Category: True North
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He’s Back…
Learned Foot has re-activated Kool Aid Report to comment on the Governor’s line-item veto abolishing a branch of government. It feels like Keith Moon and John Entwistle rose from the dead, corralled Daltrey and Townsend into a bar, and started playing “The Who, A to Z”.
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All About Paul
Every once in a while, someone asks me “why doesn’t True North write more nice things about Ron Paul?” I wrote their answer over at True North. Go check it out if you’ve a mind to, as all those people in the Appalachian hollers to whom I’m not at all related would say. For my…
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Four Years Of Truth
Let’s take a trip back to early 2007. While Minnesota’s conservative blog scene had been been dominating the local alternative media scene since the “Blog” became a household word, it was a series of scattershot phenomena – you had a bunch of huge megabloggers like Powerline and Ed Morrissey, and on the other hand a…
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Insert Miracle Here
Gary Gross notes that the polls are starting to relent a little for the GOP nationally. He quotes a Rasmussen Poll: For just the second time in more than five years of daily or weekly tracking, Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone…
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Apropos Not Much
Just a couple of random points, given without any real reason. Really. I don’t control who writes at True North. I am part of the eight-member ruling Junta that makes those calls. I have never made a unilateral decision of any kind – over content, design, direction, naming – at True North, much less one…
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The Eternal Game of Telephone
One of the reasons I always liked being a solo blogger (until Johnny Roosh joined the staff last summer) was that miscommunications among contributors were pretty rare. Of course, with bigger blogs, it’s not always quite so easy. Over at True North, I comment on a flap between two of my favorite regional bloggers; my…
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What I Did All Day: 5PM
Kevin and I had no idea which way the crowd was going to turn; all I knew was I didn’t want to get cut off from the Excel and have to dash halfway around the metro to get on the air at 8PM. The crowd turned right onto the frontage road, as Kevin and I…
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True North!
It was a year ago today that True North launched. The original idea came from Derek “Chief” Brigham, Andy “Teh Mayer” Applikowski, Lassie, Doctor Jonz, Kevin Ecker and a small group of other center-right regional bloggers; provide a clearinghouse for not only the best center-right alt-media in the region, but a place to coordinate activism.…
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Watching The Defectives
The convention is almost here. For four days, this is where most of this nation’s news is going to be. And if you read this blog, you know that the mainstream media isn’t going to be covering the real news. They’ll be in the XCel center, or hitting the odd reception, or trotting around to…
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Four Days’ Hate
One of the things I’m most looking forward to at the convention is going to be mocking the living bejeebers out of “True Blue Minnesota”‘s “huge” jumbotron, “overlooking” downtown Saint Paul. Tom Swift writing at True North engages “True Blue Minnesota”: Taking a cue from the cautionary work of George Orwell, Hine and Ballou have succeeded in…
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Fate Is A Fiction Writer
I don’t believe in Karma – but I do believe what goes around comes around. Maybe it’s my Scandinavian roots, but I’ve always tried to shy away from “overconfidence” – especially the great proto-American injunction against “counting your chickens before they’re hatched”. So – while I’ve come to regard John McCain as a better option…
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Teaching Them A Lesson
I don’t quote Glen Reynolds much – everyone reads him anyway – but on reading and hearing from all the Republicans who want to “teach the party a lesson” if the nominate the wrong guy, this bit struck home: Some people think it’s time to teach the party a lesson. Fine, but I thought 2006…
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A Blade of Grass Grows in Saint Paul (and Minneapolis), Part III
So we’ve determined a few things so far in this series: It can be frustrating, being a conservative in the city. Tossing “warm body” candidates out there to take their shots at Congress, State Legislative and city/county offices can feel pretty futile. It’s largely because the Democraticicicicic party has spent several generations and four decades patiently…
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Tomorrow Is Now Today
Special election in Senate District 25 today. It’s cold out there; bad weather usually favors Republicans. Ray Cox would seem to be a serious favorite anyway, but after the last round of elections, it’d be fun to wad a DFLer up like used kleenex and toss him under the bus. Electorally speaking, of course.
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A Blade of Grass Grows in Saint Paul (and Minneapolis), Part II
I’ve been going to GOP precinct cauci and district conventions in Saint Paul for nigh on 20 years now. The ritual is always the same. There are only small variations. In good years for Republicans – say, 1994, 1998 or 2002 – the GOP “Basic Political Organizational Unit” (BPOU – the lowest level of GOP…
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A Blade of Grass Grows in Saint Paul (and Minneapolis) – Part I
The inner cities have their issues. If you’re in Minnesota and reading this, you know about them; you’ve either fled them, are paying for them via your taxes, or are – like me – living among them. Minneapolis and Saint Paul are taxed half to death; Minneapolis’ crime rate has fallen from brutally-high to merely…
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Code of Ethics
Andy “AAA” Aplikowski writes over at True North: We have just been informed that one of our Contributors has been lifting content from other blogs. The Seventh Son is a guy I know, and I did vouch for him to be here at True North. I just talked to him and informed him of the…
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The Lady’s Not For Triangulating
Sue Jeffers is not amused by T-Paw’s slip to the left: OK Governor Pawlenty, we know you have jumped on the green band wagon. We got it. We knew it with E-85, we knew it at the Governor’s Convention, we knew it with the Renewable Energy Bill, and we knew it with the Global…
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Roar of Leo
Leo Pusatieri – whose son recently got back from Iraq – has been on top of the Army’s attempt to short the returning “Red Bulls” on educational benefits. And he’s got an update: After raising a stink with Minnesota Representative Dettmer, Congressman Bachmann’s office, Senator Norm Coleman’s office, the Minnesota Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and…
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He Who Controls The Goalposts
Mark Gisleson of Norwegianity, apparently bummed about finishing way out of the big money in the Unintentionally Funny Leftyblog contest (despite years of dedicated striving from colleague MNob, would would definitely be a contender in the Individual category, if I had the bandwidth to present such a contest) apparently didn’t like this line, from a…
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Buck Up
Gary Miller at TvM is a little down in the dumps over the Ramstad retirement: Jim Ramstad is the embodiment of everything I loathe about RINOs. He is an SOB but he’s OUR SOB and losing Ramstad would almost certainly mean losing this “first ring” seat. I’m not quite as down on Ramstad as Gary; day in and…
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Useless Idiots
So if you counterprotest a “peace” rally, that must naturally mean you’re “pro-war” or “anti-peace”, right? Nobody could be that juvenile or stupid. Right? Bear in mind, I’m an inherently civil guy. While I don’t mind mixing it up with people (hence, I blog and host a talk show), I don’t especially relish conflict. But…
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Out In The Street
20 to 1? Seems like a fair battle. I had to take off before the actual fun started at the Cathedral and long John Ireland Boulevard in Saint Paul this morning – I had to get to the station to do the NARN show – but I’m told it was a great time. Most of…
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Counterprotest Tomorrow
Tomorrow’s the big day! Join us at a counterprotest tomorrow, to join with fellow anti-terror, pro-troops Americans to counterprotest the “peace” rally in Saint Paul. The counterprotesters will gather and demonstrate at Triangle Park in Saint Paul (the triangle-shaped block east of the linked map) at the corner of Marshall Avenue and John Ireland Boulevard. (For an aerial view,…
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The Sparrow I’m Keeping My Eye On
Someone – a relatively irritating person, actually – asked me a few weeks ago, “why are you a Republican?” And it took me until after I actually responded to actually realize that there are two answers: Because national security, limited government, prosperity, individual responsibilty and merit are my big issues – and since long before…