Shot in the Dark

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  • Let’s Sue The President Over His Twitter Account

    A bunch of journos are apparently getting ready to sue the President for blocking them from his Twitter account. I’m about ready to send money to their plaintiff’s fund. Wny? Because the journos are right.  Why should pols get to decide whose speech to restrict, and from whom they can restrict access to their public…

  • Parenthetical Note

    In the wake of passing registration and magazine limits during the orgy of victim-disarmament legislation in 2013, Baltimore’s crime rate has steadily risen, and stands at twice Chicago’s catastrophic rate. But when they finally “debate” a measure that can actually work – mandatory sentences for using guns in a crime –suddenly there’s an animated, even…

  • An Idea Whose Time Has Come

    CalExit petitions can start gathering signatures. To accelerate things. They should ask the rest of the country.

  • Something To Resist

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Journalists and actors and leaky politicians love to claim they’re part of The Resistance, as if Trump were Hitler and these schmucks were the French Underground.  So Brave. Except members of The Resistance were summarily executed.  Lined up and shot.  That was the price they agreed to pay when…

  • The Joneses

    “Police Reform” is suddenly the hot ticket in Minneapolis’ mayoral “race”: State Rep. Ray Dehn has called for police to be “disarmed.” Mayor Betsy Hodges just ousted her embattled police chief. Nekima Levy-Pounds is demanding a “paradigm shift” in police culture in Minneapolis. Police reform is suddenly moving to the forefront of the race for mayor in…

  • Ellison – The New Brownshirt

    Keith Ellison may be a democratic – but, at least in a classical sense, he is far, far, far from a liberal. The fifth district congressman says twitter should block President Trump: "The problem is he’s been doing it and he’s never had to pay a price for it,” Ellison said. “I personally think that…

  • Backwards Schadenfreud

    I’m not sure what I like most about the proposed plan to save KFAI Radio – the long- running ‘Publicly-Supported” Pacifica affiliate in the west bank (where, I note in full disclosure, I was a volunteer news guy 25 years ago, trying to find a way to infiltrate the MPR Borg). Is it the idea…

  • Lowest Setting

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: John Scalzi summed up Liberals’ worldview when he quipped “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.”   The problem with any quip is that it contains a kernel of truth so it can’t be denied completely.  But only a kernel, meaning it should be denied in part. …

  • But Where’s The Opportunity For Graft?

    City comes up with an estimate of $65,000-$110,000 to build a stairway linking two levels of a city park, and replacing a rutted path with a steep incline that was causing injuries. Citizen builds the stairway for $550. Retired mechanic Adi Astl says he took it upon himself to build the stairs after several neighbours…

  • People Ask Me…

    “…why did you leave the Presbyterian Church of the USA?” And I reply “I didn’t.  It left me“.

  • Peer Review

    Just remember – when someone claims that a piece of “science” is “Peer Reviewed”, there is an unspoken assumption that the “peers” aren’t idiots. Clearly, it’s not entirely accurate and can’t be taken for granted..

  • On Your Own Dime

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The author proposes that conservatives begin to use shaming and shunning as a weapon against liberals, the way they have used them against us. I say it won’t work, because Liberals control all the institutions where shaming and shunning is enforced. I can’t shame anybody on Facebook or Twitter,…

  • She’ll Never Get Reservations At The Local Vegan Restaurant Again

    “Progressive” woman risks all to tell the world what used to be screechingly obvious: I asked why as a woman who was born with woman parts it is now considered transphobic to want to have conversations about the distinct and unquestionable differences in life experience between cis and trans women. I asked why when women…

  • Plugging Away

    As good an article as I’ve seen (hard to believe it’s from the MinnPost) about the people who keep showing up to try to make the GOP work in places like Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

  • Balance, Public Radio Style

    When a Democrat makes an allegation against a Republican BROADCASTER:  “Democrat Don Key has accused Republican Allie Funt of wearing army boots.  In other news..,” When a Republican makes an allegation against a Democrat BROADCASTER:  “Republican Gia Piey alleges that Democrat Dawn Quie wears army boots.   A spokesperson for the Quie campaign denies this,…

  • Marketing Genius

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails; There are two kinds of proof: prima facie and conclusive.  Prima facie means “on its face” which allows the possibility it could be rebutted.  Conclusive is final – there can be no rebuttal, it is proof beyond doubt. Her complaint described in this article is conclusive evidence that Jerroll…

  • Deep Thoughts From Minneapolis’ Next Mayor

    With Betsy Hodges’ administration rolling downhill faster than Creed’s career bell curve, Minneapolis looks likely to swerve hard left. As hard left as Ray Dehn?  Maybe not – maybe Jacob Frey appears like a sensible moderate in comparison with the other frontrunner in the mayoral race.  Maybe.  This is Minneapolis. But Dehn’s remarks in the…

  • All Is Progressing As Foreseen

    This news should open things up for you-know-who. 

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    For more info on the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate)’s upcoming event at Camp Ripley, go to their Facebook page, their website, or call 202 670 1088

  • I Wanna Go To Town With The NARN City Rockers…

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Col. Eric Kerska  joins me to talk about the event on August 12th commemorating the 99th Independent “Viking” infantry battalion, up at Camp Ripley. Minneapolis’ “Best Interests”? Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on…

  • Four Out Of Five Maoists Say The Great Leap Forward Was, In Fact, A Great Leap Forward

    A group of university professors “studied” “gun violence” “groups” and “found” that they were “really pretty moderate”: The researchers spent two years studying national and regional gun violence prevention groups and concluded they are motivated to reduce death and injury by firearms, but that they want to do so while reserving the right to own…

  • Please, Governor Dayton. I Beg Of You.

    Push the suit as long and as far as you can. I’ll take back 40% of the bad things I’ve ever written about you. Deal?

  • Back To The Past

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A Seattle councilman says cleaning human urine and feces off the sidewalk outside the courthouse is . . . wait for it . . . racist. The technological advance that enabled people to live in cities without rampant disease was the sanitary sewer, invented 4,000 years ago.  If Seattle…

  • As The Orcs Breach The Final Wall

    I love the English language. I earn a living in the world of business. I hate what business has done to the language with the heat of a billion suns. And it’s not getting better.  The decline is accelerating.  Lucy Kellaway has been documenting the decline for decades – and is finding that the worst…

  • Today’s DFL: Never Waste A Crisis

    Tragic shooting in South Minneapolis;  woman from Australia killed by cop originally from Somalia. Steve Cwodzinski – the teachers union foot soldier who “replaced” Dave Hann in the MN Senate seat representing Eden Prairie, follows Rahm Emanuel’s dictum to a fault: “Two immigrants came to the United States searching for the American dream. One came…

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