Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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SJWS: Controlling The Past
The Orwell parallels are coming so thick and fast these days, it’s hard to keep up. Ahem; Lou Reed has gone from a pioneer of LGBT-friendliness forty years ago, to “transphobic today. The left is eating itself.
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Narrative Slide
Jeremy Joseph Christian kills two in an anti-Muslim rampage on a train in Portland, Oregon. Word gets out that Christian was a “white supremacist”. Media assume that means “Right Wing Pro-Trump Hate Criminal” – and brows are furrowed as our high priests of knowledge obsess over What It All Means. Then, it turns out Christian…
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Mordida
The DFL wants to kill the budget bill and shut down the state government to… …well, just guess why (emphasis added)? “I am urging our DFL leader and my friend, Governor Mark Dayton, to veto the Public Safety Omnibus Bill. It is long overdue that Minnesota do the right thing and lead on this important moral…
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Either Middle School Teachers Today Are Doing A Stellar Job Of Teaching Critical Thinking…
…at a level ahead of what your typical college kid learns.. …or there’s some brainwashing going on out there.
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Walking Out On Reason
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Students walked out of Pence’s speech. “The move was not totally unexpected, since the student organization WeStaNDFor had shared their plans ahead of time. They believe that the politics Pence, the former Indiana governor who was raised Catholic, represented contradicted the Catholic social virtues Notre Dame extols.” “Our members…
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A Good Classmate With A Gun
I got this from a high school friend of mine.. He lives in a major city in the Southwestern US. I’m concealing his identity for obvious reasons. He had a close encounter with a couple bad guys over the weekend. Or, should I say, a couple bad guys had a close encounter with him: Two…
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Hate Flying?
This isn’t gonna help.
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Open Letter To Paul Gazelka
To: Senate Minority Leader Gazelka From: Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re: Midcourse Correction Senator Gazelka, If Lori Sturdevant approves of you, you are doing something very wrong. That is all.
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Don’t Eschew The Reaper
David French on the wrong response to Manchester…: Let me share with you some deeply flawed words from the editorial board of the New York Times. I do this not because the Times is alone in its sentiment but because the paragraph below is perfectly representative of the wrong approach to fighting terror. Reflecting on…
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Trapped In A World, Identity And Reality That I Never Made
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If race is a social construct with no fixed definition but is something we do and others do to us, then why can’t a person identify as a different race? Example, Rachel Dolezal, was the White woman who identified as Black so she could run the Seattle chapter of…
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Memorial Day
I’m just going to leave you with this story today.
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But Don’t You Dare Say The Media Has A Narrative
Does this look scary? I’m pretty sure it was supposed to look scary. It’s from Channel 5, last Friday. The Associated Press ran pretty much the same headline on their story. If I’m feeling charitable, I’d assume the web producer at Channel 5 was too busy and under informed to change the AP’s hed. If I”m…
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NARN Calling To The Imitation Zone
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: End of Session Memorial Day 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 so…
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In Which I Temporarily Lower My Normally Rigid Standards
I take a dim view of most social “science” – and none is dimmer than the social “science” that the partisan fringe media toss around every from time to time as a palate-cleanser for the kool-aid drinkers in their respective audiences. You remember them – “Study shows Liberals are Smarter” or “Conservatives are happier”, usually…
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The Moral Flexibility Of Today’s Left, Illustrated
On the one hand, you support – or at least sympathize with – “Antifas”, By Any Means Necessary, ACT UP, the Chavezistas, ALF and ELF, the people who pepper-sprayed and physically attacked a peaceful Trump rally at the MN State Capitol twice… …but you’re mortified that Greg Gianforte pushed a reporter who’d grabbed him. (With…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Gun Grabber “Science”
SCENE: Mitch BERG is trying out a guitar at a local music shop. As he begins to fingerpick the intro to “1957 Vincent Black Lightning”, Avery LIBRELLE enters the store, sees BERG, and walks up behind him. LIBRELLE:Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Avery. What’s up? LIBRELLE: We know you crazy gun nuts don’t care how many…
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There Was Never A Civil War, Winston
In George Orwell’s “1984”, the “Ministry of Truth” had the job of keeping “what is true” updated – by erasing, and un-erasing, the past as “Ingsoc”, the party of Big Brother, needed. It’s always good to see life imitate art, isn’t it?
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Misdirection
Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: When Bill and Hillary Clinton were under investigation for their part in the Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Paula Jones, and Monica Lewinsky affairs, Hillary Clinton told Matt Laurer that there was nothing to the charges, they were the result of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy working against her family. She persisted…
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They’re Out There Somewhere
So it was 20 years ago today that “Mmm-Bop” by “Hanson” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. You remember it: I was married and had three kids to take care of at the time, so I didn’t have much time to be the music snob I’d been ten years earlier. I thought it…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Media Are The Gun Grabbers’ Stenographers
Q: How can you tell a gun grabber is lying? A: They are attempting to communicate via any way, shape or form. Verbally or non-verbally. In any language. John Lott on how the media – knowingly or not – inflates the gun grabbers’ numbers. And as national carry permit reciprocity gains speed in Congress, it’s…
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Logical Conclusions
Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: “They couldn’t even manage a park….” Love that Joe Doakes Heh.
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When, Not If…
…the DFL and its PR firm, “The Minnesota Media”, blame the upcoming government shutdown on the GOP, keep this in mind: It’s Javier Morillo, and if you’re not constantly marinading in Minnesota politics, a) you’re lucky, and b) you may not know that Morillo is up there with Alida Messinger as the most powerful person…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Green On Green
Minnesota’s anti-gun orcs – “Protect” MN, Moms Want Action, and the ELCA – are claiming victory today; the legislative session has ended without two very useful Second Amendment bills even getting to the floor. The claims is both a lie and, sadly, disapointingly, depressingly true. Delusions Of Vigor: Moms Want Action came out bright and…
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Above It All
Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: “Many people want to be authors. They crave the adulation of fans, going to cons, signing books, being able to work in their bathrobe and getting checks in the mail. Few people really want to be writers. Writers are miserable people who spend most of their time alone, have…
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