Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Justifiable
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Mainstream media is alarmed that internet sites provide fake news, leading innocent voters astray from The Truth which they ought to be getting from the mainstream media. And since nobody is reading their content, the mainstream outlets are going to lay off staff and close offices which will exacerbate…
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“Shut Up, All You Ignorant, Uncivil Tribalists!”, He Explained
To: Minnesota Public Radio From: Mitch Berg, “tribal” peasant Re: Norm Orenstein MPR, Last Friday you played an interview with Norman Orenstein on your noon show. Orenstein is to academia what Lori Sturdevant is to journalism; a myopic scold for a very defined ideology, who after a career of being hailed as a genius by his own…
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Death From Taxes
Car2Go – a rental car-sharing service much favored by “new urbanists” and others on the left – is leaving the Twin cities… …because of the taxes.
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On
Moms Want Action – the pro-criminal group funded entirely by liberal plutocrat Michael Bloomberg – posted this over the weekend: Oh, that’s so cute. A group of smug, privileged, Whole-Foods-shopping, MPR-listening, Subaru driving insta-activists say “it’s on”. No, ma’am (including that “mom” with the beard in the back row on the left). You’re wrong. It…
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Unsung
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It occurs to me that I haven’t heard Larry Jacobs opine about Kellyanne Conway, the woman who ran Donald Trump’s stunningly successful Presidential campaign. Why not? It’s not as if she had such a great candidate that the campaign was a walk in the park. Trump isn’t George Washington,…
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The Strib: Lowering Their Own Bar?
The Strib “reported”, after a fashion, about attitudes about Obamacare after an election where it was primarily responsible for ejecting the DFL from power in the Minnesota Senate. And it’s either a masterpiece of selective fact, or some fairly incurious reporting: Anxiety is greatest among Minnesotans with preexisting medical conditions. Before the ACA, insurance companies could…
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It’s The Message, Stupid
One campaign-season cliche we can retire: “money buys elections”. Trump won is election very much on the cheap: Of course, the battlefield was already littered with candidates from both parties that outspent their opponents, only to lose. Meg Whitman, John Corzine, Linda McMahon and a host of other famous and unfamous names outspent their opponents…
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Two Americas
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I question whether Liberals and Conservatives hear the same things. When a Liberal says “Joe Doakes is a racist,” I suspect other Liberals hear “Joe Doakes is dangerous.” That triggers a fight-or-flight response. The listening Liberals know they should shun me – at a minimum – and fight…
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I Heard It On The NARN
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You All Act Like You’ve Never Seen A NARN Person Before
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Why are the left such a bunch of spoiled babies? My call to the GOP-controlled legislature Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of the…
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To Dream
In Minnesota, the DFL lost its majority in the Senate, and were reduced in the House. It’s a wonderful thing. To look at what is possible, though? In North Dakota, the Democrat-NPL party was reduced on election night from “minority” to “barely there”. And it’s a very very wonderful thing: The shellacking North Dakota’s Democrats…
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Un Bravo Ragazzo Con Una Pistola
A good guy with a gun shoots two robbers at a pizzeria in Levittown, Pennsylvania: The shooting happened late Tuesday night at Porfirio’s Pizza and Pasta, located in a shopping plaza in Levittown, about 25 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The customer took out a gun and shot both men after they allegedly pistol-whipped him, Middletown…
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Bubble?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota has early voting. People were coming to the office two months before election, to cast absentee ballots. That was before most of the major revelations about Hillary. To what extent did early voting artificially inflate Hillary’s support? Had those voters been required to vote on election day –…
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Casualty Of Hysteria?
Ramsey County attorney John Choi released the findings of the investigation of the Philando Castile shooting. Ramco charged Saint Anthony Park police officer Jeronimo Yanez with second-degree manslaughter in the death of the Saint Paul school employee last summer. There are better commentators on the legalities and the sociology of this incident than me. But…
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Everything Old Is New Again
Kevin Williamson on the return of at least some old fashioned values among Democrats after the election of Donald Trump who, let’s forget, had more in common with Bernie Sanders than any other candidate on the ballot: The pretensions of the imperial presidency are going to haunt Democrats for the immediate future, but they’ll quickly rediscover their…
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The Other Winners Last Tuesday
Other than the Trump campaign, and the people (should a conservative spring take hold)? Us. The alternative media. We pounded the mainstream media in this election like a piece of WalMart veal. After more than a decade of storming online to expose the national media as the serial-lying, double dealing, leftwing anarchists and activists they truly…
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I, Kirkian
I started noticing the fracture sometime during the Bush II administration; vast swathes of conservatives who could simply not tolerate other vast swathes of conservatives. It was unheard of during the Reagan era – and even under Newt Gingrich in 1994, conservatism was a fairly cohesive voting bloc as well as strategy. But somewhere during…
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The Order
If John Podhoretz gets it wrong, it probably didn’t need to be said anyway: Liberals spent 40 years disaggregating U.S., until finally the largest cohort in the country chose to vote as though it were an ethnic group — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 9, 2016 Read the whole thing… …no, wait – you just did.
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Casualties Of Politics: Childhood
Lego has jumped on the “diversity of opinion and dissent are “hate”” wagon… Lego will stop advertising its products in the Daily Mail, following a public campaign calling on big companies to drop adverts from newspapers accused of promoting “hatred, discrimination and demonisation”, the company has announced. …and also the shark. No more Legos. It’ll…
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Two Cents
A brief-ish article about Jason Lewis’s “upset” win in the 2nd CD by the always astute Matt Pagano. You should read the whole thing, but here’s the good-news takeaway: One more (extremely local) angle is that Lewis’ win will likely help revitalize the CD2 Republican Party. In the past few years, the local Party had…
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A Little Tense
At least one lefty keyboard commando on Facebook isn’t ready to make nice: The little fella apparently lives in upstate New York – his Facebook page has disappeared – so I’m not sure how he plans to evict people from red states. I’ll look for his plan. Someone is clearly compensating for something. If you…
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Dear Womyn Of America
You’ve been given a priceless opportunity; to have the first woman president be someone we don’t all have to be ashamed of. Don’t screw it up again. That is all.
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Artificial Sweetener
This may be hard to believe, but I truly do try to see the best in people. I really do. I actively try to find ways to find empathy with people, even – or especially – with people I disagree with. For example, while I agree with nothing Barack Obama did as president, I always…
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Attention, “Mitchketeers”
Commenter “Dog Gone” finally responded to my challenge a few weeks back, in this thread. To her credit, she cited a source to one of her claims. To her debit? It isn’t a very good source. Anyway, “Mitchketeers” – feel free to go and respond to the response.
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Open Letter To The House And Senate MNGOP Caucuses
To: House GOP Caucus, Senate GOP Caucus From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: Focus Dear Cauci, Congrats on taking the majority. I’m truly overjoyed. Now, let’s get real. Focus: Ever watched someone doing karate? When they do a strike, they focus all their energy, from their waist on down through their hands, into their knuckle.…
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