Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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An Invitation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m too lazy to look up Mike Pence, the fellow Trump as picked for a running mate. Hey, Dog Gone – give us a quick FACT CHECK on this guy, would you, so I know what not to believe? Joe Doakes It has become a pretty good barometer, hasn’t it?
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I Heard It On The NARN
Monique Giordana’s campaign website and donations page. Here are the websites for Brad Gerten (HD51A, west Eagan/Burnsville) and Pat Hammond (HD51B). And of course, today’s music playlist.
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Now My NARN Are Blazing
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I will be on live from 1-3PM today! We’ll be talking with House candidates Monique Giordana (65A) and Margaret Stokely (65B) We’ll have Paul Ridgeway, afternoon host at AM980, to talk about a national prayer vigil, Brad Gerten and…
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Falling Far Behind
Whenever the subject of Islamicist terror is brought up, the left and media (ptr) springs to action to remind us that domestic “right wing terror”, which is just around the corner (we are constantly assured. Someday. Honest. And who knows? It could happen! But if “the right” – with about four incidents of lethal terror…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
26 year old Antione Cooper walked into a Waffle House in DeSoto, Texas with an AK47, robbing several patrons: And then…: A handgun-licensed customer, whose wife was on her way to meet him at the restaurant, followed Cooper to the parking lot, fearing for his wife’s safety, according to DeSoto police. Police said the customer…
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Breaking The Silence
Sometimes, you hold a secret that’s so inflammatory, so divisive, so certain to lead to sturm und drang, that you just hang onto it. You keep it bottled up inside, and let it fester, for months, years, even decades. Sometimes you take those secrets to the grave. But sometimes – rarely, but it blessedly happens –…
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Permitted
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When did protesting become an all-purpose Get Out Of Jail Free card? Black Lives Matter want to protest police brutality, so they walk down the middle of the freeway. That costs the taxpayers money paying cops overtime to guard the protestors and paying highway crews overtime to clean up…
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Comprehensive Truck Control
As this is written, as many as sixty dead in Nice, France. The weapon? A truck. Berg’s 17th Law is in full effect; the mainstream media will get every single fact of this story wrong for the next 24-48 hours. So I won’t speculate yet. CNN – which is part of the mass media we should not…
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Putting On Squalid Airs
One of the aphorisms that I’ve always used to guide my life is an old Hungarian saying; “the best way to become wealthy is to appear as if you already are”. It’s not just about money; Dennis Prager notes a similar principle when it comes to happiness. Prager and others note that when all…
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My Challenge To The Reverend Bence
Lately, the left has been making the following fairly fantastic claim: I’ve heard this a few times – and it gave me one of my customarily-brilliant ideas. I challenge the Reverend Nancy Nord Bence, Joan Peterson, and any other leaders of “Everytown”, “Moms Want Action” and “Protect” MN to meet me in North Minneapolis or Dayton’s…
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For The DSM7
There are two types of people in the world: Type 1: People who don’t sort people into elaborate taxonomies. Type 2: People who DO sort people into elaborate taxonomies. Type 2a: People who create taxonomies for a living Type 2a1: People who do it for academic purposes Type 2a2: People who do it as market…
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Info You Need
The etymology of “Pompatus”. As in “Pompatus of Love”, of Steve Miller fame. Yes, there is an etymology.
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Procedure
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There are 10,000 sworn officers employed in Minnesota. They shoot an average of 10 people per year for the past 15 years No police officer was charged in any of those deaths. There are 200,000 Minnesotans with valid permits to carry a firearm. The Violence Policy Center (a gun-control…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Our Loathsome Fellow Citizens
“The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”. — Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, possibly apocryphally. Deterrence: America is the result of a revolution – not an ideological or market revolution, but a military revolt against what the colonists (or at least the ones who…
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Protected: Lie Tracker
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Vacuous Hipster Lives Matter
While I don’t support Black Lives’ Matter Twin Cities’ strategy or leadership, I don’t doubt for a moment that black people have every legitimate reason to protest against perceptions of excessive police violence… …while noting that the loudest calls for more police in neighborhoods like the North Side of Minneapolis, the lower East Side of Saint Paul,…
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Oceania Has Never Been At War With Eastasia
Feel the Hill! No, you WILL feel it! NOW!
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I’ll Bet All You Sanders Supporters Feel Berned Now
To: Bernie Sanders supporters From: Mitch Berg – Uppity Peasant Re: Feeling Stupid? All Bernie Sanders endorsing Hillary? Why, isn’t that exactly like endorsing the Wall Street and military-industrial complex he railed against? Yeah. It totally is. Every last one of you has been had. Played for fools. Suckers. That is all.
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Collapse
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails Democrats want to use the No Fly list to deny suspected terrorists the right to buy guns. If Hillary wins, considering the Clinton’s history of renting out the Lincoln bedroom in exchange for campaign contributions, I would anticipate them expanding the program and operating it like a Public Television…
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Memories And Memory Holes
Do you remember when the left and mainstream media tried to tie Sarah Palin to Jared Loughner’s spree killing in Tuscon, which wounded Gabby Gifford (and killed a bunch of people the media don’t care about) because she’d completely innocently used “crosshairs” on a map? Of course you do. Do you remember when Al Sharpton told people…
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A Quick Favor
The House candidate in my district (65A), Monique Giordana, is running against Rena Moran, about whom the best that can be said is that she’s what you get when machines control cities. Monique is a very sharp woman. She gets healthcare – she’s a pharmacist at a cancer center, and sees the results of MNSure…
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Opportunity For Improvement
Police overreach; it’s not just for black people anymore: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week. Officers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with…
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By Gaslight
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m old enough that having amateur debaters attempt to play their tricks on me has become tiresome. In a recent on-line exchange, my opponent said “I can see you have a lot of anger on this issue. You need help.” Nice try, but no cigar. I know that trick…
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Keep Those Lines Blurry
I’m going to share a little secret, just between the two of us; I always get nervous, during gun control debates, when the topic turns to the technicalities of different types of guns. Don’t get me wrong; illiteracy about guns is one of the things that gun controllers exploit to ram down their factually-vacant, emotion-laden…
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Obama’s Dumbest Idea Yet
Remember all the wondrous things Obama wrought by nationalizing the healthcare system? Remember? Heck, you’ve barely started feeling the pain! But wait. It gets worse. Now, he wants to nationalize the police: The report urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices, via the use of federal lawsuits, grants and threats to cut…
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