Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Rubber V. Glue
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hillary ran a private email server and deleted emails. She has variously tried to claim that everybody does it, that Colin Powell said it was okay, that nobody ever told her it was wrong. Newsweek chimed in with: Bush Did it Too! So that makes it okay? No –…
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Berg’s Seventh Law Is Eternal And Omnipresent
Know how I knew there was a Democrat plan to use physical violence on pro-Trump and pro-GOP rallies? Because the media has been spending so much time talking about the “threat” of GOP violence against Democrats. When I heard NPR last week solemnly intoning about the “threat” of “people in open-carry states standing around polling…
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Autobahn Zur Hölle
It was, under the circumstances, inevitable: Work for New Ulm Oktoberfest, and fixing to book ’em for next year (hint hint)? Go here.
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Pass A Buck, Get A Buck
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There is a proposal to amend the Minnesota constitution. The plan is to take away from the Legislature the power to set its own salaries, giving it instead of an independent citizen’s committee. Sounds good on its face, will be a disaster in actual practice. Which is why nobody…
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Evidence
SCENE: At the garden center. Mitch BERG is taking advantage of late-season blowouts when Avery LIBRELLE, carrying a lawn flamingo, steps around the corner, catching BERG by surprise. LIBRELLE: Merg! You keep claiming there’s vote fraud. And yet there is not. There never has been and there never will be. BERG: Well, the evidence…
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Happy Anniversary!
Nobody who was in Minnesota in 1991 needs to be reminded; today’s the 25th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard. I’m not sure if the blizzard caught everyone by surprise, but it sure fooled me. I remember seeing the first snowflake that morning as I picked my mom up for the airport – she was back…
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Every Saint Paul Republican’s Fantasy
When you’re a conservative/Republican in Saint Paul, you get used to having your campaign lawn signs stolen or vandalized. “It’s just kids”, the local DFLers say – but then you notice your neighbors’ Obama and Hillary and Betty McCollum and, probably as late as 2010, Wellstone signs are utterly unmolested. And ideas – dreams, really…
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Eurasia Has Always Been At War With Eastasia
The Minnesota DFL is sending out mailers…: …blaming the GOP – not one of whose elected representatives voted for Obamacare – for Obamacare. Two observations: So there’s your admission; the Democrats are officially admitting Obamacare and its children are worthless political turds Who would the Democrat be trying to reach with this piece? The stupid, the incurious, the…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Alan Duff’s Fixing America’s Shattered Politics: Practical Steps Concerned Citizens can Take to Regain Our Lost Government is available on Amazon and via Duff’s website. Here’s my series on the Poll Scam, as well as the series I wrote about Twin Cities media polls back in 2010, whose conclusions were supported by the Podesta leaks. And…
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Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Alan Duff, author of Fixing America’s Shattered Politics, joins me in the second hour We’re going to talk Hillary’s emails, healthcare, and the face-off between the MNGOPAC people and the anti-gun trolls in Bloomington last week. Don’t…
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Open Letter To FBI Director Comey
To: James Comey, Director, FBI From: Mitch Berg, Concerned Citizen Re: Re-opened Email Investigation Director Comey, Just a reminder; drapes don’t have shoes. That is all.
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Nullified (Not!)
We don’t know what happened in the jury room in Oregon yesterday – but as we noted last night, a jury acquitted all of Ammon Bundy’s group of all charges. The decision smells like jury nullification – the notion that a jury can invalidate bad law by not finding people guilty of it. Say what…
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A Slip Of The Lip. Or Typing Finger. Whatever.
Preya Samsundar continues to beat the stuffing out of the Twin Cities institutional media in reporting on Minneapolis DFL legislative candidate Ilhan Omar’s fuzzy marital history. Only this time, she may have done it with the unwitting help of the City Pages’ DFLer-with-byline Cory Zurowski: Whether or not Mr. Zurowski realizes it, he has shed new…
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It Was 25 Years Ago Tonight
Game 7 of the 1991 series. I was sitting kitty-corner from the Dome that night, working a night shift at KDWB. After I got off the air, I went into the conference room and watched the last couple innings with the rest of the night crew (and some of the weekday crew who wanted to…
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More Of That “Wave Of Right-Wing Terror” We’ve Been Warned About
A jury found Ammon Bundy and his group not guilty in a jury trial in Oregon hours ago. More as details become available.
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I Had Forgotten This…
..and I’m glad Howard Sinker brought it up. By the way – hard to believe today is the 25th anniversary of Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
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Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
I’ve been saying (and proving) for years that the mainstream media’s “Fact Check” industry is a bald-faced left-wing propaganda operation. Circumstantial evidence? Politifact has different answers for the same statement, depending on who says it:
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About Those Death Panels
As we’ve noted in this space in the past – while no health insurance provider has a room with the words “Death Panel” on an embossed brass plate on the door, the notion of allocation of services, including life-saving ones, to make sure scarce supplies of life-extending medicine and treatment go to the people who’ll…
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Skål!
The “Pirate” party is poised to take power in Iceland.. …and then give it back: Although the Pirate Party formed just four years ago, its popularity has skyrocketed — most likely for unconventional tactics aligning loosely with libertarianism — the promotion of privacy rights and personal freedoms, and simultaneous shrinking of Big Government. Edward Snowden…
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A Luddite Of Things
I’ve been deeply ambivalent about “the Internet Of Things” (IoT) for as long as geeks have been jabbering about it. Now, bear in mind, I work in technology; I design how people and technology (at various levels) interact. My home office looks like Chloe O’Brien’s cubicle, or Vernon Reid’s effects rig. But I gotta draw the…
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Public-Private Partnerships
A friend of the blog writes: Neighborhood Facebook page was discussing what will happen when non-profits are no longer paying ROW fees in St Paul. I questioned exactly what our property taxes, which continue to rise, are paying for if the ROW assessments are paying for basic city services. Now, I see- people are paying…
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Buying A Wave
Seen at Saint Catherine’s: They can’t get 20 volunteers out for a typical event, and most of them are 60 plus Highland Parkers with ELCA hair and terminal crabbiness. But they’re marinading in all the Bloomberg money. Please, canvassers. Stop by my house. I beg of you.
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Prohibition
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed about this story: Two thoughts: One, prohibition doesn’t work. Not even in prison. People will get what they want, somehow. Gun controllers, take note. Two, dead men tell no tales and they also buy no cocaine. There’s always a trade-off, in every policy choice. joe doakes Today’s debate: “Divulge…
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s Corruption News, Six Years Ago
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, I noted that the Star/Tribune “Minnesota” and Humphrey Institute polls were consistently, statistically, not only erroneous, but in a very suspiciously consistent way; in their polling, especially their election-eve polls, they always showed Republicans doing much much worse than they ended up doing – and this correlation was…
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A Good Guy With A Gun: South Dakota Edition
71 year old carry permit holder shoots carjacker in Sioux Falls: A couple was sitting in their vehicle in the parking lot of the Red Rock Inn on 41st Street when [suspect Edward] LeBlanc attempted to steal their car. Clemens says LeBlanc forced open one of the doors of the car and hit the 71-year-old…
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