Tag: Skoglund
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Crimes And Misdemeanors Against Fact
Yesterday, I tackled a Strib op-ed by Jim Backstrom. Backstrom, the Dakota County Attorney, wrote the latest in a long string of fact-challenged diatribes against the rights of the rigorously-law-abiding gun owner. Now, Backstrom – who is not just an elected public official, but one in charge of enforcing the law by prosecuting accused criminals…
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The Leopard’s New Stripes
There was a reason I always referred to Senator Wes Skoglund as “Lying Sack of Garbage“; it was because on second amendment issues (and a few others), his entire body of knowledge seemed to have been unquestioningly drawn from easily-debunked chanting points from anti-gun propaganda factories like the Violence Policy Center and the Brady Factory. Uncharacteristically, on…
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A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With A Single Step
I’ve been listening to some of my fellow conservatives – especially Tea Partiers – complaining about the debt ceiling deal, in terms that start with “it’s awful” and often as not end with “well, it was a great run – time to start hiding gold under the mattress”. To which I answer, as appropriate, “what…
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You Know How You Can Tell There’s A Second-Amendment Bill In The Hopper (Part I)?
Because “progressives” are telling fairy tales about guns again. Back in 1987, when Florida became the first major state to pass a “shall-issue” law, Senator Ron Silver set a standard for rhetoric (“It’ll be like Dodge City”, “there’ll be blood running in the streets”) that he, at least, had the decency to admit was overblown…
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Access, Part II
It was April 28, 2003. I sat in the public gallery of the Minnesota State Senate, with a legal pad (this back when WiFi was kinda rare, much less Air Cards), scrawling madly on a legal pad, writing down the salient points of the debate going on below – the final debate on the (intial)…
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Muzzle Blast From The Past
At the bottom of a Bloomberg column yesterday, it reads: (Ann Woolner is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.) The opinions she expressed are also something I haven’t run across since West “Dirty Liar” Skoglund left office and the public eye: the kind of comical, context-challenged buncombe that more-or-less savvy gun…
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Gutless
A few weeks ago, Tracy Eberly wrote – with characteristic political incorrectness – a piece that capped off with the line “If you are biking to save the environment, keep it up and the law of averages says we’ll have a few less Obama voters in November.” Now, as usual on subjects where Tracy and…
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Agent ProViolentDramaQueenateur
I commute via bike. I do it because I enjoy it, because I’ve lost 2-4 pants sizes in the past five months, and because it’s a just-plan-good time. Although I just started biking seriously again in June of 2007, I had a ton of experience as an urban and distance biker. I’m pretty defensive (and…
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This One’s For Heather Martens and Wes Skoglund
Just to set the stage for the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks. Check this out: Wow. Lookit all those guns – most of them fully-automatic weapons. And that ain’t the half of ’em. Here’s the other half: Not just fully-automatic weapons by the dozen! Not…
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Just Another Guy Stalking Wes Skoglund
I saw this story, and had to write about it. To set the stage; “Xavier” the blogger was out shopping at WalMart with his daughter. They left the store. Then, he noticed something was amiss. They were being followed by a couple of young toughs: I saw our vehicle and began to approach it, but…
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Strib: “You Better Run Like Hell”
If you’ve read this blog before, you’ve read this bit at least once. In Minnesota, if you choose and need to defend yourself or your family with lethal force, you must meet all four of the following criteria: You can’t be a willing participant in the struggle: you can’t dive into a fist-fight and then…