Shot in the Dark

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  • Before It Was Cool – Redux

    Kevin Williamson: Americans can be — and often are — everything our critics say we are: impulsive, vulgar, oafish, clumsy, greedy, vain, belligerent, sanctimonious, hypocritical. But we are something else: a catalyst. We’ve had 241 years of hit-and-miss government, but imagine going back to 1776 with a prophecy that one day, in the not-too-distant future,…

  • Before It Was Cool

    Stolen from a friend who stole it from a friend.  

  • When I Was A Child I Caught A Fleeting NARN

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Minneapolis’ new minimum wage should solve everything. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is  on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM. So tune in the Northern Alliance! You have…

  • Still Not Posting Today…

    …but I figured I’d throw this out there for your reading pleasure, since it’s something that occurred to me pretty much every time I heard David Brooks on NPR over the past year.

  • Long Weekend?

    I’m taking an exceedingly rare sick day today. Given that there’s a Holiday weekend coming up, I may not do a lot of regular posting until Wednesday. Enjoy the weekend!

  • Sandbagged?

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: You figure that if you are forced to shoot somebody and you’re up-front with the cops, the prosecutor will see that you’re a Good Guy and will drop the charges, right?   You can’t imagine the prosecutor will twist your words and play dirty tricks to cheat you out of…

  • The Progressive Puritans

    What do you get when you combine: The “progressive” MO of transferring taxpayer money to other progressives “Progressives’” hatred of wealthy people (other than “progressive” plutocrats, naturally) The “progressive” party line on women’s issues The “progressive” drive to at least appear to bring a better life you’re bigger government? I had to check this twice…

  • Can’t Possibly Happen Too Soon

    I’ve been working at home for a couple years now, for two different companies.  It’s been great; the “road construction” and “first snowfall of the year” and “thunderstorms” that make Twin Cities commuting such a nightmare are pretty much non-factors for me. Knock wood. In the previous couple of jobs, I worked in a combination…

  • I Have Little Doubt…

    …that the Southern Poverty Law Center will call this a violent hate crime.  

  • Dilemma

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump tried to implement an anti-terrorist vetting law passed by Congress and initially implemented by President Obama.  The courts have struck it down repeatedly. Even if we did have aggressive vetting, would it help? Europe has vetted thousands and many of the recent attacks were carried out by persons…

  • Ted Nugent Has Done It Again

    “Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom”   — Ted Nugent, illustrating how radicalized the NRA…

  • Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers

    If it bleeds – or coughs, stings, goes “boom” or rots your insides out as you hack lungs out – it leads. Animated infographic showing how media hysteria compares to actual deaths caused by the stories they were about. I’m not saying I don’t trust the American mainstream media. Because why stop with America?

  • Genius?

    While I cringe at some of what comes out on Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, I’ve often wondered if it isn’t cringe-y like a fox, if only because so much of the Mainstream Media runs chasing after rhetorical squirrels every time he sounds off. I’m not the only one: President Donald Trump frequently comes under criticism…

  • Disgust

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: St. Paul Police Chief Axtell does not know what he’s talking about. Gun violence is exploding in St. Paul.  The Chief says “ . . . basically it’s yesterday’s fistfights are today’s gun fights.”  But then he says it’s “ . . . a community health problem, this is…

  • Great Leap Forward!

    An American school district practices cultural appropriation, and lifts some culcha from Maoist Cnina: At a May 8 school board meeting, parent Farran Wilkinson took to the podium to out one educator who recently forced white students to apologize to black students for their white privilege, according to the American Lens. “I just want to…

  • Benefits

    Mitch: “Firearm magazines with more than ten rounds…” “Progressive”: “…should ONLY be used by the police and military, because society gives them some extra benefits because they defend and protect the rest of us.” Mitch: “Benefits like qualified immunity from prosecution for killings and injuries they inflict while they reasonably believe they’re doing the job…

  • I Thought About Writing A Scathing Parody…

    …of tinhorn, cronyistic Democrat politics in safe blue areas. But I can’t keep up with this story, which appears to be un-parodyable. Golf clap, White Plains New York.  From one intentional satirist to an unwitting one, well done.

  • The New Retro

    The new retro craze among the kids these days would seem to be The Cultural Revolution. Especially the forced self-denunciations.

  • Lather, Rinse, Poison, Repeat

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some experts believe the policies that led to the 2008 real estate collapse are still in place leaving us as vulnerable to a real estate bubble as before. They are mistaken.  We’re worse off than before because now we have newer and even stupider ideas to help preferred minorities…

  • Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated

    From the New York Times’ piece on the left eating itself at “progressive” Evergreen State: For expressing his view, Mr. Weinstein was confronted outside his classroom last week by a group of some 50 students insisting he was a racist. The video of that exchange — “You’re supporting white supremacy” is one of the more milquetoast quotes…

  • Watching The Defectives

    At the “Pride” Parade in Minneapolis yesterday, the processijon got delayed 20 or so minutes by a BLM group that apparently couldn’t find the freeway. After they’d had their die-in, they got up and spent the rest of the parade marching a block or two ahead of the rest of the procession. But not before…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight: Thanks For The Marketing!

    During the many years when Representative Heather Martens ran “Protect” Minnesota, the organization developed a reputation as being dodderingly, genially incompetent – like a neighborhood garden circle where everyone forgot to bring gloves. In the year or so since the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence took over at “”Protect” Minnesota, the image has morphed into a…

  • Peek A Boo

    Johnny Deep wants to know when the last time a President was shot by an actor. My question; does Depp know when the last time an actor was chased into a barn and died in a hail of gunfire? But I”ll take it easy on Mr. Depp.  He’s been too busy assassinating his own career…

  • Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Headline in New York Times:   Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump‘   Of course, Democrats say the words but they don’t accept the implications.  The reason Democrats’ brand is worse than Trump is because their ideas are crap and no amount of public…

  • Sunday Morning, Praise The NARNing

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Brad Carlson is off on assignment today, so I’ll be filling in from 2-3PM. Today on the show: Everything I didn’t get to talk about yesterday! Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is  on “The Closer”…

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