Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Through The NARN Of Winter
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 talking with John Augustine of the Legislative Evaluation Assembly, looking ahead at the upcoming Legislative session. I’ll also be interviewing Jake Duesenberg about the Alliance for Liberty’s drive to prevent a special session on MNSure. Don’t forget…
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Unsafe Space
Think it’s cold and snowy? Sit back and pour a bourbon. We’ve got a story for you. You know what it’s like when your football team has a 21 point lead at the beginning of the third quarter, but then your opponent scores three touchdowns in an amazing display of skill, luck and clutch playing?…
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Membership Has Its Benefits
The DFL controlled Department of Employment and Economic Development is granting “Dislocated Worker” benefits – designed for large groups of private-sector workers who’ve been laid off – to DFL legislative staffers whose jobs disappeared with their majority and, in many cases, their representatives: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/12/14/dflers-job-loss-benefits/ As Kelly Fenton notes, this is a first; political work (and…
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Election Fraud
Democrats: October 15: “We have the best election system in the world, and saying otherwise is paranoia and treason”. November 15: “Our electoral system is a joke, and we need to recount every vote”. December 15: The election integrity problems aren’t in places that went to Trump, it was carried out by Democrat governments, and…
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The Newest Comedy Morning Radio Show
On “Morning Edition” this morning, in re Donald Trump cancelling the press conference he’d scheduled for today: HOST: “So, is this important, or is this just something that makes a difference to journalists?” NPR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: “It’s important. This is when journalists get to ask the tough questions of the president, and maybe tease…
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Fake News
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson says no, there was no Russian interference with the mechanics of our past election: Washington Post columnist David Ignatius asked Johnson if he could assure the country that Russian hacking did not affect the outcome of the presidential election. “We see no evidence that hacking by any actor altered the ballot…
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This Changes EVERYTHING!
Celebrities – among the left’s most vital constituencies – are now asking for 37 electors to vote against Trump. Don’t want to watch the whole video? OK – the “highlight” is probably Martin Sheen, who preaches: Sheen pledges that anyone who votes his or her way will go “down in the books as an American…
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Conservatives In The Mist
Google is reaching out to hire something foreign, and a little scary, to them. Conservatives: In the weeks since the Nov. 8 election, Google has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office, according to three lobbyists with knowledge of the matter. The company…
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By Christmas?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The military is the smallest it’s been since WW II which makes sense as the Founders feared a standing army would become a tool to oppress the citizens and there is no threat to the United States that would justify maintaining one. So why is our military engaged in…
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Faster!
The progressive chattering classes are all in a tizzy because many of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees are long-time opponents of the departments they’ve been chosen to lead: Rick Perry at Energy – who has advocated disbanding the entire department and reducing a cabinet seat Ben Carson at HUD, who has criticized federal housing Betsy DeVos at…
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Fake News
In New York City police precinct released this tweet over the weekend From the top, The “arsenal” includes: A toy musket, complete with orange “I am a toy!” Muzzle cap. A BB gun. An airsoft “shotgun” A couple of martial arts practice swords, most likely plastic On the right side – a garden machete, available…
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If Martin Luther Hadn’t Existed 500 Years Ago…
…we’d certainly need him today. All due respect to my Catholic readers and friends, but you guys were doing a whole lot better when you stuck with Italians and Poles.
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Whatshisorherface
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Students in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania took down a portrait of Shakespeare and replaced it with a portrait of that other one. You know, that author whose works have passed-the-test-of-time, delighted billions around the globe. What’s the name again? Help me out here, it’s that…
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You Expected Precisely What?
SCENE: Mitch BERG is in his garage, puttering with his snowblower. Avery LIBRELLE walks into the garage, drinking a bottle of kombucha. BERG: Uh, hey, Avery. To what do I owe the… LIBRELLE: I needed a place to throw the empty bottle. Hey – Trump was elected by the Russians! BERG: Well, it…
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To Protect And Serve…The Special Interests That His Bosses Kowtow To
Not that you’d know if have a life, but Minnesota’s little coterie of gun-grabber groups had a “March” yesterday. Of course, they didn’t march where the actual violence was. They “marched” about the tony, safe fields of Boom Island, nestled into the upscale neighborhood across the river from Downtown Minneapolis; close to the killing fields…
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Chanting Points Memo: Fake Coverage Of Fake News
During the 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial race, the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” spread a story – Target was “anti-gay”. They weren’t, of course; Target has always been socially progressive to a fault; by 2010, they spun themselves into a fair tizzy over every PC fad that came along. They still do. But they’d donated money…
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Trump-Starting Conservatism?
Trump is no conservative. He’s a big-government former Democrat who, previewed solely on his own record, merits and statements, looks as if he could be a bigger spender than George W Bush, if not Obama himself. But his cabinet, so far, is well to the right of the Congress, which is moving to the right,…
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Coaching
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I was worried about a stock market crash in October so I got out of the market. Now it’s peaking, record highs. I’m not convinced anything has changed. The fundamentals still feel phony. It’s irrational exuberance. Of course, I’m also missing out on the gains. Time to jump back…
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The Weather Outside Is NARNful
Brad Carlson is off on assigment this afternoon, so I’ll be filling in from 2-3PM. Today on the show: I’ll congratulate Democrats on their sudden interest in election integrity and cybersecurity! 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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I Heard It On The NARN
Today’s ♫ music playlist, including all of our “Worst of the Eighties” picks.
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I NARN So Far Away
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: In the first hour, I’ll be talking with King Banaian and Ed Morrissey about politics, current events, economics, diplomacy, and all but one of the other make-or-break issues of our time. In the second hour, I’ll be talking with King Banaian and Ed Morrissey…
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The Arab Revolt
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 call to early morning prayers (the fajr) had reverberated throughout Mecca on June 10th, 1916. The modestly-sized city of less than 80,000 was only just beginning their day…
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Well, Doy
The WashEx asks if Trump is already president: With weeks to go until he takes office, Trump’s moves have tested the limits of his unofficial powers as the president-in-waiting. And although his activism has drawn scrutiny from detractors, his favorability ratingshave hit new heights on the heels of several high-profile successes. “I don’t think it’s normal for…
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