Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Machine Against The Rage
SCENE: Mitch BERG sees a flatbed cargo bike, with a parka-clad rider, bogged down in a snowdrift. He pulls his car over to help… …only to see that the driver is Avery LIBRELLE. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Avery. Looks like you’re stuck… LIBRELLE: Don’t change the subject. Elizabeth Warren, like Kamala Harris before her,…
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Misleading Advertising
In a state with functioning truth in advertising laws, the DFL would be forced the change its name from the “Democrat Farmer Labor” to the “Democrat Public Employee” party. The DFL’s numbers among private-sector labor unions have been eroding for decades. That’s the subject of another post. But the DFL’s support in rural Minnesota has…
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Our Annual Budget Ritual
The “state budget report” tells of a $1.3 billion dollar overtaxation – called a “surplus” in pure accounting lingo, but really, it means the government grabbed a lot more in taxes than they had budgeted. Progs think that’s a good thing. Progs are also comically innumerate. A friend of the blog writes: When will the…
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Tales
Every Democrat candidate favors paying reparations to Americans held in slavery.Last American slave died in 1971, nearly two generations ago.Too late to pay reparations to someone who was actually owed them. Everyone else simply has an interesting family history to tell.Joe Doakes Not to mention the fact that there were not a few black slave owners…
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Soft Targets
We’ve had the second active shooter episode in a couple of days on a Navy base – first Pearl Harbor, now Pensacola. Which has prompted some of the usual suspects to mouth the usual jibberish: For sake of argument? Perhaps. What it does do is show that banning guns is no defense against violence. Navy,…
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The Season!
Heartwarming holiday story.Joe doakes In more ways than one. Not sure if Democrats get it yet – whenever they threaten to take guns away (and it’s become pretty much the norm over this past few years), they create a wave of new owners. Which means “gun culture” becomes more ingrained in our society – at…
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When Out And About This Weekend
For my band, “Elephant in the Room”, it seems to be feast or famine. This weekend is “feast” – or as I’m calling it, our “Winter Tour 2019”. Friday night, we’re at “Neighbors”, in Albertville. It’s our first time out there, and we’re looking forward to our first gig in the Northwest exurbs! We’ll be…
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The Plan
The Minnesota DFL – and of course, the likes of the “Reverend” Nancy North Benson – don’t dream of sugarplums and fairies. They dream of making the US just like the UK. “You must not defend yourself with something that can hurt someone”. Apparently, all you need is love.
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Choose Your Story
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Santa Clause: “Thanks for coming, Larry. I understand you’re not happy being an ordinary elf, making toys and wiggling your ears and saying “hee hee” and “ho ho” and stuff like that. Is it true?”Larry the Elf: “Oh, no, Santa. I love making toys and singing in the elf…
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It’s Good To Be King
As this is written, Saint Paul is getting around the plowing non-emergency streets. Sort of. Tonight and tomorrow will be the big nights for clearing Friday and Saturday’s fairly significant snowfall. Guess who didn’t have to wait? Mayor Carter. And Public Works director and former City Council boss-lady Kathy Lantry: But the city’s plows got…
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So Let Me Get This Straight
Kamala “Boss Hogg” Harris has departed the Presidential race because racism… …and not because she hasn’t gained any traction… …with Democrats, who seem to have an all-white (plus Fauxcahontas) debate panel? Democrats are so confusing.
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Nice Court You Got There, Sport. It’d Be A Shame If It Were To…Break. Capisce?
In which Senate Democrats threaten to render the Supreme Court moot if they vote for the gun-rights case we talked about.
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Fair Is Fair
Liberals insist Citizens United was wrongly decided and must be overturned. Really? The Supreme Court made a mistake? A mistaken decision must be overturned? Okay, I’m good with that. But Citizens United concerns a narrow area of free speech as it applies to political campaigns. Let’s start with cases that have broader societal impact, because the…
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Victims
This is the Associated Press, over the weekend: In a sense, they have a point: I’ve been gleefully urging Democrats to push impeachment without rest almost since Trump was elected, seeing it as at best a goldmine for Trump, and at worst a gateway to a candidate I’d have actually supported on my own in…
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Men In England Now A-Bed…
The tale of the Brits who, despite their government’s best efforts to neuter them, dealt with the terrorist attack in London over the weekend: Of course, the Brits are lucky it’s a story that’s gone ’round the world; if it were regular street crime, they’d be prosecuted more seriously than the thug. It’s something to…
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End Traffic Violence!
Nobody needs more than one car. Nobody needs to drive a car more than once a month. There should be psychological profiles and strict background checks for all vehicle transfers, including loans to friends and rent a cars. A 6 gallon gas tank limit is plenty. No wonder the Democrats and media are pushing the…
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Poison, Picked
Who am I talking about? A group with a political point of view gains control of the means not only of disseminating the nation’s history – its very story. The official story is made to comport with that dominant group’s narrative – in schools, journalism, academia, even museums. They even bring the apparatus of the…
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Review
The Supreme Court, for the first time in nearly a decade, is hearing a significant Second Amendment case: Faced with a defunct ban on transporting guns outside city limits, the increasingly conservative court majority could render a decision making clear what some justices believe: that the Second Amendment extends beyond the home, and that lower courts should…
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And To Think Conservatives Believe Big Media Writes Stories About Conservative / Republican People And Events Long Beforehand, Because They’re All Writing To A Narrative
Jessica Kwong, progressive stenographer at former magazine “Newsweek”, on Donald Trump’s thanksgiving: “it was written before knowing about the president’s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake” In other words, pre-written. The Big Media aren’t “the enemy of the people”. They’re worse; after assuming the mantle of “guardian of democracy” (which, we are told, without their…
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Just In Time For Holiday Family Gatherings That Include “Woke” Relatives
If gender is just a construct… …then “mens’” opinions about abortion are of absolutely equal weight with “womens’”. You’re welcome.
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Calling BS On BS
A friend of the blog emails: Here we continue the liberal saga perpetuated by white men that women and people of color do not have any power. I haven’t looked back far enough in history to see if Andy Richter was happy that Clarence Thomas was appointed and sharing power with white Supreme Court justices. …
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It
Could HappenIs Happening HereTyrants, like abusive spouses and sociopathic gaslighters of all kinds, are fond of making their victims believe that their travails are their fault. Westerners – those who still bother to criticize Red China, anyway – learn with some muted horror that when the Chinese government executes a convict via their preferred method, a bullet to…
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Tear Down This Wall
This week is one of those time when one hopes that the people of Hong Kong know what Lech Wałęsa knew, and our “elites”, then as now, didn’t: he Hong Kong pro-democracy movement achieved a stunning victory in Sunday’s district-council elections. With turnout exceeding 70 percent, close to 90 percent of the seats went to…
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Addicted To Envy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Elizabeth Warren is tired of freeloading billionaires. They should pay their fair share.She’s got a point. Nobody needs a billion dollars. At some point, you’ve got enough money, right? But what is that point? A billion? A million? A hundred thousand? The underlying motivation is not economics but envy, which judges…
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