Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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It’s Worked For Saint Paul Taxation All These Years
What works for Minnesota taxes can work just as well in other areas.
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Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
The IRS has trailers full of evidence of their own complicity in targeting conservative and Tea Party groups. They just don’t want to release them. So they won’t.
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Dig
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Train got stuck in a snow drift in North Dakota, 25 feet tall and 200 feet long. Crews tried pulling it out with locomotives and pushing it out with bulldozers. Ended up having to dig it out by hand. That’s a lotta snow. Joe Doakes I…
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The Pool
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The theory of diversity holds that by adding more viewpoints we get a better result, regardless of how smart the individuals holding those viewpoints are. Diversity increases group intelligence. In practice, if you want a smarter group of people, add smarter people. Diversity dilutes group intelligence. This is not…
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Masters And Leashes
SCENE: Mitch BERG is checking out the deli at the new HyVee. Bill GUNKEL, former Republican who is now chairmain of the Inver Grove Heights chapter of “Former Republicans for Ron Paul”, notices him and walks over. GUNKEL: Hey, Merg. BERG: Hey, Bill. GUNKEL: I see that a bunch of you went to The Beast…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Anti-Gun Amateur Hour
Earlier this morning at the House Public Safety Committee hearings on the “Stand your Ground” billl, a “pro-bill” testifier erupted in a caracature of a pro-Trump, white supremacist tirade; at one point, he reportedly said it was time for gun owners to return to “lynching” people. Then he got up and walked out. He’s utterly unknown…
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Failure Is The Only Option
SCENE: At the Minnesota State Capitol. Mitch BERG, laptop in hand, is walking between the House and Senate chambers when he encounters Dorbert AARONSON, chairman of the group “Gun Owners of Minnesota”, a non-profit incorporated in Des Moines, Iowa. AARONSON: Excuse me – do you know the way to the Minnesota state capitol? BERG: Er…
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Collateral Moral Damage
In 1933, after a decade and a half of tumultuous politics that frequently turned into street violence, the German “Reichstag” (parliament) empaneled a cabinet led by Adolf Hitler to run things. Hitler’s “Nazi” party was not the biggest party in the Reichstag – they’d actually lost seats in the most recent round of elections –…
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s Learned Opinion, 11 Years Ago
Kurt Schlichter notes that “You Can Tell What Leftists Are Doing By What They Accuse Conservatives Of Doing” Sound familiar? Of course it does. This was codified in 2006, in “Berg’s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection“. To wit: “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for…
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I’ll Have A Merlot With My Derangement This Evening
I caught this on MPR last week; arts reporter Marianne Combs’s piece on the new season at the Guthrie, featuring the new “Trump Derangement” theme: This fall, the Guthrie will stage Lillian Hellman’s “Watch on the Rhine.” The show deals with the rise of fascism on American soil at the start of World War II, but…
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My Brain Hurts
Joe Doakes from Como Parks emails: Liberal: There is absolutely no voter fraud; therefore, we do not need an investigation or voter ID law and you’re a hateful racissss for saying so. Conservative: Dozens of non-citizens voted illegally in Ohio. There were more votes than voters in Detroit. Liberal: There is voter fraud; but…
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“Duty To Retreat”
One of the bills being heard tomorrow morning at 10:15 AM at the State Office Building will be HF238 – Rep. Nash’s “Defense of Dwelling and Person Act”, sometimes called “Stand your Ground”. This is an absolutely vital bill. Here’s why. To use lethal force in self defense in Minnesota, you have to meet four…
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Leftist Justice – Saint Paul Style
Last weekend, a group of “anarchists” attacked a pro-Trump rally at the Minnesota State Capitol. Thugs wearing helmets and masks sucker-punched and kicked unsuspecting peaceful demonstrators, and in one case sprayed mace into a crowd of people. It was not a spontaneous event; they were quite obviously organized, equipped, and had planned for the…
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It’s Only Satire…
…until it’s not. I say that, because it’s a phenomenon that is verging on being a “Berg’s Law”; today’s jokes about the behavior of liberals are tomorrow’s news stories about the behavior of liberals. I have no doubt that someone in the comment section will, before long, post an article from Mother Jones or Raw Story that reads like the link…
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The Delicious Dish
It’s fun to make fun of National Public Radio. The upper-middle-class white liberal bias; the pretentious production style; the air staff’s frequently sloppy, mannered delivery; the unearned condescension to all other media; if you’re a radio person, the massive budgets and huge staffs combined with the often dismal state of practice of the radio craft;…
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This Is Today’s Left
Fifty years ago: rallying for free speech. Today…: (Jump ahead to 3:02) “F*** Free Speech”. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
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Choice For Me. Not For Thee.
Remember when Al Franken lit into Betsy DeVos over her school choice beliefs? Some might have thought Franken opposed school choice. He does, in fact, support school choice. For those who can afford it. …the Senator also has very little experience with public schools. According to an interview with Harvard magazine, Franken was a…
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Two Thumbs Down
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: SpaceX announced it would launch two tourists to ride around the Moon in 2018. Experts say they’ll be in for a rough ride: non-stop vomiting and the constant need to pee. So . . . like watching the Ghostbusters reboot, then? Joe Doakes It’s a fair cop.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Jennifer Carnahan is running for chair of the MNGOP. Here’s her website. Here’s Charle’s CW Cooke’s article about the history of “authoritarian” Presidents. And here’s ♫ today’s music playlist.
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The Wonders Each New NARN Brings
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Jennifer Carnahan will join me to talk about her bid for the chair of the MNGOP The State of the Trump Union Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally…
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Sunk
We’ve fallen a little behind on our World War I series. Over the next few weeks/months, we’re going to work to get caught-up to the calendar. German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was uneasy as he approached the podium in the Reichstag on January 31st, 1917. Despite having done more than perhaps any other figure in Europe…
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Symptom Of A Completely Screwed Nation
Wednesday night on national public radio, I listened to Illinois senator Dick “Turban” Durbin respond to President Trump State of the Union address. Asked about the Democrat response to republican healthcare initiatives – in this case, the proposal to allow people to buy insurance across state lines – his response was: “Come on. You think people…
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Under Our Eyes All This Time
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Mayor of New York wants to build dozens of new homeless shelters. Homeless? What homeless? Where did all these homeless people come from, all of the sudden? I didn’t hear anything about homeless for the last eight years. Trump has only been in office for a month and already,…
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Kosher Crocodile Tears
Now that Donald Trump is president, anti-semitism is a topic. Suddenly. Because it never existed before January 20, right? The press was largely uninterested in December 2010, when 200 tombstones were overturned—an assault just as large as the one in St. Louis—at the aforementioned Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. There were no fundraisers by Muslim-Americans or…
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The Plantation
Rep. Eric Lucero is a Republican, Latino… …and is being told to get back on the DFL plantation by race-baiting DFL stooges: During the Public Safety Policy and Finance Committee Wednesday, Lucero was repeatedly harassed and shouted at, first for not being a person of color, and then after his heritage was established, for being…
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