MN manhunt is over: who's the assassin who shot lawmakers?

The double murder of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman has left the Land of 10,000 Lakes reeling, and the arrest of Vance Luther Boelter, the prime suspect, only deepens the mystery. This is a tragedy and a political lightning rod. 

The details coming out about Boelter are raising more questions than answers.

Boelter, 57, was nabbed after a two-day manhunt, accused of gunning down the Hortmans and attempting to kill State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. According to Democrat possibly gay Gov. Tim Walz and law enforcement, this wasn’t random; it was political. Boelter allegedly had a hit list targeting Democratic politicians and abortion rights activists, including groups like Planned Parenthood. Not surprisingly, the intended murders would not have stopped the murdering of the unborn, but Boelter is probably mentally ill and unable to make that analysis.

So, who is this guy? Boelter’s a Minnesota native from Green Isle, a small farming town of about 600 souls, according to the Star Tribune. 

He has a background that sounds like it could’ve come from a Norman Rockwell painting with a twist: evangelical Christian college in Dallas, degree in practical theology (1990), followed by a bachelor’s in elective studies from St. Cloud State (1996). Boelter was ordained as a minister in 1993, and spent time as a missionary in central Africa, teaching farming in the Democratic Republic of Congo “on my own dime,” as he put it. 

He and his loving wife Jenny, who runs their small security firm, Praetorian Guard Security Services, LLC, raised four daughters and a son. Neighbors called the alleged killer friendly but private, and one said they “would have never expected anything like this.” Isn’t that always the way--it's always the quiet ones, right?

But here’s where it gets murky. Boelter allegedly used a company vehicle and uniform to pose as a cop during the shootings. His wife was detained after being found with a wad of cash and passports. 

Then there’s his political footprint. 

Former Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, appointed Boelter to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2016, a position Tampon Tim Walz re-upped in 2019. These are unpaid roles, and a board member defensively noted in the spirit of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes, that he “did not interact with the governor on a regular basis.” 

In a 2020 state report, Boelter claimed “no party preference,” but friends paint a different picture: a “Devout Christian,” [except for the murder part] conservative, and Trump rally regular who registered as a Republican in Oklahoma back in 2004.

David Carlson, a friend of over 50 years, said Boelter was “staunchly against abortion” and “thought it [abortion] was murder,” sort of like what he did to the lawmakers.

A 2023 sermon video shows him lamenting that the U.S. is in a “bad place” spiritually because “people don’t know what sex they are” and churches aren’t vocal enough against abortion. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison confirmed Boelter’s writings named him and other Democrats, though the full manifesto hasn’t been made public. Carlson also pegged him as an ardent Trump supporter, so somehow the shootings are going to be President Trump's fault, not the mentally ill alleged shooter.

Connect the dots, and you’ve got a guy with strong ideological leanings, but the why and how of his alleged rampage are still fuzzy.

The morning of the shootings, Boelter sent chilling texts to friends: “I love you guys, I made some choices… I’m going to be gone for a while. May be dead shortly.” He added, “I wish it hadn’t gone this way.” 

To his fabulous wife, he texted, “Words are not going to explain how sorry I am for this situation.” 

He presciently paid four months’ rent in advance, suggesting he knew the endgame, whether that meant death or capture. After fleeing, he left a confession letter to the FBI in his vehicle, admitting he was “the shooter at large in Minnesota.” 

That’s not exactly the work of a mastermind covering his tracks. When you consider that he apparently holds human life sacred, as we see with his anti-abortion stance, he took two lives and attempted to take many more. That's sick.

Boelter is now in federal custody after a brief stint in Hennepin County jail on $5 million bail, with a public defender appointed. Early speculation ran wild as some thought he was a Democrat angry over votes on healthcare for illegal immigrants (Hortman voted for it, Hoffman against repealing it). That theory’s looking shaky, given the hit list and his conservative bent. 

For now, law enforcement says he acted alone, but they’re digging for possible accomplices, while Democrats are probably preparing impeachment documentation against Trump for his role in the shootings.

This case is a powder keg. A Trump-supporting, anti-abortion ex-missionary with a security company and a hit list? It’s the kind of story that fuels endless X threads and cable news shouting matches. 

But let’s stick to what we know: two people are dead, two more narrowly escaped, and Boelter’s motives, while politically tinged, are still a puzzle. Was he a lone wolf driven by ideology, or is there more to this? The maximum sentence if guilty is the death penalty. Stay tuned, because this story’s far from over.

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Former newspaper calls fetal heartbeat "embryonic pulsing'

Checking cell-clump pulsing

One thing you gotta say about the far-Left, they sure know how to play with words--they make the killing of babies in the womb sound like the removal of an annoying cyst.

Several states have passed their own versions of heartbeat bills, each basically prohibiting abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which typically occurs around six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy. Louisiana is the latest state to take action. Gov. John Bel Edwards, the state’s pro-life Democrat governor, a rare breed, expressed his support for the legislation and signed it into law Thursday.

“In 2015, I ran for governor as a pro-life candidate after serving as a pro-life legislator for eight years,” Edwards said in a statement released Wednesday. “As governor, I have been true to my word and my beliefs on this issue.”

“I know there are many who feel just as strongly as I do on abortion and disagree with me — and I respect their opinions,” he continued. [I don't respect the opinions of anyone who would kill a baby in the womb--it's immoral, bordering on evil.] “As I prepare to sign this bill, I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana that cares for the least among us and provides more opportunity for everyone.”

The New York Times (NYT) a former newspaper, decided to use phrases that obviously dehumanizes the unborn, because everyone knows what abortion is, and everyone knows that a human life is taken in the process. That's why they talk about "terminating a pregnancy" rather than killing an unborn baby. Another way to terminate a pregnancy is to give birth.

Anyway, The Times referred to an unborn child’s heartbeat as “embryonic pulsing”:

A State House vote on Wednesday moved the abortion measure to the governor’s desk, after lawmakers rejected a series of amendments including an exception for cases of rape or incest [which still doesn't justify the killing of an unborn baby]. The measure would require an ultrasound test for any woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy, and forbid abortion if the test detects embryonic pulsing — which can occur before many women know they are pregnant. Abortions would be permitted only to save a woman’s life or to prevent a “serious risk” to her health.

LifeNews noted:

Rather than say the word “heartbeat,” The New York Times used the words “the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart.” It also described the legislation as a “so-called fetal heartbeat bill” – as if it is questionable whether the unborn baby actually has a heart or a heartbeat.

The Times is obviously not the only outlet that has tried to discount the unique human being inside the mother's womb and struggled to find ways of expressing this false notion.

ABC opinion hack and science-denier, Steve Osunsami, described those who supported Louisiana’s pro-life law as people who “believe that a fetal heartbeat can be detected.”

Well Steve, ultrasound detecting an absence of cardiac activity [aka pulsations], even in very small embryos, indicates pregnancy demise regardless of the size of the embryo, so you and other leftists may not call it a heartbeat, but without it, there can be no life inside the mother's uterus.

And yes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lady with the fetus/embryo/unborn child in her womb is not the superintendent of the life inside her--she's the mother.

And furthermore Steve Osunsami,, an unborn child’s detectable heartbeat is not a matter of opinion, which makes you sound like a deadbeat guy on an abortion mission. Maybe you got a woman pregnant and it's inconvenient for you to let her go through with it. I'm not saying that's true, but there is no evidence to say that it is not the case.

I'm just using Robert Mueller's line of thinking.



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Pro-life group scares snowflakes

Strathclyde Life Action, a pro-life, anti-abortion group based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, was prohibited from becoming a university society by the students' union because it would violate the university's safe space policy for students scared of opinions that differ from their own.

The Students' Ass. said they banned the group pre-emptively because they believe the group will "harass students" causing them great distress, indigestion, the willies and incontinence.

Poor little kitty cats.

A statement said that "This in turn violates their safe space."

Members of the banned group told Heat Street that proscribing them proves the university has no respect for free speech.

Well, yeah! No big surprise here.

Student officials in this so-called school weren't even able to term the abortion debate a 'women's issue' -- they called it "those with uteruses on campus".  

Seriously.

I wonder when the USA will elect a uterus for president. 

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