Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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That’s Gonna Leave A…Er, Mark
Just when you think you’ll go your entire life without seeing a Minnesota judge take a stance against tyranny, this goes and happens? A Ramsey County judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Mark Dayton violated the Minnesota Constitution when he vetoed funding for the legislature earlier this year. “The court concludes that the Governor’s vetoes violated the Separation…
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Our Lying Eyes And Portfolios
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Hoarding.” Americans are “hoarding” cash in their checking accounts, rather than invest in the stock market. The analysts quoted in the story say the economy is wonderful, the recession is over, incomes are up so people should be spending like crazy but those darn backwards fearful idiots aren’t even…
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Dhim And Dhimmer
SCENE: Mitch BERG is pumping gas at the corner Superamerica when Polly LITTELL – proprietor of the Facebook page “Makeng Minnessota GRAET AGEN” page, pulls up to the next pump. LITTELL: Merg! BERG: Oh, hey, Pollly. (Eyes the meter on the pump, shakes the handle in a futile effort to get it to pump faster).…
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The “Brilliant Victory”
We’ve fallen a little behind on our World War I series. Over the next few months, we’re going to work to get caught-up to the calendar. Night had only begun to settle over Gaza for the ANZAC Mounted Division on March 26th, 1917. The division, part of a 22,000-man operation to build upon the British…
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Our Ignorant Totalitarian “Liberal” Overlords
State Representative Alice Hausman, on Facebook: Kommissar Hausman: perhaps you’ve heard of the Fifth Amendment? Nobody can be compelled to testify themselves? Also – the “qualified immunity” laws that you, in the legislature, continually pass and expand to keep the DFL’s benefactors in the (are you ready for this) Police Union happy pretty much spell out how officers…
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How’s That, Now?
At the end of a generally good review for the upcoming Dunkirk in USA Today, the reviewer writes (with emphasis added by yours truly): The trio of timelines can be jarring as you figure out how they all fit, and the fact that there are only a couple of women and no lead actors of color may rub some…
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It Has To Be Confusing…
…to be a modern cultural leftist. Exhibit 45,678,432.
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Northern Man
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Went to a birthday party this weekend, turns out it was a Klan rally. Everyone was talking about how much they hate Black voters, how stupid they are, what their favorite media person called them and how best to undermine their success. I didn’t know what to say to…
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The New Phrenology
“Protect” Minnesota is having a “conference”, and they’re soliciting speakers: Well – certain speakers: The Northstar Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of 20, 30 or 60 minutes by individuals with appropriate academic credentials and/or recognized professional expertise related to the study or field of gun violence prevention that: 1. Present data-driven and evidence-based research…
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I’ve Been Saying It For A Year Or So
Just take my money, already.
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The Incoherent Moral Schizophrenia Of The Left, In One Gloriously Orwellian Snapshot
On the wall at the Saint Paul Neighborhood (Cable Access) Network:
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He Must Be Vanquished
Pretty subversive stuff: Not sure who’ll gundeck him first – the Democrats or the GOP establishment. But the GOP needs a lot more like this.
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Ripped From Social Media
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A: I have a question. B: I’m sorry, I’m not giving you an answer. A: Why not? B: Because you don’t want to hear it. A: Yes, I do. Why won’t you tell me the answer? B: Because I’m an Old White Male and therefore disqualified…
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RIP Greg Thomas
It was at Holes for Heroes back in 2016 that Brad Carlson and me got to interview Greg Thomas, a man in Montgomery, MN who, when given a terminal diagnosis and mere weeks to live, decided to restore a crumbling country church. His story was spellbinding – it was one of the most interesting interviews…
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When We Say The Roots Of “Gun Control” Are Racist…
…we aren’t just referring to its historical roots, the attempts to disarm blacks after the Civil War and the urban riots of the sixties. Los Angeles – which still has the “discretionary issue” system Minnesota ditched in 2003 – gives fewer permits to blacks, Latinos and women. Gotta show ’em who’s boss. When government controls…
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Don’t Parc The Arc
I saw this on social media over the the last week or so – a quote from Martin Luther King…: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” …followed by a list of moral advances that’d seem to prove the proposition: 1776: Do we really need a king? 1863: Should…
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Narrative Check
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump claims John Podesta barred the FBI from looking at the DNC computer. You remember that computer – not the one in Hillary’s bathroom that she wiped with a cloth, this is the DNC server that supposedly got “hacked” by the Russians to steal the Democrats’ emails, which the…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the Center of the American Experiment’s website – with all the articles about the leftist indoctrination going on in the Edina schools. (And here was the story about my daughter’s teacher, as well as my non-political battle with the Saint Paul Public Schools)
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NARN Is The Answer
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: John Hinderaker joins me to talk about the parents in Edina who pushed back against the liberal indoctrination in their schools. What’s going on at the Capitol? Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440,…
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I’m Done Pretending To Call This Sort of “Feminism” Anything Other Than Child Abuse
Back in the ’00s, when there were a lot more blogs, I used to amuse myself by calling myself “The Twin Cities’ Best Feminist”. I did it partly – OK, mostly – to troll the local feministbotblogger community; so un-self-aware were they, and so seriously do they take themselves, that they found countless ways to spin their…
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Never, Ever Let It Be Said…
…that Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump… …because the coastal cultural and media “elites” are completely out of touch with “flyover land”. Oh, it’s not just the NYTimes. On Saturday, the NPR anchor referred to a shooting in “Little Rock, Kansas”. Nope! Not out of touch!
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Trolling Level: PhD
There are reports that ISIS’s putative caliph, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, is pining for the fjords. The Pentagon is treating the reports as unconfirmed. But that’s not stopping Mattis’s Pentagon from talking some grim, pointed smack with the story: A spokesman for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition told CBS News in an emailed statement that, “we cannot…
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No True Muslim
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Everything was going fine until the neighbors voted for the wrong guy. The doctor in this article intentionally moved to Dawson, which is about as far from Georgetown as you can get, culturally. This is fly-over rural America, farm country. He knew he was the first Muslim to set…
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Raising The Discourse
The “Coalition to Stop Gun VIolence” has never been one of the marquee criminal-safety organizations – they’ve been especially eclipsed in recent years by Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown” chain of McGunControl groups. Like “Protect” Minnesota, they are largely sponsored by the Joyce Foundation. Like “Protect” Minnesota, they have never said an original, substantial, true thing about…
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