Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Our Loathsome Media – Here And Everywhere
This blog has always been dedicated to the idea that the mainstream media is a PR firm for the Democrat party nationally, and the DFL in Minnesota. While there are capable, honest reporters in the Twin Cities and nationally who do make a level effort to cover the news rather than paint Democrat toenails and…
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The Steady Drip Drip Drip
Alpha News continues to absolutely thrash the Twin Cities mainstream media at…doing journalism and holding government accountable. This week? Further evidence that Ilham Omar did, indeed, “marry” her brother, and that she was, indeed, married (via a combination of “faith” and undissolved legal marriages) to two men at the same time. Expect an avalanche of…
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Pass This Around…
…among your “progressive” friends. It’ll be brand new news to most of them.
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ExpIt!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: So – did British unemployment “really” fall following Brexit? That was entirely contrary to expert predictions. Or did the government massage the figures to hide the decline, as we do in the United States? Joe Doakes Weird. I’m sure there must be some mistake.
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Better
Study shows carry carry permittees are, per capita, far and away the safest demographic in the United States as far as firearm crime is concerned: The study refers to Texas and Florida, which it says mirror most other states, to compare permit holders with police and the overall population. It used data from 1987 through 2015.…
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“You Can Keep Your Doctor” Update
Next year, if all proceeds as expected, one out of six Americans will have exactly one option in their Obamacare exchange: According to an analysis done for The Upshot by the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform, 17 percent of Americans eligible for an Affordable Care Act plan may have only one insurer to choose next year.…
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Not To Say I Don’t Go To A Lot Of Movies…
…but I wasn’t aware there’d been a Four or Five.
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Poof
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There was a cholera epidemic in Nepal. UN Peacekeeping forces from Nepal were sent to Haiti. They set up camp by a river. Their latrines discharged raw sewage into the river. Haitians downstream drew water from the river. They got cholera. At least 10,000 people died and hundreds of…
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From Thin Air
SCENE: Mitch BERG is ordering a cup of coffee and a bagel. Brian FURIOUS, liberal opionblogger for “”MinnesotaLIberalAlliance.blogspot.com”, walks into the coffee shop. FURIOUS: Merg! BERG: Oh, hey, Brian… FURIOUS: I am Brian Furious, defender of fact, crusader of truth! BERG: Right. Or…hey, Brian. FURIOUS: Don’t you deny it! You’ve been writing about Ilhan Omar! BERG:…
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Circus Without Bread
Venezuela, awash in the inevitable end results of socialism – Shortages, hyper inflation, out of control corruption in crime – is doing put failed leftist governments from Baltimore to Minneapolis to Caracas always do; playing at security theater. In this case, destroying guns: Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to…
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Incurious
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember when the US sent a check to Switzerland to be cashed into a pallet of bills and flown to Iran, where hostages were held at the airport until the money arrived? Remember when President Obama said that was not ransom, that the United States didn’t pay ransom? Now…
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I Heard It On The NARN
The Center of the American Experiment’s report on Minnesota’s economy. And finally, ♫ today’s music playlist.
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When You Were 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 on the show: John Hinderaker from the Center of the American Experiment joins us to talk about the upcoming report on the slowing Minnesota economy. The War For The Culture, Part…
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File Under “Things Mitch Will Never Do”
Uber inks deal with Volvo for self-driving cars. Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon self-driving cars from their phones, crossing an important milestone that no automotive or technology company has yet achieved. Google, widely regarded as the leader in the field, has been testing its fleet for several…
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Faith And Law
Ilhan Omar has released a statement about the questions about her, at first and second and third glance, unusual marital history. Faith: I’m going to add bits and pieces of emphasis to Omar’s statement: In 2002, when I was 19 years old, Ahmed Hirsi (whose name before he received citizenship was Ahmed Aden), the father…
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There’s A Certain Tweep In Minneapolis…
…whose Klout rating is about to plummet like an anvil tied to a bag of anvils.
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Concentration
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Wall Street Journal article headline says “Rich Get Richer as Billionaires Increase in Number” (hidden behind its pay-wall, must subscribe to read). Headline implies world-wide economy is booming, but other possibilities include: The world-wide economy is failing and the remaining wealth is consolidating in fewer hands as the middle…
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“In Your Best Interest, Peasant!”
The Midway. I’ve lived in this neighborhood off and on for 29 years, and continuously for almost 23 years, now. The neighborhood gets a bad rap from people who don’t know Saint Paul – which is about 95% of the population of the Metro Area. When most of them think of the Midway –…
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Verdict
First we ignore people who consider Politifact unbiased and authoritative. Then we mock people who consider Politifact unbiased and authoritative. Then we win. Gandhi was wrong. There is no “attack” phase needed.
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The Best Among Us
Remember when flooding in Louisiana was a massive crisis – when we had a Republican President? The Cajuns are seeing to their own rescue – 15,000 of them: They’re known as the “Cajun Navy,” and in recent days they’ve become possibly the nation’s most important neighborhood watch. Troy Green, from Ascension Parish just south of…
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The Kids Are Not Really Alright
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I get calls from people wanting to know how to fix problems with real estate title documents, almost always sound like 20-something women, who treat commas as question marks with a rising voice inflection. It’s painful to listen long enough that I can give the obvious answer. “Hi. My…
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Chanting Points Memo: Minnesota’s Wondrous Economy
For the past six years, the standard response among Minnesota “progressives” when conservatives point to the success of Scott Walker (Milwaukee notwithstanding) is “Oh, yeah? Well, Minnesota’s doing better!” And there has been a grain of truth to that; while much of Wisconsin’s economy is tied to dying rust-belt manufacturing centered in the southeastern part of the…
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Grammar And Usage
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This headline bugs me. “Former Somali refugee poised to serve. . . .” “Former” means “isn’t anymore.” It’s a word that modifies another. A person who retired and moved to Florida would be a “former Minnesotan.” Here’s the thing: in my world, “former” only modifies one word at…
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Blowing Smoke
As the story of Ilham Omar’s, er, convoluted legal history starts to seep out into the mainstream media, the DFL is starting to do what it does best when it has a hard time managing a story; make threats. This is a tweet from Tom Lyden of Fox9 about a tweeted “warning” he received from…
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