Shot in the Dark

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  • More Smoke

    After Power Line broke the story of Ilhan Omar’s apparent sham marriage to her brother (which we touched on yesterday), Channel 9 notes that there seems to be no divorce on file between Ilhan Omar and the man who is apparently her brother. Omar’s response: “It matters that I am a woman. It matters that…

  • It’s The Other Guys

    Over the weekend I read this piece, about Hollywood’s hypocrisy about guns; they donate to gun-grabber groups, while making billions off of violence-drenched action movies (and living in many cases behind gates with armed security). It’s nothing new, really – nothing this blog hasn’t been covering for years (although these two examples are still the…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Authoritarians For “Liberty”

    One of the things that always annoyed me about the Libertarian Party was its’ members predilection for purity-testing each other to a fine sheen, to the point where nobody could ever really get supported for anything. The good news?  Apparently they’re not doing that anymore. The bad news?  We know this because they’ve apparently endorsed…

  • Close To Home

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Pakistani suicide bomber kills 70 including scores of lawyers.  Now wait just a minute . . . .  Joe Doakes Now it’s getting serious.

  • Another Democrat-Run City…

    …another riot.

  • That Precious Moment…

    ….when a “progressive” realizes that taxation, at its root, is essentially those who don’t create anything, extorting from those who do: “Our Olympian and Paralympic athletes should be worried about breaking world records, not breaking the bank, when they earn a medal,” said ‎Schumer. “Government is the things we all do together taking from net…

  • Smoke

    Last week’s big Minnesota political news was the Ilhan Omar defeating 2343-term representative Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary (the election that actually matters in that benighted part of Minneapolis, unfortunately).  The Minneapolis media turned cartwheels over The First Somali Woman nominee. Scott Johnson found a story behind the story at Powerline: A reader has…

  • Playing The Fool?

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hillary has $13 million worth of ads running during the Olympics.  Trump has none. Meanwhile, viewership of the Olympics is down.  Hilary is burning off dollars running ads nobody is watching.   And people say Trump is the idiot?  Joe Doakes On the one hand – true. On the other…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Mary Shapiro is running for the MN House in District 48A.  Here’s how you can help. And, of course, ♫ today’s music playlist.

  • What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, NARN And Understanding?

    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 this afternoon.  Today on the show: Primary night! The war for the culture, the language, and the future. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer”…

  • Welfare!

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is driving down a rural two-lane road near Rapid City, South Dakota.  He notices a plume of smoke up ahead, so he steps on it to get closer.  Presently, he notices the burning car is a 12-year-old Subaru.  Standing by the side of the road, looking away from the car, is Avery…

  • No Comment

    If  you’ve been wanting to join the discussion in the comment section, but couldn’t find a “Register” link?   The problem has been fixed.   You can now register as a new commenter. I blame Boko Haram.

  • Watch This

    You’d do well to read this entire article by Kevin Williamson – about the real source of human achievement. Hint: its not politics, or politicians: Politics thrives on convincing us that things are worse than they are, telling us that we must live in fear of violence and misery if we do not elevate the…

  • Scroogified

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I didn’t need the revised economic numbers to tell me the economy was bad, I see it driving around town.  Time was, you might see a panhandler at the top of a particularly busy freeway exit ramp.  Nowadays, there are several working shifts plus more at stop lights in…

  • Bloodlust

    Earlier this week: Donald Trump urges Second Amendment supporters to stand up for their rights to the political process. Mainstream media and the left (pardon the redundancy) craps a kitten at the “call for violence” which was not. Democrat Earlier this week: Donald Trump urges Second Amendment supporters to stand up for their rights to…

  • Iowa “Minnesota” Flim-Flammers

    We’ve written at some depth in the past about Minnesota Gun Rights – an astroturf fundraising group that raises a lot of money and generates a lot of strident social media about 2nd Amendment politics in Minnesota, but has never actually delivered any significant results.   A bipartisan selection of Minnesota’s most committed pro-human-rights legislators…

  • Brain Bleach

    Technology has wrought many wonders. But this might be too much of a good thing: BBC filmmaker Ted Harrison has claimed that it could just be a few short years before developments mean that they can create the feeling of human touch…the technology could be developed that would leave the door open to fans imitating…

  • Flare

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 1994, when Bill Clinton was President, there was another flare-up in the long-standing war between two African tribes – the Hutu and the Tutsis – fought mainly in Rwanda over the issue of political control to give special privileges to the dominant tribe’s members.  The losers fled to…

  • Your Silence Speaks Volumes

    Truth! Among the best ways for me to file your “argument” under “not worth the effort” is to begin with something like “your silence about [pick an issue that is not actually the subject of the current discussion] speaks volumes”, delivered with a rhetorical and literal “shame finger”. I mean, I do appreciate the vote…

  • Here We Go Again

    I’m not much of a conspiracy-theory-monger.   The most direct answer to most things is the right answer.  Generally. So I’ve always been inclined to take most stories about the Clinton Famiglia with a block of salt.   For example, when Vince Foster committed suicide with eight shots to the back of his head, I dismissed…

  • Uncommon Valor

    A company of 88 British paratroopers and Irish infantry, outnumbered six to one, hold out for two months without reinforcements… And their near miraculous survival has been described as a latter day Rorke’s Drift, evocative of the 1879 siege in which 140 British soldiers held off a Zulu force of 3,000, later immortalised in the…

  • Insecurity

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Social Security admits out-go will exceed income in four years and reserves will be exhausted in 2032 meaning the system will go bankrupt, according to this chart:     Congress could increase taxes or cut benefits to keep the system solvent but we all know that’s politically impossible.  Sarah…

  • The Polls Have Been Closed For 90 Minutes…

    …and while 30-40% of the votes are in around the state, zero percent are reporting in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. That’s because, with the DFL machine fighting with progressive insurgents in the Kahn, Champion, Moran and other races, neither side wants to be the first to dump their fraudulent, bogus votes out there first and…

  • Endorsement!

    Of course he did.

  • Minnesota Urban Government Glossary: “Public Hearing”

    In most ofd the the United States, a “Public Hearing” is something that some variety of official body has to get, y’know, opinion from the public. In Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and any place under the jurisdiction of the Met Council, “Public Meetings” are the equivalent of “DMV Eye Tests”; they are a ticket-punching formality that…

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