Shot in the Dark

Category: Minnesota’s Ministry Of Truth

  • Pounce On PIglet

    It’s always the food photos with Governor Klink. Only this time it’s not Pronto Pups: Huh. For the past two years, we’ve been told Minnesota’s economy is boooooooming. Now that a Republican is president-elect, the GOP will own Congress, and the DFL trifecta is dead…well, you see how this works. So let’s translate this from…

  • Let Them East Avocado Toast

    Minneapolis has a crime problem.  Even some Democrat-voting locals appear to be on the ragged brink of figuring it out: Nothing is being done about it? Balderdash! Minneapolis DFL leaders are posting photos of people biking, and sunsets! Who are you going to believe?  Your lying eyes?

  • If There Were Ever A Time For “Truth In Advertising” Laws With Teeth

    The Strib is engaging an ad agency to explore a new name: The media organization has been known as the Star Tribune since 1987,  five years after the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Daily Star merged to create the Star and Tribune. The rebrand is being overseen by former Google executive Grove, who was appointed CEO and…

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • They Know What Matters

    Humans: “My God, this is horrible. Those poor girls…“ DFL/Media (pardon the redundancy): “OK, who leaked the video?“ Well, no – I’m actually not exaggerating (thread): The problem, Ms. Moriarty, is that nobody trust you or your office. Not even a fair chunk of people who would never consider not voting for the DFL.

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: Sign O The Times

    The Strib finally hired a new editorial cartoonist to replace the worthless and unlamented Steve Sack. It’s Mike Thompson. And he’s brought a new sound to Minneapolis. No, not the popping of the Glock full-auto conversion. It’s the wailing and gnashing of entitled, plush-bottom, White progressive Minneapolis Yoo-hoos losing their spit over being lampooned by…

  • Intentional Confusion

    So you read the headline of this Strib article, and you think perhaps straw-purchased guns are turning up more often, or maybe that some people out there with clean criminal records are going out to Fleet Farm, picking a gun from the display case, conducting a completely legal and above board purchase, and then embarking…

  • Place Yer Bets

    It’s finally Election Day and we can all breathe easier now that we won’t have to see Angie Craig’s alternating rictus grin/contorted face of rage multiple times a day on television, social media and other media. But will we see Craig going forward? While I sincerely hope not, it’s difficult to know. So let’s hazard…

  • Deflecting Like Their Lives Depend On It

    The DFL is getting nervous about crime; their line has morphed from “We ARE tough on crime!” to “The other guys are no better”. Dane Smith’s editorial parrots the execrable Paul Krugman; both of them are utterly, unforgivably wrong. “Red” states with crime problems have one or more of the following factors in common: 1)…

  • Don’t Forget

    It’s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it’s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span‘s, about what this last couple of years have been like. The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode: Governor Klink created a three…

  • No Bias Here

    This is the graphic that WCCO used yesterday, to show Keith Ellison‘s 46 to 15 lead over Jim Schultz: Er, wait… What?? It’s actually a 46 to 40 lead, with a margin of error considerably more than the gap? Look, it’s possible that the station that keeps putting Esmé Murphy on political stories might not…

  • Out There With All Those 19 Year Old Cooks

    The Twin Cities media did its darndest to make the story go away. But Tom Behrends – retired Command Sergeant Major in the Minnesota in National Guard unit, and the man who replaced former provisional CSM Tim Walz in that position when our current governor abruptly left the guard to run for Congress, a departure…

  • Unseemly

    So have you noticed how many “journalists “in the Twin Cities are doing the DFL‘s job for it? For example, here’s WCCO TV is Esme Murphy: What is the difference between actively propagandizing for the DFL, and referring to a cash giveaway as “Walz Checks“? Call them a propaganda wing of the DFL. Call them…

  • Imitation

    In so many areas, the Twin Cites political class loves to affect an appreciation of Scandinavian governance. They love the interventionist social democracy, the often successful tinkering with utopian ideas (dependent, of course, on a small, wealthy society with social cohesion that doesn’t exist in American cities over 5,000), the communitarian ethos (see previous parenthetical),…

  • It’s The Cover-up

    Earlier this week, we noted that an anonymous Hennepin county official had ordered an investigation of journalist Rebecca Brannon, who is just about the only reporter in the Twin Cities to be actively asking questions about the incident a few weeks back with sheriff Hutchinson.. Thanks to the Medina Police Department, they are apparently no…

  • Filed under “Things I Never Knew Were Problems“

    We are told is that not enough Minnesota farmers are black. Let’s talk “root causes“ for a moment; i’m also told thatvery few farmers in Norway, Sweden and Germany are black, either…

  • Let’s Cool Things Down

    SCENE: A conference room at “Minnesotans for All Progressive Causes” – a non-profit group financed by progressives with deep pockets – for the weekly message coordination meeting. MyLyssa Silberman, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, waits in the conference room along with Betty Rae Torstengaardsen, senior…

  • This Time It’s For Real

    A friend of the blog writes: Have you noticed the Star Tribune is really running a lot of Amy articles lately? Just an observation. Why yes, as a matter of fact, I have. Why, it’s almost as if they are “shaping the battlefield” on behalf of their former columnist’s daughter.

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Lori Sturdevant, Bloomberg Parrot

    In my sixteen years of writing this blog, punching bags have come and, mostly, gone.  Nick Coleman?  The MInnesota Monitor?  Mercury Rising?  Ken Weiner?  I’m still here.  They’re all gone. But Lori Sturdevant?  She just keeps on ticking. Maybe “ticking” isn’t the right word.  She keeps on scolding Minnesotans Republicans  for not acting like “Republicans” did (so…

  • Any Color You Want, As Long As It’s DFL!

    Jon Tevlin – who replaced Nick Coleman on columnists row at the Strib a long time ago, and you’d have a hard time telling the difference unless you notice the incremental drop in entitled arrogance – is getting out of the column business: In the past couple of years, however, I’ve gotten worn down by the weekly…

  • The North Loop Is Burning!, Part V: You Broke It, Strib. You Fix It.

    Last week, I wrote a bunch of pieces on an editorial that appeared in the Strib the weekend before last. The Strib complained about the growing street crime – in particular about the consequences of some local and higher court rulings that make enforcement against crimes like public intoxication and panhandling harder without specific legislative intervention.  (They also proposed…

  • The North Loop Is Burning!, Part IV: Never Waste A Crisis

    Last week, the Strib put out a breathtakingly obtuse editorial about the wave of crime sweeping the North Loop in Minneapolis – even as crime statewide continues a long-term downward trend. The Strib’s editorial board blamed court for limiting the cops’ ability to arrest drunk and panhandlers – but, mirabile dictu, not a single word about getting the Mayor and…

  • The North Loop Is Burning!, Part II: Kotkin Was Right!

    A few years ago, we wrote about an article by urban planner Joel Kotkin. Kotkin is a left-leaning urban planning type – is there any other kind?   But he’s made himself persona non grata among urban planning wonks by swimming against the current train of thought, which holds that core cities will rise again; the “Creative…

  • The North Loop Is Burning!, Part I: “Solve The Problem We Helped Create!”

    I’m not saying the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board is full of people that want a dictator to solve all our society’s problem. I am saying that if a dictator ever wanted to take over, they’d’ need society to be full of people like the Strib’s editors to have a chance of succeeding. They ran an editorial this past week proposing some…

  • Calling All Davids

    Last week, we noted that the Strib had rejected an op-ed by Sarah Cade – a center-left African-American woman who happens to be a competition shooter, a friend of mine, and the owner of one of the most rightous ARs I’ve seen. By way of trying to outflank the Strib’s abusive monopoly on political opinion publishing, I posted her…