Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Ineluctible Math
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Before 6,000 Somali Muslims were imported to St. Cloud, a town of 60,000 souls, nobody with a knife attacking shoppers while quizzing them on their religion or talking about Allah. One might be tempted to think that the first thing led to the second, but that would be an…
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A Heart-Acheing Work Of Staggering Genius
Writing at Vulture.com, Caryn Rose ranks all 314 Bruce Springsteen songs 1 from worst to first. First things first: Rose found a break on one of the primary laws of Springsteen-fandom; there actually is a song worse than “Mary, Queen Of Arkansas” (from 1973’s Greetings From Asbury Park). I won’t ruin the surprise. But otherwise, it was a herculean…
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Spoils
I can not conceal my joy at the death of Gawker, the website that did more than any other to make the internet useless. Hulk Hogan – who pulled off the nearly-impossible by winning a defamation case against Denton while still a public figure – is reveling in the spoils of his victory. And while I’ve never…
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Brown Bag Nation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Post makes a discovery. About 20 years behind the rest of the nation, but yeah, lunch is expensive. How is this possible, since there’s no inflation under the Obama administration? The article doesn’t say. The correlation between price and the decline in visits is a revelation to the…
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Contrast
National Public Radio spent the weekend essentially on wall-to-wall coverage of the Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum over this past weekend. And other than the spectacle of the President of the United States trying affect an Alabama accent, the event – and the museum – sounded interesting, and very much worth a stop the next time I’m…
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Near As I Can Tell…
…at about this time last year there was exactly one pundit, anywhere in the US or elsewhere, that predicted Donald Trump would win the GOP nomination; heck, I know of only one who predicted Trump would make it past Christmas. He also happens to be one of America’s painfully-few business writers who are worth reading;…
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere Are Signs
Trevor Noah – who inherited “The Daily Show” from Jon Stewart – took a swipe at the restaurant in Lonsdale that had the infamous “Muslims Get Out” sign (which may have been less a matter of “hate” than “crummy editing”, by the way). Noah (with emphasis added): You know what’s also strange is this man…
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Journo-List Redux
Major papers mimeograph Hillary Clinton press release, call it “reporting“. Glenn Reynolds refers to today’s media as stenographers for the Democrats. He’s too charitable. Stenographers have some professional standards.
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Shocked. Shocked, I Tell You.
I held off talking and writing about the Cascade Mall shooting on Friday, where a man the media immediately and hopefully desdribed as “Hispanic-looking” killed five at a Macy’s. LIke any good Mitch Berg, I observed Berg’s 18th Law (“Nothing the media writes/says about any emotionally charged event – a mass shooting, a police shooting,…
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Exodus
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why are families leaving St. Paul schools? It’s a mystery. Now that the staff member doing the survey has been let go, we may never find out. Looking at the chart, there appears to be some overlap in causes since the percentages work out to 114% and even under…
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Our Name Will Never Die, This NARN Will Be Forever
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. I’ll be talking with former state senator Brian LeClair about early voting, which is starting…well, early. Also – that sign in Lonsdale. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440,…
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Fear The Walking Sheep
Millennials are vexing their baby boomer elders/bosses by breaking ranks on the mother of all individual rights issues – gun control. The millennial generation just isn’t buying the BS: The article – by millennial filmmaker Jesse Winton – explores a number of theories for this phenomenon, both Winton’s own and some of the inevitably condescending, laughable…
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Heroes Among Us
It’s fiction. Or is it?
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So Let Me Get This Straight
Australia bans vast swathes of political and cosmetically inconvenient guns – drawing the favorable attention of Barack Obama and Hillary Herself. Thing is, Australia never really had a “gun problem”. They had a couple of mass shootings, to which the political class responded with pure emotion. And now? Years after they banned most politically-charged weapons?…
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Exhibit A
There are many, many reasons smart Second Amendment activist suppose a national firearms registry; only the law-abiding will register, it’s a natural and essential tool to use in confiscation, and whenever the left says anything about guns, including “nobody’s coming for them”, you can be sure that they will come for them the moment they…
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Mystery!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why are families leaving St. Paul schools? It’s a mystery. Now that the staff member doing the survey has been let go, we may never find out. Looking at the chart, there appears to be some overlap in causes since the percentages work out to 114% and even…
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The Club
Say what you will about Michael Brodkorb (and when I say “say what you will”, I don’t actually mean in the comment section of this post; I realize many of you really really don’t like the guy, and I get it, but that’s also not the subject of this thread; I have heard your objections…
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You Were Warned: MNA Edition
A friend of the blog writes in re a piece on the ongoing Allina nurses strike: [Saint Paul City Councilman] Chris Tolbert said, “If a nurse in the health care industry can’t get quality health care from a health care company, we’re all in trouble.” Well, that is what we Republicans said when the ACA…
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Inevitable
Rahm Emanuel says “never waste a crisis”. And the city whose mayor he is – Chicago – is an ongoing crisis that never seems to end. The city has seen over 2000 shootings so far this year – that’s to say, the first half of the year: At least 14 people were shot in Chicago…
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Not Ready For Prime Time
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: White cop shoots Black youth in view of a million witnesses and store security video. Where are the protests? Granted, the cop was off-duty, in civilian clothes, on personal business in a shopping center. Granted, the youth was busy slashing shoppers with a knife. Still – why isn’t this…
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It’s A Start
Sandra Grazzini-Rucki was sentenced today for the kidnapping of her children, after losing custody to her ex-husband, David Rucki; she then sequestered them on a ranch for over two years. Not only did she keep them from her ex-husband – but she apparently didn’t visit them herself either. Just my opinion, here; there is no…
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Survey
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at work in his home office. His phone rings. BERG: Hello? POLLSTER: Hello. I’m Kandi, a pollster working on a combined study commissioned by Harvard University, Northeastern University, the Trace and the Guardian, four organizations dedicated to disarming Americans by any means, fair or foul. If you have a few…
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Set Straight
Your liberal friends are probably salving their worries over Hillary’s health with a recent NYT hit piece on Scott Walker. Have no fear. In what is becoming a Berg’s Law-worthy pattern, the Times’ piece is pretty much a NYPost article in a tweed sportcoat. Christian Schneider notes in the conclusion: Christopher Hitchens once wrote, “It…
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