Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Primary Time
GOCRA has released its primary scorecard. If you live in a district with a primary, be aware of your options. Also – please note that Michelle MacDonald – who ran with a GOP endorsement obtained through the perfidy of the party’s Judicial Elections Committee – is running again, without any endorsement. She is being promoted…
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Girl Power
American teen wins the first Gold medal in the Olympics. Liberals – who apparently wished she’d won a gold for post-structuralist analysis – crap their pants with rage. The sun rises in the east yet another day.
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Dog Licks Dog
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Obama Administration has been illegally maintaining a list of gun owners. This is my shocked face. Joe Doakes How can you tell when a liberal policymaker is lying about “not coming for your guns?” His lips are moving, or his fingers are near a keyboard.
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GOTV, Saint Paul DFL Style?
My district – House 65A – features a primary between two DFLers; incumbent Rena Moran and challenger Rashad Turner, who’s earned a reputation this past year as one of Black Lives Matter’s more militant organizers. (And for those who want to get out of the fever swamp, it also features endorsed GOP candidate Monique Giordana!)…
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Policy Change
I’ve run by far the most, er, liberal comment policy among Minnesota bloggers with traffic in my general weight class ever since I started carrying comments in 2002. I ask for civility, as a general rule – but don’t require it, or at least not to a pollyanna-ish extent. Don’t get too pointlessly inflammatory, and don’t go…
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Correction
A longtime reader of this blog writes regarding this post, by Joe Doakes: To correct the record, Pillsbury United Communities is a nonprofit that is not connected to the Pillsbury brand owned by General Mills. It was founded by the Pillsbury family in 1905: https://www.puc-mn.org/about/history It’s more analogous to the Ford Foundation vs Ford Motor…
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Shelf Date
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: First Quarter GDP revised down to 0.8% and second quarter revised down to 1.2%. The economy is flat. And that’s if you believe these revised numbers are accurate information instead of political propaganda for the election year. Joe Doakes Like any of Obama’s policy declarations, job and GDP numbers…
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Mama Never Did Want Anything More Than NARN To Make Her Happy
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – I’ll be filling in for Brad Carlson, who’s off on assignment today. I’l be on from 2-3PM today this afternoon. We’ll be talking Berg’s 11th Law, and the new generation of gaslighting. 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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I Heard It On The NARN
Bill Reichert is running for Hennepin County Commission. Greg Ryan is running for US Congress in CD4 – Saint Paul, Ramsey and part of Washington Counties. Tom Emmer is the incumbent Representative in the Sixth CD. Jason Lewis is running to replace John Kline in Minnesota’s Second CD. And today’s ♫ playlist: Mitch Berg Show…
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Counterpunch This
To: Donald Trump From: Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re: Doyyy Mr. Trump, I started disliking your public persona thirty years ago. While I’m told you are a perfectly fine human being in person, your public persona – the garish extravagant gaudiness, the constant noise – was always off-putting. Still is. Now, this time…
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At Long Last
I’ve been looking for the perfect word to describe the cultural left’s most noxious rhetorical habit. At times, I’d despaired of ever finding it. But Wendy McElroy pretty well nails it. The term “kafkatrapping” describes a logical fallacy that is popular within gender feminism, racial politics and other ideologies of victimhood. It occurs when you…
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Dilemma
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I have a dilemma. On one hand, I hate to support gun buy-back programs because they’re a waste of money on feel-good foolishness that will have absolutely no effect on crime. This one is especially idiotic because the sponsor – Pillsbury – plans to turn the guns into “art”…
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I’m Sure This Is A Surprise…
…to the clueless; Chicago – the city with all the gun control that “ProtectMN” and Michael Bloomberg want (with the possible exception of “the disarmament of everyone else”) is seeing violence at a record clip: July 2016 was the “deadliest July in 10 years” for heavily gun-controlled Chicago: Sixty-five individuals were shot and killed. Moreover,…
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Why Do Democrats Hate Black Teens?
Artificially-high minimum wages affect black teens disproportionally.
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Accountable
A friend of the blog writes: Last week, I saw this article from MPR . I admit to being somewhat old fashioned and probably judge everyone too harshly. However, I do think that there are some social norms and expected behavior that should be followed if one seeks respect and success in life. Basic social…
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You’ve Been Punked – In English And Russian
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is hilarious. Trump asking Russia “If you hacked Hillary’s private email server, will you give the FBI copies of the stuff she deleted?” Hey, they need it to complete their investigation, right? What, are Democrats against law and order? This is genius. It forces everyone to recall…
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Lie First, Lie Always: I’m Shocked. Shocked, I Tell You
“Why are you gun fondlers so paranoid”, the snarky but uninformed “gun safety” parrots chant in smug unison. “Why do you oppose universal background checks?” “It’s ‘Human Rights Activist’, you closet commie” I gently correct them. “And it’s because while the same criminals who aren’t going through background checks now aren’t going to start when…
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Berg’s 11th Law Is Also Inerrant And Immutable
The Strib endorses John Howe for the CD2 congressional seat currently held by John Kline. Nothing against Howe, who was a capable legislator and an estimable mayor of Red Wing – but this endorsement is a classic example of Berg’s 11th Law: Berg’s Eleventh Law of Inverse Viability: The conservative liberals “respect” for their “conservative…
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What An Incredibly Novel Idea!
Chicago has a horrendous murder rate. Black and brown lives apparently don’t matter down there. One of the reasons? Chicago’s US attorney publicly announced that he’s not going to be chasing after “straw dealers” – people who use their clean criminal records to buy guns to resell to criminals. And so a lot of gang-bangers’…
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Dripping Under The Bridge
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Do Democrats know NOTHING of security? Now Wikileaks has released their voice-mail messages. Drip. Drip. Drip. You did see Thirteen Hours, right?
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Triumph Of The Twee
In yet another example of throwing good money after bad, the City of Minneapolis is teaming up with some of their poverty-pimp non-profit friends to host a gun buyback on August 27th, in North and South Minneapolis. They’ll be offereing Visa gift cards – from $25 for an “antique” to $300 for an “assault weapon”. The buyback…
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As It Happens, Ideal
Limbaugh inks another long-term deal with iHeartMedia. Under the circumstances – the NARN hasn’t quite put me in a position to make a run for Limbaugh’s gig – the timing actually works out well.
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Tradition!
It’s an election-year tradition dating back to the glaciers; the media trots out an evangelical/gun owner/businessman who claims to have been a lifelong Republican, but for whatever reason can never ever vote for Reagan/Dubya/McCain/Trump. And this year it the… …what? Hello? Well, someone at the Virginia paper isn’t getting invited to the Saint Paul Grill…
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Disparately Delicious
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The President calling on cops to admit they’re racist and the Pioneer Press article on racial disparity in regional park use gave me an inspiration: I plan to spend the weekend observing the customers at Big Daddy’s BBQ at Dale and University. I strongly suspect that although the percentage…
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Change In Course
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Target to quit sponsoring Indy cars. Why quit? They had a winning team, which means eyeballs on logo all season long. Why would you give up advertising like that? Wrong eyeballs. The people who watch racing tend to be White Christian beer-drinking men. Those people are not the “target”…
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