Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Deplorables Like Us
Hillary “regrets” the “gross generalization” of saying: “…you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites…
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Lessons In Leadership
One of the great lessons in leadership? Express caricaturish contempt for those you’d like to have follow you: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said, according to CNN. “Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” For “the most…
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Voter Suppression
In perhaps the most bald-faced violation of Berg’s Seventh Law in history, the DFL – which is constantly whinging about phantom claims of “voter suppression” – is actively trying to disenfranchise half of this state’s electorate in the Presidential election. DFL Chair Ken “Dwight Schrute” Martin is sueing to keep Donald Trump off the Minnesota ballot in…
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The Right Profile
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When Jacob went missing, Democrat Governor Rudy Perpich called out the National Guard to search for him. No other kid gets that kind of treatment – Amber alerts hadn’t even been invented. Why that kid? Because Patty Wetterling was connected. And she’s stayed connected – and in the spotlight…
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Faces Gone Black, Eyes Burning Bright
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. We’ll talk about: Jacob Wetterling Ken Martin’s voter suppression effort 9/11 And much more… Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is heard on “The Closer” edition of…
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The Raj
Dana Loesch once noted via subtitle that “you can’t govern a country you’ve never been to”. I might add that it’d be hard for the mainstream media to cover a nation none of them understands – but that’s another article. The easiest way to govern people that you never see, and don’t care to bother…
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Halo
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Ad Hominem logical fallacy is an attack on the speaker’s credibility, rather than on the facts at hand. A Liberal using that fallacy would say: “His opinions are wrong because of who is expressing those opinions, regardless whether he’s correct on the facts.” I want to know…
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Follow The Trail
Fearless Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, Black Lives Matter will disappear faster than you can say “Hands Up Don’t Shoot”. Reason for my Fearless Prediction: Given its funders, it’s bald-facedly obvious that Black Lives Matter largely exists to inflame the black vote for an election where the Democrats will be fronted by a…
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Number Six
With the tragic resolution of the Wetterling case, we’re starting to see the inevitable flurry of calls for the return of the death penalty to Minnesota; it’s the same flurry we see after every grisly, heart-wrenching crime. I’ve said it before; I support the death penalty for every reason but one. And it is, unfortunately, an absolutely…
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Fiddly Bits
The best comment I’ve seen about the new iPhone 7’s replacement of the headphone jack with a pair of tiny, non-connected Bluetooth buds: Of course they are. Something’s gotta keep bluetooth device manufacturers busy…
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The Diversity Scam
Studies are starting to show what our lying eyes have been telling us all along; force-feeding “diversity” to people makes things…less diverse than if it merely organically. What little research we do have on diversity programs suggest that if they have any effect, it is to inflame racial tensions. As the Harvard Business Reviewreported earlier…
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Empirical Data
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: 6,500 Minnesota State Fair goers answered a survey. They demand: Higher gas taxes Higher sales taxes More gun control More college subsidies More sick leave Right-to-Die Student privacy They hate: Restrooms designated by sex Talking on cell phones Non-partisan elections Legislators setting their own salaries There are 5 million…
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Wetterling
Danny Heinrichs’ allocution on Tuesday puts a horrific, dismal, banally evil period on the Jacob Wetterling story. US Attorney Andy Lugar’s plea deal – Heinrich confessed to a child porn charge in exchange for no charge for Wetternling’s murder – is both absurd and utterly understandable; better to close the case and put the monster…
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On My Wish List
Springsteen’s autobiography is due in stores shortly. And at least one reviewer raves. I do love this particular pull-quote: “One of the points I’m making in the book is that, whoever you’ve been and wherever you’ve been, it never leaves you,” he said, expanding upon this thought with the most Springsteen-esque metaphor possible: “I always…
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Segregated
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Cal State offers segregated housing for Black students. This is a good thing, Black students demanded their own space, safe from racist attacks, racially insensitive remarks and micro-aggressions committed by faculty and students. Imagine if the headline said “Cal State REQUIRES segregated housing for Black students.” The end result…
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“You Are A Horrible Person”, She Explained
It’s becoming a tradition; every year, the Star Tribune editorial board theatrically laments the “death of civility” in Minnesota politics. Or, to be accurate, the paper – like most other media outlets in the Twin Cities – laments the fact that occasionally, someone hurts a liberal’s feelings. Last week, the paper ran an op Ed by a Susan Mallison. And,…
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Imbalance
Joe Doakes emails us a link to a post by Clayton Cramer, who compares murder rates in Idaho and western Canada: Idaho: 2.0/100,000 For the Canadian provinces: Manitoba: 3.43 Saskatechewan: 2.13 Alberta: 2.52 Yukon: 6.88 Nunavut: 10.93 Yet all those provinces have Canada’s restrictive gun control laws. Alhough, at least anecdotally, people in Saskatchewan and…
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Neerja Bhanot
It was thirty years ago today that Neerja Bhanot won India’s highest honor for bravery in peacetime, the Ashoka Chakra Award when her jetliner, Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai to the US, was hijacked by terrorists from Abu Nidal, who were specifically targeting Americans. Wikipedia takes up the story: After 17 hours, the hijackers opened fire…
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Etymology
Thug: noun. If applied to a political conservative and intensely derogatory term. For example ” the former editor of Breitbart is a thug; his ex-wife said nasty things about him in divorce filings 12 years ago. If applied to a liberal, it is a term of endearment, with an understated implication that the writer wants…
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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’m off on assignment, so Brad Carlson will be filling in from 1-3PM this afternoon live at the AM1280 booth on Machinery Hill! Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of…
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Today’s SITD Publishing News
This just in; John Rusciano, a former contributor to SITD, has has published his first book. “Fire Yourself” – a concise guide to getting the most your enjoyment and potential in your career – is out on Amazon right now. And there are going to be some book events happening; stay up to date on…
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Diminished Expectations
I find myself more and more these days trying to give historical context to current events, to clarify current events for the various millennials in my life. Here’s a big one: while the media is turning cartwheels about the “Obama Recovery” (happening an unprecedented eight years after the crash – worse than the Great Depression),…
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Law And Morality
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I flinch when people urge that we condition law enforcement on “humanity” rather than “legality.” Who decides which law is inhumane and need not be obeyed? Taken to its logical extreme, that argument produces anarchy. For example, Paul Mirengoff writing at Powerline about Trump’s immigration stance says: “First,…
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Our Elite Lefty Alt Media
After spending a few weeks going full-blown fanboy over the Pillsbury Foundation/Bloomberg Youth’s “gun buyback” last weekend, the leftymedia has its feelings hurt by the mockery the conservative alternative media (including this blog) has heaped on the “events”. The piece, by the inevitable Corey Zurowski, is entitled “Gun fans mock Minneapolis’ buyback program over crude…
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