Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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It’s The Hypocrisy, Stupid
Victor Davis Hanson’s conclusion on the problem our coastal “elites” have: An elite’s lectures on melting ice caps, transgendered restrooms, or Black Lives Matter are progressive versions of an unapologetic sinner’s singing hymns in church on Sunday; the harangues bring them closer to their social-justice deities and apparently give personal meaning to their otherwise quite…
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Lie First, Lie Always: What Doesn’t Happen At Dreamsicle Day, Stays At Dreamsicle Day
The other, I noted the hilarious-yet-grim irony of Betsy Hodges, mayor (for now) of Minneapolis, whiich is by far the most violent city in Minnesota, lecturing the state on “gun safety” and “violence”. In recent years, as crime in the state at large has plummetted (and the number of law-abiding citizens with carry permits has…
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Nature Or Nurture?
Is Colleen Campbell – reporter former reporter at Channel 17 in Philly – merely a nasty drunk? Or a boundlessly-entitled “elite” Millennial? Or a symptom of the most toxic neo-Victorian strain of feminism (being as obnoxious as any drunk man, but then pleading “you’re arresting a giiiiiirl for no f***ng reason” at 2:29)? Whatever she is,…
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“Of Course Gay Marriage Won’t Impinge On Religious Freedom!”
That’s what they told us. “You cant possibly know that”, some of us – even some of us who pretty much gave up opposing gay marriage, save in our personal lives, responded. Who was right? Oh, if you read and absorb this blog, you already know the answer, don’t you?
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The Racket
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Governor Dayton signed the budget bills, but vetoed funding for the legislature because he didn’t get the bills he wanted. Some might think Dayton’s move was petty and vindictive. I disagree. It was genius. In chess terms, he’s put the Republicans in a fork – agree to a special…
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“Protect” Minnesota: The Truth Oozes Out
One of the great lessons gun controllers learned in the past decade or so is shut up about the real agenda. Gull the odd gullible gun owner with soothing-yet-ridiculing platitutdes, like “Nobody’s coming for your guns. All we want is a conversation about “gun safety” and “violence”. But every once in a while, they screw…
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A Flame Bright Beyond Common Understanding
Today is the 73rd anniversary of D-Day. We focus – appropriately, in the great scheme of things – on the triumph that eventually followed the invasion of France; the liberation of Western Europe, the destruction of Naziism, the freeing of the surviving slaves in the labor, concentration and death camps. We focus on the triumphs…
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Dreamsicle Day Humor
On national Dreamsicle day,”Protect” Minnesota proved they have a sense of humor. That’s Betsy Hodges, mayor of Minneapolis – a city with a murder rate 4-5 times that of the rest of Minnesota, and getting worse fast. A city who’s crime rate stands out as a national disgrace. And she’s lecturing the rest of us – the…
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Apex
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Garrison Keillor wrote a column for the Washington Post about taking down historical monuments to “declutter” the nation. History has nothing to teach us. Everything in the past was done wrong. We are the smartest, funniest people who ever lived. Joe Doakes Keillor’s got a way of talking…about himself.
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The Dayton Doctrine: Ghost Of Tax Day Future
Connecticut – a state that has done everything the Minnesota DFL wants to do to the Minnesota economy, but put it on a turbocharger – is about to pay the proverbial piper; Aetna Insurance is pondering leaving Connecticut and its confiscatory taxes behind. Governor Malloy, after an entire administration spent pilfering the coffers of Connecticut…
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Their Finest Hour
The people of London are a lot more courageous than their city’s government. Stories are filtering out of London about people resisting their attackers during Saturday night’s terrorist attacks around London. This from John Holbrooke, a Brit lawyer who’s been covering not only terror, but the way the Brit poltical establishment has been bending over backwards to…
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The Religion Of Environmentalism And Health Insurance (UPDATE: Ooops)
The fact that Ben Carson got mocked in the media, while Maxine Waters isn’t considered a national laughinstock, will be prime evidence when we finally have Nuremberg-style tribunals about media bias: And yet she’s taken seriously. UPDATE: Ooops. Parody account. I plead “long day at Grand Old Day”. To be fair, the measure of great…
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In The Land Of The Destitute, The Guy With A Title Is King
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is why I will die a bitter and frustrated old man. I cannot write like Wretchard: ” It would be ironic if a generation of politicians who never built much of anything destroyed nearly everything for the privilege of ruling over the wreckage.” It’s as much about…
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Notify The SPLC
Clearly more of that right-wing workplace violence. P.S: I’m about ready to call this the second Battle of Britain.
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You Think You’re So Illustrious, You Call Yourself NARN
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Governor Dayton – Minnesota’s Erdogan We’ll Never Have Paris 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…
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Open Letter To Kathy Griffin
To: Kathy Griffin, Comedian-Turned-Not-Very-Intelligent Political Satirist From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means Ms. Griffin, I say this as someone who actually used to enjoy your standup routine, until you decided you had to be Culturally Important. Please take it in the spirit intended. You are…
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He’s Back…
Learned Foot has re-activated Kool Aid Report to comment on the Governor’s line-item veto abolishing a branch of government. It feels like Keith Moon and John Entwistle rose from the dead, corralled Daltrey and Townsend into a bar, and started playing “The Who, A to Z”.
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The Shallow End Of The Pool
Joe Doakes emails about something I’m noticing in regard to the Paris “treaty”, political violence, economics, race, crime, human and civil rithts… …well, just read it: Liberals say Trump people are doing just what Clinton people did, but we’re not calling to lock him up, therefore, Republicans are shameful hypocrites. William F. Buckley, Jr. once…
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Resetting The Brain
There are times I’m glad my son never took to playing football. This, though, is a fascinating piece by former Packer Jermichael Finley about coming back from five career concussions.
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The “System” That Betsy DeVos Doesn’t “Know”
Six Baltimore schools have zero kids pass state standardized assessments.
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A Short List Of Honkeys Who Should Yield Their Privilege, Shut Up, And Listen
Submitted without comment: Well, “without” in the sense that I’ll add nothing new. I‘ll refer you back to my actual thoughts on the subject.
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The Golden Age Of Car Design…
…is about ten years behind us. And it’s government’s fault. As usual.
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Lie First, Lie Always: The City Pages – Making It Up As They Go Along
The City Pages, 1997: Solid (if solidly-left-of-center) reporting, a keen eye on local events (at least in Uptown, Downtown and Dinkytown), and some investigative reporting that shamed the local dailies. The City Pages, 2017: Creeping on Facebook pages, calling it “news”. Mike Mullen – who we’ve encountered before – found a Facebook post which…
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Our Erdogan
Our state’s governor, Tina Flint Smith (acting through her front, Mark Dayton) line-item-vetoed the funding for the state’s legislature out of existence. From Blois Olson’s “Morning Take” yesterday: [Tuesday’s] move by Gov. Mark Dayton to line-item veto the appropriations for the legislature creates a new dynamic that lawyers, legislators, lobbyists and media will try to…
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Following Off The Cliff
When I was a kid, having a tattoo meant that you were either a veteran or had been in prison; it was fairly easy to tell which by the content and quality of the “art”-work. That’s probably one reason I’ve never succumbed to the trend. But many have; some stats say over a third of…
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