Tag: Erin Maye Quade
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Judge, Jury And Executioner (UPDATED)
We don’t know much about the man who shot two people at a dollar store on the mean streets of Burnsville yesterday. And by “we”, I mean everyone but Erin Maye Quade, who promptly tweeted that the shooting proved the need for background checks. Before any details were known. Not only before the investigation had started,…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Ninnies Gonna Ninny
Guns are a public health crisis. Not the way anti-gun advocates claim they are, of course; gun deaths are down 50% in twenty years, and further still in places with more guns (not so much in Democrat-addled urban cesspools). If cancer or heart disease deaths had dropped 50% in twenty years, “public health” advocates would…
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All About The Ugly
Opposition researchers are pretty much paid to be ugly, catty and anal-retentive. The City Pages would have you believe that the oppo-research battle in the House race in Apple Valley is worse than most. And in its way, it is – although not for the reasons the City Pages wants you to believe. It’s a…
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Innocent Until Proven Un-PC
The conclusion to Brendan O’Neil’s latest at National Review, on the “Ivy League Lynch Mob” that gathers, makes vaguely “feminist” noises about sexual assault, and demands the repeal of our entire system of criminal justice: Assuming a defendant’s innocence is what distinguishes progressive societies from backward ones. It’s the idea that infuses To Kill a Mockingbird.…