Category: Republicans
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A Time For Choosing, Redux
And it’s a different choice than in 1964. And yet still the same.
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Where’s The Beef?
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: D0GE identified $100 billion in fraud, waste and inefficiency The recession bill cut $9 billion. What happened to the rest? Joe Doakes, ready for more winning “Less losing” was good for starters. But yes. More, faster.
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History Is Blank Verse
December 6, 1941: “A modern war would inevitably turn into a trench quagmire like the First World War” June 24, 1950: “The next war will be, at best, a mobile industrial clash of titans, and likeliy end with mutual nuclear annihilation” March 7, 1965: “This war is going to be a conventional war to contain…
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Tough
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Why fly deportees to Africa? Is Trump trying to provoke a constitutional crisis? My understanding is that the animals being deported are so vicious that their own countries won’t take them. They’re being sent to the only place that will accept them. Yes, it’s a Third-World shithole. What’s…
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MCCL: PLINOs?
For years – longer than just about anyone – I’ve been writing about “Minnesota Gun Rights”, a group from Iowa whose “business” model is to raise money on ignorance about gun control legislation. The usual cycle is a little like this: They raise a hysterical alarm about some piece of legislation that may or may…
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What A Difference A Week Makes
Democrats, Two Weeks Ago: “No government official is a king!” Democrats today: “What? You can’t arrest a judge! Judges can’t break the law!”
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Calculated Risk
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Scott Johnson from Powerline has a column explaining why Trump’s tariffs are calculated incorrectly and are therefore too high. He gives a formula from some academics showing that the inelasticity of trade was improperly factored into setting our new rates. Missing the point, Scott. The point is foreign…
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Outbreak Of Reason
SCENE: Mitch BERG is pondering the tragedy that is his backyard garden when Avery LIBRELLE, riding a recumbent bike, rides up the alley, unbeknownst to BERG. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Ohhhhhh fuuuuun seeing you Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Robert F Kennedy is making Americans sick. There’s a huge measles outbreak. BERG: Huh. And that’s RFK’s fault?…
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Missing The Forest For The Dust
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I notice a common theme running through Berg’s Third Law (disasters) and Mother Jones Corollary to the Tenth Law (vicious lies) and 18th Law of Media Latency (48 hour rule): the media rushes to lie about Conservatives, so thoughtful readers will wait for the dust to settle an…
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DOGE: Making Australia Australian Again
I’ll admit it – two months of DOGE has made me a little inured to stories about outlandish things that the Federal Government spends our money on. Promoting DEI in Serbia? Transgender comic books in Peru? Yaaawn. Get back to me when you’ve got something interesting. So when I heard that there…
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Our Violence-Prone Overlords
What does Tim Walz fantasize about? Well, not in a debate, he can’t.
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Ejected
Suddenly, the DFL is stoked. Nikki the Ninja is no longer the juiciest (alleged) crime story in the MN State Senate. For now, anyway. Sen. Justin Eichhorn got arrested for soliciting a “16 year old girl” who turned out to be a police decoy. The DFL…well, they tried to have a field day with it.…
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It Is An Unassailable Fact Of Human Nature…
…that the people who most need to read articles like this (I’m not going to pull-quote it; it deserves a quick read) will be the last to actually read it. Of course, those who have been through the history of the various characters in this blog’s comment section know that while the tendency flowered under…
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Reminder
If you live in House District 40B – northern Roseville and southern Shoreview – and you’ve seen enough of how the DFL acts when it’s got all the power it wants, get out and vote for Paul Wikstrom today. Drag your friends and family out to do it too. Got kids who live there? They…
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An Escalator With No Top
It’s become a bit of an easy trope on the right: Star with “You think you hate the media?” Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity Button it up with “You really don’t hate them enough”. It’s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness. It’s entirely possible it’s a barrel with no…
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Battlespace Preparation III
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: More tomorrow.
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Battlespace Preparation II
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Part III coming up tomorrow.
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Battlespace Preparation I
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Two more parts to come. I’ll save my comments for after Part III.
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Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare claim there’s intrinsic bias in Twin Cities media: So many ways to word that: “uphold federal immigraiton law”, “stop abuse of the healthcare system”, “drop non-qualified non-citizens from taxpayer-funded healthcare”, among others. But they just have to imply malice. You think you hate the media enough? You…well, you know where this goes, right?
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The High Horse
MInnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon apparently shares a platitude writer with Tim Walz: Same person? Different? hard to say – but they share a certain – uh… …factual incoherence?
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In Their Own Words
Melissa Hortman folded her hand yesterday, and said the House DFL would come back to work. Lisa Demuth is the Speaker, and the GOP controls the committees, at least until after the 40B Special on March 11. There are a few Republicans – largely from the crowd that thinks “Minnesota Gun Rights” is an actual…
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Behold #BlueAnon
It must be a tough time to be Erin Maye Quade – Senator from Apple Valley, and Big Left’s attack poodle in the Senate. In the past couple of years, she’s voted for a thoughtcrime data base, and openly fantasized about using government power to keep parents from teaching their kids about abstinence… …and about…
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Buzzsaw
Yesterday, I was trying to remember – how long has it been since the inauguration? Was it three weeks, or four? Nope. Two weeks. Seemed so much longer than that.
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Mission For Today
If you live in Senate District 60 – the U of M, Dinkytown, Marcy Holmes – get out and vote for Abigail Wolters for the MN Senate. If you know someone who lives in the district and is sick and tired of DFL lawnessness, or especially of U of M student who’s looking at the…
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Day 1, Part 2
The last time I watched a Presidential inauguration live on TV was when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. I was in junior high, and they wheeled a TV into our history classroom. I missed Reagan’s (twice), Bush I, Clinton (twice), Dubya (twice), Trump’s first, and Obama (all three times). I may break my streak today. Partly…