Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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200 Dreamsicles – And Not One Criminal
I attended not one, but two gun-grabber “rallies” yesterday – June 2, which the gun grabbers are trying to turn into a national event. It’s the birthday of the girl who sang at Obama’s first inauguration – and then was killed weeks later. Killed by whom? How? Well, that never popped up at any of…
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If You’re Looking To Get Your Carry Permit…
…or are coming up for renewal, this is gonna be fun. GOCRA is doing a fundraiser tomorrow – a Carry Permit training class conducted by Professor Joe Olson, the guy who wrote Minnesota’s carry permit law. You will get, officially, the very best legal training on carry permit laws available – straight from the metaphorical horse’s mouth. Proceeds…
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A Rhetorical Question, Sort Of, For The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence
To: The Reverend Nancy Nord Bence, “Protect” MN From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: Suggestion Last night, you had your “Orange” events around selected parts of the Metro – or at least Eagan (a snug little suburban enclave) and the Stone Arch Bridge, the heart of the gentrified waterfront. And yet in all your communications, you…
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Diminished Standards
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New Rasmussen poll says 50% of Americans think Hillary should continue to campaign for President, even if charged with a crime. Of course the answer is slightly suspect poll uses push techniques to set up the answer; but still, that’s a high percentage. Survey questions here. Oddly, I agree…
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The Dreamiscle Ghouls
Today’s the day all the gun-grabbers have planned for their big…day. They’ll be having their little events, wearing their orange t-shirts, looking a little bit like human Dreamsicles. And they’ll be marching their marches, doing their speeches, yadda yadda. I wouldn’t be surprised if the huge papier-mache heads turned up. To pimp the event,…
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It Should Surprise Nobody…
… that the most fiscally sound and best managed states in the union are controlled by Republicans, while all of the worst marriage states are controlled by Democrats. […while] Mercatus makes no mention of the states’ political leanings, every state in the top 10 except for Florida is solidly red, meaning those states voted for the Republican…
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The Hypocrisy Industry
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: On the one hand, the Americans with Disabilities Act was more than a kind-hearted gesture, it was an acknowledgement that America is rich enough to be able to afford to make its public spaces accessible to everyone, including the handicapped. If the law says you have to make accommodations,…
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To: The Entire American Media
To: The Media From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: Journalistic “Standards” Dear Media Katie Couric lied to the viewing public by maliciously editing her piece on “Gun Violence” to show a group of human rights activists as speechless when asked a fairly elementary question about gun control (when, in fact, they had several minutes of on-point,…
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Change You Can Belay
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: America is slouching toward something, but is this the Change we were Hoping for? Being treated as a “hate crime.” We hate biology? Joe Doakes Science, logic, ethics, morals – all are important inasmuch as they are useful in achieving the left’s means. To the left.
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Coincidence?
Premise, accepted as a given: Most government taxation and spending, especially in one-party cities like Minneapolis and Saint Paul (and, really, in de facto one-party states like Minnesota) exists primarily to take wealth from the producing class and give it…not so much to people who need it as much as to the political class. With that accepted as…
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I’m Not Going To Say…
…that the editorial agenda of the Star/Tribune is governed by and for sixty-something baby boomers. But I can’t think of another reason this story made it to the front (online) page over the weekend…
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Jutland
Despite the vast expanse of the North Sea, on the afternoon of May 31st, 1916, British Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty had found his prey. Commanding a squadron of six battlecruisers and four battleships, Beatty’s small fleet had encountered a German fleet of five warships. Both small contingents had spent most of the last two days seeking…
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Lie First, Lie Always: A Tale Of Two Meetings
As much practice as the American Left has protesting things, you’d think they could make their jabbering against the National Rifle Association more than just rhetorical. It should surprise nobody that they could, could, of course, not.
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Experiment
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I studied Government as a Pre-Law student. The classes were full of poseurs and weasels which is too bad, because it’s actually a worthwhile subject: what is the purpose of government, what should it do, what should it avoid doing? Rosseau thought mankind was basically good but was corrupted…
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Memorial Day, 2016
For this Memorial Day, I reprise I piece I wrote two years ago. I still like it. There are many of them; well over a million men and women have died in the service of this country, in wars big – the Civil War, World War 2 – and small (the Philippine Insurrection, Desert Storm).…
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“Something’s Wrong With Our Bloody Ships Today”, Part I
The term “arms race” is almost – sort of – falling into disuse these days. I’m sure it won’t last forever. Those of us of a certain age well remember the ultimate arms race – the race to build nukes between the US, the USSR, China, and their various proxies and allies in the Cold…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Senator Osmek’s issue page, including his piece on the gas tax. Here’s the Justice Action Network. And of course, ♫ h today’s music playlist.
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Summer’s Here And The NARN Is Right For Racing In The Street
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! Senator Dave Osmek will join us to talk about the continuing cash suck that are our rail lines Holly Harris will talk about the drug sentencing reform law that Governor Dayton…
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The Villain
Was the “school service officer” in this video – posted on Facebook yesterday, shot at Central High School in Saint Paul – the bad guy, using a lot of force to subdue a guy who, it’s claimed, had transferred to a different school and was back for some unspecified reason? Or, as the school district said, was…
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Pick Your Poison
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: C.S. Lewis’ famous quote: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Media And Guns
Katie Couric’s “docoumentary” “about” “guns in America” has been busted engaging in misleading editing to try to embarass pro-Human-rights activists. Here’s what appeared on Couric’s broadcast: However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to theWashington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric’s question is…
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Cap’n Jim
Word came this past week of the passing of broadcasting legend Jim Rohn – or, if you grew up within 100 miles of Fargo in the sixties and early seventies, “Captain Jim”: Rohn got his start in 1946 on the radio at KSJB-AM in Jamestown following his service in World War II. He was radioman/gunner on…
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Security Pantomime
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay British man who holds right-of-center views. He’s been invited to speak at several American colleges campuses and calls his trip the “Dangerous Faggot Tour” which gives you an idea of his wicked sense of humor. His speech at DePaul University was disrupted by Black…
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Sharks Everywhere!
First things first: I am pretty ambivalent about the Rest Room crisis. I’ve joked that it’s a battle between hysterical ninnies on one side, and the smug, arrogant and complacent on the other. But the “hysterical ninnies” have a point; ambisexual restroom policies will give society’s thin residue of pervs one more avenue by which to exercise…
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