Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama refuses to faithfully uphold United States immigration law, so the local sheriff in Arizona has been doing it. Then Obama’s Justice Department sued, saying nobody else could enforce the law the feds were ignoring. But the sheriff kept enforcing the law. The sheriff is up for re-election.…
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A Song In My NARN
Today’s Northern Alliance Radio Network ♫ music playlist.
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NARN Up Is The Code Word
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Rep. Matt Dean will join us to talk about the ongoing collapse of MNSure, among many other bits of campaign news. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard…
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The Source Of All Slime
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking into the Russian Tea House on University Avenue for some piroshki and borscht. As he walks up the steps, Avery LIBRELLE is walking out. BERG can’t avoid LIBRELLE; the meeting is inevitable. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er…hey, Avery. Didn’t know you liked Russian food. LIBRELLE: I don’t. I…
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Do Your Homework
A longtime friend of this blog writes: I really am not familiar with Mike Rowe, but a quick Google indicates he has a reality TV show on cable. But, I really enjoyed this and thought you might enjoy it as well: I had seen the article by Rowe already. And it made a point that,…
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You Can Keep Your Doctor, Provided Your Doctor Is A Unicorn
Obamacare’s state exchanges are melting down – some faster than others, none faster at the moment than Tennessee: Seventy-three out of Tennessee’s 95 counties will have only one insurer on the exchange, meaning no meaningful competition whatsoever. In regions where BlueCross BlueShield is pulling out, there will be two remaining major carriers, Cigna and Humana.…
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Empaneled
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Concealed carry permit holders should ask for a subcommittee to deal specifically with the issues of how police treat lawfully armed citizens. Joe Doakes Up until the Castile shooting, I’d have said most Minnesota cops were pretty decent around law-abiding shooters. I suspect most are. But as the anecdotes…
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If They Gave Pulitzers For Great Writing About Important Topics
There was a time when “Cracked” magazine was “Mad” magazine’s downmarket, cheap competitor; “Guitar World” to “Guitar Player”, “Hustler” to “Playboy”. I have no idea what this online world has wrought – but while Cracked has turned into a hit-generating listicle mill, it has come to feature some excellent writing. Now, forget the market talk.…
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Blind Squirrel
Governor Dayton admits Obama care is a flaming goat rodeo. On its surface, the story is about one of the most left of center governors in America throwing Obamacare under the bus. And that’s all interesting, don’t get me wrong. But the governor – and depressed it’s been covering for him for six years –…
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Let It Bleed…Out
Twitter isn’t finding any buyers. With the loathsome Gawker a thing of the past, Twitter is the next useless, left-biased internet institution I’d love to see spiral in.
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Just You Wait…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Paul Ryan has become an Establishment Republican. He’s not going to help Trump win. He thinks that’s the smart play but I wonder if his voters will mind that he’s back-stabbing the Republican candidate? They’re already booing him in his home state. Trump isn’t the one who killed the…
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‘Til The Lights Go Out
I’ve believed it for a long time. I’ve believed it a necessary step for this country’s survival for years. This campaign has elevated it to nearly a life’s mission. The American mainstream media needs to be rendered extinct. Not every reporter – although a strong minority of them at the very least are the problem. Not the…
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Everything Is Exactly As Predicted
Alan Schulkin, Democrat member of NYC’s voting commission, admits that vote fraud is rampant in New York, and that some sort of ID requirement would be a great idea: While discussing the potential for fraud, Schulkin volunteered that in some parts of the city, “they bus people around to vote . . . They put them in…
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“Big And Blue And Full Of The Mind Of God”
The quote is from “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography” by Kathleen Norris. It’s from a young Afro-American girl at a base school in Minot, ND, commenting about the sky in her adopted (likely temporary) home. As James Lileks once put it, the sky is the big attraction when you drive across North Dakota; it’s a “painting…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Ninnies Gonna Ninny
Guns are a public health crisis. Not the way anti-gun advocates claim they are, of course; gun deaths are down 50% in twenty years, and further still in places with more guns (not so much in Democrat-addled urban cesspools). If cancer or heart disease deaths had dropped 50% in twenty years, “public health” advocates would…
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Berg’s Seventh Law: Universal And Immutable
Remember when Democrats couldn’t stop talking about the Koch brothers (who aren’t even among the top fifty political donors in the country) and the American Legislative Exchange Committee, a “think tank” utterly similar to an array of such groups on both sides of the aisle? And you – a smart person – asked “why all…
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Steer Clear Of Any Mirrors
Democrats behave pretty atrociously around women. JFK had a thing for banging interns less than half his age. LBJ was a philanderer who had a thing for letting the cow out of the barn in deeply inappropriate places. Indeed, he seemed to be fairly obsessed with, er, Lyndon Baines’ johnson – which, it occurs to me, may…
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Keeping The Peace
As very few of you know, I was on the road a good chunk of this past two weeks; in Hartford the last week of September, and I just got back from Jacksonville late yesterday. Naturally, I was keeping a close eye on Hurricane Matthew, which I beat out of Jax by about 12 hours.…
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Don’t Hate Them Because They’re Beautiful
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This place merits the Groucho treatment. Joe Doakes My idea – for a dating app that requires you to read all the text before looking at someone’s pictures – is looking better and better.
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Eine Kleine NARNmusik
Today’s ♫ today’s music playlist.
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It’s A Fine, Fine Day For A NARN
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I’l be on from 1-3PM today this afternoon. Today’s subject: The media is biased. So what? 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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“You Won’t Be Seeing Me Again”
The FBI released the details of their initial investigation into the Saint Cloud mall mass stabbing last month, including the first public look at the store video. MPR News covered it. Warning; the video is graphic, if you haven’ been completely desensitized to violence: The investigators also praised Jason Falconer. Falconer’s actions are instructive to…
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Wages Of Hegemony
Kevin Williamson, by way of hammering both Clinton’s self-destructive take on national security and Donald Trump’s simplistic and wrong-headed one, points out a consequence of American military, cultural and social hegemony that eludes Big Left and some of the libertarians who, these days, are increasingly indistinguishable from the left: The American example has changed — forever — what…
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Synergy!
Marty Neuman – who took over Keegans when the great Terry Keegan retired – is bringing another of my favorite brands to Nordeast across from Surdyk’s: The owners of Keegan’s Irish Pub are opening a franchise location of Red’s Savoy Pizza next door to their University Avenue location, in what was formerly the clothing boutique Mona. Keegan’s…
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The Standing Army
As I’ve watched the ongoing militarization of American policing, I’ve become fairly convinced that law enforcement is the “standing army” that our founding fathers were worried about. A new documentary, Do Not Resist, doesn’t make that exact point – but it’s a short jump to it. The New York Times reviews the movie. One of…
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