Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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That Moment When You Get That Crazy Feeling…
…that Trump and his people might be smarter than their critics.
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Your Lyin’ Eyes
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Revealing. Indeed.
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Democrat Rule
What happens when you count the dead over the past sixteen years in Chicago – which hasn’t had a Republican, much less conservative, mayor in several generations? You get more blood and gore than our two official war zones, that’s what. What do you suppose would happen if the mainstream media and Hollywood covered Democrat…
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Romania’s Day
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 Romanian ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was insistent on delivering his communique on August 27th, 1916. Entrusted with a diplomatic message directly from Romania’s Prime Minister Ion Bratianu,…
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The Good Hollywood Liberal
In the wake of the left’s disgraceful self-clowning at the Golden Glob Awards, the right’s perception of the Hollywood Liberal may be at Peak Meme. And for good reason. But Christian Toto, writing in the National Review about filmmaker Peter Berg (no relation) cautions on the danger of painting with too broad a brush about…
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Bringing A Nail Clipper To A Gunfight
Hollywood is threatening a strike until Donald Trump retires… …well, OK. Not “Hollywood”. Just some actors. Brad Pitt, Amy Adams, Dakota Fanning and Ralph Fiennes are among the A-listers… …who are not mentioned anywhere in the piece about the supposed strike: Rosie O’Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael Shannon are among the dozens of artists,…
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Wages Of Fiction
The Fort Lauderdale airport? Yep – it was a “gun free zone“:
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Self-Inflicted
Hillary is pondering running for mayor of NYC. To be fair, she couldn’t be any worse than DiBlasio. Could she? On the other hand…: Hank Sheinkopf, a New York Democratic consultant, told Newsmax, “She is wildly popular among New Yorkers — so much so that were she to file, [Mayor Bill] de Blasio would have…
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Parting Shot
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama promises to send 1,200 Special Forces troops to Lithuania, to counter Russian military aggression. This is a transparently political move directed at low-information domestic audience, the people who get their news from headlines alone. Obama won’t be President this Spring so he won’t be the one keeping the…
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Does Harvard Give Refunds?
Rachel Maddow – not the most overrated “public intellectual” in the leftymedia, but pretty dang close – threw out some hilarioiusly historicalliy-ignorant red meat organic gruel for her audience of ill-informed wannabe intellects. Over the past year I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor. I am gravitating toward moments…
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Feel The Burning Of Inequality
A friend of this blog writes: So, this opinion piece says the poor don’t get enough exercise, so of course the wealthy are to blame. Why? Because wealthy whites like to do things like yoga, spinning groups and the like, and they don’t see poor people at those classes. The writer’s solution is anti-wealth.…
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Tu Quoque
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: One of the standard tricks lawyers use at trial is to show that a witness has lied about something, then argue “We know that she lied about X so we know she’s a liar – what else has she lied about? Why should we believe anything she says?” Remember…
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Gonna Lose Your Mind In NARN Rock City
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Orwell Won. The campaign to turn Minneapolis into a cold Flint. 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…
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Heather Martens, Whitesplainer
Behold the spokeswoman for Minnesota’s minority community. It’s Heather Martens, longtime “executive director” and, for most of the decade, pretty much sole “member” of “Protect” Minnesota, a criminal-safety group famous for its comic ineptitude. She left “Protect” Minnesota a while ago; word has it that MIchael Bloomberg realized that he’d be throwing even more money…
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Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Most Americans agree there should be different standards for different classes: children have fewer rights than adults; felons have fewer rights than innocent; military have fewer rights than civilian. Not so with Liberals. It’s taken for granted that Liberals have more rights than the rest of us, and the…
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Wonder If Lori Sturdevant Caught This?
Lori Sturdevant – like a lot of liberal scolds of a certain age – pines for the halcyon days when Minnesota Republicans and Democrats supposedly worked together “across the aisle”, arm in arm marching toward the great Progressive future. I’m not sure how much of that fabled past was comity, and how much was Stockholm…
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What The Heck Ya Gonna Do?
I’ll cop to it – I’m a sucker for language geekery. I focused a lot on Linguistics in college, and still enjoy the subject, even though I don’t actually do it for any kind of a living. Daniel Foster in NRO reviews two new books on the subject – with some fascinating insights tucked in.…
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Trending
Nine guns were purchased last year for every 100 Americans: Driven by terror threats and a potential Hillary Clinton administration, sales of guns in America soared to record levels in 2016, according to the FBI. Just released FBI background check numbers, which roughly equate gun sales, totaled some 27,538,673, 4 million more than in 2015…
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Tolerance = 0
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember in school when one kid refused to stop talking when the bell rang to start class, so nobody got recess? Remember how much that used to annoy you? It still annoys me. There were rumbles at a dozen malls across the country. Now comes the inevitable response: nobody…
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Mirage
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 men of the British 2nd Light Horse Brigade welcomed the setting sun on the night of August 3rd, 1916. Stationed at the small Egyptian town of Romani in…
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To The Extreme
Gallup reports the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as politically conservative is the highest it’s been in twenty years. Which doesn’t surprise me much; while Americans may have any number of political orientations, real life is conservative for most Americans. But the real takeaway? Those describing themselves as Democrats are becoming more extreme toward the left:…
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Cored
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The latest Minnesota State Bar Association magazine arrived, celebrating their commitment to diversity. You might have thought a trade association would be committed to helping its members be better at their jobs but no, they’re committed to bringing in more women, people of color and people of indeterminate gender…
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Journalism Without Limits!
Well, the title is a little misleading. Where I wrote “without limits”, I guess I what I meant was “no bottom to the barrel”. Because in the arc of downfall for the City Pages, from its heady days in the eighties publishing James Lileks, and its journalistic peak in the nineties, where they ran a lot…
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