Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Behold
Last year, we were assured, BREXIT would spell doom for Britain, and the conservatives who led it. It just had to happen; BREXIT was an epic rejection of the political technocrat elite by the rabble and peasants – and the technocrats (and those who suck up to them) warned us that that could lead to nothing but…
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Prediction And Opportunity
Last week, the “hate crime” at Saint Olaf – a typewritten racist message left under a black students windshield wiper – turned out to be a hoax. As, in fact, have the vast majority of “Hate Crime” incidents in the past six months; for all the caterwauling about the wave of hate certain to accompany…
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It Is To Laugh
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I had forgotten how carefully Liberals at the New York Times scrutinized President Obama’s nominees to the federal bench, to avoid politicizing the judiciary. I’m sure they did, right? Because if not, if they’re only worried about it when The Other Side does it, then it’s not a matter…
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The Ark
I saw this story a few years ago, and put it aside until today – the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of the more unusual Catholic churches in the world, Kosciol Arka Pana in Novy Huta, Poland. Which is interesting in and of itself; Nowy Huta is a district in Krakow that was built as a “Socialist…
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Calling All Davids
Last week, we noted that the Strib had rejected an op-ed by Sarah Cade – a center-left African-American woman who happens to be a competition shooter, a friend of mine, and the owner of one of the most rightous ARs I’ve seen. By way of trying to outflank the Strib’s abusive monopoly on political opinion publishing, I posted her…
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Deranged
Berg’s Eighth Law (“American liberalism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from sociopathic disorder”) gets overshadowed by the Seventh and, lately, the Eighteenth Laws. But it is no less universal – as that noted conservative tool, the City Pages,…
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Appropriate Appropriation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Aristotle explained the difference between dialectic and rhetoric. Higher learning has been a White Male tradition for thousands of years. White males in monasteries preserved the knowledge until White males at universities could share it with other White males. For anybody else to go to college is cultural appropriationand…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Scott Adams and Victor Davis Hanson on the Comey Firing.
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NARN Is The Anwser
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Democrats have always wanted to fire Comey. No, never. No, wait… A Bas la France! A New Berg’s Law What’s The Matter With Northfield? Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is on “The Closer”…
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The Problem With Being Goliath
All the usual caveats apply: it’s Breitbart. Yadda yadda. But this piece here jogged my thinking about something that’s been on my mind lately. Kim Jong Un’s hold on power pretty much depends on keeping his nation convinced that he can defeat the United States in an open conflict. Now the Norks have been plugging gamely away…
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Against The Wind
Why is it so hard to find old Bob Seger albums? I mean, anything from before Night Moves? It‘s a long story, and an interesting one if you lurk about the edges of music like I do.
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Trapped In A World They
NeverMadeJoe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Star Tribune newspaper (using the term very generously) with their stable of leftist propagandists, is so far out of the reality loop that I am becoming convinced they are not merely pretending to believe this swill, they actually believe it. I know this is a long and ludicrous…
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“Eurasia Has Never…No, Has Always…er…LINE!”
Steven Colbert went in front of his audience on Tuesday afternoon and broke the news that Comey had been fired. That’s where it got interesting: COLBERT: Trump fired Comey NY AUDIENCE: YEAAAAAAAAAAAH COLBERT: No guys, this is bad. Here’s some awful jokes to explain why. AUDIENCE: Boo? https://t.co/5wqNWuUuWr — Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) May 10, 2017…
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Diminshed Expectation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I had a day off last week and caught a bit of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Vice President Pence. Rush hammered the Vice President from the word go and, I thought, justly so. His tone was respectful but his questioning was direct and gave no ground. It was completely…
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Ten Years Ago
It’s been a little over 11 years since I coined the term “we-ist” – the notion that everyone in the world is more comfortable around, more forgiving of people more like themselves, and less so around those less like them. In extreme cases that turns to intolerance, bigotry and hatred. And it covers everyone in the world;…
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Color Me Shocked
Steven Colbert – a person who’d still be playing character parts on Law and Order if there weren’t a wave of pervasive liberal smugness to ride – is in a bit of “trouble” for saying the sort of thing that would have gotten a Congressional hearing if Rush Limbaugh had said it. It’s all just wind in…
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“Oceania Has Never Been At War With Eurasia, Winston”
Ed Driscoll: ‘\I’m enjoying the sight of Democrats who were calling for Comey to be fired suddenly turning him into a Saturday Night Massacre martyr. It’d be a Berg’s Law, except it’s almost too obvious: logical consistency would make most liberal positions self-refuting. My prediction: there’s no there there. But the chattering classdes – and…
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“I Hate You”, She Explained
Progressive Lino Lakes City Councilwoman Melissa Stockman-Maher contributed to this nation’s civic discourse in commenting about a Tom Emmer “town hall” meeting on a 6th District farm: If you live in Lino Lakes, you might want to ask if Councilwoman Stockman Maher is threatening only Congressman Emmer, or if there are parts of Lino Lakes that conservatives…
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Upper Middle Class White Peoples’ Burden
As we noted earlier this morning, the mayor of Seattle is expanding his “soda tax” to cover diet pop1 because apparently minorities drink more sugar-sweetened pop than honkey does. And the tax – which was ostensibly about taxing people into health – became a matter of crushing white privilege. As commenter Mammathus Primigenius noted in…
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Pledge Week!
It’s time once again for my annual pledge drive. ‘m not going to go all Andrew Sullivan and say “If I don’t raise $80K, the blog will have to shut down”. As I’ve said before – I’d do this blog for free, and I’d do it for five readers a day (not counting myself). But…
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Paging The 14th Amendment…?
The Earl Mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, proposed a Bloomberg-style pop tax. Bad enough? Sure. Then, the social justice warriors sounded off, pointing to statistics saying that minorities drink more pop than honkeys. At first, the tax was to make distributors of sugary drinks pay 2 cents per ounce with the mayor claiming it would…
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It Should Be Obvious, But…
As the American left continues to indulge its long-suppressed penchant for violence, this editorial from National Review will only continue to get more relevant: For those at Berkeley celebrating what they believe to be a moral victory, consider this: As much as you may detest Ann Coulter, she has never used violence or the threat…
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