Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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And She’s Making Me Feel Like I’ve Never Been NARN
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I”m off on assignment today – Brad Carlson is filling in. 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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The Problem With Social Justice Warriors…
…isn’t just their worship of totalitarian oppression. Nope. It’s also the rank ignorance.
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Today’s News, Ten Years Ago
Bill Kling, the godfather of Minnesota Public Radio as we know it today, was a radio visionary or a skilled political operative who was an expert at marshaling political clout to his ends. Well, forget the “or”. He was both. Kling was much of the reason MPR is what it is today – in terms…
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Satire?
It is, although not for long, I suspect.
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Sequestered
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m a pre-operative transgender woman. I demand entry into this unit so I can shower with young, blonde Norwegian women. It’s my right. Kidding aside, it might be a smart move. Women get to serve which shuts up the feminists. But they’re segregated, which eliminates sexual harassment. Plus, it’s…
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Think Trump’s First 100 Days Have Been “Interesting?”
Judging by the campaign, there seems to be a good chance the first 100 days of a Hillary administration would have been much, much worse.
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“Gun Violence Prevention” And Its Inevitable Consequences
Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, banned and confiscated all civilian firearms. And now, as the Maduro regime’s support frays under the complete collapse of the Venezuelan economy, he’s re-arming… …well, the right Venezuelans: “A gun for every militiaman!” Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on…
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Only Complete Subjugation Will Do
The City of Minneapolis has decided not to completely put Surdyk’s out of business for the “crime” of selling liquor on Sundays because Sunday liquor sales would be a catastrophic moral blow to the state even though the law hasn’t quite expired yet. The city negotiated the fine down from a multimillion dollar one-month suspension of…
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Squib
Jon “The Trump Killer” Ossoff’s Democrat extravagantly-ballyhooed special-election bid in Georgia came up short (against a splintered field of Republicans). The big Democrat comeback will have to wait.
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Policy Clarification
Apropos nothing and nobody in particular. I have always run the most unregulated comment section in the Minnesota political blogosphere. But if you are a commenter that’s made a years-long habit of dumping condescending comments, and never, ever sticking around to find out that nearly every single point you’ve made is comically in error, so…
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Betsy Hodges Is Number Two
Betsy Hodges is the second-worst mayor in America, according to Observer: She has taken a weak stance on crime that appears to be based as much on wishful thinking as it is on strategy and tactics. While violent crime in the city continues to climb, Hodges has actually braggedabout making fewer arrests. Her mishandling of the…
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Escape
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The experts confidently predicting economic collapse after Brexit might want to recalculate, factoring in these savings: Could be there is more to Brexit that merely escaping immigrant quotas, could be there also are other policies imposed by Brussels that might be rolled back to liberate the Britons. Like most…
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One People! One City! One Mayor! Redux
A long-time friend of this blog attended Mayor Hodges’ official city anti-Trump town hall meeting last night at Shir Tikvah, on Minnehaha Parkway in Minneapolis: Rabbi Latz welcomed us, and Mayor Hodges mentioned that Minneapolis was not always such a welcoming place for Jews. Ah yes I note the victimization of various groups started early. But…
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As Foretold
The Monday, April 10 NPR Morning Edition piece on Richard Florida and “creative class” workers leaving the rest of the city behind. It’s he that is largely behind one of the Big Left’s current conceits; that briniging “the creative class” to big cities will revolutionize them, bringing them a new lease on life. How’s it…
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Threshold
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We complain that young people act like children. Why shouldn’t they? A Minnesota resident can start having sex and get a driver’s license at 16, abortions and cigarettes at 18, and liquor and beer at 21; but he doesn’t have to get his own health insurance until 26.…
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Lie First, Lie Always: When The DFL Does Polling, The Truth Dies A Little
Kim Norton – the former MN Representative from Rochester who asked for a “conversation about gun safety”, and then blocked everyone who disagreed with the conclusion she’d been given by Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown” – tried her hand at “polling” to try to gin up the impression that there was some actual support for gun control…
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One People! One City! One Leader!
Mayor Betsy Hodges is having a meeting tonight: PLEASE JOIN MAYOR BETSY HODGES FOR A SPECIAL MAYORAL ADDRESS “ONE MINNEAPOLIS IN THE TIME OF TRUMP” MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017 7:30 P.M. SHIR TIKVAH CONGREGATION 1360 West Minnehaha Parkway MINNEAPOLIS, MN EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Parking Available at Burroughs School (Enter on 50th Street)…
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For Your 2018 Perusal
Harry Niska is running for attorney general. After roughly 32 years of Mike Hatch followed by Lori Swanson, it’s time for a serious change; it’s time for the MN AGO to actually enforce laws, rather than enforce DFL social policy against companies. Harry’s a solid conservative; our last encounter with him was at the 2016…
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Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers
Lapse in fact-checking among “legitimate” mainstream media over the weekend caused, by itself, a radical ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula: As expected – and feared – during the annual “Day of the Sun” celebration parade (celebrating the birth of the nation’s founder), Bloomberg blasted a headline that Chinese news agency Xinhua reported…
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Led Around By Our Emotional Nose
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m trying to break down the anti-gun logic, hoping to find a clue how to convince them to see reason. Should police be allowed to carry guns in public? Yes, to defend themselves. Whose life is more valuable: a policeman or a 26-year-old Black woman? Equal. Should she be…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Call your legislators, and Kurt Daudt about HF 729, the “early voting” bill that’d essentially serve to help the DFL focus their “get out the vote” efforts in the month before the election. Go to mnvoters.org for more information.
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Our NARN, In The Middle Of Our Street
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Burnsvile City Councillor Cara Schultz joins me to talk about the city’s repeal of its regulations on house colors. It’s much cooler than it sounds in writing, trust me. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on…
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Challenge Accepted And Returned!
Shelley Garland – whose bio describes here as “…an activist and a feminist and is currently completing an MA degree in philosophy. When she’s not gagging at South Africa’s unique brand of rainbow politics, she’s working on ways to smash the patriarchy”, writes in – where else – the HuffPo: Some of the biggest blows…
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Fair For The Gander
Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama has just been granted authority by the Alabama legislature to form its own police department. The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe. Not sure how this differs from “hiring private security”, which plenty…
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