Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Diagnosis
Andy Aplikowski – long of the “Residual Forces” blog – writes re the Brexit on Facebook: So it appears the only people still whining about #BREXIT are: 1) European politicians who will lose power. 2) American politicians afraid of Federalism and State’s rights catching on in the US. 3) Filthy rich who lost a “crap…
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Frustration
It’s gotta be frustrating to be a terrorist, trying to actually get PR for attacks in America. It’s gotta feel almost like a scene from Monty Python and the Life of Brian – they keep launching attacks in the US (via proxies, for the most part) and the government keeps blaming it on…others! Nidal Hassan’s attack…
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Our Ever Changing Moods
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The movement to ban hate speech, especially on campus, reminds us that the political pendulum swings both ways. At the time of the Revolutionary War, Britain’s laws were so strict that the Founders put Freedom of Speech first on the list of protected activities in our new country. Then…
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The Terrible Hours
You’re in a room. Between you and the exit – any exit – is someone who is busily killing people. So you’re not going anywhere. Probably not, anyway. You’re in the midst of a spree killing – sometimes called a rampage killing. You’re surrounded by crowds of people, as someone – one person, most likely…
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Consequences
Some of my circle of acquaintances are deeply pessimistic about the “Brexit”. “Without the EU”, they say, “the standard of living in the UK will plummet. They’ll be frozen out of trade; they’re blowing up their own economies, setting themselves back decades!” I’ll note that most of the acquaintances are the types who seem themselves…
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A Good Gal With A Gun
Woman kills intruder. Officials said the 33-year-old woman had returned home with her kids — aged 5 and 10 — when she encountered the man and opened fire. Police officers and medical personnel arriving at the home in Portland, Oregon, early Sunday found the 59-year-old man who had been shot dead. The mom is cooperating…
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Let Them Eat Cake
A friend of this blog writes: Hard to tell if this is supposed to be positive or negative publicity for the light rail- median income is down, we haven’t gentrified the area, and people and still mostly poor here. Was that the goal of the Green Line? The goal of the Green Line was to…
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A Banana Republic, If You Can Keep It
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The IRS has released a list of nearly 500 conservative groups it targeted for extra scrutiny to delay their fundraising abilities and thereby allow Democrats to outraise, outspend and out-advertise their way to winning the election. I’m so old that I can remember the President of the United States…
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I’m Sure…
…this will turn out to be more right-wing conservative Christian violence. Or maybe those elusive pro-life Tea Partiers. Over thirty dead and counting in Istanbul. Darn that NRA. Not to snark overly much; I’ve always felt somewhat close to Turkey. My mom lived there for several years, back in the nineties. Just waiting to see what…
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The Greatest
RIP Buddy Ryan: The defensive mastermind that was, perhaps even more than Mike Ditka, behind the greatest team in the history of NFL football, Ryan had a long, long career: Beloved by his players and hated by opposing offenses (and sometimes hated even by his own offenses), Ryan masterminded Chicago’s 46 defense that won Super…
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Rights
I’m not going to talk politics, here. I’m going to talk morality and ethics. First: as a general rule, it’s considered immoral to make someone accountable and responsible for something, but to withhold the rights needed to carry that responsibility out. It’d be wrong to say “raise this kid!” without giving someone the rights to,…
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If I Were A Betting Man…
…and I’m not, but if I were, I’d put down good money that we’re going to see a big John Oliver bit on what a funny name Trey Gowdy is. And it’ll go viral. Oh, yes, it will. At all costs. It – the Oliver bit, I mean – will be all over the news.…
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Some People…
…just need un-employing.
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Huh
An attack by a Muslim acting on behalf of ISIS, who was a registered Democrats, got this reaction at the New York “Pride” Parade over the weekend: The Democrat Party – and let’s be frank, it’s the Democrats who are behind banners like this – is all about ending the namecalling and anger…by Republicans.
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Fogo No Lixo
My prediction: The Rio Olympics will be seen as the beginning of the end of the end of the modern Olympic games. Just a hunch.
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With Nominees Like This…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It’s painful to watch the Republican Presidential nominee join in clamoring for a secret, non-appealable Enemies List of un-persons who have been stripped of civil rights by some unaccountable bureaucrat in the federal administration: four years ago, no right to raise money for voter education; last year, no right…
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Common Sense Alt Media
Many of you reading this blog are amateur journalists; we met back when everyone was a exercising their First Amendment rights with blogs and the like. Now, writing online – blogs, tumblr, Facebook, whatever – is fine. And audio podcasts are OK. But nobody really needs video. It’s just too much. I’ve worked as a real…
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Entitlement
I’m not sure what disturbs me more; that so many on the left are so depraved at heart… …or that so many feel they’re entitled to be that way.
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Stacked
Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds wasn’t writing about the Twin Cities’ Met Council in his USA Today piece, “Why Politicians Love Cities”. But in another sense, he was precisely writing about the Met Council. Reynolds cites urban theorist and “New Urbanism” critic Joel Kotkin’s new book (we’ve met Kotkin on this blog before) in getting to three reasons…
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Crazy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Democrats in Congress are staging a sit-in for gun control in response to a gay man shooting up a gay nightclub in Orlando. People suffering from mental illness are banned from owning guns for the obvious reason that they’re a danger to themselves or others. Homosexuality was a mental…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Frank Drake is running for Congress in the 5th CD. Here’s that photo of Rick Nolan, at the “You’re Guilty Until Innocent” rally on the floor of the Senate this past week.
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Saturday On The NARN, And Every Day’s The Fourth Of July
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I’m back from assignment. I’ll be talking about: Democrats against freedom! I’ll be talking with Frank Drake, GOP Candidate for the 5th Congressional District Don’t forget – on a normal weekend King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson has…
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MNSure: All Is, Naturally, Proceeding As Predicted
The Blues are eliminating scads of individual plans. In response Gov. Mark Dayton highlighted gains in enrolling more Minnesotans in health insurance plans since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He also acknowledged the BCBSM departure reflects the instability in the market for individual and family coverage. In other words, as people have been…
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Of Dogs
In journalism class, my freshman year of college, the professor referred to the classic definition of the difference between news and, well, not news; “Dog bites man” is not news; “Man bites dog” is news. With that in mind, this story qualifies as “Dog sniffs dog”. Or maybe “Dog licks self”.
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Offer
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails – reiterating something I myself posted on Facebook the other day: Since the tragedy in Orlando, this sign has been popping up and gun sales to GLBT buyers are soaring. Great – if you know how to use one. I’ve been shooting 40 years. My sincere offer: if…
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