Month: May 2016
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Jutland
Despite the vast expanse of the North Sea, on the afternoon of May 31st, 1916, British Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty had found his prey. Commanding a squadron of six battlecruisers and four battleships, Beatty’s small fleet had encountered a German fleet of five warships. Both small contingents had spent most of the last two days seeking…
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Lie First, Lie Always: A Tale Of Two Meetings
As much practice as the American Left has protesting things, you’d think they could make their jabbering against the National Rifle Association more than just rhetorical. It should surprise nobody that they could, could, of course, not.
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Experiment
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I studied Government as a Pre-Law student. The classes were full of poseurs and weasels which is too bad, because it’s actually a worthwhile subject: what is the purpose of government, what should it do, what should it avoid doing? Rosseau thought mankind was basically good but was corrupted…
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Memorial Day, 2016
For this Memorial Day, I reprise I piece I wrote two years ago. I still like it. There are many of them; well over a million men and women have died in the service of this country, in wars big – the Civil War, World War 2 – and small (the Philippine Insurrection, Desert Storm).…
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“Something’s Wrong With Our Bloody Ships Today”, Part I
The term “arms race” is almost – sort of – falling into disuse these days. I’m sure it won’t last forever. Those of us of a certain age well remember the ultimate arms race – the race to build nukes between the US, the USSR, China, and their various proxies and allies in the Cold…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Senator Osmek’s issue page, including his piece on the gas tax. Here’s the Justice Action Network. And of course, ♫ h today’s music playlist.
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Summer’s Here And The NARN Is Right For Racing In The Street
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live from 1-3PM today! Senator Dave Osmek will join us to talk about the continuing cash suck that are our rail lines Holly Harris will talk about the drug sentencing reform law that Governor Dayton…
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The Villain
Was the “school service officer” in this video – posted on Facebook yesterday, shot at Central High School in Saint Paul – the bad guy, using a lot of force to subdue a guy who, it’s claimed, had transferred to a different school and was back for some unspecified reason? Or, as the school district said, was…
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Pick Your Poison
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: C.S. Lewis’ famous quote: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Media And Guns
Katie Couric’s “docoumentary” “about” “guns in America” has been busted engaging in misleading editing to try to embarass pro-Human-rights activists. Here’s what appeared on Couric’s broadcast: However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to theWashington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric’s question is…
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Cap’n Jim
Word came this past week of the passing of broadcasting legend Jim Rohn – or, if you grew up within 100 miles of Fargo in the sixties and early seventies, “Captain Jim”: Rohn got his start in 1946 on the radio at KSJB-AM in Jamestown following his service in World War II. He was radioman/gunner on…
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Security Pantomime
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay British man who holds right-of-center views. He’s been invited to speak at several American colleges campuses and calls his trip the “Dangerous Faggot Tour” which gives you an idea of his wicked sense of humor. His speech at DePaul University was disrupted by Black…
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Sharks Everywhere!
First things first: I am pretty ambivalent about the Rest Room crisis. I’ve joked that it’s a battle between hysterical ninnies on one side, and the smug, arrogant and complacent on the other. But the “hysterical ninnies” have a point; ambisexual restroom policies will give society’s thin residue of pervs one more avenue by which to exercise…
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Big Brah Is Watching
A longtime friend of this blog writes in re h this story, about Hawaii jumping ahead of San Francisco and Chicago in terms of leaning on the law-abiding gun owner; they plan to enter all the state’s legal gun owners into a federal database: Scary enough that they are targeting gun owners. MORE scary that the…
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The World Is Their Safe Space
Faux Feminist “writer” Lindy West blocks conservatives wholesale on Twitter. How wholesale? Even lowly little me, Mitch Berg, from the far frontiers of conservatism, am blocked. I actually feel pretty jazzed about that. Although I shouldn’t; West likely uses some sort of online ‘bot or another to block every account that references conservatism or libertarianism. I guess…
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A Fine Line Between Experiment And Lunacy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Immigrants are good for Minnesota: they bring us exciting new possibilities, interesting insights, exotic diseases such as tuberculosis. “An alternative public health policy–one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century–is to test immigrants and refugees for…
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As The Narrative Burns
A few weeks ago, Nekima Levy-Pounds went to the Minneapolis park and recreation board, and did what she does best; made a lot of noise, claiming the Park and Rec board was… wait for it… wait for it… racist. Unfortunately – according to the City Pages – the facts don’t exactly bear out her charges of…
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Between The Lines
Yesterday was “Beyonce Day” in Minnesota. Congratulations, Ms. Beyonce. But the interesting part of the story was here (emphasis added): In honor of Beyoncé’s performance tonight, Governor Mark Dayton and Lt. Governor Tina Smith have proclaimed Monday, May 23, 2016, to be “Beyoncé Day” in Minnesota. Huh. So when was the last time you say…
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Unplanned Obsolescence
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune playing the race card for Somali terrorists. The reporter asks why there are no Blacks on the jury. The reporter is stuck in a mental rut, asking the wrong question. Americans are entitled to a trial by a jury of their peers, but what does that mean? …
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Frequently Asked Questions XIV
Who Is Joe Doakes? Is he just a pseudonym for…Mitch Berg? – I get this a lot. I have to chuckle a good-natured chuckle when I do; I’ve written something like 20,000 posts on this blog over the years; I do not need a medium for additional writing on this blog. That’d be like Rush Limbaugh coming up…
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The DFL’s Praetorian Guard: Still Praetorian. Still Guarding.
What do the headlines say about the legislative session? The Strib: the session “imploded“. The PiPress: It “collapsed“. MPR: It “melted down“. All fairly passive verbs; imploding, collapsing and melting down are all actions without authors. It’d be much more accurate to say the session was killed. By the DFL. For political reasons. Choo Choo Trains Are…
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Stakes
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Do religious organizations such as Little Sisters of the Poor have an obligation to provide morally repugnant procedures for their employees, in violation of the organization’s religious beliefs? Must nuns provide for abortions? Supreme Court failed to decide, stuck 4-4, sent the cases back to federal courts for more…
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You Can NARN Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live from 1-3PM today! Today, I’ll be live at the MN state GOP convention. Who will be on the show? What’ll we be talking about? Tune in! I’ll probably know three minutes before you hear…
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NARN-day I’ve Got Friday On My Mind
Tonight, we’ll be doing a special edition of the NARN, live from the GOP State Convention in Duluth, from 6-8PM! Who will be on the show? What’ll we be talking about? We’ll be talking a fair amount about the goings-on at the GOP State Central Committee – and of course, the Judicial Elections Commission. Don’t…