Shot in the Dark

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  • Roseville Vice

    “It’s a bad one”, Sergeant Koziolecki said; the flushed look on his face showed that he wasn’t exaggerating. “Whadda we got?”  I clipped my badge to my belt as we walked through the abandoned warehouse in the Saint Paul Warehouse District, ducking under the yellow “crime scene” tape. “Four vics; two hispanic males, early twenties;…

  • Jack Kemp

    There were three people who turned me into a conservative. Four, if you count Ronald Reagan.  But before I, who grew up very much a liberal, could embrace the idea of conservativsm that Ronald Reagan put out there – and let’s remember that to a liberal Ronald Reagan, especially the version of Reagan that liberals…

  • The Barricades

    Four years ago, I and most thinking Americans had a field day, roundly ridiculing a couple of risible strains of “liberal” whinging: Stars who claimed they’d “move to France” if George W. Bush won the election. Vacuous lefty blog-gerbils who yapped about the Blue States seceding from the union and joining to form “The United…

  • Somewhere in Bosnia, 1996

    I crawled through the mud, a G3K carbine in one hand, a handful of slimy, suspect topsoil in the other, as the rain poured down.  The corner of a spare magazine cut into my hipbone as I slithered over a small clump of rocks, and back into a small coulee that led me up the…

  • …To Just Plain Inexcusable

    The Minnesota Monitor – the region’s Soros-funded propaganda outlet – has been doing its best, it seems, to burnish its rep as a “news” outlet; hiring Steve “Mister Furious” Perry, getting its staff to write more like reporters and less like snot-nosed polemicists, the whole thing.  Is it too little, too late?  We’ll see… But…

  • Pull Like Mad

    It’s a metaphor I’m going to beat to death in the coming week and a half. Politics is a tug of war. And right now, the tug I’m following is within the GOP. Although my choice for the caucuses was still up in the air as of yesterday, it was going to be between Rudy…

  • Pulling The Ribbon

    Politics in our society is a matter of compromise among different forces pulling in each direction, reaching an agreement that everyone can live with (or at least tries to, until the next election cycle). I view politics as a tug of war. A series of tugs-of-war, really – one for each issue that’s out there,…

  • The Small War, Part II

    Let’s switch to Jeopardy mode for a bit: ANSWER: “We Can’t Win”. QUESTION: Choose from the following: “What did the left say about Vietnam?” “What did the left say about El Salvador?” “What did the left say about Afghanistan until the (real) Northern Alliance and the Special Forces rode into Kandahar?” “What does the medialeft…

  • What Conservatives Believe

    Andrew Sullivan is my blogfather; it was reading his original blog back in early February of 2002 that prompted me to start Shot In The Dark.  I stopped reading Sully about the time that Gay Marriage became the Most Important Issue Ever to him.  But a decidedly non-conservative friend of mine sent me this piece,…

  • Too Loathsome To Loathe. But I’ll Try.

    Michael Brodkorb said it best in his headline:  PAWLENTY HATER NICK COLEMAN HITS NEW LOW. First came his first, deeply stupid column on Friday, which blamed the “No New Taxes” pledge for the disaster as rescuers were still frantically combing the wreckage for survivors, roughly 12 18 months before the NTSB actually expects to know…