U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was among those shredding Walz for his comment, saying: "Really, you're worried about taxpayer dollars? There's been $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers in Minnesota since you became Governor.
Traci Kornak, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, was hauled into probate court this week, suspected of embezzling from her ward, a brain-damaged elderly woman.
I caught Kornak feasting on the woman’s finances nearly four years ago and have written many stories about it since.
I’ve made TV appearances.
I even lost my newspaper job over it.
After my first story was published, Attorney General Dana Nessel, a close friend of Kornak, opened a superficial investigation that was no investigation at all.
Her detectives made a few cursory phone calls before Nessel prodded them into shutting down the criminal case.
And Kornak, it is alleged, continued to suck the old woman dry...
Osman, a Somali refugee, was slapped with gun-theft charges in early December after he was accused of receiving, retaining, or disposing of a firearm or explosive device, knowing or believing it had been stolen from an individual's estate. He was also accused of committing theft by obtaining or exercising unauthorized control of a firearm or explosive device that belonged to a second individual's estate.
The indictment wastes little time in calling out Maduro’s alleged criminal enterprise.
“For over 25 years, leaders of Venezuela have abused their positions of public trust and corrupted once-legitimate institutions to import tons of cocaine into the United States,” it states. “NICOLAS MADURO MOROS, the defendant, is at the forefront of that corruption and has partnered with his co-conspirators to use his illegally obtained authority and the institutions he corroded to transport thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States.
The familiar version of the old pyramid, dating to 1992, was criticized by experts for placing too much emphasis on carbohydrates and not enough on protein and healthy fats...
Nick Shirley exposes another layer of the Minnesota fraud machine — and it’s staggering. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman There are over 𝟭,𝟮𝟬𝟬 non-emergency medical transportation companies operating in Minnesota. That alone should raise eyebrows. But here’s the part that blows the whole thing wide open: For an entire year, Shirley personally visited these companies and took time-stamped photos of their transport vans — the vans supposedly being used to move patients to medical appointments.
𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱.
𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲.
They sat parked in the same lots, in the same positions, month after month — while taxpayers kept paying the bills...
Tapper: "We went into the country, and we seized the leader of Venezuela..."
Miller: "D*mn straight we did!! We're not going to let tin-pot communist dictators send rap*sts into our country, send drugs into our country, send weapons into our country, and we're not going to let a country fall into the hands of our adversaries."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a South Florida Democrat with a sizable Venezuelan population in her district, bucked her party Saturday to praise President Donald Trump’s capture of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Wasserman Schultz said the U.S. military operation removing Maduro from power is “welcome news” for the millions of Venezuelans living in exile, though she argued Congress should have been informed. Conversely, a chorus of congressional Democrats immediately slammed the successful military operation as illegal and contrary to American interests.
Tom Izzo and Paul Davis handled a bad moment the right way
...The incident spread quickly on both social media and on news sites across the country.
In my opinion, though, what followed over the next 24 hours mattered far more than what caused it.
Tom Izzo has always preached family.
He has always preached accountability.
When given an opportunity out of the blue to put those values into action, he didn't hesitate. This wasn’t about excusing behavior.
It wasn’t about minimizing consequences.
It was about accountability — real, uncomfortable, face-to-face accountability — and the standards Michigan State claims to value actually being enforced.
Tom Izzo didn’t dodge it.
Paul Davis didn’t hide from it.
And together, they showed what responsibility looks like when it’s taken seriously...
...At the same time, Izzo refused to do what modern outrage cycles often demand: turn a mistake into a permanent indictment of character...
Stephen Hawking 1942 - Theoretical physicist, writer ("A Brief History of Time")
1815 - The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans.
1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1900 - U.S. President McKinley placed Alaska under military rule.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed over the 2000 mark for the first time at 2,002.25.
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