Shot in the Dark

Category: Progressive Tyranny

  • Social Opportunity

    The Governor wants to take gun control on the road. But not, I suspect, too far…

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Berg’s 21st Law is about to get its sternest test.   More in a moment.  Who knew there was something too extreme for Richard Carlbom? The longtime DFL strategist, the guy behind getting gay marriage ensconced in the Minnesota Constitution, replaced Ken Martin as chair of the MNDFL after Ken Martin moved on to a star-studded…

  • Sicily On The Mississippi

    Can a civil society survive when society spends more time and effort protecting criminals than the law-abiding citizen? The Mayor of Boston just made her, and presumably her city’s, priorities pretty visible: Now, you might say it costs nobody anything – the victims are alive, the attacker dead. Expressing (misplaced) sympathy isn’t going to kill…

  • Will Of The Voter

    George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so.   And he’s caught some for this interview here.   And I think the flakkers got it wrong: I think what he’s saying here is “let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO”.   I mean, it’s going to happen anyway. 

  • Priorities

    Lets you wondered what Omar Fateh’s actual priorities might be:  Not fixing potholes.   Not making a city in economic freefall into a destination again.  Protecting illegals from the boogeyman.   Minneapolis is in the best of hands.  

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The DFL At Work

    The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater.     Count the zeros: that’s 90 billion in Pennsylvania…: And 33 million in Minnesota: Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors. Ripe marks…er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota. So yeah – while I’m…

  • Establishment Protection

    I’ll direct your attention to the Alondra Cano corollary to Berg’s 21st Law. To wit: Cano’s Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law:  In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”.  There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”.  Submitted in the affirmative: The primary effect of Ranked Choice Voting is to protect “the establishment”,…

  • There Must Be A Surge Of Socialists Running For Office

    Their supporters – real and automated – are rutting: We can test whether that’s true or not. Experiment:  Put a group of cute girls in tank tops with order pads in the middle of an open field.   If a “Hooters” magically springs up, you got yourself a theory.  

  • Miraculous Transformation

    A leftist murders two Jews in DC. Big Left staged riots in LA and (almost, again) Minneapolis.   The mainstream media attacks… …well, who do you think? “White Supremacist” group membership dropped by an order of magnitude every generation over 100 years from millions in the 1920s to the single-digit thousands in 2016.  But we’re to…

  • The Future Of The DFL. If The MNGOP Is Very Lucky

    Hope Walz – a 25 year old reportedly working as some kind of social worker – on the Mamdani election: “The top 1% that exploit all of us down below?”   She’s been the child of a Congressional representative or governor since she was five years old, and has had every form of access, power and…

  • Groceries

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office recently hosted an all-day continuing legal education program titled, “Price, Access, and Power: Exploring Grocery Costs, Food Access, and Competition.” Several speakers advocated for breaking up grocery retailers and establishing government grocery stores in areas that don’t have them, such as high crime…

  • Modeled Behavior

    Cretin who apparently was spawned from the radical campus antisemitism movement murders a couple of Israeli Embassy employees in DC: The killer shot them both in the back, and then reloaded and finished them off on the ground as disarmed, bovine DC residents milled around like stampeded cattle. This is not an aberration.  This is…

  • Equitable

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: The voting public in Minnesota is almost equally divided between conservatives and liberals.  To ensure our state government is ideologically reflective of its constituents, I propose all state employees in the Executive and Judicial Branches be required to respond to a short survey: 1. This nation was founded…

  • Remember When “Insurrection” Was Evil?

    Pepperidge Farm does. But the DFL seems to have forgotten it: The DFL has staked its electoral future on giving free healthcare and education to illegals, in a state where the middle class is having a hard time affording either. Which is something one might expect them to do for their, er, voters. Huh. 

  • In This House Of Cards

    Last fall’s election was a rough one for America’s left.   Their message was rejected by a majority of Latino men, an increasing share of the black vote, an astonishing percent of GenZ (some reports say that Trump drew a third of the vote at the deep-blue University of Minnesota), and even a near supermajority of…

  • The Inhumanity

    Governor Walz, throwing Saint Paul’s ailing downtown a much-needed bone, calls state employees back to the office… …a little:   Sure, much of the private sector never left the office (or work site), and much of the rest of the free market world has re-adapted. But not Minnesota’s oh-so special state government union employees: And…

  • OMIGAWD

    So why is the DFL fighting everything so hard this year? As we’ve noted in the past, the DFL has been in the minority before.  And they never reacted like they are today.  So while acknowledging all the usual caveats – anonymous sources, citing even more anonymous connections, etc – read this entire thread anyway:…

  • This Is Your Federal Government At Work

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Check out this thread at Thread Reader App, Since Threadreader may or may not launch from the link depending on your browser, I’ve provided the entry point on Twitter. It’s a long thread. Read it. “Draining” is too good for some parts of the swamp.  They need to be…

  • Raw Power

    On January 6 a bunch of idiot rioters tried to hijack the Constitutional process for transferring power. And they failed; the process in the Constitution prevailed and, hysterics and partisan hyperbole side, succeeded fairly easily. On January 24, at the behest of 66 petulant ninnies, seven partisans in goofy robes ruled that the legislature reports to…

  • 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…

  • The Election Denier

    Governor Piglet added his calm voice of non-partisan statesmanly leadership to Minnesota’s constitutional crisis yesterday: Just kidding.   He’s doing exactly what the DFL in the House are doing. What’s the term? Oh, yeah – election denialism:

  • Bring Your Popcorn

    MN House livestream: What do you suppose the odd are – a bunch of people chanting in the hallway.  UPDATE 12:30PM:   Simon adjourned the house – and the separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches.  12: 31 PM.  The House just ruled the Secretary of State out of order, and is re-convening.   

  • A First

    Today, for the first time in history, I can say “I’m looking forward to watching the first day of the new Legislative session”.   As in, watching the livestream to see the fireworks or even better lack of them as the DFL takes their toys and flees.  Since Melissa Hortmans stunts… …appear to be landing like…