Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Dear Democrat Friends
To: My various Democrat friends From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: The sun will come out. Suck it up, little campers. I survived the last eight years. You’ll survive the Trump years, as well -provided you don’t slash your wrists tonight, or freeze to death in a Canadian winter. If it’s any consolation to y’all? While…
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Congrats In Order
Congratulations, as I write this, to two long-time friends of this blog. Rob Doar, political director of MN-GOPAC, was also campaign director for Randy Jessup, for whom the second try was the charm against Barb Yarusso up in Shoreview. And long-time Shot in the Dark history correspondent First Ringer was the manager of the Dario Anselmo campaign…
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Judge, Jury And Executioner (UPDATED)
We don’t know much about the man who shot two people at a dollar store on the mean streets of Burnsville yesterday. And by “we”, I mean everyone but Erin Maye Quade, who promptly tweeted that the shooting proved the need for background checks. Before any details were known. Not only before the investigation had started,…
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Money Changes Everything
One of the issues I’ve been silent about so far is the Constitutional Amendment that would take legislative pay out of the legislature’s hands and move the decision on salaries for legislators (and many other government employees) to an independent council. Brianna Biersbach writes an excellent piece on the subject in MinnPost. The government-accountability hawk in…
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Rigged
Get out and vote today. Assuming it matters. George Soros has been spending big bucks to control the system. And he’s just getting started: The documents reveal that the Soros campaign fueled litigation attacking election integrity measures, such as citizenship verification and voter ID. It funded long-term efforts to fundamentally transform election administration — including…
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Why I’m Voting For Hillary Clinton
This has been a tough election season. It’s hard to make a choice, honestly. As I’ve noted in this space, I don’t much care for Donald Trump, for reasons that go back three decades. But after thinking a long, long time, I’ve come to the realization that there really is only one valid choice…
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Three Reasons Not To Vote For Angie Craig
Reason #1: She lied about her business background. Her ads make her sound like some kind of entrepreneur. In fact, she’s a “Human Resources” executive. Now, God love all you HR people in the audience, but Human Resources is the exact opposite of entrepreneurship. Fully-implemented HR processes are a leash around business’ neck, ready…
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Somewhere In Virginia
SCENE: FBI Director James COMEY drives up to his house, in a cozy northern Virginia suburb of DC. As he gets out of his car, he notes Huma ABEDIN, sitting on his porch. He takes his briefcase and walks toward her. ABEDIN: Good day, Mr. Comey. COMEY: Ms. Abedin, you know I can’t communicate…
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Juxtapose
On the one hand, it seems all primitive and quaint. On the other, it’s basically what happens every day, under a different name, at America’s universities.
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Be Careful Out There
I suspect that Hillary Clinton has enough states with enough electoral votes to win the election – at that the vote-generation systems in her blue-city base of operations will generates any votes needed to give her the win. 1 And while any given liberal is no more likely to be violent than any given conservative, the…
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Like A Snowball Headed Toward Hell
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Now Sweden is facing societal collapse, crime is out of control and police are quitting their jobs. This is the entirely predictable result of open borders they refuse to close because to Liberal politicians, Migrant Lives Matter but nobody else’s lives do. So who maintains order when the police…
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If You Live In Minnesota’s First Congressional District
Rep. Tim Walz like to portray himself as a pro-Second-Amendment legislator. But here the Representative is, huddled up with some of Michael Bloomberg’s paid shills, promising to support larding up law-abiding gun owners with additional regulations, and to carry the Bloomberg agenda (which, make no mistake, leads inevitably to New York-style gun control. If you…
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I Heard It On The NARN
More about the Minnesota Business Alliance. Here’s the Legislative Evaluation Assembly report. Greg Ryan is running for US House in CD 4. And of course, ♫ today’s music playlist
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Ain’t Nothing’ But A NARN Party
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today, on our final pre-election show: Phil Krinkie of the Minnesodta Business Alliance joins us to talk about what’s at stake in this election. John Augustine of the Legislative Evaluation Assembly talks about their latest Minnesota Legislative report card…
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American Civilization Is Doomed, Part MCCCLVI
The good news: the World Series drew, by modern standards, an avalanche of viewers. While more people watched the last really really great Game 7 that I saw (1991, Twins vs. Braves), more people watched TV back then. It was an irresistable draw; two “cursed” teams meeting, and having one of the more enjoyable World Series…
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Ömertä
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The GERMANS are losing control of the streets? The Italians never had any, the French are too arrogant to want any, but the GERMANS can’t keep people in line? Sure, migrants get a pass. Their Lives Matter. But if a citizen shot one, you know the entire weight of…
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Place Your Bets
You just know Team Clinton – the finest collection of political skullduggerers, character assassins and anger merchants money can buy – didn’t burn through all their their oppo-research two weeks ago. You just know they saved something for today, the last news dump before election day. Let’s take bets. What is Team Clinton going to dump today?
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Settled Statistics
Just remember – Nate Silver’s 538 statistics blog is infallible. Bet your mortgage payments on their statistically-modeled predictions. Because human nature never defies numbers. It’s settled science.
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Squib
One of my most fearless predictions of this campaign cycle; “Black Lives Matter” will be shown up as an election-year artifice of the Democrat party. While the movement may well have started organically, it has most certainly been harnessed by Soros money toward the goal of getting black voters to turn out, after two cycles…
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Bearers Of The New Plague
If everybody they disagree with is a “hate group” – as the Southern poverty Law Center would have you believe – then the term “hate group” has completely lost in the meeting. They do, and it has. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which made its reputation tracking and cataloguing violent extremist groups, has set its…
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Pulpit Abuse
The Twin Cities Social Justice militia has been carping about Henco sheriff Rich Stanek “sending” Henco deputies to help North Dakota law enforcement deal with the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. This, partially at the behest of Governor Lieutenant Governor Tina Flint-Smith, who has been using her position to flog the issue on Facebook: I do…
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Huma-dified
Oh, relax. It’s just a photo meme. Or… Is it?
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Surprise?
Minnesota high school students choose Trump over Clinton: More than 77,000 students from 213 high schools have taken part in the election so far, and the first round of results came in Tuesday morning. The Republican ticket with Donald Trump and Mike Pence narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine 35 to 33 percent. The…
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Lost In Translation; Found, Suddenly And Conveniently, By The Media
As a German speaker, I was surprised and delighted to see that the American English word “shitstorm” has been adapted to German. The new German word shitstorm is a vernacular for, well, a shitstorm. Of course, while the word is an FCC violation in the US, the English word “shit” itself has no meaning in…
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