: A Stoic Look At War

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Lone Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Trial Revealed to be Black Male, AI Restrictions Continue to Widen As New School Year Begins, Prosecutor Leading DOJ Grand Conspiracy Investigation Abruptly Resigns, Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration’s Expanded ICE Detention Policy, and Trump Announces $500 Rebates for 1 Million Obamacare Enrollees
American Thinker: September 11. 2001, Remembering That Devastating Day, How Terrorists Change History, Securing The Skies Before The Next 9/11, and A Disgrace To The 9/11 Victims
Baldilocks: Black Man Causes Meme Explosion
BattleSwarm: $1.3 Billion In Attempted Medicare Fraud, $250 Million Senior Gold Scammer Nabbed, DOJ Says Report Illegal Aliens Or Lose Welfare Funding, My Friend Was Murdered On Labor Day, and LinkSwarm For September 11
Behind The Black: Eutelsat orders 229 new OneWeb satelites from Airbus, Amazon gives Arianespace’s Ariane-6 rocket six more Leo launches, Rocket Lab launches payload for “confidential customer”, Djibouti of the Middle East to sign Artemis Accords, and SpaceX already testing Starship and Superheavy to fly AFTER next week’s 14th orbital test flight
Cafe Hayek: Hit the Brakes Hard on Trusting Government, Oren Cass Should Get Real About the Theory and Facts of Trade, The Practice of Government Is the Opposite of the Theory of Government, and Being Unprincipled Isn’t Applause-worthy
CDR Salamander: 9/11 – A Quarter Century On
Chicago Boyz: The Return of the Old Gods, 9/11+ 25 Years, Charlie Kirk One Year Later, The Rift Across Our World, and AfD and the “Brandmauer”
Dana Loesch: 25 Years Later
Don Surber: The hard truth about 9/11
First Street Journal: Obligatory Lindsay Clancy post, Kentucky is not a sanctuary state, and Hold them accountable!
Flopping Aces: The two faces of Islam, Dr Abdul’s snake oil fixes everything, The evil that still lives, and The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/11/2026 – Back to The Nation!
Gates Of Vienna: Federal Agency Performance on Islam-Related Issues Spotty at Best, Allah, the Only Legislator? Marry or We Will Kill You, A Good Day for the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, and Did Lawrence Fox Chicken Out?
The Geller Report: GOP Convention Roars Into the Midterms, The Day Everything Changed, White House Proclaims September 11, 2026 Patriot Day, Palestinians Celebrated the September 11 Attacks for Years, and The Ground Zero Mosque – The Fight They Never Expected Us to Win
Hollywood In Toto: ABC Confirms What We All Knew About Kimmel & Late-Night TV, ‘The View’s’ Whoopi Goldberg Reaps What She Sows, The Snare – A True Blue Indie Sleeper You Can’t Miss, Faith-Friendly ‘Pendragon Cycle’ Shocks Hollywood, and Children of Men at 20 – Still Raw, Shocking and Masterful
Legal Insurrection: Peer-Reviewed Journal Shows Anti-Israel Bias at the New York Times, China’s Three-Front War on American AI – Sabotage, Theft, and Espionage, IDF Blows Up Underground Hezbollah Base Beneath Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge, Virginia School District Insists ‘Don’t Associate the 9/11 Attacks With Islam or Muslims’, and Florida Board Approves Rule Blocking Illegal Aliens From Some Universities
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Man for All Seasons, A Year Ago, The Future, If We Are Smart This Fall, Why We Do Some Hobbies, and The Broken Voting System
Outkick: Mets & Yankees remember 25th anniversary of 9/11, Rey Mysterio unfazed at match with 7′ 3″ giant, Tua Tagovailoa ruled out of Falcons opener, Astros bullpen could be deciding factor as Rays protect postseason lead, and Wedding called off due to Lindsay Clancy trial reaction/Poop bucket used in affair ambush/Innocently flirty
Power Line: Teaching 9/11 – Or Not, Ilhan Omar married her brother, About That Holdout Juror…[Updated], Looking Back on 9/11, and Why is this man laughing?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Endorses Alex Rizo For SD-39 
STUMP: Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine
The Political Hat: Westphalian Sovereignty And Nationalism, Quick Takes – Meanwhile, At College, and A Quarter Century Ago Today – NEVER FORGET
Transterrestrial Musings: The Aztecs, SpaceX Launch Costs, Some Labor Day Thoughts, That Last-Minute Second, and 25 Years On
Victory Girls: AI Could Kill Us All. Haven’t We Seen This Movie? Mamdani Hears Hard Truths At 9/11 Police Memorial Dedication, Seattle Interim Police Chief Calls Shooters “Trigger Pullers”, The Stay-At-Home Parent is Not a Luxury Item, and Vance Wins Soundbite Award At The GOP Midterm Convention
Watts Up With That: Environmental Priorities vs. ‘Climate Change’, America Can’t Import Its Way out of the Critical Minerals Crisis, RGGI Auction Clearing Price Results, Why the AI Merchants of Doom are Dead Wrong, and AP and Fortune Magazine Ignore Population Trends to Blame Climate Change for Bear Encounters
The Federalist: I Lived Through 9/11 As A New Yorker. Here’s What I Saw, James Talarico Doesn’t Appear To Have Much To Say About 9/11, Saving The United States Means Becoming Unapologetically American Again, The Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is A Black Man. Here’s Why Gayle King Needed To ‘Sit With That For Just A Second’, and NYT Claims 25 Years Later, The Real Victims Of 9/11 Are Muslims
Mark Steyn: Last Roundup: Randolph Scott in Comanche Station, A War for Civilisation, The Way to Lose, The New Boy Scouts, and Wanker vs Wheelchair

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In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 11, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The 2026 BasedCon Based Book Sale continues!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day of Discovery At Sutter’s Mill (1848)
357 Magnum: E-Bikes That Are Really Electric Motorcycles
EBL: British Virgin Island Fisheries, “Like Washington Crossed the Delaware, Pershing Will Cross the Rhine”, “Nathan Hale Trilogy”, MAGA Midterm Convention, and Salmon Crudo
Twitchy: People Have Questions About Gayle King’s Reaction To Finding The Holdout Juror Was Black, Don’t Forget It’s An Anniversary For Hillary Clinton Too, and Occasional Cortex & Emir Mamdani Spotted Yucking It Up As Names Of the 9/11 Murdered Are Read
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Rep Cannot Figure Out Why Illegal Aliens Are Being Held in ICE Facilities, James Talarico Doubles Down On Blasphemous Belief That God Is “Non-Binary”, Tom Homan BLASTS reporter for blaming ICE over arrest at school bus stop, Kevin Reddington Tells Media Lindsay Clancy Was An “Amazing Mother”, and Fourth Clancy juror admits women were pushing for a not guilty verdict the VERY MOMENT deliberations started
Vox Popoli: The Textual Wave Begins, It’s Just Different, The Campbell Letters, A Book a Day, and Politicians are Useless
Cedar Sanderson: Toast – Under The Sink
John C. Wright: On Rereading Old Favorites
The Abbey of Misrule: Come Walk With Me
Defending The Wood Perilous: Unexpected Success
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: 25 Years On
Upstream Reviews: Reviewing The Based Book Sale

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CDR Salamander: No European NATO Navies Are Ready To Fight Today’s War At Sea
Racket News: On Escaping This Horrible Era
STUMP: 2026 World Suicide Prevention Day

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Better Late than Never

Posted on | September 11, 2026 | No Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I picked a bad decade to give up smoking and drinking

You would think that after a year or so of lugging my Surface tablet around the continent, including too many runs to Vegas to remember without the use of my phone’s calendar, that I’d have a checklist of stuff I’m going to need while on the road: syringes for insulin, magazines for my pistol…and necessary cables for the Surface. Which is all by way of admitting that this week’s linkagery was derailed by the fact that I absent-mindedly left a 4″ USB-B/USB-C cable sitting on my desk at home when I headed down to Las Vegas this week for an NSSAB meeting, which is why I’m scrambling to get caught up tonight and tomorrow. Probably not going to be able to link everything that deserves attention, but at least I’ll get all the Substackery included and most of the other important stuff. As always, I recommend that you follow the links to the home pages of the various and sundry blogs, because it’s just not possible to link to everything, especially for blogs like Behind the Black, Legal Insurrection, and Power Line who put out more content than any five linkmonglers could cover.

Speaking of the Nevada Security Site Advisory Board, we’re going to be closing up shop at the end of fiscal year 2027 since the environmental management & remediation that we’re providing oversight for is almost done, a year ahead of schedule. I’m going to miss being on the NSSAB; it’s been very educational in quite a few ways, and while the drive to and from Las Vegas is exhausting at my age (I’ll be 67 next month) it is nice to have the Department of Energy reimburse me for mileage, a couple nights in a decent hotel, and per diem. Guess I’ll just have to write and sell more fiction to make up for it.

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Category: Blogging, Computers

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.11.26

Posted on | September 11, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Kickstarter for The Hawk, The Fox, and the Princess, my fantasy novel, is live!
Also, the BasedCon Based Books Sale is on! I have a couple of books in it, and there’s also a whole bunch of other books by authors who don’t hate you, for supercheap prices!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

h/t Sensurround on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: They Buried Trump’s Accomplishments, So We Drew Them, Who’s Really Responsible For Palestinian Suffering? The Day The Earth Swallowed Lisbon (1755), and The Democrat Plot To Delegitimize The 2026 Election & SCOTUS,
357 Magnum: Massachusetts Still Ignoring SCOTUS Bruen Decision, Disrespect Their Authority – Get Set on Fire, and Your LG Smart Television IS Spying on you
EBL: Laura Mennell, Swordfish Steaks, Iceland says no to the EU, Mamdani gives 9/11 pen to Al Qaeda lawyer, and Is This Protected Free Speech or Criminal Call For Violence?
Twitchy: Kurt Schlichter Dismantles Marc Elias & His Overseas Voter Scare BS, Clancy Juror Said It Was “Disgusting” That Lone Holdout Reenacted Stranglings, and Bill Kristol Whines About Trump’s “Anti-American” Arch
Louder With Crowder: 9/11 families demand Emir Mamdani, stay AWAY from the 25th anniversary ceremony, Fake Hospice Complex Is Now Entirely Empty After Nick Shirley Exposed Alleged Fraudsters, Nike has REDEFINED “get woke, go broke” as stock crashes by 78%, Lindsey Clancy’s attorney BEGS Donald Trump for a pardon, he just misses one key detail, and Trump Throws Down Gauntlet As Canada Secretly Starts Military Collaboration with China
Vox Popoli: A Portrait of Decline, The Best and Brightest, The Misoponerists, Why Russia Can’t Stop, and There is No Free Press
Born Lucky: “The Future of Journalism” Is Here!
John C. Wright: Not Tired of Winning Yet Part CCLXII, also, Diversity & Dr. Strange
Cedar Sanderson: Eat This While You Read That – B.K. Gibson, Mixtape Monday – Rite In The Rain, and Fool’s Prayer,
Upstream Reviews: Love at First Bite, Chalk, and Joy Shall be In Heaven
Defending The Wood Perilous: Memorable Articles, also, Great Books for Less!
Ammo.com: What Prevents Mass Shootings?
Mazelit Airaksinen: We Raised Nearly $7000 For Norman

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Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 102 – Double Feature
Baldilocks: No More X, also, Disappeared
CDR Salamander: The PRC’s “Coercion, Bullying, & Aggression” – Red In Tooth & Claw,
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction: A Familiar Descent, also, Five One Line Thoughts on “He had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsey viciously killed her children” Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Clancy Trial Ends In Mistrial, also, Don’t Make Welfare Queens Out of American Moms
Don Surber: Baghdad NYT, Bitter Old Women Against MAGA, and Infanticide in Massachusetts
Glenn Reynolds: Another Burger Review

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Rule 5 Sunday: Black Denim Shorts & Braces

Posted on | September 7, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another fine pic from @Rule5Tweets on X.
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EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Spice Must Flow, Martini Culture, When They Sound The Last All Clear, Eighties Girls, SCOTUS Ballroom Blitz, Maia Reficco, Diana Princess of Wales, and Spoorloos – The Most Terrifying Movie

BACON TIME: Rule 5: A Trip To Hooterville

Fritz is dodging the Syrupean fish & game wardens somewhere in Ontario.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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How Minnesota Became a Crime Magnet

Posted on | September 6, 2026 | No Comments

Carlton Johnson II died Wednesday in a shootout with police at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. Johnson killed two people and wounded five others, including two police officers.

The Shoreline Plaza apartment building, formerly known as the Loring Towers, offers “affordable housing,” subsidized by taxpayers. Johnson paid only $105 a month for his apartment, and guess what? He wasn’t even from Minneapolis! He was from Chicago.

This is what’s wrong with Minnesota, generally. It’s why Somalis collected millions of dollars in fraudulent benefits. The state is so liberal, so generous in terms of giving out various kinds of welfare, that it naturally attracts scum, including criminals from Chicago who move there and get ridiculous “affordable housing” subsidies.

Taxpayer subsidies to support a public menace:

Carlton Johnson II had a long history of threats and violence that ended Wednesday when he allegedly shot six people in downtown Minneapolis, killing two and wounding two police officers.
In June, Johnson, 35, allegedly walked around Shoreline Plaza — where Wednesday’s mass shooting occurred — waving a gun and threatening to kill someone, according to court records.
That and other menacing behavior had led Shoreline Plaza’s owner to launch eviction proceedings the same month.
One man who lived in the building even went to police and accused Johnson of threatening him with a gun on June 25, though no charges were filed.
Johnson, who police say was killed in an “exchange of gunfire” after Wednesday’s rampage, was also hit with a restraining order in 2023 for allegedly sexually assaulting and threatening a woman, Hennepin County court records say.
In that case, he allegedly sent the woman a string of 120 text messages and pretended to be a police detective. “I was terrified by his numerous explicit death threats,” the woman said in a court document. . . .
Johnson racked up 34 separate criminal cases in the Twin Cites. Most of those cases involved traffic violations but he was also charged in two assaults and two misdemeanor drug cases.
In 2018, Johnson told his sister he “was not afraid to shoot people in the face” when she booted him out of her apartment. He was charged with domestic assault after his sister complained he had roughed her up.
The domestic assault charge was dropped after Johnson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor property damage. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but 86 days of the sentence were stayed under the terms of his probation agreement.
At the time of this week’s shooting, Johnson was subject to an ongoing child protection matter involving the 4-year-old daughter of the same woman who filed for the 2023 harassment order, Hennepin County court records show. Johnson was the girl’s father.
A 4-year-old girl who is Johnson’s daughter was in the apartment complex Wednesday, and her mother was one of the shooting victims. The girl was not physically harmed and was evacuated from the scene, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Court records indicate that Johnson had two daughters with different mothers, and it remains unclear which mother was the victim in Wednesday’s shooting.

The combination of generous welfare benefits and a lenient criminal justice system have turned Minnesota into a magnet for criminals. And as long as the people of Minnesota keep electing Democrats, the problem will keep getting worse. Amy Klobuchar is running for governor of Minnesota to continue this disastrous policy. Lisa Demuth is the Republican opponent who wants to put an end to it.



 

Category: Crime, Minnesota
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