Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Why I Ignore The “Journalistic Fact-Check” Racket
Politifact says President Trump is right… …rates him “mostly false” anyway. They don’t “check facts”. They ensure congruency with the narrative. No more.
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While I Didn’t Vote For Trump…
….every so often I read something that shows me exactly why so many people did. Like this.
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The Looooooser Is…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Wrong winner at the Academy Awards? Should have kept the sealed envelope in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s porch. Then nobody would know the contents until revealed by Carnac the Magnificent. Would have been a lot more entertaining. Joe Doakes I’m not one of those sticks in…
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Tradition!
There’s an ugly, stupid fringe on the edge of all political movements. Of course, in remembering the deaths of Ronald Reagan, Tony Snow, Gerald Ford, Antonin Scalia and others, it’s seemed like that deranged fringe cuts very close to the center of the Democrat party. But for one of their own? Alan Colmes was always…
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It’s Only Fiction
Or… …is it?
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The Better Mousetrap
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Everybody knows the federal budget is out of control. So how about thinking of creative ways to save money? Here’s one: The Third Amendment says: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but…
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Lost in Translation
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. The cable handed to America’s ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, in early January of 1917 was an unusual request. Since the start of the Great War, Germany’s telegraph…
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Let’s Watch Betsy Demigogue
Stephanie March – top foodie at Minneapolis / Saint Paul magazine – lays into Mayor Hodges and the unbending cynicism of her dismissal of a “tip credit” (or lower minimum wage for tipped employees). One of many potential pullquotes: The fact that you would equate tipping with slavery, one of the most abhorrent systems in human…
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Democrats Today…
…are apparently not only psychiatrists, but experts on how to reform the GOP.
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Tomayto, Tomahto
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Trump gave a speech [last week] referring to problems caused by immigrants in which he mentioned “what’s happening last night in Sweden.” But nothing happened [last] Friday night in Sweden so the media are giving him a hard time about it. Oops. The immigrants didn’t riot in Sweden until…
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Once You Were A NARNer And You Sailed The Seven Seas
I’m filling in for Brad Carlson today. Today on the show: Chris Fields talks about his run for MNGOP chair Enemy Of The People Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM. So tune in the Northern Alliance! You have so many…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the link to Howard Root’s book, Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO on the Feds’ Hit List. Read it, and disabuse yourself of the notion that the US Department of Justice is about, y’know, Justice. Wanna get to a book signing or learn more about the book? Here’s the book’s website. Andrew…
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You Dropped A NARN On Me
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Howard Root talks about his recent victory over the DOJ The gap in the American economy Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of the…
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It Works In So Many Ways
While it’s not statutorily legal, even under the French legal system, I love this idea on so many levels. American liberals would reflexively attack anyone who claimed He wasn’t actually born in France as a racist. And John F. Kerry, stricken with jealousy, would no doubt leave the country to run against him.
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Lest I Leave Any Doubt
Democrats: Make it happen! If you are a progressive, it is imperative that you accept no less.
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Assyle ‘Em!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Canada will not crack down on asylum seekers sneaking across from the USA, the borders will remain open. This is great news for us. Trump ought to announce that starting March 1st, the federal government will be renting busses to give free rides to the northern border, for any…
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We Shall Call Him “Bluto”
When picking a new DNC chair: please, please, Democrats, I beg of you, pick a man who thinks the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. One who thinks George Wallace was a Republican. Keith “Bluto” Ellison. I don’t care what it takes, Democrats – make this happen. I beg of you. That is all.
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The Tide
As we watch the progress of Minnesota’s “Consitutional Carry” bill – which would remove the law-abiding citizen’s requirement to ask the government for a permit to exercise their Constitutional right to carry a firearm – it’s worth noting the tide that is building in Free America for this utterly sensible measure. So far this year,…
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Bad Information
Rep. Erin Maye-Quade sent this bit out to her constituents earlier this week: Looks familiar, doesn’t it? It’s the same, precise set of fallacious claims made by The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence a few weeks ago. Neither of the bills would “eliminate” the permit to carry. That’s not the point, of course, so we’ll let…
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Instrumentation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In December, “Dangerous” was the number one bestselling book on Amazon. It sold enough copies to make the New York Times bestseller list. And the book hadn’t even been published – those were advance sales of a book due to be released in March. The book won’t be published…
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Today’s Chuckle
Being told I am “using my white privilege” to make a point… … by a white liberal in a comment thread on the Minnesota Public Radio website. For my part? I’ve decided that Bill Maher is right; the best way to deal with this sort of smog smug, entitled babble is to point it out,…
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Prediction
This will actually happen about the same time Rosie O’Donnell moves to Canada.
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Rinkeby Dinkeby
SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting in line at Taqueria Pineda on South Robert Street. Avery LIBRELLE walks in just after Berg orders. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh. Hi, Avery. LIBRELLE: Trump is such a baffoon. BERG: Did you just pronounce it “baffoon” LIBRELLE: Yes. Just like it’s spelled. Donald Trump is such a fool. BERG:…
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Watching…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: 1984 is a little late, but it’s arrived in St. Paul. Those new blue recycling carts in St. Paul, you know the ones, you got one. The City forgot to mention that each has an embedded microchip. St. Paul has mandatory recycling and the chips allow the trucks to…
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