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  • Thursday I Don’t Care About You, But Sunday I’m In NARN

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! I‘ll be filling in for Brad Carlson today; Brad’s off on assignment. No huge surprise.  I’ll be talking about Orlando, and the left’s manipulative, cynical reaction. I’ll be talking with Mark Steiger, president of Pink Pistols Twin Cities – an LGBT…

  • I’m Not Afraid Of You NARNing Away

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! But I’m not.  I’m off on assignment today.  Brad Carlson is in for me today.  I’ll be back tomorrow. Don’t forget – on a normal weekend King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson has “The Closer” edition of the…

  • Quote Of The Day

    Glenn Reynolds, in a piece about Big Left’s lies about “gun culture”: Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It’s about the cultural domination of the people in flyover country, by their coastal “betters” who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at…

  • An ISIS Victory On American Soil

    David French at National Review notes that ISIS has won both a tactical and strategic victory in Orlando – and done it on the cheap: On Sunday, June 12, ISIS won a dramatic victory. Without risking any of its terror assets and without having to spend one dime of its financial assets, an ISIS volunteer…

  • The Army Of Davids. Or Abus.

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Everybody knows David slew Goliath, and that it was an amazing feat because David was a kid and Goliath a giant.  He won using a sling – a child’s weapon.   Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, says America needs an army of Davids, ordinary people with ordinary skills to take on…

  • Questions With Utterly Unsuspenseful Answers

    Answer:   “Because he was always more Democrat than Republican, and he was always a liberal, full stop”.

  • Close Call!

    Imagine how bad this could have gotten if Britain didn’t ban guns? They need commonsense gun laws like the Chinese to prevent mass murder.

  • One Of These Days. Honest. Really.

    For the 22nd year out of the past 22, the Department of Homeland Security warns us that “right-wing extremism” is coming.  Boy, howdy, is sure is. Aaaaaany day now. Yep!  This is the last warning! No, stop laughing! And it’s gonna be as bad – no twice…no, eleventy-teen times as bad as Islamic Extremist terror:…

  • The Accidental Activist

    As I’ve noted here before, I wasn’t always a Second Amendment activist. I grew up in a pretty gun-controlly family, actually; dad’s a union Democrat, mom was a sort-of-repressed hippie.   I didn’t grow up around guns – which took some doing, in rural North Dakota. Mom didn’t allow toy guns in the house. I…

  • Whatever Else Is Going Wrong With The World Today…

    …at least there’s this.  

  • Quota

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: June 17th will be the 88th anniversary of Wilmer Stultz’s historic flight across the Atlantic in 1928, just one year after Lucky Lindy flew it, which resulted in a ticker-tape parade, meeting the President, lecture tour, book deal, product endorsements, new job, the works.  Not for him – for…

  • Stuck On Full-Auto Stupid

    One of the most frustrating things about being a Second Amendment supporter is that, for the most part, the parts of the media that aren’t misinformed are, actively or passively, spreading disinformation. Not the worst example is this column yesterday from the left-leaning New York Daily News. Well, no.  It may be one for the…

  • Equitable

    A friend of the blog, who works in the medical industry, notes: Liberals often like to say that the US is ready for single payer healthcare. Then, we have something like this.   This is the evidence that people don’t want single payer healthcare. Allina is simply asking nurses to share the wealth. As one…

  • Open Letter To Everyone In The Eighth CD

    To:  All Youse Up Nort From:  Mitch Berg, descendant of jackpine savages Re:  Your Representative. All, Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick Nolan.  Bernie Sanders endorses Rick…

  • A Matter Of Choice!

    A chain of mediocre coffee shops tells Trump supporters to stay away. Why, it’s almost like liberals suddenly believe in the concept of “freedom of association” or something.

  • Update Needed!

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Massachusetts passes bill to abolish biological term “sex,” replace with social construct “gender,” variable at whim.  Next up: a bill to make Pi equal to 3 (to make math more rational and therefore easier for members of the teachers’ union to understand), and a bill to repeal the law…

  • Stuck On Permanently Mired In Stupid

    That so much of our mainstream media is grossly uninformed about the Second Amendment debate is a challenge. That so much of the mainstream media gets their information from people who are actively trying to disinform the public is an affront. This article – a WaPo piece from Christopher Ingraham – is a little bit…

  • Not Merely Evil

    Planned Parenthood – or at least one of its constituent groups – also says face-palmingly stupid things: Planned Parenthood black community outreach group is claiming that what happened in Orlando was due to “toxic masculinity.” “#Islam doesn’t foment the violence alleged gunman Omar Mateen enacted, toxic masculinity & a global culture of imperialist homophobia does,” the…

  • Milestone

    It’s a milestone for women: Hear you roar!

  • Prerogatives

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: IT’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK IT IS: How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board. A prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates and contributor to the Clinton Foundation, who later traveled with Bill Clinton on a trip to Africa, Rajiv K. Fernando’s only known qualification for a seat on the…

  • That Should Fix It

    Over the weekend – and before the other Orlando massacre – the Internet was buzzing with the story of the death of Christine Crimmins – one of the instant stars from the TV show “The Voice”. Any guesses as to whether the law-abiding citizen was allowed to have a gun, where the murder took place? You get one guess.

  • Lie First, Lie Always: And Out Come The Ghouls

    The last spent cartridge casing had barely pinged off the ground when the ghouls of Minnesota’s “Safe Criminals” movement came streaking out of the shadows to rip the bloody shirts off the (ahem) victims of an ISIS terror attack to try to jam their agenda down our throats. Kim Norton – fresh from utter failure in the legislature,…

  • Separation Of Powers

    There’s a reason our founding fathers put an ironclad separation between the state and the military. “I believe that our Constitution affords responsible Americans the right to own guns, but we need to keep dangerous people from having easy access to guns. Felons, domestic abusers, even known terrorists can buy a gun here without something…

  • Radio For A Summer Day In Minnesota

    AM1280’s got a new show – “Meat Masters Radio“, heard every Saturday at 4PM. It’s a show about…meat.  Grilling it, smoking it, eating it, you name it. I’m hungry just writing about it. And I’m happy to welcome it to the weekend shift at the 1280!

  • Remorse

    Sent by a friend, from a bikepath somewhere in the northwest metro: If only.

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