Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Big Brah Is Watching
A longtime friend of this blog writes in re h this story, about Hawaii jumping ahead of San Francisco and Chicago in terms of leaning on the law-abiding gun owner; they plan to enter all the state’s legal gun owners into a federal database: Scary enough that they are targeting gun owners. MORE scary that the…
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The World Is Their Safe Space
Faux Feminist “writer” Lindy West blocks conservatives wholesale on Twitter. How wholesale? Even lowly little me, Mitch Berg, from the far frontiers of conservatism, am blocked. I actually feel pretty jazzed about that. Although I shouldn’t; West likely uses some sort of online ‘bot or another to block every account that references conservatism or libertarianism. I guess…
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A Fine Line Between Experiment And Lunacy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Immigrants are good for Minnesota: they bring us exciting new possibilities, interesting insights, exotic diseases such as tuberculosis. “An alternative public health policy–one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century–is to test immigrants and refugees for…
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As The Narrative Burns
A few weeks ago, Nekima Levy-Pounds went to the Minneapolis park and recreation board, and did what she does best; made a lot of noise, claiming the Park and Rec board was… wait for it… wait for it… racist. Unfortunately – according to the City Pages – the facts don’t exactly bear out her charges of…
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Between The Lines
Yesterday was “Beyonce Day” in Minnesota. Congratulations, Ms. Beyonce. But the interesting part of the story was here (emphasis added): In honor of Beyoncé’s performance tonight, Governor Mark Dayton and Lt. Governor Tina Smith have proclaimed Monday, May 23, 2016, to be “Beyoncé Day” in Minnesota. Huh. So when was the last time you say…
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Unplanned Obsolescence
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune playing the race card for Somali terrorists. The reporter asks why there are no Blacks on the jury. The reporter is stuck in a mental rut, asking the wrong question. Americans are entitled to a trial by a jury of their peers, but what does that mean? …
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Frequently Asked Questions XIV
Who Is Joe Doakes? Is he just a pseudonym for…Mitch Berg? – I get this a lot. I have to chuckle a good-natured chuckle when I do; I’ve written something like 20,000 posts on this blog over the years; I do not need a medium for additional writing on this blog. That’d be like Rush Limbaugh coming up…
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The DFL’s Praetorian Guard: Still Praetorian. Still Guarding.
What do the headlines say about the legislative session? The Strib: the session “imploded“. The PiPress: It “collapsed“. MPR: It “melted down“. All fairly passive verbs; imploding, collapsing and melting down are all actions without authors. It’d be much more accurate to say the session was killed. By the DFL. For political reasons. Choo Choo Trains Are…
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Stakes
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Do religious organizations such as Little Sisters of the Poor have an obligation to provide morally repugnant procedures for their employees, in violation of the organization’s religious beliefs? Must nuns provide for abortions? Supreme Court failed to decide, stuck 4-4, sent the cases back to federal courts for more…
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You Can NARN Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
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, I’ll be live at the MN state GOP convention. Who will be on the show? What’ll we be talking about? Tune in! I’ll probably know three minutes before you hear…
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NARN-day I’ve Got Friday On My Mind
Tonight, we’ll be doing a special edition of the NARN, live from the GOP State Convention in Duluth, from 6-8PM! Who will be on the show? What’ll we be talking about? We’ll be talking a fair amount about the goings-on at the GOP State Central Committee – and of course, the Judicial Elections Commission. Don’t…
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Tricia Bishop: Let The Courage Of Your Convictions Guide You
Baltimore Sun “reporter” Tricia Bishop, on her way to admitting she worries less about criminals than law-abiding gun owners (in Baltimore. I’ll let that bit of knot-headedness sink in), says: And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought,…
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Edumication
The next time some liberal friend of yours cites the Zimmerman-Martin shooting as a gross injustice – a “white man shooting an unarmed black child” – refer them to this long, but utterly impeccably researched series by the great Massood Ayoob. Then sweep up the debris of their “argument”. Side benefit; you’ll likely learn a…
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Assimodation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: State Senate passed an omnibus bill (not yet law). Section 8, Article 28, starting at line 195.20, says: Sec. 28. IMMIGRATION INTEGRATION ADVISORY TASK FORCE. (a) The Immigration Integration Advisory Task Force is created to research state laws and rules that negatively affect immigrants. The task force is…
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Retirement Age
Today would have been Joey Ramone’s 65th birthday: And it’s hard to believe he’s been dead for 15 years.
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While In Duluth Tomorrow
I’ll be broadcasting live from the GOP State Convention on Friday from 6-8PM, and again on Saturday fro 1-3PM. I’m neither a delegate nor a member of the State Central Committee, so I won’t be voting on anything But I will be doing my level best to help any group that seeks to limit the…
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Creative Problem-Solving
A reader emails: This article, about young women prostituting themselves, quotes Colorado Univ professor Joanne Belnap: “I don’t want to blame the women because I feel like it is a way to get a college education, which I feel really strongly about,” she said. “We live in a culture where women are paid so unfairly…
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Philosophical Question
Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis City Councilor Alondra Cano and Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima Levy-Pounds complaining about being “victims of racism” – Cano for having been criticized by her fellow councilpeople, Levy-Pounds for being scolded for barging in and interrupting giving public input at a Park Board meeting where public input was not on…
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Pageantry Hit List
Kevin Williamson is right.
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The Stick
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, public sector jobs were filled by patronage, which led to massive incompetence and frequent turnover. These employees could get away with lousy service without repercussion because their jobs didn’t depend on customer service, they depended on remaining in favor. Later, public sector jobs are filled…
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Syttende Mai
Today, Syttende Mai, is the 111th anniversary of the Norske Revolusjon – when Norwegian patriots, chafing under decades of Swedish/Danish tyranny, rebelled, casting off the brutal, authoritarian Swedish monarchy in an epic cataclysm that ended in a titanic battle in the hills outside Kristiansand, a crushing victory for the grossly-outnumbered Norwegians that sent the demoralized Swedes into a panicked…
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MNDFL: They Know What Matters
The transportation, tax and bonding bills are all a shambles. So what is the Minnesota DFL focused on? Baseball players and their tobacco. The bill was introduced Monday by Rep. Mike Freiberg, DFL-Golden Valley. It would ban the use of tobacco at Target Field, CHS Field and other professional sports stadiums in Minnesota. “We need…
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