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  • Another Gun Free Zone

    Another slaughter. This morning, the media is awash with the usual detritus – liberal hacks demanding gun control, almost visibly re-zipping their pants after getting the news of a new mass shooting (other than the mass shooting that happens every weekend in Chicago, Newark, New Orleans, Detroit, Oakland, Stockton, and North Minneapolis; they’re only concerned…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    More on Tony Cornish‘s letter to the editor, and Joel Kotkin. Also – ♫ today’s music list.

  • I’m Runnin’, NARN On My Back

    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 about Tony Cornish’s letter to the editor Also – the trust deficit. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson has “The Closer” edition of the…

  • Open Letter To “Starting a Conversation” With Katie Couric And The Entire News Media

    To:  Katie Couric and the entire American news media From:  Mitch Berg, peasant Re:  Starting a Conversation Ms Couric et al, As we discussed last week, you got busted doing something that, in my day (and yours) would have gotten any young reporter unceremoniously fired; you edited a story specifically to invert the history, record…

  • Preparations

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock on November 11, 1620.  Four years from this Fall, the United States will celebrate the 400-year anniversary of White People Coming to America.  Who would you rather have as President overseeing that celebration: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?  Joe Doakes And I wonder…

  • Change I Can Believe In, Evangelize For

    I officially endorse this idea.

  • Cop’s Gonna Cop. Grievance Pimp’s Gonna Pimp Grievance.

    Preface:  I don’t have a whole lot of pet peeves.  I really don’t.  I’m one of the most easygoing guys you’re likely to ever meet, ever. But I do have a few: Using the term “begging the question” as a synonym for “that brings up another question”.  It’s not.  It’s just not.  “Begging the question”…

  • Stupid, Stupid Suburbanites!

    If it’s Thursday, a bunch of the usual New Urbanist suspects have ginned up another “study” “proving” the “costs” of “sprawl”. Combining the the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S., he found, commuters pay more than $107 billion annually, which is about $1,400 per commuter, on average. Those are the dollar costs of the number of…

  • A Matter Of Trust. And Lack Of It.

    Representative government requires trust – above all, trust that everyone, king and commoner alike, is equal in the eyes of the law and “the system” – and everyone follows more or less the same rules. But we’re not doing that anymore.  Marc Rich scammed people, and got pardoned for being a Democrat bigwig; Bill Clinton…

  • The Smart Ones

    Detroit Free Press article calls for the murder of Republicans… …for voting for school choice. What was it that Gandhi said?  First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attack you.  Then you win. Or, in the case of Detroit, “win”.

  • “Unintended” Consequences

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Illegal alien injured on the job, confessed to using false documents to obtain employment, was put on unpaid leave until he could prove he was eligible to work in the United States, sued employer for retaliation, Minnesota Court of Appeals takes his side.  Court says the purpose of federal…

  • Hillary Clinton – Spouse-Beater?

    Paul Mirengoff at Powerline on former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne’s book on life in the Clinton White House; I’ve added some emphasis: Secret Service agents are, of course, charged with protecting the physical well-being of the president. Byrne says they had discussions about the possibility of having to protect Bill Clinton from Hillary’s physical…

  • When We Warn You…

    …that the left is trying to get traditional western culture treated as a thoughtcrime, it‘s really not hyperbole: Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental…

  • When People Complain About Donald Trump’s Appeals To Base Nature…

    …they really need to get some perspective. The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods. In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in…

  • Grounds For Open Insurrection?

    This is getting very very close.

  • Modern Plagues

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My health insurance company requires me to take an annual health assessment and participate in a well-being program, to get a discount on my co-pay.  They are at the forefront of trendiness, of course, and Sitting Is The New Smoking, so getting me up and moving is all the…

  • The New Brownshirts

    Today, on the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, I’m genuinely pessimistic that this nation learned – or can learn – one of the most important lessons of the war. Indeed, it seems that there are those in our society who really don’t want this country to learn it. Words like “Fascist” and “Brownshirt” have…

  • June 6: A Tale Of Two Engines

    Bing – a search engine I rarely use (mostly out of habit) has this as its cover today – June 6, a rather significant date in world, especially Western, history: Google – which, two weeks ago, honored America-hating radical and Bin Laden supporter Yuri Kochiyama with a Doodle – has this: Not that Microsoft is…

  • Unsafe Space

    Reagan, speaking 32 years ago at Pointe Du Hoc, above Omaha Beach: “The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers — the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machineguns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began…

  • Simple Solution

    Leave.  And take your husband. #ProblemSolved.

  • Grande

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Mayor of Paris says they can’t have little shanties and camps scattered around, they need one big camp to concentrate the refugees in one place.  A concentration camp, lovely idea.  But that’s a temporary solution to a temporary problem.  Aren’t refugees supposed to go home, eventually?  Or is…

  • The Rock Amidst the Raging Tempest

    Despite rough seas, the HMS Hampshire was making good time on June 5th, 1916.  Having left the main British naval base in Scapa Flow, Scotland, the cruiser was easily outrunning its destroyer escort. With the wound of Jutland fresh in the minds of the admiralty, the HMS Hampshire had been assigned a circuitous route through…

  • “The Greatest Crisis of the War”

    The days might have been getting longer across Europe in June of 1916, but in the capitals of the Entente, the second summer of war only appeared to be getting darker. France was bleeding to death in the trenches of Verdun.  Italy was reeling from an Austro-Hungarian offensive that threatened their main army at Isonzo.…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Glenn Reyholds’ piece on the fish of society rotting from the head. Powerline’s videos of the fascist mobs in San Jose. And, of course, ♫ today’s NARN playlist.

  • NARN Plays Some Forgotten Song

    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! Today’s show?  We’ll talk about the new American fascism (hint – it’s not the usual suspect) and loathsome ghouls who exploit other peoples’ tragedies for political gain. Also Paul Thissen. Don’t…

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