Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Changing Times
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Where did Americans get the assumption that if I work in the same office with other people, they’re automatically bosom buddies entitled to know everything about my life, and entitled to regale me with humorous anecdotes about every detail of their lives? If I wanted to know about your…
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It’s Only A Matter Of Time
Sweden’s analogue to the WaPo is calling for cars to be banned to prevent terror attacks. Cars and other vehicles “have turned into deadly weapons”, and should be banished from cities to stop attacks like the one in Stockholm from happening in future, according to Aftonbladet editorialist Eva Franchell. Crackdowns on immigration or extremist ideology are not…
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It’s Time For A Saint Paul-Style, Ballot-Stuffing Vote!
The DFL – the party of plutocrats waving the bloody shirt of poverty – is in the middle of a fundraising drive. I got an email from Ken Martin, the DFL’s chair. And in exchange for a $5 donation, the donor will get the one thing that seems to make every single liberal’s heart go…
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Early Birds
A regular reader writes: Turns out it’s not just older working people who want earlier music shows. Though I do think it is ok to have late bar hours, but the bands can start and end earlier. It links to a CBC bit suggesting that maybe, just maybe, starting music earlier in the evening will…
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If Only It’d Been Bush’s Fault
Under Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, the US participated in the overthrow of Muammar Gadhaffi. The result has been less than stellar (emphasis added): If a Republican President had invaded Libya and overthrown its government, then left bloody chaos, terrorism and rampant arms smuggling behind, our courageous press corps would be all over the story…
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Affirmative Traction
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m thinking of applying for this as a side gig. It could be a useful addition to a retirement nest egg, sort of a part-time job in retirement that pays enough to matter. “Members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.” That must mean me. They already have a…
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Downfall!
North Dakota Democrats – who haven’t won a statewide office since 2008, and don’t actually have enough legislators to fill their committee assignments in the NoDak state legislature – have the same city mouse/country mouse divide that Minnesota DFLers do; Democrats from Fargo and Grand Forks, bodies scarcely less dogmatically “progressive” than their cousins in…
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That Sweet Smell Of Success
The ten governors with the highest approval ratings are all Republicans: According to a Morning Consult poll of more than 85,000 registered voters across the United States, Republican governors get the most thumbs up by their residents — and it’s not even close. Toping off the list is Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who boasts a 75 percent…
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Let’s Play Restaurant Dead Pool
Two restaurants in Minneapolis abolish tipping, raise their staff wages to $15 an hour: Common Roots Cafe (2558 Lyndale Ave. S.) and Butter Bakery Cafe (3700 Nicollet Ave. S.) informed their customers of the change by posting signs in their establishments and on their social media accounts. In a lengthy explainer, Common Roots Cafe says…
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Public Relations
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The guy dragged off the United Airlines flight now claims he was selected because of his race, which is discrimination. Is that why he was having hysterics on the plane? The guy’s response seemed disproportional. You don’t want to be the guy forced off the plane, I get that. …
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The Devils And Angels In My Nature…
…got into an argument over this past weekend’s festivities in Berkeley, where Real American pro-free-speech activists banded together to deter, and occasionally, where necessary, necessary meet, “anti-fascist” fascist violence at a pro-Trump rally. Devil (on Mitch’s left shoulder): Oh, God, I am so freaking happy to see that the good guys – any good guys, people who try to express…
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The Last Real Liberal
Nat Hentoff passed away over the weekend. He was 91. After getting his start as a jazz critic with the Village Voice, Hentoff swerved into a career as a civil liberties activist. Probably 25 years ago, I read Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee – a book about free speech, but even moreso a…
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It Must Be Those Darn White Protestant Males Again
Slave markets return to Africa.
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The Wisdom Of The Pence Family
Our idiot betters were chuckling – briefly, at least – at Mike Pence and his wife’s rules for his conduct in public around female associates, staff and the like. In that particular context-mangled teapot-tempest, Mike Pence was supposedly a “Neanderthal” “Taliban” “sexist” for never meeting with women alone. Of course, if you’re in politics…
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As Long As The Bridge Doesn’t Collapse…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If this had occurred in a state park in Minnesota and the boyfriend had been equipped with a revolver and Permit to Carry, could he have shot the rapist dead and escaped prosecution? The boyfriend was not being threatened, personally, so he can’t use self-defense. His girlfriend is being…
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The Long Con
Matt Windschitl called out “Iowa Gun Owners” as a scam from the floor of the Iowa state legislature. We’ve met Windschitl in this space before; I’ve interviewed him on my show, Iowa Gun Owners is the Iowa “branch” of the “Minnesota Gun Rights”. – which is a misnomer, as MGR actually is headquartered in…
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Civil War
The Democrats nationwide – including here in Minnesota – are as split along rural-urban lines as, well, the rest of the US is. And that fault line is shaking the endorsement challenge in the Governor’s race in Virginia, where the “progressive”, Northern-Virginia, government-worker set has pretty directly set out to alienate the rural Democrats that…
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White Supremacist Terror
Yet another “false flag” “hate crime” hoax; the arson attack on a Bhutanese shop owner in Charlotte turns out to be… …well, we know where this is going, don’t we? UPDATE: CMPD releases photos of suspect in case of arson, threatening note left at east Charlotte store #cltnews https://t.co/I7zTA0xDkk pic.twitter.com/sr7BpMrCmr — NBC Charlotte (@wcnc) April…
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Solved!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My computer automatically loads pop-up ads every time it opens. This time, it informed me that hardly any girls want to be physicists, engineers, computer programmers. Girls must be encouraged to science, technology, engineering and math careers. Why the gender of the engineer matters is not explained. If numbers…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Ben Shapiro’s five questions about the Syrian missile strikes. Tom Cotton on the upside. Here’s the website for the Ladies of Liberty Alliance.
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If I Smile Tell Me Some NARN News, Before I Laugh And Act Like A Fool
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Missiles, Brinksmanship and Gas – Oh My! Jessica Craig will join me to talk about the Ladies of Liberty Alliance get-together tonight Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is on “The Closer”…
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I Wanna See Some History…
Trump bombed s Syrian military installation. It’s been in all the papers. I’m not going to comment about that, per se – what can I possibly add? No, I’m not commenting about the pros and cons and rights and wrongs of yesterday’s action in Syria, or of whatever might be around the corner… … but…
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Unclear On The Concept
File this under “Evidence of a shoddy education”: around the world, (we are told) the movie adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” is being screened… …to “protest Donald Trump“. Forget for a moment that Orwell wrote the book as a satire of contemporary British far leftists snd their tendency to eat each other, not to mention the…
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Foreign And Domestic Abuse
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When the man in the muscle shirt screams at the woman laying bleeding on the floor: “Now look what you made me do,” we know he’s in the wrong. There is nothing she could have done that would justify his violent response. Unless she was a Trump supporter. That’s…
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Unwarranted Sanctimony
The Evanglical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), aka “Unitarians with Lutefisk” (Keillor said it, not me!), are the far-left-leaning wing of American Lutheranism. The people who gave us “ELCA hair” are headquartered in Minneaopolis, and often seem to spend more time on politics than faith; among certain ELCA circles, “faith” seems to be little but…
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