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  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part V: Everyone With ELCA Hair Looks The Same

    All this week we’ve been talking about “Protect” Minnesota’s press release, a week ago today. And when I say “talking”, I mean “checking its many false assertions, and mocking it to a fine sheen”. I – like the release itself – saved the worst for last. Like Going To Courtney Love For Legal Advice:  We…

  • A Hit, A Laugh, And A Warning

    Warren Henry, in writing about the “Womens March” for women against Donald Trump, notes sort of clubby fragmentalism that accompanies so much of the far left these days: Black feminists have turned off white women with calls to check their privilege. The march’s inclusion of a pro-life group as a partner in a march that…

  • Open Season

    Ever thing you’d see the day I’d agree with John Choi’s office about…well, much of anything? Mazel tov.  Here we go. Choi’s office responded to Saint Anthony PD officer Geronimo Yanez’s attorneys’ motions to dismiss the charges stemming from the shooting of Philando Castile last summer.   The motion cites the claims that Castile –…

  • Artisanal Bread And Cirques De Soleil

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I enjoy live theater.  Well, some of it.  I go for entertainment, not consciousness-raising (I get enough of that from the newspapers, television, internet, Bar Association, Academy awards . . . I’m inundated with people wanting to raise my consciousness to the point where all I want is a…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part IV: I Don’t Think That Word Means What The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence Thinks It Means

    On Tuesday and yesterday, we discussed “Protect” Minnesota’s factually vacuous response to the House’s Constitutional Carry bill – which would allow people who are otherwise entitled to carry firearms to do so without having to jump through hoops. Today, we’ll shift the focus to “Protect”‘s response to the self-defense reform bill – which The Reverend…

  • Open Letter To Those Who Just Don’t Get It Yet

    To:  Some Of You Trump Opponents Out There From:  Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re:  Terminology Dear Hollywood and New York Showbiz and Media “Elites” As we come up on inauguration day, some of you are still sore about Donald Trump.  I get it.  I mean, I didn’t vote for him, either. You’d like to pretend…

  • “Oceania Has Always Been At War With Eastasia”

    Hearing the strum und drang from Democrats over Trump’s impending inauguration brought this little tidbit to mind: It’s from the fake-news site and memes-for-dumb-people mill “Occupy Democrats” – one of very few “news” “sources” in the world not equipped to mock Minnesota Progressive Project’s relative intelligence – back in 2012. Suddenly, I suspect, dissent is the…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part III: That Golden Ticket!

    I’m continuing my five-part series going over “Protect” Minnesota’s press release on the Self-Defense Reform and Constitutional Carry bills, which were introduced last week in the House. But first, a quick aside. Records:  While the criminal-safety  movement would like you to think otherwise, gun violence is neither generally random nor unpredictable.  Our violent crime rate…

  • In The Footsteps Of Stalin, The Shadow Hecklers Stagger Through The Winter

    A group of Obama supporters are planning to hold a “clap-a-thon” to, er, “honor” the outgoing President: “His legacy is one of kindness and grace,” according to Bejidé Davis, a 29-year-old New York lawyer who organized the clap-out. That opinion is not universally held, to say the least — the consequential policy innovations of President…

  • To My Democrat Friends

    I’ve heard some of you refer to the idea of turning your efforts toward impeaching President-Elect Trump. I say that not only should you do it, but you should treat it as an absolute imperative, and pursue it with maniacal devotion. It’s the Progressive thing to do.

  • Another Gun-Free Zone…

    …another terrorist attack: On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI confirmed the motives of the recent shooting attack at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida. The assailant, Esteban Santiago, claimed to carry out the attack in the name of the Islamic State. During Santiago’s bond hearing, FBI special agent Michael Ferlazzo confirmed that he did carry out the…

  • Poke The Rat

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New York Times writes about Milo Yiannopoulos’ new book.  First line of the story says Milo is “infamous” and a “Donald J. Trump” supporter.   Infamous – as in “a day that will live in infamy?”  He’s that bad?  Care to give us any examples, show us any bodies?  Guess…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight, Part II: Data, Data Everywhere!

    All week, we’re going over the “Protect” Minnesota press release from last Friday evening (aka “where politicians take out their trash”).   Because the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence’s work is just too awe-inspiringly bad to tackle in just one post. Aside:  I can hear you asking already; worse than a Heather Martens piece? It’s a good…

  • Toward Stamping Out Bigotry

    The NYTimes “staff ethicist” discusses how to react to other people expressing bigoted statements. I didn’t see anything about responding to someone saying their politician was acting “in your best interests – as if you’re not perfectly aware of them, and somehow retarded by dint of not living in Manhattan or DC. I’ll keep looking.

  • Fake Economic News

    As Joel Kotkin points out, Donald Trump faces two major hurdles.  One is the structural mess Barack Obama left; a shallow, fragile “prosperity” (nonetheless called a “boom” by the Democrat media) built on hoarding low-interest cash. The second?  The perception that the media is pumping out that this potemkin prosperity is actually a “boom” (emphasis added):…

  • Unforeseen Consequences, Foreseen

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: How can anyone not foresee the obvious consequences of this policy: Migrants will stay in Germany if they can prove neo-Nazi violence Berlin’s interior minister Andrea Geisel ([pictured) said Berlin is looking into the legal possibilities of the exemption after nearby Brandenburg opted for the scheme which offers protection…

  • The Gang That Couldn’t Not Shoot, Straight: Game On!

    In 1987, as a bill that would require the state to issue handgun carry permits to citizens who were not explicitly barred from having them passed a vote in the Florida state legislature, state senator Ron Silver predicted blood in the streets, and said the state would turn into Dodge City. Silver, being a Democrat of…

  • “I Have Been To The Mountaintop”

    Listening to Martin Luther King’s “I Have Been To The Mountaintop”, it’s glaring how far the art of oratory and rhetoric has sunk, even just in my own lifetime. Martin Luther King was, of course, a tall yardstick to which to compare any orator.

  • Will It Play In Peoria?

    Heat maps of TV / cable / digital shows around the country. I’m frankly amazed that “The Voice” dominates North Dakota like it does.

  • Yesterday’s Felony…

    …is today’s DFL cash cow.

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Here’s the link to the MN Gun Owners Caucus. As Bryan Strawser and I discussed, you need to start calling your state representative and state senator now, to support the Self Defense Reform (aka “Stand Your Ground”), Constitutional Carry and Reciprocity Reform bills. More next week. And of course, ♫ today’s music playlist.

  • Only Thieves On Parole And NARN Out On Patrol…

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Bryan Strawser of MNGOPAC joins us to talk about this legislature’s raft of 2nd Amendment bills. The ten dumbest things I’ve heard from liberals since the election Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440,…

  • The Alt-Right’s Secret Weapon…

    …is the big left itself.

  • Of Fish And Water

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Got this message from the Real Property Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association, sent to all members: “The MSBA Real Property Law Section seeks feedback on what our members find valuable about the Section. To streamline the process, we put together a short survey for members, and in…

  • Sometimes A Great Notion

    A Swiss community is un-thrilled by the immigration by a “left wing vegan” Dutch woman: A left-wing Dutch vegan who campaigned against cowbells in the Swiss village where she lives has had a request for a Swiss passport thrown out after annoying the locals. Nancy Holten, who was born in the Netherlands but moved to…

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