Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live from 1-3PM today!

Today on the show,

• Peter Johnson of Archway Defense joins us to talk about terrorism
• Melissa Madison will join us to discuss Minnesota Telework Day.

Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1570, and Brad Carlson has “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 1-3PM.

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13-year-old boy grabs mom’s gun, kills armed robber:

The boy said he heard a vehicle pull up behind his house, then heard someone trying get inside a few minutes later. At that point, the teen picked up his mother’s gun and went to the back door of the home.

Authorities said the boy told them he fired the gun through the door and the person outside fired back. The boy fired several more shots, apparently wounding the suspect. . . .

A burglar who shot back? The term for that is “armed robber”.

A note of caution – trying this in metro Minnesota would be only as safe as the most zealous prosecutor will allow it to be.

But let’s not quibble now; the good guys won one.

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Liberals don’t like the notion that government power should be restrained, because then they can’t use government power to do what they want to do when they want to do it.  That’s why they pick and choose which Constitutional Amendments are important, and which are not.

Which was a central point of both A Nation of Cowards and The Embarassing Second Amendment, two of the seminal articles that led from the anti-gun misery of the eighties to where we are today, by the way.

I digress.

First Amendment protection of Freedom of Speech is favored – when the speech is favored.  But not hate speech, which is any speech that I hate.  That’s not protected so it can be restrained before it’s even spoken, to avoid upsetting people.

First Amendment protection of Religion is favored – for Muslims seeking to establish an alternative sharia system in America.  But not for Christians who object to baking wedding cakes for Sodomites or nuns who object to paying insurance premiums for abortion coverage; those religious practices must be suppressed so the rest of society can enjoy freedom from religious oppression.

Second Amendment protection of individual right to firearms – horrible.  Obsolete, dangerous, must be thrown out at once.  Only government officials should legally possess firearms.  And criminals, so long as they stay in the ghetto and leave us alone.  And bodyguards for celebrities.  Also politicians and heavy contributors who live in gated communities . . .  you know, the important people; not the little people in fly-over land bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.

Fourth Amendment protection against Search and Seizure is so important we no longer stop-and-frisk the 8% of the population that we know commits 50% of the murders in the nation.  Unless we suspect you might have contributed to Republicans, then a John Doe investigation can seize everything you own and prohibit you from protesting the seizure.

Seriously, it’s as if Liberals don’t want a President so much as a King.  Barack the First has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?  It’d be one way to avoid listening to Bernie and Hilary snipe at The Donald for a whole ‘nuther year – cancel the elections and hold a Rose Garden coronation instead.  That whole 22^nd Amendment thing – yeah, just ignore that.

Joe Doakes

I have this thing where I joke about something for years, and then find out it actually happened.

I’ve been joking about Barack Rex for quite some time now.

You smelling what I’m cooking?

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live from 1-3PM today!

Today on the show,

• Devin Foley of Better Ed joins us to talk about the school news of the past few weeks.

Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1570, and Brad Carlson has “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 1-3PM.

So tune in the Northern Alliance! You have so many options:

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Day in, day out, month then, month, as the seasons change in the years slide by, some things never, ever, ever change.

(Via Nachman)

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

President Obama and Candidate Clinton suggest The Australian plan: ban possession of guns and ammo, buy-back from those who will voluntarily participate, and wait for attrition to eliminate the rest.

How does this plan differ from the federal government’s treatment of cocaine, which has been banned for 101 years but remains widely available and reasonably priced?

Put another way, which is harder to smuggle into the country: a pound of cocaine or a pound of bullets?
Joe Doakes

Obamas inability to learn from world history is legendary.

Why would American history be any different?

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The child’s book “If you give a mouse a cookie” is held up as an illustration of federal welfare policy, but it’s missing an essential component: the threat.

Mother gives birth but can’t afford to feed Child. What should happen?

Mother gives Child up for adoption? No, Mother threatens to let Child starve to death – unless federal government pays up.

So, to save Child’s life, federal government takes money away from Stranger to give to Mother to purchase food Child.

But Child needs more than food, Child needs shelter. Mother threatens to let Child freeze to death, so Fed takes Stranger’s money to pay for Mother’s rent.

A sick Child needs medical treatment. Mother threatens to let Child die, so Fed takes . . . .

The threat is never explicit; it doesn’t need to be. We know Child will die if we don’t pay up if we don’t meet this ransom demand, and the next, and the next.

It’s not actually like giving a mouse a cookie, it’s more like The Spanish Prisoner. And everybody knows that’s an unconscionable scam.

Joe Doakes

That, of course, is one of the things progressivism does these days; makes things that used to be unconscionable into kids stories.

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) is stumping for the University of St. Thomas to get rid of Theresa Collett,  an outspoken pro life law professor and former congressional candidate.

In case you missed that in the first paragraph; NARAL is plumping it’s well-heeled legions of social justice warriors to get rid of a a pro-life professor…

… at a Catholic University.

Remember first, last and always: conservatives think progressives are wrong; progressives think conservatives are evil.

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

The Oregon college shooter left messages suggesting he would die a virgin because attractive women rejected him.
In 2014, a young man shot 14 people near UC Santa Barbara, starting with a sorority house, again because attractive women rejected him.
One of the Columbine shooters asked a girl to prom, and she rejected him.
The Aurora theater shooter’s ex-girlfriend testified why she rejected him, shortly before his rampage.
The Sandy Hook school shooter’s girlfriend fled to New Jersey just before the shooting, rejecting him.
The Charleston church shooter went over the edge when the girl he was sweet on rejected him, deciding to date a Black man instead.
It seems obvious: the problem isn’t guns, the problem is women engaging in blatant elitist, lookist and classist discrimination by rejecting ugly dweebs.
Common sense says we should require hot women to spend more time dating losers. I suggest a quota system enforced by strict penalties. I call on President Obama to enact it by Executive Order today.
joe doakes

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

On October 14, Dayton told people in St. Cloud that Democrats are dead-set on transforming Minnesota into a Third World state and if White people don’t like it, they should leave. The governor explicitly endorsed White Flight as a solution to racial tension. 

At last we can answer the perennial question: “Why are so many talented people leaving Minnesota?” Because you told us to. Can’t wait for real estate values to come back enough that I can afford to take him up on it. 

Joe Doakes

Well, to be fair, his ancestors moved from Dayton’s Bluff to Kenwood…

In a time when actual, intentional violence is actually proliferating, Israel is relaxing its ill-advised attempts at gun control.

Apparently scenes like these…:

…in a nation in which “genocide” is within living memory have an effect, and unlike certain Americans, that effect is not “be an idiot”.

Speaking of which – in a nation in which violent crime is falling and has been for twenty years, a candidate for governor of our largest state is pressing for…more useless “gun safety” security theater:

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday will introduce a measure for next year’s ballot that aims to stanch the proliferation of gun violence, including a provision to require ammunition buyers to undergo background checks…In the last 72 hours – 68 people have been killed and 129 people have been injured due to gun violence in America,” Newsom wrote online Wednesday.

His measure, which requires nearly 366,000 signatures to qualify for next year’s ballot, incorporates provisions of bills that stalled at the state Capitol. It would ban the possession of large-capacity magazines – more than 10 rounds – and require anyone who currently has them to sell to a licensed firearm dealer, transfer them out of state or relinquish them to law enforcement to be disposed of.

None of which, naturally, would have prevented any of the “gun violence” about which Newsom spoke.

Gun control is to violence as the TSA is to terrorism; a lot of frenetic, intrusive activity that does nothing useful, because it’s not intended to do anything but provide the illusion of dooooooooooing something.

Jason Lewis,longtime Twin Cities talk show host, files paperwork to run for Congress in the Minnesota Second Congressional District.

i’m going to guess David Gerson never expected to be outflank on the libertarian wing…

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

 Do armed civilians stop mass shootings? The evidence is equivocal because, of course, if someone stops the shooter before he starts killing, there’s no way to prove for certain how many victims he would have shot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/

Gun owners should adopt the Obama method: he claimed his economic policies resulted in nine million jobs created or saved. Can’t prove that, of course, because how do you prove a job-not-lost any more than a life-not-lost? But saying it’s so makes it so, right?

Armed citizens have saved millions and millions of lives as murderers were discouraged before they started killing or stopped before killing many victims. Saying it’s makes it so. Prove it’s not.

Joe Doakes

and remember – the standard on the left is “if it saves just one life…”

We are way, way past that…

… when Obamacare and MNSure were going to save Minnesota families $2500 a year in medical premiums?

Don’t worry. Either does anyone else.

New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone is proposing to investigate…

… Fantasy football.

No more worries about terrorists, economic stagnation, the impending bond bubble, the entitlement a balloon or a nuclear Iran.

It’s almost enough to make me want to take up the pastime.

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Just read your post on the Rising Sun flag.  Outstanding.

 Now that you a First Ringer have got that war cleared up, here’s a start on the next project . . . .

(hat tip: Powerline)

Joe Doakes

Something along those lines will no doubt be part of the “Cold War:  Fact and Myth” series that is brewing…

…conveniently, mostly after we, God willing, finish the “World War I” series.

Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live at the Minnesota State Fair COM from 1-3PM today!

Today on the show,

• Colin Wilkinson joins us to talk about the GOP Freedom Rally with Jason Lewis this Sunday.
• We’ll talk about the COPS (Citizens Organized for Police Safety) vigil next Saturday night at the Capitol.
• Patty Boyd from Minnesota Fallen Heroes Remembered will talk about the 2016 calendar.  .

Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1570, and Brad Carlson has “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 1-3PM.

So tune in the Northern Alliance! You have so many options:

• AM1280 in the Metro
• Streaming at AM1280’s Website
• Streaming on IHeartRadio
• On Twitter (the Volume 2 show will use hashtag #narn2)
• Via my UStream video and chat channel.
• Send us an SMS text message – 651-243-0390
• Good ol’ telephone – 651-289-4488
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Never thought of this (hat tip: Powerline).

The real harm is not that Hilary had classified information on her server for our enemies to hack. That was bad.

It’s not even that she wiped the server before giving it to the FBI. That was bad, too.  

It’s that by wiping the server, she let our enemies keep the information they stole . . . but we don’t know what it was. 

Our enemies already knew what information they stole, so wiping the server didn’t harm the enemies. But by wiping the server, Hilary made it impossible for us to know what information they stole. 

Snowden told us what he stole so we know what holes to plug, what agents to pull out, what sources were compromised. But Hilary . . .

Joe Doakes

it’s hard to believe Snowden’s motivations were as cynical, or just plain slothful, as Hillary’s.

Joe Doakes Feom Como Park emails:

The United States has more mass shootings than any other country. Yes, and we also have more toilets and iPhones. That’s because we have 320 million residents in one country, third behind China and India. We have more shootings because we have more everything.

Our State populations are as large as these countries and our State economies are as large as these countries.

If Americans have too much compared to smaller countries, the obvious solution is to break the United States into smaller parts that would more closely equal the size of other countries. The technical term for this is “secession” which I believe was considered briefly around 1865, but came to naught. Perhaps it’s time to revisit the concept? Blue states could become socialist countries with strict gun control and red states could become free countries with lax gun control, a win-win.

Of course, that would mean Liberals would give up wielding power over the whole nation, they’d be stuck ruling smaller and smaller fiefdoms. Is the chance of equality worth the loss of dominance? 

Joe Doakes

I’ve never much cared for conspiracy theories – but the more you look into the American Lefts rhetoric, the more it makes sense that they’d want American children to be illiterate at math and history.

As far as secession girls? We’ve looked at it on this blog before, and even more before that, and I have a feeling we’re going to look at it again.

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Hilary has a group of die-hard crones and Pajama Boys who support her no matter what, but there aren’t enough of them to put her over the top. She needs someone to frighten voters away from Republicans, into her camp.

Trump frightens “moderates” and Mexicans. He sucks all the media attention away from normal Republican candidates (and from Hilary’s scandals). 

Trump is Hilary’s dream opponent.  

She’s really lucky he’s running. As lucky as winning at cattle futures. As lucky as Vince Foster dropping dead to derail the Travel-gate and Whitewater investigations. As lucky as classified emails disappearing from her toilet server. As lucky as foreigners donating millions to her Foundation in exchange for later unspecified favors. It’s amazing one woman could be so lucky all the time.  

Unless it’s not luck . . . .

what?

Is he suggesting…?

No…

Joe Doakes from Como  Park emails:

Has the Minnesota State Bar Association drifted leftward?  It spent a decade shilling for gay marriage versus an hour listening to a Conservative plug his book.  How much more fair or balanced could it be?

Joe Doakes

Is that a rhetorical question?

As the Sanders candidacy – the 25% of the left that is the analog of the Trump audience in the GOP – continues to slurp up the attentions of our lazy media, it’s always instructive to be aware of the inevitable failure of democratically-elected socialism in our hemisphere.  Kevin Williamson runs down the dismal record and present of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, which has continued and extended the misery and repression of the Chavez years.

That’s all bad enough.

Worse?

Maduro, like Chavez and all socialists before him, has been moving aggressively to control public opinion, banning opposition media and driving all dissent underground.

And while the dog is in Venezuela, the tail is here in America:

There is more to democratic legitimacy than open ballots truly counted. As the Founders of our own republic keenly appreciated, genuine democratic engagement requires an informed populace and open debate, thus the First Amendment’s protections, which extend not only to newspapers and political parties but also to ordinary citizens, despite the best efforts of Harry Reid and congressional Democrats to trample those rights. (They call this “campaign-finance reform,” on the theory that political communications more sophisticated than standing on a soapbox outside the Mall of America requires some sort of financial outlay.) But Venezuela has been for years cracking down on newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, even as the Maduro regime’s inspirations in Havana have been locking up outlaw . . . librarians.

Is it an accident that suddenly, the First Amendment is out of style on the left, with a whole generation of college students being raised to see speech as a controlled professional entitlement, the Obama Federal Communications and Elections Commissions constantly moving to control alternative media, using Homeland Security to demonize and the IRS to stifle dissent, and our nation’s chattering elite finding the First Amendment just too complicated for commoners?

Thousands of people – predominantly black and brown, none of them looking like the relatives of NPR executives, mostly poor – killed very, very dead in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington DC over the decades that guns were, in effect,banned by the Democrat ruling machines in those cities: hardly a peep, either from the Democrat political mainstream, the media or from the African-American poverty pimp industry.

Cute, blonde TV reporter murdered by a disgruntled former station employee? Now that’s a story!

#MediaLivesMatter

The Strib actually wrote a piece about Americans for Prosperity’s “Saving the American Dream” summit, which drew conservatives nationwide, including a panoply of conservative candidates, to Columbus, OH last week.

Now, this is Americans for Prosperity we’re talking about – one of the most successful conservative advocacy groups in the country; behind several of the most successful conservative grass-roots campaigns in the past decade.

So what was the Strib’s headline?

Belief growing in Koch-backed group that winning presidency beats finding perfect Republican

And the lede?

The head of the Koch brothers’ flagship political organization says a Republican winning the presidency is becoming a higher priority for more of its members, suggesting a rift between pragmatists and ideologues.

And of course the Kochs put money into AFP.

But when was the last time you saw a headline like:

Alita Messinger-backed group launches ad campaign supporting Democrats

Or a lede like…:

“Heather Martens, whose organization, “ProtectMN”, wouldn’t have a pot to piss in without the Joyce Foundation’s ineptly-spent foundation money…

Or perhaps…:

The story, from Media Matters, an attack PR firm entirely funded by liberal plutocrats with deep pockets, most primarily George Soros and Paul Allen…

It’s just fascinating, the timing with which the Twin Cities media decides to be diligent about “following the money…”

A few weeks back, we discussed the July 31 shooting of Lavauntai Broadbent by a carry permittee whom Mr. Broadbent was apparently attempting to rob.  The shooting took place on the western end of Summit Avenue, above the Mississippi River.

About a week after the decision was expected, the Ramsey County Attorney’s office has announced they will not file charges against a law-abiding citizen:

St. Paul police have said that Lavauntai Broadbent, 16, was killed on July 31 after he brandished a handgun at two people at Shadow Falls Park. The man, whom police have not named, drew his own gun — for which he had a permit to carry — and fired at Broadbent.
The man’s actions were legally justified under Minnesota statute 609.065, based on police evidence in the case, the county attorney’s office said in a news release Wednesday.

So John Choi’s office got one right.

By my count, after 12 years (with a year off as a hack judge paid off a chit to his DFL masters), that’s four shootings by post-2004 permit holders that’ve been ruled justified, against one that wasn’t.

And I’m guessing the robbery rate at Summit and East River Road has dropped off a lot.