Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers, Part MMMLXVIII
SCENE: Mitch BERG is leaving a downtown Saint Paul bar after happy hour with friends. As he fumbles for his keys by his car, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, steps out of an organic tax accountant office. Dressed in a hemp power skirt, her brunette-but-slightly-prematurely-gray hair cut into the…
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Win-Win
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Ramsey County Sheriff Bostrom is retiring to move to England to study whether it would improve law enforcement if they hired persons of good character as police officers. The fact he’s having to go all the way to Oxford to find anybody willing to seriously consider the question shows…
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Democrat Government Nationwide: “No, Black Lives Actually Don’t Matter”
Seven murders in Chicago in one neighborhood withihnt hours of each other on Thursday: Seven people, including four men killed in a gang-retaliation attack at a fast-food restaurant and a pregnant woman found with a gunshot wound to the head, were gunned down Thursday in three separate incidents within blocks of each other, police said.…
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The Best Threat Money Can Fabricate
I’ll say it here and now: “right wing terrorism” is a boogeyman that the left has been floating out there for decades to try to create a sense of urgency and alarm among their base. There certainly has been some terror associated with the…well, not “the right”, per se; more like “the non-left”. The “Klan” has…
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While I Oppose Capital Punishment On Principle…
…I do support the death penalty for “Swatters” – people who sic Swat teams on innocent third parties. Some do it to take a shot at their political or social enemies – and for them, the Eighth Amendment should be repealed. . For others? It’s apparently a prank: Audio of the emergency call has been…
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Feel Safe?
The next time you’re getting a cavity search, watching purses get rifled through and having a wand jammed down your throat at a Vikings or Twins game, just remember; three people were apparently able to smuggle a huge banner, and rappelling gear, into the USBank Stadium, climb the rafters, and stage a demonstration yesterday. We…
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Participation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals object when I say we ought to run government like a business. Here’s an example why we should (from the public land records, nothing confidential, all public information): House in the 1300 block of Fremont Avenue in St. Paul sold in 2007, peak of the market just before…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Today’s ♫ music playlist
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We Are Gathered Here Today To Get Through This Thing Called NARN
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: The top 11 stories of 2016 – because our shows go to 11. A look ahead to 2017. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition…
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The Embers of Prometheus
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 town of Kostiuchnówka had already seen heavy fighting for nearly a year when the first hits of Russian artillery landed on July 4th, 1916. The town, located in Austrian…
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Am I The Only One…
…who wonders if all of this hysterical angst from the Left about having to share a democracy with people who disagree with them isn’t just an epic practical joke? Like, the entire American left (or at least those that pull their intellectual strings) playing a huge joke on all of society? Like, Ashton Kutcher is going…
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Deciding Question
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My Facebook friends are still losing it about Trump. Now the persistent theme is that his Cabinet appointments are rich people who know nothing about their departments; or worse, they do know something but it’s the wrong thing. The woman appointed as Secretary of Education sent her kids to…
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What Is Best In Life?
In the TV series MASH, there was an episode featuring a statistician – an Army officer who predicted how many men would be killed or wounded given the parameters of an upcoming battle. To the statistician character, it was all about numbers – “just business, nothing personal”, to invoke a line from a different seventies production. To…
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Warranty Work
Apparently $1.1 Billion just gets you the stadium. We needed the $100M Extended Service option, too.
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Those Who Can’t Possibly Learn From History Are Doomed To…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember yellowcake? The story was that intelligence agencies had learned Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium to build nuclear weapons to use against the United States, which would have posed a threat to our national security, so we had to go to war against him to prevent…
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The Strib’s New Editorial Writer
Allison Sherry added this opinion column – essentially, a piece of delated-PR for the Angie Craig campaign – in Monday’s Strib: Incoming Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis made his career as a provocative talk-radio personality who seemed to relish holding court on the fringes of the political mainstream. On any given day, he could offer up…
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Open Letter To President Obama
To: President Obama From: Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re: Blame Where Blame Is Due Mr. President, Don’t mention it. Any time! That is all.
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The Day The Massed Choral Music Died
Say what you will about Russia and its history: not good for the proverbial little guy, lots of death and misery, in a demographic death spiral… …but if they do something well, it’s massed choral music. And so I pay my regards to the Alexandrow Ensemble – known to generations as the Red Army Choir,…
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Confirmation Bias
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It might be funny to write a letter to the editor. I’ll claim to be a left-handed Black Transgender Lesbian. The story will be about my struggle, how I was oppressed by Conservative teachers in college, passed over in employment so they could hire Whites, afraid to speak my…
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Anniversary
I missed this one until I was reminded yesterday; 12/26 is the 26th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. It didn’t really get headlines, did it? That’s because the American Media / Academic / Industrial Complex bet on the wrong side. The media has spent most of this past generation – a generation –…
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The Problem With Liberal Media Talking About “Fake News”
The left-leaning mainstream media – which has in the life of this blog: embraced (and still embraces) a “fake” but “accurate” story about George Bush’s Air Guard service that sported faked documents and references to officers who had retired from the service by the time they signed the purported document Actively colluded with the Hillary…
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Not Quite Into The Spirit
Liberals; some of you really really really really really just don’t get the spirit of the holiday. That may have been the most depressing thing I read all holiday season.
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Duty, Honor, Party
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’ve been seeing some particularly stupid articles arguing electors have the duty to vote their conscience, not their pledge. Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution provides that each state shall appoint electors. How and who gets appointed elector is up to the legislatures of the states.…
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Gotta Move Fast
My piece earlier this noon hour, about the complete collapse of Jessica Chastain’s anti-2nd-Amendment melodrama Miss Sloane, reminds me of a problem that’s emerged this past year. Sloane was the second movie in the past 12 months involving an issue in which I’m fairly intimately involved, and that I’ve actually wanted to go to a theater to…
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