Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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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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Question
Questions on reading the City Pages’ “reporting” on s the departure of Jack Tomczak from KTCN If a conservative caucasian male orders a pizza in the woods, and no “progressive” media hack is there to hear it, is the conservative still “angry?” Quick – name any person of color that’s ever worked for the City Pages. Interns, and…
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Fear Itself
I opened an email from MoveOn.Org the other day. Here’s the header: I stopped right there and threw it in the trash. Robert Reich is “terrified”. Now, I’ll cop to is – I read this on the end of a two week big of liberal panic; of a social media feed clogged with liberal acquaintances…
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Not For Turning Into Revisionism
Ahem: #RecordSetStraight
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Defining “Crime” Down
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “That means minor crimes that take place at school, such as trespassing, truancy, theft and drug use, she said, would be “dealt with more appropriately in other ways” that don’t involve arrest and prosecution.” All crimes? Or only crimes committed by Students Whose Lives Matter, to make the statistics…
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Couldn’t Wait To Go Home, To Remember The NARN City Fighting
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I’m off on assignment today – so Brad Carlson will be in from 1-3PM today! Brad will be interviewing: Political wonk Mack Mackowiak Local pols Jeff Kolb and Kelly Gunderson. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is…
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Black Flag
SCENE: A conference room at the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. Special Agent Charles SIEGELMEYER, in charge of the Russian Online Political Espionage (ROPE) desk, sits at the head of the table. In the room are Jared SCHLAUTERMEYER, a cybersecurity analyst with the ROPE desk, Juliana SCHMIDT-BULAWAYO, a senior Russian policy analyst, and Oscar VILLANUEVA-LOPEZ, from the…
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Dismissed
If there’s a part of this country in as dire a need of judicial reform as Wisconsin (with its Soviet-style “John Doe” laws), it’s Texas, where District Attorneys can go “DA shopping” to pin a defamatory criminal charge on people who say inconvenient truths. Of course, so far – as with Tom DeLay, among others…
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Optimism
Kurt Schlichter is predicting a dem meltdown. Conclusion: Nineteen sixty-eight was the year normal Americans saw the Democrats for what they were, and that’s the danger for them in 2016 too – that normal Americans will be reminded about what a circus of welfare-chiseling, race-obsessed, work-averse, baby-shredding freaks the Democrat party is. So keep fighting…
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Keystoned
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Neither the Castile shooting nor the Miami shooting seem like racial incidents. They seem like Keystone Kops incidents: running in circles, nobody in charge, contradictory commands, misinterpreted actions, improper over-reaction. When a mass of cops arrive at the scene, who’s in charge? Who gives the orders? Who decides…
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The Extreme
While I left North Dakota for a lot of reasons, I feel a certain fondness for my homestate; a certain homer pride at its economic success (and not just the oil boom, mind you – the state rode out the recession in pretty good shape before the oil boom really started)… …and doing it all…
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Wolf!
SCENE: Mitch BERG steps out of the rest room at City Hall as Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner. Distracted, visibly in distress, LIBRELLE walks into BERG. BERG: (Stepping back) Oh … (a little nonplussed, as LIBRELLE doesn’t react, lost in anxiety)…er, sorry…? LIBRELLE: Oh, Merg. Right. I’m just worried about this country. BERG:…
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Not That There Was Much Doubt
The Big Left constantly tries to undercut the gun debate by saying “nobody’s coming for your guns”. Some of us say “bullsh*t”. We’re right: Never compromise. Not even one inch.
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The 62nd Minute
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dog Gone has picked up the DNC chanting point that not only did the Russians steal the DNC’s email, it altered the messages before releasing them, all in an effort to help Trump get elected. There’s a simple way to prove it, made famous by Charles Johnson at Little…
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Whose Time Has Come
Church (synogogue, temple, mosque, where-ever) is the last place most people think they’ll have to confront violence. But today’s world shows us that sometimes even when you don’t think you’ll be confronting violence, violence confronts you, whether you’re Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Sikh, or whatever you are. Lt. Col. Rex Grossman will be conducting one of his…
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Unarmed
Let’s establish in advance that I’m not a mindless cop fanboy; I think it’s long past time for individual cops to carry liability insurance, rather than be covered by hamfisted qualified immunity. That would weed out bad cops and reward good ones, presto. But if I read another ill-informed activist or reporter nodding askance…
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Triangulation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump’s convention speech criticized free trade and foreign military adventurism. America First! Cue Liberals to warn of catastrophic global economic collapse if the United States fails to continue subsidizing the rest of the world’s trade and security with our blood and treasure. Joe Doakes It’s a Clinton thing.
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And Their Foreman Was The Notorious Republican, George Wallace!
Some say the First Lady is losing it. I say she’s repeating a big lie as much as she can, to get African-American voters whipped up to vote for a geriatric white woman.
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Madre De Dios
Among the glorious haul from the Wikileaks DNC Email Doc Dump; a DNC staffer accidentally slips up and tells the truth about the Democrats’ regard for their Hispanic voters: Oh, my.
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Go Figure
We were warned. Oh, you betcha we were! The media’s chicken littles parroted the narrative they so, so desperately wish, hope, pray is true; that the average, law-abiding American citizen, left to his own devices and all of his human rights, is a fundamentally depraved actor, motivated by rage and hate, looking for an excuse to stick it…
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More White Christian NRA Members, I Presume?
It’s hard to call any particular atrocity in France “the most sickening of all” – ISIS and its freelancers constantly push that envelope – but this one has to be on the short list: A PRIEST has been beheaded and another hostage is ‘fighting for their life’ after two knife-wielding terrorists, reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’, took…
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Oh, My
I guess there was a “lift” from the “dark, dystopian” GOP convention after all.
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The Other Day…
…I satirically noted that it seemed that the media exhibited a certain… …what’s the word?… …Synchronicity in portraying Donald Trump’s nomination speech. So it wasn’t just me: They missed NPR. But then, so did most of the country. But no – there’s just no way the media is in collusion with the DNC.
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But Was It A Rapid Fire Assault Knife?
15 dead (so far) at a handicapped group home in Sagamihara, Japan: Police arrested a man, age 26, after he turned himself at a police station in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, shortly after 3 a.m., broadcaster NHK reported. Police said they received a call from an employee of the facility saying a man wielding a…
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