Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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More Of This
Stewart Mills leads Rick “The Fossil” Nolan in the CD8 race, according to KSTP: In a rematch of one of the closest congressional races in the country two years ago, Republican Stewart Mills leads Democratic incumbent Rick Nolan by four points in Minnesota’s 8th District, 45 percent to 41 percent, in our exclusive KSTP/SurveyUSA poll.…
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If The Whole “Musical Legacy” Thing Wasn’t Enough…
…we’ve got one more solid reason to respect Bob Dylan.
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First Things First
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The slogan “America First” has historical connotations. Set history aside for a minute, just think about the principles of self-government. If you don’t believe the American government should put America’s interest ahead of all other nations, then whose interest should be first? Who should we mortgage our children’s future…
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When Out And About Tomorrow
There’s a “League of Women Voters” event in Bloomington tomorrow: “Guns, the Issues”. It’s going to be a panel discussion featuring, on the pro-criminal side, the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence of Protect Criminals Minnesota and Maplewood Police chief (and DFL mouthpiece) Paul Schnell, versus Bryan Strawser and Sarah Cade of the Minnesota Gun Owners Political…
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The One Time Bernie Sanders Was Right
Well, partly The former presidential candidate, Democrat rigging victim and socialist once famously complained that Americans had “too many choices” in the free market (to audiences of bobbleheaded millennials and vacuous hippies whose lifestyles would not exist without the surplus wealth the free market creates). He was an idiot, of course. But he was right…
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You Have Two Seconds
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Democrats are running a television ad against Jason Lewis, candidate for John Kline’s congressional seat, featuring this quote: “People have no idea what a great deal the American foreclosure system is.” Lewis is entirely correct, of course, but explaining it takes longer than a 2-second sound bite so Liberals…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Frank Drake’s website. Details on the League of Women Voters’ gun rights debate in Bloomington on Tuesday, and the ticket site. And of course, ♫ today’s music playlist.
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I Remember Searching For The Perfect NARN
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Frank Drake, candidate to replace Keith Ellison in Congress, will join me. 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.…
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A Sincere Question
I have left-of-center friends who say, with a completely straight face, that Hillary Clinton is “the most qualified person in history”. Qualified? Perhaps. Let’s leave her marriage and serial covering for a sexual predator out of it; her resume includes quite a number of punched political tickets. But “most qualified in history?” Someone please…
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The Self-Trolling Minority
I am blessed in many ways that my college English major advisor, the late Dr. Jim Blake, worked so hard to put the kibosh on any idea I might have had of being a college professor. It was the right call in so many ways. But there are times I feel a tinge of regret,…
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Garbage Out
There’s a meme going about – a corruption of “Godwin’s Law”, I think – that says “the first person to refer to Hitler loses”. We’ve been through Godwin’s Law and its various permutations in the past. But it did bring something to mind. When I get into rhubarbs with liberals, it’s pretty much an…
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Garbage
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We base public policy on data. But what if the data are wrong? The computer science law GIGO predicts the result will not meet expectations. What if the data are intentionally altered to provide seeming justification for political programs? Joe Doakes “What if”, Joe? You know better than that.
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K. Liff
SCENE: A freeway overpass relatively close to the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. A man – Kevin LIFF – clad in a clearly home-made general’s field-dress uniform, stands on the roof of a humvee, overlooking an immense battlefield, dotted with smoking wrecks and and ragged groups of corpses. Whiffs of smoke scud across the landscape, and the faint cries…
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Spanish Bonds On The Costa Brava
Once upon a time, when I worked at a radio station whose initial rhymed with “Ay Ess Tee Pee”, we went without a general manager for six months. In that time the station’s ratings doubled. Eventually, in their good time, Hubbard Broadcasting sent us a GM. Who promptly screwed everything up, where it stayed until…
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Oh Noes. Totes Grody Peeps.
Social media is a place where demented people have free reign to spout any nonsense they want without much consequence. . Most of us have known that for quite some time. Indeed, anyone who’s been running a blog for a decade or more could probably write a book on the delusional, demented and a disgusting…
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Bad Influence?
Whenever stories about law-abiding citizens carrying firearms within the bounds of their state laws comes up, you can count on some leftist bobblehead, clearly unfamiliar with the feeling of testosterone in “his” veins, vowing to take any gun “he” sees away from the rightful owner and bring down the wrath of almighty Goddess upon the…
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Berg’s Seventh Law Is Universal And Immutable, Part MXMVI
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Democrats claimed Hillary’s emails were not classified when sent, they were retroactively changed from unclassified to classified to make Hillary look bad. That always seemed a bit odd to me. Why would the Democrat administration be trying to harm the Democrat candidate? Now, it turns out the opposite was…
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Grassroots Win!
After being the targets of a whooole lot of Bloomberg spending (and a few Dreamsicles pestering them), the Savage City Council last night dealt a humiliating rebuke to Moms Want Action, Everytown, and Bence’s Biddies, refusing to even take up a proposed gun store ban within city limits. This from the MNGOPAC: Thanks to the…
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Colin Kaepernick, Conservative Hero!
First things first; I don’t really care if people stand for the national anthem or not. I do, personally; it’s out of respect for what this nation should be, moreso than what it is. It’s a free country – and that involves freedom to be contrary. As well as to deal with the consequences…
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The “Mother” Of Lies
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: One of my Facebook contacts unfriended me over the weekend. I am too hateful for her. I prefer Trump over Hillary and Trump is hateful so therefore I am hateful. I couldn’t reach her with logic because she’s not reacting with logic, she’s reacting with emotion. So let’s try…
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Welcome To The New Samizdat
During the heyday of dictators, the entire media was turned into a public relations apparatus for the government. It was all-pervasive; there was really no legally escaping it. All the means of communication – visual, written, even musical – were turned to the service of the dictator. Art? Yeah, you betcha. Remember all that jabbering…
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Climate Of Hate, Part MMMCMLXXX
GOP office in heavily-Democrat suburban Durham, North Carolina was firebombed over the weekend… …and sprayed with crude, threatening graffiti. Hillary Clinton and NC state Democrats condemned the attack – and the police currently have no suspects (although if anyone wants to take the bet that they were Democrats, most likely college-age, feel free to write…
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Juxtapose This
11 years ago, Donald Trump says some things about women that’d have gotten my mouth washed out with soap when I was a kid. The media and a whole lot of virtue-signalers were horrified – or feigned it. So where were the victorian vapours over the summer? (Language not safe for work) Oh, I know;…
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