Category: Center-Right AltMedia
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What Happens In Nevada Used To Stay In Nevada
31 years ago last winter, a shootout between US Marshals and neo-Nazi tax protesters brought an avalanche of federal law-enforcement to rural North Dakota. Even then, long before the rampant militarization of federal law enforcement, the feds stomped about the place like an occupying army: The police – and, as I recall, a North Dakota…
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Can’t Keep A Good Firebreather Down
The legendary Swiftee is back blogging again. And there was rejoicing. On the right.
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Paging Alanis Morrisette
An Obamacare call center will not offer benefits. From the National Review’s Eliana Johnson at NRO. She’s the daughter of Powerline’s Scott Johnson, and is rapidly becoming one of the best conservative journalists out there. ——– CORRECTION: It’s not the Obamacare federal call center. It’s a state center. It’s still like rain on your wedding…
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Applied Power
Mess with the Second Amendment, and your bottom line is gonna bleed red: A massive boycott sparked by the NRA and other gun-rights groups outraged that the nation’s largest outdoors show banned the exhibition of assault weapons has caused the show’s organizers to abruptly cancel the week-long event in Harrisburg, Pa. The successful boycott was…
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Future Shock
One of the reasons the Democrats and media are working so hard to drive a wedge between the “establishment” GOP and the Tea Party is that the Tea Party wins elections and, more importantly, represents the real future of the GOP. Haley, a little-known state senator before being elected governor, would never have had a…
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A Small Victory
This blog doesn’t really have a mission, per se. For ten and a half years now, it’s been more or less my stream of consciousness, mostly but by no means all political. But if I had to pick a mission, it’d most likely be “convince people to verify the media on everything. I shrink from saying “distrust the…
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Gross Receipts
It’s been a couple of years since this blog has run a “bleg” – asking for donations to defray some of the (minimal) cost of running the blog, and grab a few bucks for the (not minimal) time spent writing what you read here. Fact is, I don’t need it that much. Business is, oddly,…
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Toward A Better Conversation
If you’re not on Twitter, this article likely won’t make a lot of sense. Don’t worry about it. If you are on Twitter, the main means of making sense of the torrent of commentary is the “Hashtag”. It’s a little code with a “#” sign in front of it; by having Twitter search for hashtags…
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Ten Years Of Power
I never actually knew the official anniversary – but I’m happy to send my congratulations to my good friends John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson at Power Line, who celebrated their megablog’s tenth anniversary over the weekend. You may recall that my blog celebrated its tenth last February; of the Twin Cities’ huge mass of conservative…
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Play Misty For Me, Part IV: Promises Carved In Sand
In an episode of Hill Street Blues (or maybe NYPD Blue, but I think it was Hill Street, on account of the fact that I watched Hill Street addictively, and maybe saw one episode of NYPD Blue), Dennis Frantz’ character (either Sergeant Buntz on HSB, or Sergeant Butt on NYPDB) and his new partner, a…
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Back On The Night Shift
Tonight, I’ll be sitting in for Jack Tomczak on The Late Debate, on the 95.9 in metro Anoka/Ramsey. TLD is the second-best franchise in Twin Cities conservative alternative media (and hence the second-best franchise in the Twin Cities media) behind the NARN (who else?) and I’m happy to pitch in. Tonight, we’ll be talking about…
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Play Misty For Me, Part I: Dead Error
Everyone who’s ever worked in radio, especially talk radio, over the past 35 years has had three major pop-culture touchstones. From the classic “WKRP in Cincinnati”, a young radio guy learns that Loni Anderson truly is unattainable – and that for every Gary Sandy, there are dozens of Herb Tarleks and Less Nessmans. Nessmen. Whatever.…
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Less Than Zero
Redistricting didn’t treat Speed Gibson kindly: It just occurred to me that with my home being redistricted from CD 3 (Paulsen) to CD 5 (Ellison) I now have no representation whatever in Washington DC. My Representative, both Senators, and my President are all hard Lefties, none with any record of generating serious thought. The jury…
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And It’s The Top Of The Ninth
I woke up this morning and realized I hadn’t written anything about the big anniversary yesterday. So I’ll do it today. March 6 was the eighth anniversary of the first-ever broadcast of the Northern Alliance Radio Network. In the beginning, the idea was a simple trade; AM1280 would get the promotional mojo that came from…
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Sex, Drugs, And The Austrian School
Elspeth Reeve at the Atlantic – not necessarily a Breitbart-friendly mag – t on the late conservative alt-media impresario: To understand Andrew Breitbart’s legacy, you first need to understand what he set out to do. If you happened to encounter him in Los Angeles during the middle of the last decade, when he was transitioning from…
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Andrew Breitbart – 1969-2012
Andrew Breitbart passed away this morning in Los Angeles. Larry Solov at BigJourno writes: We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile…
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Gotta Watch That CC: Line
The following email was received by DFL Legislative staffers and legislators early last week. And, via an accident on the sender side, pretty much everyone else in Minnesota Politics. Members & Staff, As we prepare for the start of the 2012 session, I wanted to update you all on a few items: First, thanks to…
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Now, That’s A Kudo
Props to our friend Katie Kieffer, who not only made John Hawkins’ 40 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2011 list… …but made it to #10, just ahead of our other friend Dennis Prager. Congrats, Katie!
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Happy Birthday!
Gary Gross reminds me that today is the seventh birthday of Let Freedom Ring. Gary’s built LFR into one of the essential sources for following Minnesota politics over the past seven years. Happy Happy, Gary, and many more for you and LFR!
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The Later Debate
Why, yes – I did spend a bit of time talking redistricting over the weekend, now that you mention it. On the NARN, it was my pleasure to interview MNGOP Chair Tony Sutton and his deputy, Michael Brodkorb (punctuated by a surprise appearance by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker; I’ll be posting the podcast link as…
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While Up And About Tonight
I’ll be on The Late Debate with Jack and Ben at 10PM. I’ll be appearing with Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring, Mike Dean of “progressive” astro-turf group Common Cause MN, and Kent Kaiser of the “Citizen’s Commission on Redistricting“.
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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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The Fix Is In
Chris Cilizza has released his annual list of “Best State-Based Political Blogs” for 2011. It’s a list for all fifty states. Cilizza hastens to note that…: The best political blogs list is entirely driven by Fix readers and commenters. Many of the blogs below are partisan and may use language and/or images that neither The…
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And The Winner Is…
Yid with Lid on the big winner of the Wiener kerfuffle – Andrew Breitbart: After ten days of being vilified by left wing media reporters, those same reporters were tripping all over their underwear trying to ask him questions about the story they had doubted until today. Not only that, but at the behest of…
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To A Deluxe Apartment In The Sky
Kudos to Katie Kieffer, who just got her first article published in Townhall today.