Category: Culture War
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Domino
Minneapolis deputy police chief Katie Blackwell’s defamation suit was thrown out, and she’s been ordered to pay back part of Liz Collin’s legal fees: This may be the biggest backfire I’ve seen in a defamation suit – and the subject is by no means academic to me. In a move that finally brings truth to…
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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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Undue Process
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Liberals keep saying “due process” as if it’s a magic phrase like “abracadabra.” Tim Walz’ idiot daughter uses it, claiming Trump would have denied Jesus Christ due process in order to deport Him. The implication is that if Jesus had received due process, He would not have died…
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Berg’s 18th Law: It’s Not Just For Spree Violence!
Entire Twin Cities media and left (ptr) last week: “A graduate student, one of America’s best and brightest, was snatched away in the middle of the night by ICE for exercising free speech! They could come come for any of us, citizen or not!” Waiting period specified in statute passes: Not sure it ever fails. …
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Fact Check For The Feckless And Factless
Honestly, with some of these lefty s**tpost farms, I’m not sure why I bother fact-checking anything. They don’t care, and they bank on their audience not caring as well. But there’s always the off chance that I’ll catch someone who hasn’t checked all of their brain in at the lefty claim check, who is looking for an honest…
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The Maye Quade Doctrine: If It Moves, Slander It. If It Doesn’t Move, Defame It
I’ll allow that it’s possible that between David and I, Minnesota might get a little over-covered here at Hot Air. But I’ve got a theory: national Democrats are trying out a lot of their national strategies and tactics in Minnesota; conservatives following Minnesota politics got a fair amount of deja vu during the ’24 presidential…
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Sunday Open Thread
Have at it. What could possibly go wrong?
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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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The DFL – On Relentless Patrol!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is checking out after a meal at an Indian restaurant in the north ‘burbs. Hostess Elora BANNERJEE is running BERG’s card, as he notices Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Cat SCAT and LEAKEY the Beagel climbing out of an Uber. BERG frantically drums his fingers, waiting for the card-reader to approve the transaction – which…
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Off Target
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I see value to alliances… …that act with integrity, themselves, and are first and foremost in America’s best interests. I think a NATO that acts with integrity – like, maintaining its capability to defend itself – is in America’s interest. The NATO we have today? Not so much.…
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Take A “W”
When I started this blog, 23 years ago this month, I had a few assumptions about politics: Minneapolis was as crazy as it was ever going to get If you told me CD8 would ever vote Republican, I’d have said you were certifiable Big media – from the Strib and MPR to the NYTimes and WaPo…
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Level-Setting
This sums up the moment we’re in as well as anything I’ve seen. Worth a watch.
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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 Problem Is Families
Dunking on the MNDFL’s social media intern isn’t “punching down”. It’s “squishing something with my foot”. But this one tells us a lot about the DFL. The intern is looking at something in the GOP platform: Forget for a moment that they deflected from the GOP’s correct assertion that the DFL calls post-partum care “anti-abortion”…
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Eras
Do pseudo-religious cults reflect the times in which they develop? Or does popular culture make the various cults the symbols of the times? I’m sure there’s an online sociologist or philosopher, somewhere, who has thought this before – feel free to point them out – but what the heck. It’s my blog, I’ll derive if…
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The Art Of The Deal
Joe Doakes formerly of Como Park emails: That time has definitely come.
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The Usual Suspects
After almost five years, the City of Minneapolis “plans” to “do” “something” with the former Speedway in “George Floyd Square”. I’m adding emphaiss to the quote below for a reason: The City of Minneapolis has received four applications to redevelop The People’s Way, which was formerly a Speedway gas station at the corner of 38th…
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Redux
So – AlphaNews and Liz Collin released Minneapolis has Fallen a little over a year ago. One of the signal scenes in the movie happened when Assistant Chief Blackwell testified that the “Maximal Restraint Technique” – which a series of current and former MPD officers testified was part of MPD traininig, and which Chauvin’s mother…
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The Bullets We Dodged
Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week. For starters – as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election – the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to “save democracy”, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers. And…
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Look Back In…Not Joy
One of the more satisfying stories of this past year was watching the accelerating decay of the mainstream media’s influence over society. And this was one of my favorite examples: Watching the orwellian “Joy” campaign get pelted with rhetorical rocks and garbage by the commoners was one of the greatest, er, joys I’ve had, at…
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The Geist Of The Zeit
I haven’t paid a lot of attention to Anderson Cooper’s New Years Eve broadcasts from Times Square since Kathy Griffin was still an A-lister – or, maybe, starting her descent toward the Z-list. But perhaps the biggest story of this past year, along with and tied to Trump’s re-election, is the change in the culture…
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Homework
Vivek Ramaswamy ruffled a whole lot of feathers over this past weekend with his comments about the culture of South Asian immigrants. Stipulated in advance – there is a lot of abuse of H1B visas, to provide a relatively cheap and, by modern standards, just a little indentured labor force. That may need some fixing.…
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The Satanic Choruses
SCENE: The rotunda at the Minnesota State Capitol. A press conference is underway. Standing at the podium, in front of a “Satanic” display, are three members of the Twin Cities Church of Satan: Joshua Micah GUMPKE – a tall, morbidly obese 30-something man with thick, unkempt back hair, and a black neckbeard. His arms are…
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So Tired Of Winning
“Life is full of ironies – if you’re stupid” — PJ O’Rourke Remember 2010-2012? When Democrats snarled that there was no way, no how that there were “death panels” buried in Obamacare? And those of us with some experience in the healthcare industry responded “of course, there are, and have been ever since government poked its nose…
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The DFL Playbook
2. Keep on letting it stew. Let the “steam” build: 3. Go “I’m shocked, shocked that there’s a crime problem! 4. “Ride to the rescue” with a meaningless band-aid that doesn’t come close to addressing the cultural crisis you, yourselves, fomented: Of course I’m not the first or only one to notice this: Apparently “chaos”…