Shot in the Dark

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  • The Urban Doom Loop

    As we watch the back an forth between dismal demographic news and media pollyannaism in Minneapolis, it’s worth looking at other cities that are having similar post-pandemic problems. Which is most of Blue Urban America, to be honest – there aren’t many cities outside Florida, Texas, the Carolinas and Tennessee doing well these days –…

  • Open Letter To Alvin Bragg And All The Chuckleheads Cheering On Yesterday’s Verdict

    To: Alvin Bragg, From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: You Did It! I’ve never been coy about the fact that I’ve never cared about Donald Trump – or at least his dominant public persona. I don’t care for what his erratic and impulsive nature cost the GOP in 2018 and 2020. Something I like far less…

  • Evidence

    Normally I’d call this evidence that Joe Biden is the worst president of my life time, Foreign Policy division: Of course, that’s not quite true; Obama is still the president, in every way that matters. So Obama remains comfortably ahead of Jimmy Carter.

  • No Cigar

    You get no prize for having figured out how this was going to develop. Ken Martin demands the resignation of accused ninja burglar, constitutional law genius and state Senator Nicole Mitchell…: …after she served her purpose in hanging onto the “trifecta” and helping jam down the DFL’s demented spending and social engineering spree. Why yes,…

  • As Predicted

    When President Potato promised, during his State of The Union address, to build a supply pier so the US could, er, “feed starving people in Gaza”, I’m sure my prediction at the time could have been seen as partisan and cynical. I’ve got the receipts right here. I could have just as easily worded it…

  • Verdict?

    I may not have advanced the science of astrophysics in any meaningful way. I’ll take the “L” there. But I think I’ve got one thing on Steven Hawking: Since he isn’t reiterating this theory to us in person today, it’s clear his theory is at least half-wrong.

  • The Chicanes Of Leftist Economics

    If the Democrat party’s messaging machine were targeted at people who did critical thinking, I’d have a little sympathy for them. They’d have to navigate a pretty tight logical hairpin turn. To wit: they’d have to supervise the gaslighting of the people to believe the “experts” and not their lying eyes about the economy: …and…

  • I Have To Figure…

    …that at least some of the baby-boomers who protested against Vietnam have got to be looking at today’s mass of bobbleheaded students…: …and thinking “dial back the crazy, kids”?

  • It’s Been A Year

    During the 2022 campaign and the 2023 legislative session, in the immediate wake of burning through a $19B surplus, that the DFL claimed that the spending binge would “Reduce Poverty by 30%”. The sessions ended a year ago yesterday. So how’s that going? Well, apparently we won’t know for another couple of years. The MN…

  • I Heard It On The NARN (Sunday Edition)

    Thanks as always to Brad for letting me sit in! TC Pearson was here on behalf of “Defend the Guard” and “Bring the Troops Home”. His podcast is The Black Robe Regiment. And here’s the music for today’s show:

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Wanna piss off Erin Maye Quade? Donate to Pre-Born today! Catch up with AK Kamara here. And today’s song list:

  • Perspective Needed

    Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers. He’s swerved from the ridiculous to the, well, occasionally admirable, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth… And, well…: Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, versus Legitimate questions and…

  • America’s Abusive Spouse

    Notice how many Democrats and media people (ptr) are gaslighting working Americans about the economy lately? The Dow Jones and the level of GDP is nice and all, but inflation is rising faster than buying power, and is going to get worse before it gets better, if it gets better.

  • Our Banana Republic

    The state legislature wrapped up on Sunday. Behind their moral leaders – an accused felon and a not-very-closeted authoritarian – they enacted one of the more shameful spectacles anyone has ever seen in the Minnesota state legislature: The process – and all inconvenient parliamentary procedure – was ignored, as the DFL jammed down a 2,800…

  • A Tale Of Two Years

    Leftists, 2020: “Punch a Nazi!” Leftists, 2024, being thwarted in their protests in support of actual modern-day Nazis [1]: “Heeeeeeey! No fair punching!” [1] In the “fascist dictatorship founded on racial obsession, focused on murdering Jews” sense of the term, rather than the “I’m a leftist and I don’t whatever it is” sense.

  • Short Drive From A Long Pier

    Holy crap. US aid being supplied to Gaza via the potato’s “pier from nowhere…” …is being looted. Unexpectedly!

  • The Reason…

    …people like this…: …get angsty about American flags on beaches because, two generations ago, they were the ones shooting down at them from the cliffs.

  • A Discourse On Berg’s Fourth Law

    MITCH: Go Timberwolves! CRITIC: But hey, Mitch – since when do you care about pro sports? MITCH: Outside the Bears, Cubs and Twins? CRITIC: Right. Since when? MITCH: Since never. Don’t usually care. But I DO care about having fun, and being in a place where one of the teams is doing well is kinda…

  • Shut Up And Make The Biscuits, Jeb

    Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park, emails: Seems that Cracker Barrel is in financial trouble after inviting restaurant patrons to celebrate Gay Pride.  Go to https://ace.mu.nu/ and scroll down to “The Morning Rant: Cracker Barrel Went Woke and Now It’s Going Broke” for a nice recap.  Sometimes I wonder if every big company is working from…

  • Perhaps Saint Paul’s Sole Political Upside. Sort Of.

    Minneapolis is increasingly run by showy, shrill, demogogic “Democrats Socialists of America” radicals intent on rebuilding the city in their image. Saint Paul, as long as I can recall but even moreso in the past 15 years has been run by an informal assembly of white NIMBYs from the various Parks (Highland, Merriam, Irvine, Saint…

  • The Party Of Crime And Violence

    To: DFL ParentsFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Your Kids DFL comms guy Ryan Faircloth [1] had himself a chuckle in the lobby of the GOP convention last Friday: The sign, naturally, is a just a tad tongue-in-cheek. But the MNDFL – the party of “comedians” who aren’t funny and people with no sense of humor,…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    To get in touch with the Minneapolis GOP BPOU, go here, or email at info@mplsgop.org. And here’s today’s music list:

  • A Stylish LIttle Stiletto Boot On Your Neck Forever: Apple Valley Edition

    Among Big Left’s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term “Fascist”. To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means “anyone not on board with today’s left’s narrative”. No, really: And Big Left knows what it’s doing, since the other options have…

  • World War 3 Is Starting

    The deficit bomb is ticking away. Illegal immigration is crushing working-class incomes. But we get the representation we deserve, apparently: It took me a couple of beats to realize it wasn’t the “Congress” scene from “Idiocracy”. Have to wonder what the suffragettes would think.

  • About That Henco District 6 Special Election

    Heather “Lawnmower Barbie” Edelson, beat Marisa Simonetti, 54-45. In other words: A woman with near 100% name recognition, especially among people who come out for special elections, beat someone nobody had heard of three weeks before the election. By nine points. In a district Keith Ellison won by 20, and Governor Klink by 30: There’ll…

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