Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Get The Sad Trombone
Gun-control melodrama Miss Sloane has bombed at the box office. Well, no. That understates it. Howard the Duck and Ishtar bombed. Miss Sloane was dropped from a single B-29, and like that iconic single bomb, has a decent shot at helping to bring a war to an end. After lavish television advertising – Miss Sloane had a bigger TV budget than the…
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Holidays…Or Christmas
Nicholas Frankovich on why “Happy Holidays” – regarded by so many Christians as a forced, PC bowdlerization of “Merry Christmas” – is a good and noble greeting. Many good points – but I liked this one: Recall that devout Jews kept a respectful distance from the Holy of Holies and that Gentiles respectful of Judaism…
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What Might Have Been
Nate Cohn notes why Hillary couldn’t reassemble the Obama Coalition: It is entirely possible, as many have argued, that Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect of the United States if the F.B.I. director, James Comey, had not sent a letter to Congress about her emails in the last weeks of the campaign. But the electoral…
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Mayor Chris Coleman is running to replace Governor Deer-in-the-Headlights, hoping to bring the same vibrant economy to the rest of Minnesota as he’s brought to St. Paul. St. Paul is facing a $32 million shortfall after the Supreme Court declared its special assessment scheme was illegal. Black unemployment in…
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I Heard It On The NARN
I mentioned Ronald Reagan’s 1981 speech about the situation in Poland: It’s as valid and important today as it ever was. Anyway – Merry Christmas, all!
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I’m Dreaming Of A NARN Christmas
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show – I’ll be doing a special broadcast, “Christmas in America”. Hope you can tune in as you get ready for your family’s own celebrations. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson…
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They Are So Close…
SCENE: Mitch BERG is leaving Alary’s after a Bears game, when he runs into MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau. Dressed in a hemp power skirt, her brunette-but-slightly-prematurely-gray hair cut into the style known as “ELCA Hair”, she is on her way from her Lowertown condo to the MPR building. …
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Point Of Failure
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We distribute computer information so a single crash isn’t devastating. We distribute warehouses so deliveries are quicker. We distribute police officers so criminals don’t have a safe space to operate. Distributed transportation – everybody having their own car and good roads to drive it on – are what built…
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That “Epidemic” Of White Supremacy
An arrest was made in connection with a series of “hate graffiti” incidents in Nassau County, New York: According to authorities, Jasskirat Saini, 20, of Central Park Road, was arrested at 12:38 p.m. for multiple bias incidents at Nassau Community College. Police say Saini drew two swastikas on the exterior wall of Building H and…
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Why The Electoral College Matters
It protects the minority from the majority. Given that Florida and Texas are fairly red and growing fast, and New York and California are blue and shrinking, I’d suspect a lot of liberals would agree that that’s going to be a good thing for them before too terribly long. But watching how the left is panicking…
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Everything That Was Deplorable Is Suddenly Hip
2015; gun ownership is the province of bitter, gun cleaning Jesus freaks 2015; gun ownership is the province of bitter, gun clinging Jesus freaks 2016: it’s something liberals, suddenly, do.
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Electoral Community College
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hillary won New York and California, which gave her the popular vote but not the electoral college vote. How to reform the electoral process so The Will of the People is properly expressed? Option 1: do nothing. It’s working now, it’s worked for a long time, it’s good enough. …
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Desired Results
Thirty years ago, white supremacy groups were a real, legitimate, dangerous thing. Various groups – “Christian Identity”, “Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord” , the “Posse Comitatus” and of course the Klan – had, if not “power”, at least an effect on the world around them. I’ve run into it twice in my…
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Minnesotans For Rule By California!
Yet again, Democrat representative John Lesch – along with some well-meaning but deeply mistaken Republicans – is pushing legislation to scrap the electoral college and adopt “California Rules America”. The legislation is actually called the “National Popular Vote”, but let’s be honest (Lesch being a DFLer, he certainly won’t be); what it means is subjecting…
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Future Tense
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Last February, my wife and I stayed at an all-inclusive condo on Cozumel. We asked the staff about tipping – not required but okay if you want to. How much to tip? Well, the groundskeepers, the people who speak no English and have no particular skills, make 70 Pesos…
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The New Puritans
SCENE: Mitch BERG is shopping for a generator at Menard’s. As he pores over the spec sheet, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK steps around the corner. BIRKENSTOCK: Merg! The “christian” college, “Liberty University”, is building a gun violence range for its students. BERG: It’s a gun range. And so what? BIRKENSTOCK: It’s weird. BERG: …
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Almost Official
The electoral college confirmed what everyone but the most deluded of Democrats already knew: Donald Trump is the President-Elect. There was some drama; a total of six electors – four Democrats from Washington State, two Republicans from Texas – broke ranks and voted for other people: In the end, however, more Democrats than Republicans went…
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Grassfire War
I was born in Rugby, North Dakota – which since the 1920s has called itself “the Geographic Center of North America”. It’s kind of a chamber of commerce flim-flam – how to you calculate the geographic center of an irregular shape, like a continent? But what matters is that Rugby trademarked the phrase waaaay back…
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Call For John Banner
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We know Democrats cheated in the election, they always do. The reason they lost is they didn’t cheat hard enough, possibly because they believed their own fake polls and thought she had it in the bag. That explains why they were so embarrassed when she lost – it’s their…
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Official
Today’s the day that the Electoral College will meet and, despite six weeks of demonstrations, threats and magical thinking, elect Donald Trump as president. The Electoral College – which, back in the days when Hillary was considered inevitable, was above reproach – like so much in our federal system, is designed to protect the huge,…
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Changing Standards
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Leon Panetta, Big-shot Democrat, Clinton pal and former CIA Director time-server, says Trump will be blamed for an attack on the United States if he skips regular intelligence briefings. So is Leon guaranteeing that Trump will NOT be blamed for an attack, if he DOES attend regular intelligence briefings?…
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We Tried To Warn You
Oh, yes, liberals. We did. When the President started going crazy on the number and scope of his executive orders, we we warned you; “y’all might not control the White House forever. You might not want to set that precedent”. But you did. And when Dingy Harry Reid tubed the filibuster, we warned you; “this…
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Bam
Punch: Harry Reid on Mitt Romney talking with Trump about serving in the Administration: “This is a man who came out big-time against Trump. Oh, the things he said about Trump. Well, that’s great, that’s wonderful,” Reid said. “Either he wasn’t telling the truth, or he’s a person with no character. After having said…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the Legislative Evaluation Assembly’s annual report (for the past several years, in fact). Action For Liberty is working for a long-term solution to the Obamacare collapse. And of course, ♫ today’s music playlist.
Got any book recommendations?