Shot in the Dark

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  • Branding

    Donald Trump called ISIS “Evil Losers” in the wake of the Arianna Grande bombing last night. Some on the left called the appelation the illiterate interjection of a trained chimp. Not so much, says Scott Adams, who has over the past two years proven to be the only pundit in American who actually gets Trump.  It’s part…

  • Attention, DFLers!

    Be advised that there is only one acceptable DFL candidate for Governor in the upcoming race:  Minority Leader Thissen: To settle for anyone less would be a betrayal of progressive principle. Unless Sandy Pappas runs. Then vote for her.

  • In Case There Was Any Doubt…

    This photo was circulatec by AFSCME Council 5 this week: It’s aimed at the Legislature. Or…is it?

  • Focusing On The Big Picture

    Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: My office staff person is a millennial who cares about saving the planet.  She doesn’t use K-cups because plastic – ugh.  She insists we must go paperless to save the trees.  So she converted a bunch of paper files to electronic which freed up space in the filing cabinet…

  • Some Culture I May Just Appropriate

    The Chinese have hatched a word for “white liberal snowflakes“; Baizuo: In China for instance, they have a word for these people. They are called “baizuo” or the “white left” on social media. Which is interesting, because even though China has its fair share of socialists and communists, they don’t have a direct equivalent to our…

  • When Making Your Dining And Drinking Plans

    Jamie Robinson, owner of the “Northbound Smokehouse” in Minneapolis, supports the $15 minimum wage – with a tip credit (allowing the restauranteur to deduct tip money from the basic wage). For this, the Social Justice Warriors trashed him on social media. Robinson has responded: Lately, Robinson’s noticed that his political activism has turned Northbound’s Facebook page into a…

  • The New Brahmins

    Democrat congresswoman tells commoner that her First Amendment rights are “Different” than his: A bit of background:  when Rep. Demings was a police chief, her gun was stolen from her car; it’s tautological that her gun fell into the hands of a criminal. Demings is, naturally, a gun grabber: So that’s two “rights of the people” where…

  • Ripped From Social Media – As Far As You Know

    Q: “Did you see that episode of “The Office” where… A: “See it? I don’t even own a TV! All TV is crap!” Q: “Huh. Oh, I see Chris Cornell died…” A: “Who? Some singer? I don’t listen to any pop music after 1970. I don’t even own a record, cassette, 8 track, CD or…

  • Red Tape As Far As The Eye Can See

    Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: If you wonder why we don’t have moon bases yet,  Laura Montgomery explains it in a May 8th column (scroll down). Joe Doakes I’m assuming this is why we don’t have the flying cars we were supposed to have by 2000.

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Go here for details about the 99th Infantry Battalion – the “Viking Battalion” – and their events at Camp Ripley this summer.

  • Summer NARN, Rolling Like Thunder

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Urban Progressive Privilege? What’s the deal with Minnesota high school principals? And, maybe, Norwegians at War! Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is  on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays…

  • Urban Progressive Privilege, Explained

    So you say “Mitch, I get the idea about your post the other day about Urban Progressive Privilege – but how can I sum it up perfectly?” Simple.   Imatgine a car with one of those “Coexist” bumper stickers on one side, and a “Resist” bumper sticker on the other. (Adapted from a social media…

  • Count Your Technological Blessings

    Autocorrect mixed blessing.  Especially with voice-to-text – which has caused me a problem or two on this blog over the past couple years. But I’m reminded… …there’s an upside

  • Coup D’Etat

    Did Trump do anything wrong?  We don’t know – that’s what trials (and the whole “innocent until proven guilty”) thing is all about. But the firestorm of agitation that Big Left and the Media are whipping up, in the absence of any hard evidence, has nothing to do with right, wrong or justice, says Kurt Schlichter:…

  • Funny Thing Is…

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I astonishes me how much law enforcement has improved during the Trump Administration.  He should get more credit for it. No, really: remember last Summer when thousands of people demonstrated against police, insisting that Black Lives Matter?  They shut down Snelling for the State Fair, shut down freeways, marched…

  • There Was A Time When Might Have Cracked Wise…

    …that “If liberals didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all”. But as I wrote this piece the other day, I realized that stories like this have nothing to do with double-standards, and everything to do with the fact that Urban Progressive Privilege only has one standard; be like us in every way, or…

  • Open Letter To The MNGOP Legislative Caucuses

    To:  The MNGOP Legislative Caucuses From:  Mitch Berg, Peasant Re:  You Never, Ever Learn, Do You? Deaar MNGOP Legislative Caucuses – House and Senate Today, after months of wrangling, word dribbled out that the Stand Your Ground and Constitutional Carry bills were not going to get a floor vote.  While the bill wouldn’t pass into…

  • Back Down To Earth

    Democrats:  Read Dershowitz.  Then shush and get a grip.

  • Hurting Squirrels

    Every town – Michael Bloomberg’s checkbook advocacy gun grab Group – is not quite ready for prime time in the leadership department.

  • Alas, Babylon

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There’s a reason the United States considers cyber warfare to be a weapon of mass destruction, same as nuclear weapons: because of the massive damage it can cause to modern civilization. Mitch wrote recently about a grid-down scenario from EMP attack.  How about grid-down event caused by ramsomware?  How…

  • Unpacking The Invisible NPR Tote Bag

    “White Privilege” has been all over the news this last couple of years.  It’s been there because the Big Left has ordained that it should be.  My theory;  in a nation full of “privilege” – class, racial, academic, social and, let’s be honest, the privilege of being born here rather than Russia or Nigeria or…

  • Mission Accomplished, Dumb*sses

    It’s 2009. Barack Obama is president – elected in part by a biblical wave of support from black voters and novelty in the general election, and identity-mongering in the primaries. You’re a Democrat strategist, planning ahead to the next two elections.  You need to keep women – Hillary Clinton voters – engaged enough to vote…

  • The MN House’s Four Multiculturalists

    Here was the MN House vote on the Genital Mutilation bill yesterday. The bill would – how can I put just the right point on this – hold parents responsible for the genital mutilation of their children, with felony charges against parents who facilitated any of the wide array of culturally-based, barbaric genital mutilation practices. There were four…

  • Only In Minnesota…

    …can a company have a legal monopoly on a product people are willing to pay huge money, risk fail, and kill to cover their black market turf over… …and still get regulated out of business.

  • When The Future Is Forgotten

    Most of Europe’s political leaders – almost without exception, among the big ones – have no children.  The list is almost airtight:  Frances’ Emmanuel Macron; Germany’s Angela Merkel, the UK’s  Theresa May,Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon, Italiy’s Paolo Gentiloni, the Netherlands’Mark Rutte, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel – none have kids.  Sweden’s Stefan Löfven has no bio-kids; the EU’s uber-bureaucrat Jean-Claude…

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