Category: Your Papers Please
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Policies Matter
Not so long ago, a not overly bright person on a community forum called me a “racist” for asking “what does Black Life Matter” actually want?” One might wonder if BLM is “racist” for finally answering my question. Thing is, their ideas aren’t entirely wrong: 1. End “broken windows” policing, which aggressively polices minor crimes…
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And To The Banana Republic For Which It Stands
While our professional ninny class was jabbering about the Second Amendment (almost entirely to try to gin up enthusiasm for a geriatric white woman this November), America actually, quietly, and with the nodding approval of an ignorant majority, became an actual police state. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that evidence found by police officers…
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Big Brah Is Watching
A longtime friend of this blog writes in re h this story, about Hawaii jumping ahead of San Francisco and Chicago in terms of leaning on the law-abiding gun owner; they plan to enter all the state’s legal gun owners into a federal database: Scary enough that they are targeting gun owners. MORE scary that the…
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Pageantry Hit List
Kevin Williamson is right.
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Open Letter To Minnesota Public Radio News
To: Minnesota Public Radio News From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: Food For Thought MPR, Isn’t it annoying – to say the least – to have to subject your constitutional freedoms to theatrical, unproductive and degrading scrutiny by bureaucrats, to no useful end? A few minutes after 8 o’clock Monday morning, [MPR Reporter] Mukhtar Ibrahim…
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Freedom For We But Not For Thee
The press isn’t so crazy about background checks – when it’s their freedom this being walked all over: For the first time this year, the Secret Service has a hand in credentialing the media; during previous conventions only the Congressional press galleries were in charge of credentialing the media…[Buzzfeed “editor” John Stanton] Stanton cited concerns about…
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“You’re Walked All Over”
I hold my nose and say “I’d vote for Trump if he were the nominee, if only because I don’t want Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton nominating Anthony Kennedy’s replacement for the Supreme Court”. And I’ll stand by it. But news like this means I’ll likely need to smear mentholatum under my nose before I…
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Say What You Will About Apple…
…but we need a lot more of this sort of thing.
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All Others Pay Cash
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Good article on the War on Cash, but I suspect the most important motive is if Liberals can ban cash, they can control what you buy and when you buy it. Want to buy bullets or donate to the Republicans? Sorry, cash card not working. Once the government gets…
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No Problem Here. Move Along, Citizen.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Grandma, what a big passport printer you have. The better to vet you with, my dear. I’m sure it’s no problem, the authorities will just cross check any person coming in from those countries against the court records from there. They (Syria, Libya, Pakistan, …) have computerized, up to…
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A Slow, Languid Blow For Freedom
A Brief Bit Of Background: Whenever I sit down in a large room with a bunch of co-workers to “meet” a new manager, and that manangers starts their presentation with “I’m a ‘process person’”, I tell my co-workers “Well, time to get our resumes polished up. This department is screwed blue”. And I’ve never been…
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Yet Another Area Where Russia Is Smarter Than The US
Russia bars George Soros’ “Open Society Project” from Russia. A Berg Administration would recognize them as a bigger long-term danger to this country than ISIS or Al Quaeda.
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Just Curious
I wonder if Rep. Kim Norton, and NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, think these people should have their civil rights squashed because some bureaucrat put them on a terrorist watch and/or “no fly” list? Or maybe this guy?
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Representative Norton’s MkKarthyistic Kangaroo Kourts
Yesterday, we noted that Rep. Kim Norton – the soon-to-be retired legislator from Rochester who’s going to be pushing the various gun-control bills that the DFL is copying and pasting from their benefactors at Bloomberg – accused people who oppose US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s “idea” of barring anyone on the government’s double-dog-secret “Terrorist Watch List”…
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Komissar Kim Norton, MkKarthyist
We’ve gone around and around with Representative Kim Norton of Rochester. Norton, who is retiring from the Legislature after this coming session, is going to be carrying Michael Bloomberg’s water; she’ll be sponsoring, so we’re told, a number of gun control bills. Not that you can get a straight answer out of her; although she…
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Giving Up Freedom For Security…
France’s “state of emergency” is trampling whatever civil liberties the French may have actually thought they had. Which, on the one hand, highlights what a different place the US is – where fundamental human rights are endowed by our creator, not an allowance from a benificent state (although big government has been leaching that away…
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The Wrong Target
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals want to repeal the Second Amendment to stop gun violence. Seems to me the better solution is to repeal the Fourth Amendment. If cops can stop-and-frisk anybody at any time for any reason or no reason, then there is no worry about racial profiling so cops can take…
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The Improper Wiring That Dare Not Speak It’s Name
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Guy who’s nuts shoots up his own apartment and sets fire to it. Another guy who can legally own guns because he wasn’t committed. The judge let him go. The problem isn’t guns. The problem is nuts. The civil commitment laws make it nearly impossible to put away nuts…
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Fighting The Tyranny Of Law
Until Minnesota adopts a law like this, all talk of Minnesota being a “free” state is merely a cruel, mocking platitude.
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Community Hygiene
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Never let a crisis go to waste. Sen. Harry Reid wants expanded background checks: “Is that asking too much? Couldn’t we at least do this little thing to stop people who are mentally ill . . . from purchasing guns?” Reid said on the Senate floor. Den. Joe Manchin…
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Expectations
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The newest racial incident involving police: I had to laugh early in the tape when I heard a girl with a Black accent yell at a cop “I’m calling my mother on you.” Honey, if you had a Mother worthy of the title, you wouldn’t be threatening to call…
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Spit And Lurk
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m off to spit on the sidewalks. Nothing like hawking up a nice gob to really set the tone of the city. Joe Doakes Trust me – Minneapolis already has at least one lurker…
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Force Protection
It seems the St. Paul Police Department and/or the Ramsey County Sheriff office (the article is a little unclear on which) has gotten itself involved in a First Amendment case. Now, to me, the case itself, involving a police dustup with of those “First Amendment activists” who seems to have all the time in the…
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If The “Religious Freedom” Angle Doesn’t Work….
…maybe the woman in this story can claim she’s transgender. Or gay. That seems to be the way to get the law to work for you these days.
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There But For The Grace Of Christie Go Ye
I’ve written in the past about the case of Shaneen Allen, the Philadelphia mother and Pennsylvania carry permit holder who accidentally strayed across the Delaware River into New Jersey, got pulled over on a routine traffic stop, told the cop that she was carrying her firearm (which was legal mere miles up that very road),…