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Earlier this month, Swedish Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson delivered her maiden speech as head of the Swedish Social Democratic Party... “If you are young,” she said, “you must obtain a high school diploma and go on to get a job or higher education.” If you receive financial aid from the state, “you must learn Swedish and work a certain number of hours a week.” The Social Democrats now deploy the harsh language only far-right nativists of the Sweden Democrats party used in 2015... all major parties today stand for a restrictive migration policy with a strong focus on law...

Every woman cringed at having been talked down to before in their lives. https://t.co/hUqMyG86vl— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) March 14, 2020 ------------- Every woman understands Kelly O’Donnell’s facial expression when Donald Trump says, “Just take it nice and easy. Just relax.” God grant me the confidence of an inept man who takes time out of failing miserably to reprimand a woman doing her job well. pic.twitter.com/2QXh1uNOpZ— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 14, 2020

A fundraising effort launched by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota on Monday appears to betray some fears that the state could flip red in next year's presidential elections. A series of tweets by the Minnesota DFL saw it admit that the "Trump campaign is staffing up in Minnesota in ways we’ve never seen before, and frankly we just can’t keep up." "Trump and the GOP already have over two dozen staffers on the ground, and are promising more, and they have already trained over 600 volunteers in Minnesota!" it added.

What a game! The Vikes win it as the Ravens kicker pulls the ball just wide left of the goal post with 2 ticks left on the clock. 33-31

MADISON, Wis. — A delivery truck ran over a cyclist's head, leaving him only with a concussion and a mangled helmet. Ryan Lipscomb, 26, was shaken up, especially after he saw the condition of his helmet. "I didn't see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head," he said. "It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head." Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding swiftly down a bike path in Madison Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection where he said he had a green light,...

With the below average temperatures we have been having this past week there are a few fish houses starting to show up on the lakes. We must remind ourselves that although the air temperature is low there may be safety hazards because of the snow cover that we had on the ice before the below-average temperatures arrived. Proceeding onto the newly formed ice with caution is a must. Watching for pockets of thin ice hidden under a layer of snow is a good way to prevent a dangerous situation and keep you from being a statistic. As we near the...

Norwegian motorists hit about 3,000 four-legged creatures per year and the 'king of the forest' is the most damaging victim. Moose crossing - this traffic sign is a Norwegian icon. PHOTO: Solvoll, Einar Each autumn moose stories proliferate in the Norwegian media as the hunting season begins and the animals make a variety of headlines. A typical case is the Adresseavisen report of motorist Mona Austvik, who suddenly found her car smashed and a moose calf sprawled across her windshield. "I have always been on the watch for moose since there are so many in the area we live, but...

A power plant built by the Norwegian People's Aid (NFH) in Northern Iraq is now supplying electricity to one of Mullah Krekar's training camps. The plant was built to provide electric power to around 200 families in two villages in the area. The plant was completed in 2000. -When the plant was completed, the peopele of the villages wanted to celebrate. However, armed men from Krekar's group put a stop to the festivities, says former head of NFH's projects in Northern Iraq, Ragnar Hansen to NRK Radio. US authorities are in the possession of pictures from Krekar's camp. These will...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Feline lovers holding pictures of cats, clutching stuffed animals and wearing whiskers faced-off against hundreds of hunters at meetings around Wisconsin to voice their opinion on whether to legalize cat hunting. Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats - including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar - should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted. The proposal was one of several dozen included in a spring vote on hunting and fishing issues held by the Wisconsin...

Viking ship cracking upEperts are worried about one of Norway's national treasures. Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.The archaeologists have been carefully going over the nearly 1,200-year-old ship, and are concerned about what they see, reports newspaper Aftenposten.Removal of the vessel's top deck has revealed some exciting new details, like graffiti from the Viking age and details of the ship's rigging. But it's also exposed cracks that make archaeologists worry the ship won't tolerate any move to new quarters.There have been...

Thieves Steal Built-In Swimming Pool 2 hours, 21 minutes ago Strange News - AP OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian family's swimming pool wasn't just bolted down, it was in the ground, but that was impediment to a band of determined thieves. When the Nicolaysen family visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago. "This can't be, we thought," Arild Nicolaysen told state radio network NRK on Monday. "We didn't think it was possible. No one can steal a swimming pool."...

September 09, 2004 Muslims rule major Swedish city An exclusive series of translations from the Swedish press, made for Jihad Watch by Ali Dashti, who writes: Sweden is one of the worst hit countries in Europe of Muslim immigration and Political Correctness. Now, the police themselves have publicly admitted that they no longer control one of Sweden's major cities. I have made some exclusive translations from Swedish media. They show the future of Eurabia unless Europeans wake up. I’ve seen the future of Eurabia, and it’s called 'Sweden.' Malmø is Sweden’s third largest city, after Stockholm and Gothenburg. Once-peaceful Sweden,...

Better late than never: 21 years to deliver a Swedish postcard STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A postcard sent from southern Sweden in 1982 arrived at its destination in the centre of the country last month, more than 21 years later, it was reported. But the intended recipients of the correspondence died years ago, and their daughter -- who sent them the postcard 21 years ago -- received the delivery in her mailbox on December 19. The newspaper calculated that the postcard took 7,814 days to travel 830 kilometers (515 miles), averaging a speed of nine meters (yards) per day. The postage...

DAY, MINN. - There's something fishy in Day. Hundreds of people make an annual pilgrimage to this tiny Minnesota town in search of an ethnic treat that many of them have waited all year to feast on at Christmas dinner. You either love it or you loathe it: It's lutefisk. In an old creamery facility -- miles off the beaten path in rural Isanti County -- Roy Bolling, along with his brother, Walter, and nephew, Dave, are in the business of making sure hungry Scandinavians get their lutefisk fix. The Bollings have been processing lutefisk since 1968 and, in recent...

Santa's helper throttles teen An outing to a shopping center ended with a shock for 13-year-old Joakim Osland. A fjoesnisse, a kind of elf that traditionally occupies barns and wears a red cap associated with Christmas and Santa Claus, became frighteningly furious when Joakim tried to pet his hen, newspaper Firda reports. This is a more traditional view of the fjøsnisse, who tends to spread Christmas cheer from a barnyard setting, and the visual connections to Santa are clear. PHOTO: TOR JARILD Osland and two friends were at the shopping center over the weekend and went to see the fjoesnisse...

Seventeen year old's father visiting Jackson in the States now asks his son to take the first airplane home.He has not heard from his son for almost two weeks, and is beginning to become worried after all the commotion around the superstar. The seventeen-year-old's mobile telephone doesn't work in the States, and the family depends on their son to call home himself. "VG" had the information yesterday that three Norwegian teen-agers from Oslo have secretly vacationed with Michael Jackson in the States for almost four weeks. NERVOUS The father of one of the boys was very positive toward the dream-trip,...

Three Oslo teenagers have been on a secret private visit to pop idol Michael Jackson at his pleasure park Neverland Ranch in California. After police raided Neverland Tuesday morning with a warrant for Jackson's arrest on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young boy worries have run high in Oslo, newspaper VG reports. One of the mothers said she was waiting to hear from her son, and was considering calling Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two youths were invited along to California by Jackson's Norwegian-Pakistani friend Omer Bhatti, 19. Bhatti, from Oslo's Holmlia district, became a celebrity of sorts after Jackson...

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OSLO, Norway - Norway's national film board lifted a ban on hundreds of films that were deemed too sexually explicit or violent since 1913, including the 1994 Steven Seagal (news) action movie "On Deadly Ground" and the 1990 gangster epic "Miller's Crossing." The decision came after several of the films, banned between 1913 and 1999, were deemed not so objectionable to the Nordic country of 4.5 million which has deep roots in Lutheran piety. "Many of these films were banned in different times. Historically there was an emphasis on moral criteria in censorship. Today professional criteria have become more important...

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Polar bears on Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands are changing color, at least on the signs that caution residents and visitors alike that the animals are both an attraction and a danger. The old signs show black bears on a white background, even though most people know that the bears are in fact white. So when residents of the islands, some 300 miles north of Norway's mainland, pointed out the error to visiting national highway department officials, they took it to heart. The department's magazine, Vegen og Vi, said the officials immediately started on the paperwork needed...