Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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The Privilege Of Barbering About Privilege
I said it during the 2016 campaign. I’m gonna say it again. The reason everyone had to start talking about “white privilege” was to pre-empt discussion of “class privilege” – of the sort that is Big Left’s real power base. If the body politics – especially the part that votes Democrat – were too busy…
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A Tsar Is Torn
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. Cramped in the rail-yard of the Pskov station, the Tsar’s Imperial Train made for quite a sight. The train carried ten carriages: a sleeping-car for the Tsar and Tsarina,…
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Lie First, Lie Always: They Think You’re Stupid
Further evidence of the statement “”Protect” Minnesota has never – not once – made a statement that was simultaneously substantial, original and true” came to us yesterday in the form of a press release from their “Research Director”, the onimatopaiec Richard Gigler. Gigler is reading the same numbers I related to you a couple weeks…
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Victimology
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: That’s two stories [recently] about doctors who see themselves as victims. Do they realize they’re one percenters who have nothing to bitch about? Why aren’t they ashamed to be complaining? They know they’re on the top rung of intelligence, we all do. We know they have as much perseverance…
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In Case You Don’t Already Loathe Lena Dunham Enough…
…I provide this as a public service.
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Fizz
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Independence Day, the national anthem, patriotism: fireworks are a national symbol. Except in Minnesota where the governor believes Minnesotans are so much stupider than our neighbors in South Dakota and Wisconsin, we cannot be trusted to read and follow simple instructions: “Lay on ground. Light fuse. Get away.” I…
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I’m Not Sure…
…what struck me the most about President Trump’s speech in Warsaw. The fact that it was an excellent speech – presidential, inspirational – but that showed he’s got an interest in Making Western Civilization Great Again… …or the fact that Big Left found a way to poo-poo the value of Western Civilization: In his speech in…
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Because Science!
It’s become something of a low-impact cult on the left to declare oneself “driven by science”. This “drive” usually manifests less in the form of “being able to develop a testable, falseable hypothesis” or design a valid, controlled course of experiements than in believing Neil DeGresse Tyson is the dreamiest or posting Bill Nye memes…
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They Must Be Losing Their Minds Waiting On That “Tsunami” Of “Right Wing Violence”
Ohio man indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening Republican congressman: E. Stanley Hoff, 68, is accused of leaving a voice mail for the Upper Arlington Republican after the June 14 shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and four others at a GOP congressional baseball practice. The gunman was killed by police.…
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The Sieve
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Flood of immigrants into Europe again, 85,000 so far this year, mostly people looking for the gravy train. Immigrants generally first arrive in Italy, which is supposed to be able to pass them on to other nations in the European Union (that’s the point of open borders within the…
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Words Have Meaning – Sometimes
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals tell us that words have meaning. We cannot say the N word because the mere act of saying it gives the word power and that power warps our thinking to make us bad people. In fact, thinking it is probably enough. What happens when a word loses its…
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It’s A NARN Way Home
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Trump’s Warsaw speech and why it matters Why I think the Democrats are well on their way to blowing the midterms (if the Republicans don’t blow it first Independence Day Don’t forget – King Banaian is on…
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1000 Words
Heh. Indeed.
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Please Please Please Please Do This
I beg of you (where “you” = Big Left): According to a Facebook event created by the Women’s March, the protest against the NRA will take place on Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15 in Fairfax, Virginia. The rally will begin on July 14 at 10:00 AM in front of the NRA headquarters in Fairfax. At noon,…
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Total War
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. For months, the rumors had trickled through the Entente lines in France. From the highest levels of government, down to the individuals soldiers in their trenches, talk had persisted…
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How To Protest The Met Council
One of the reasons that Black Lives Matter gives to justify their tactic of blocking freeways is that the inconvenience suffered by the “white” (?) motorists shoiuld put them in mind of the inconveniences suffered by black people. Fair enough! The Met Council is making it incredibly difficult to be a commuter in the Twin…
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The Sum Of All Fears
“What about our lives? Who protects us from the people who are supposed to protect us?” The question is from Tonya Jameson, a black kid who was held at gunpoint by an off-duty cop when he was changing a license plate on a car that he’d bought from the cop’s mother in law. And he asks…
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Profiling
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A shopper at a Roseville liquor store was upset that store management wanted to check her large bag. She was at the store on Sunday with about a dozen people, picketing, signs saying “MGM Racist” and “Treat Everyone Equally.” Maryam S., the person who complained on YELP on 7-1-17,…
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Range: “Enough”.
The Mesabi News has been one of few newspapers in the state with an editorial board that bucks the DFL line. And their editorial from last Tuesday – “” – might be exhibit A in the “Why Trump Won” museum, someday. They’ve had enough of the Iron Range’s future being determined by Twin Cities environmentalists:…
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Telegraphing
To: Minnesota Public Radio News From: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant Re: Your Teaser This Morning Heard on MPR’s morning edition: Cathy Wurzer blurbs to tease an upcoming story: “Will an Embridge pipeline in Northern Minnesota become the next Standing Rock?” Given MPR’s connections to the Twin Cities’ Big Environmentalist Left, you’ll pardon me if it…
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What’s Fourscore And Seven Years?
Via social media, from my friend “Midway Murph”: MITCH: Institutional Social Media people can’t possibly get any dumber. INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE: Hold my beer.
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We Tried It The Easy Way
I posted this link last week – Glenn Reynolds in USAToday on how David Brooks and establishment-y pundits like him led to Donald Trump. This passage caught my attention; the Tea Party preceded Trump by a good 6-7 years. We were civil, orderly, and we left the world a much better place than we found it, even…
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Soft On The Details
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: All those Liberals on campus protesting White Privilege, it occurs to me to ask: if you succeeded in getting rid of White people, what will you eat? All the food on campus comes from White people. No, seriously, how many left-handed lesbian Latinas grow lettuce or tomatoes? How many…
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