Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Game-Changer In CD2
It was once said that the only thing that could hurt the career of a Chicago Democrat was being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. But in this blog’s comment section earlier this week, Mark “Mr. Dilettante” Heuring may have tripped onto something potentially more damning in re Angie Craig,…
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Chill
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Rep. Keith Ellison introduced the Campus Gun Policy Transparency Act which would require colleges to disclose their policies relating to guns on campus. He claims existing federal law requires colleges to publish campus safety information but not specific policies related to guns. In addition, he claims colleges are not…
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The Good Guy With The Gun
The man who shot the apparently ISIS-affiliated maniac at the Crossroads Mall in Saint Cloud over the weekend has been IDed as Jason Falconer – a carry permit instructor, civilian carry advocate, and part-time officer and former chief of the tiny, tiny police department of tiny, tiny Albany Minnesota. And if you’re a wanna-be terrorist,…
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Unenthused
Latinos just not that excited about Herself. (According to that noted conservative tool, the WaPo).
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Priorities!
Angie Craig apparently believes that the most important thing facing voters in the 2nd CD is Jason Lewis’s radio shows from 2001. Other Democratic-elected women say Lewis should be held accountable for the things he said, including what they said were offensive comments about women, the LGBTQ community and slavery. I’ve sent an email to…
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Charitable Exhortation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In what conceivable way is my charitable giving any of my employer’s business? More annoying – they pick some charity they want to fund and hit up everybody to contribute. I nominate the National Rifle Association. No? Why not? Why does it have to be the United Way…
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Last Gleaming
SCENE: Mitch BERG is shopping for chainsaw chains at MENARDS. He sees Garth MULLER, a professional golf pro and Vice Chair for Ideological Purity at the Minnesota 5th CD Libertarian Party. He is dressed head to toe in Minnesota Vikings wear. MULLER: Hey, Merg! People who pledge allegiance to Skycloth before football games are…
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Protest Too Much
First things first: Mark Dayton is “governor” of Minnesota in exactly the same sense as Mickey Dolenz was the “drummer” in the Monkees. Tina Flint-Smith is calling all the real shots in the state. Mark Dayton is there to say stupid things and draw attention away from where the action is. But with that said?…
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Connect The Dots
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Here’s an example of why Conservatives claim there is Liberal bias in the media – the entire focus of this story is misplaced. The article says the shooter was a National Guardsman and makes the point that he and his wife both are members of the Minnesota National Guard. …
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Workplace Violence
Three different cases of workplace violence in America today; first, a bombing attempt on a charity 5K run on the Jersey Shore which went off just before the race got there, followed by a dumpster explosion in Manhattan that injured 29, followed in turn by a mass stabbing at the Crossroads Mall in Saint Cloud, Minnesota that ended…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here are the MN Gun Owners Political Action Committee endorsements. My “Climate of Hate” page chronicling leftist violence in America. And of course, ♫ today’s music playlist
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Today’s 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. 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. So tune in the Northern Alliance! You have…
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Here Be Dragons
It’s hard to think about warfare in the past century without conjuring up the image of the tank. Today’s main battle tanks – nearly impregnable to any weapon that faces them on land – are like the land-battleships they were intended to be, 100 years ago. Some wars have involved vast fleets of tanks duking…
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Deplorable Her!
“So what is it that makes half of Trump supporters so ‘deplorable’, to put it in Herself’s own words”, I ask some of my “progressive” friends. Is he anti-immigrant? Well, anti-illegal-immigrant, yadda yadda, sure. And there’s a shopping list of other complaints. And I may even echo a few of ’em. But the one I…
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It’s Still Way Too High
Trust in the mainstream media hits an all-time low: A major pollster has some stark news: “Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media ‘to report the news fully, accurately and fairly’ has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32 percent saying they have a great deal or fair amount of…
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Violence Reduction?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There’s 80 more background checks that won’t get done when criminals buy stolen firearms, common sense restrictions to stop gun violence blocked by the gun lobby. Damn the NRA! Joe Doakes It’ll be interesting to see which hitherto law-abiding citizens get collared for that heist. Because I’m sure that’s…
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Open Letter To Every Single Movie Ticket Website
To: the owners of every single movie ticket website From: Mitchell Berg, cranky consumer Re: Huh? All, I went out on your website – which one doesn’t matter, because you’re all pretty much the same – last night to try to buy a ticket to “Sully”. Ticket prices are insane – I get that. But…
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Indeed
MNDFL chair Ken Martin, in re the MN Supreme Court’s decision to toss his attempt to remove Trump/Pence from the ballot: If they can’t competently follow the rules…how does anyone expect them to run the country,” said Martin. Yes, Ken. How. How indeed?
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Raising The Level Of Discourse
Thank goodness the left is all about that.
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Standards
Or most technical “standards”, really: And don’t get me started on the Chicago Manual of Style…
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It’s Just The Normal Noises In Here
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minnesota election law requires party delegates at the convention to designate electors and alternates. Minnesota Republicans failed to do that at their convention so party big-shots designated some afterwards. Democrats correctly pointed out this duct-tape fix failed to comply with the law and asked the Supreme Court to strike…
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Report Card
Frank Drake is running and extremely aggressive, and fairly tart, campaign against Keith Ellison in the fifth Congressional District. Will it work? I saw the 1980 Olympic hockey team; I do believe in miracles. I’m a Republican in the inner city, so I have to. Anyway – Drake provides a list of Keith Ellison’s “accomplishments” in…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
Two men attacked a woman in a WalMart parking lot in Shawnee, Kansas, hitting her in the head. An unarmed man attempted to intervene. The assailants shot him. Another Good Samaritan – armed with a legally-owned firearm – responded, shooting and killing one of the attackers (some emphasis added by me). Police said the second…
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Such Is My Lack Of Faith…
…in Minnesota’s legal system that I gave the DFL’s attempt to weasel Trump/Pence off the ballot a 50-50 chance of succeding. Happy to be “disappointed”, this time at least.
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The Right To Remain Befuddled
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hilary Clinton repeatedly told the FBI she couldn’t recall details of her email server, security clearance, briefing details. Trump supporters say she’s still suffering from the concussion in 2012. I say her inability to recall is not evidence of absent-mindedness, it’s a criminal defense necessity in a politicized…
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