Category: Democrat Party
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Brand Of Bothers
SCENE. It’s December, 1944. Bastogne, Belgium. The men of the 101st Airborne Division are surrounded, defending the vital road junction, as seven German divisions close in. Men of Company F, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment – just down the line from the famed “Easy Company”, not the same guys at all – are coming out of…
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Kind Of A Good News/Bad News/Worse News Situation
The good news: Bloody Mary Moriarty is not running for re-election as Henco Attorney. The bad news? It’s so she can focus on “transforming the office” even further: “I ran for this office to do the hard work; the work that desperately needed doing and the work the voters chose when I was elected in…
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One Day At MNDFL HQ
SCENE: It’s a typical weekday at the MNDFL headquarters. Richard CARLBOM, the chair, is meeting with activist Avery LIBRELLE and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, party executive Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, as well as Betty Rae TORSTENGAARDSEN, from the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“. She was Lac Qui Parle County Dairy Princess in 1987, and voted “most likely to…
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A Semi-Serious Question
When Ilhan Omar says things like this: …is she: Telling a truth so broad that it is in effect a lie (white men are the second largest racial/gender group in the country; nearly all violence is intra-racial, and there are more of them to perpetrate and be victims, and hypothetically to become terrorisrts) Lying (white men…
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Close
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: True. And when you don’t have DFL trifectas, you get fewer of these dumb ideas. Not “none”. But lots, lots fewer.
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Chicago On The Mississippi
The news broke last week – the Department of Human Services tanked its “Housing Stabilization Services” program before the Feds could start digging into it. Not that there’s not gonna be some digging anyway. Joe Thompson, the acting US Attorney for Minnesota, is finding a prosecutorial “targret rich environment”: We welcome today’s news. Fraud has…
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Pick Yer Poison. Or Peggy Will Pick It For You
Lieutenant Governor Flanagan [1], one of the MNDFL’s leading public intellectuals, on the economics of healthcare: So much better to have some dude with a public employee union card, behind a desk at a for-corruption state agency, deciding it for you. Amirite? Former Senator Sean Nienow pointed out the inconvenient facts: [1] Although have you…
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The Ultimate Berg’s Seventh Law
It’s entirely possible that DNI Gabbard is making a mountain out of a molehill. But if she’s not…: A president using national intelligence infrastructure fo try to jink the political order is not only an order of magnitude bigger than Watergate – it is the kind of thing that the system bent over backwards to…
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No Kings. But Lords…?
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Liberals are protesting Donald Trump for exercising his authority as President. They don’t want our country to be ruled by a king. But maybe by Lords? There are so many examples of liberal Democrats thinking they are above the law, better than ordinary people, entitled to…
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Forecast: Partly Convicted
I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to put Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL – Woodbury) on the stand yesterday. It did not go well: Maybe the defence was hoping the sheer overkill would spawn a sympathy vote in the jury? The ones who truly don’t deserve a sympathy vote – her DFL enablers::
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Three Questions For Lt. Gov. Flanagan
To: Lieutenant Governor FlanaganFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: I Have Questions. Let’s Be Honest, You Just Don’t Do Answers. Lieutenant Governor Flanagan, I caught this tweet over the weekend: I’ve got two questions: 1. Does This Mean You’re Cutting Taxes? One of the main reasons families (who can’t afford to leave Minnesota) are “just scraping by” is Minnesota’s…
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The Distilled Genius Of Peggy Flanagan
Rarely do we mere mortals share a time and space with a person like Peggy Flanagan. A person who has led by example her entire public life – including her early turn on the Minneapolis School Board…: …starting the Minneapolis Public Schools’ meteoric rise in achievement over the past 20 years, turning it into the…
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Glaucoma
I got a quick laugh at this one from Matt Little, who’s running to try to replace Angie Craig in CD2: I”d love to know what’s this “full range of vision” he’s talking about? All seven of them voted in absolute lockstep on every single issue. Not one of them broke ranks with the DFL…
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Whither Klink?
The Piglet can’t be happy about this latest Star-Tribune poll: Gov. Tim Walz’s approval rating has dipped below 50% since his failed run for vice president last year, and about half of Minnesotans say he shouldn’t run for a third consecutive term in 2026, according to a new poll. The results suggest the DFL governor…
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Back On Course
I’m old enough to remember Tim Walz saying we needed to change our political rhetoric. And if you’re older than a week, so are you. How’s that going? So, back to normal.
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Snap Back To Reality
We’ve had a week of gyrations and caterwauling about “right wing violence” after the ghastly shooting spree carried out by Vance Boulter, who is tenuously associated with the Republican Party. We now return to regular programming: Now, you might think the fact that no party was mentioned is a sure sign that he was a…
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Too Good To Fact-Check
Mere months after DOGE took a chainsaw to fuzzy discretionary spending… A party whose approval is in the 20s, clearly living on graft, and that seems to be having trouble keeping its own house in order? Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Don’t get cocky. The Democrats still have all the money in the world,…
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First Day Of Summer!
And it’s time for one of the great new Minneapolis summer traditions (X thread): One apparently dead, five more shot, and one woman injured in the brawl that inevitably followed at Hennepini County Hospital. Early reports say it was ELCA vs. Missouri Synod.
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Chicago On The Mississippi
Fearless prediction: Minnesota isn’t done with corruption scandals: We’re nowhere near the bottom of this barrel. When someone – the US DOJ, or a hypothetical future Republican governor – finally starts looking at where the bodies are buried in Minnesota’s non-profit/industrial complex, “Feeding Our Future” will just be the appetizer.
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One Day At DFL HQ
SCENE: At the state DFL headquarters in Saint Paul. Richard CARLBOM, new chair of the DFL, is sitting at a conference table with Edmund DUCHEY, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK and Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, all members of Amy KLOBUCHAR’s staff. CARLBOM: So, we’ve got a real problem with white males in rural Minnesota. That could be a big…
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As The DFL…
…votes down the proposed Inspector General’s office – not so much a “MN DOGE” as a someone empowered to go after things like systemic fraud – this happened: They may not have been quite ready to file the next round of charges, but were forced into action Sunday when they learned one woman they are…
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Democrat Female Leader Math
Katie Porter, former congresswoman from Orange County, is onto something – and, presumably, smoking some of the same ditch weed the DFLers who funded the Southwest Light Rail were into: San Francisco to Oakland is 12 miles. Even driving an SUV and paying Californnia’s absurd gas prices, that’s half the price of the train. And…
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Walz 3.0: Thrash That Poor Crippled Horse
He’s gonna run for Governor again: Of course, the little gnome will spend the next 18 months dodging debates. But his Veep bid last year, and his newfound rise to national prominence, have given people a whole lot more material. As has the governor himself: The little gnome never gets tired of “Nazi” references, does…
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It. Never. Fails.
Tony Snow dies. Democrat “Influencers”: “Hah! Conservative puppet had it coming! Ronald Reagan dies. Democrat “Influencers”: “Hah! The only good thing he ever did was die!” No, really: Jerry Falwell dies. Democrat “lnfluencers”: Although we believe in neither God nor Hell, he’s certainly going to one and not the other! George HW Bush dies. Democrat…