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  • No

    Professor Galloway: I hear what you’re saying. I do. And on behalf of all the small businesses strangled by your mistake, all the parents who watched their kids slowly go crazy and stupid, and felt their personal, social and business relationships fraying and breaking? I reject it. Forgiveness without atonement is meaningless. Try again.

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Find out more her about the American Veterans Memorial Park, hopefully in Cannon Falls.

  • Mitch’s Journalism School 101

    We’re told that Twin Cities food banks are having trouble keeping up wth demand: Just curious if any Twin CIties “Jounalists” might have asked if perhaps the half billion dollars stolen from food aid programs by DFL/DSA-linked non-profits, and spent on cars, homes and other graft goodies, often in East Africa, might have helped with…

  • Berg Seventh Law In A Picture

    … is worth dozens of words. In this case, the beginning of Matt Taibbi’s smack down of Amy Klobuchar and her authoritarian proposal to censor Substack and Reddit But I will let Taibbi put it in his own words: Remember – according to the Democrats, you and I are the ones who are killing democracy.

  • The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

    I’ve seen a bit of a resurcence of the traditional 20-something paranoia about “the draft” that pops up whenever the world seems turbulent. Example: But this post isn’t about Selective Service. We’ll come back to that. Minnesota’s “Peace” creep community isn’t any smarter than it’s ever been My first response: Our GenZ “activist community” has…

  • This Is Minneapolis, 2023

    Zach Metzger is a candidate for Minneapolis CIty Council. This was him after the riot on Sunday: He’s running for City Council. To my amazement, he didn’t win endorsement in the uppeer-middle-class “urban life” theme. park that is the 13th Ward… …but five’ll get you ten that if he moves to an open seat in…

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • Big Left’s Psyop

    The latest bit of gaslighting madness from the Minnesota chapter of Big Left: “The Star/Tribune is actually conservative“:

  • America’s Hitler Youth

    Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They…

  • #HimToo

    Who on earth does Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) think she is… (Language NSFW) …Amy Klobuchar?

  • One Day At The MNDFL Communications Office

    SCENE: In a drab back room at MNDFL headquarters on Plato Boulevard, two DFL communications staffers, Evan BRYANT (Macalester 2021) and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK (St. Thomas 2018) are pecking away at their iPhones, poring over their social media plan for the week. BIRKENSTOCK: Chairman Martin says people are starting to get tired of crime? BRYANT: Where?…

  • An Idea Almost Too Crazy To Comprehend

    Enrollment at Twin Cities schools continues to erode: We’ll wait for the Walz/Flanagan administration to register their theatrical shock that “free” mystery meat and unrestricted gay porn in school libraries isn’t drawing students like Dave Matthews fans to the last bag of Cheetoz. But I have a question. This seems like the sort of story…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    John Augustine is with the Legislative Evaluation Assembly. Charles Kuchlenz is the Libertarian candidate to replace Ruth Richardson in MN HD52b. Song list:

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen

    Henco is going to have a “contested” County Commission race, where “contested” means “a battle between bad, worse and worst” . I think the found ‘worst”. People inexperienced in the ways of Metro “progressives” might joke “I wonder if she’s going to put “Irritating people into behavioral change” into her campaign literature, yuk yuk”. To…

  • Dude. Like, The Fix Is Totally, Like, In. Dude.

    I personally don’t care much one way or another about legalizing cannabis. But as I’ve heard from people running ma and pa cannabis, THC and CBD product shops, the DFL’s cannabis law is full of carve-outs to big pharma, and has regulations that are pretty sure to smother most small businesses. Tales But the DFL…

  • Someone Else’s Shoes

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an opinion which clarifies the duty to retreat in defense-of-others cases. Let’s imagine a situation where Lilly is the Victim lying on the ground, Trevon is the Assailant kneeling astride Lilly beating her with a baseball bat, and Tom is the Rescuer,…

  • Public Is To Art As It Is To Restrooms

    I’m informed that the National Museum of Women in the Arts has re-opened after $70,000,000 in renovations. I think I missed the NMOWITA in my various sprints through the DC museum scene, but by all accounts it’s dedicated to art either created by, or created by intersectional classes favored by, entitled upper middle class white…

  • The Fix

    A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves. When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” –…

  • Rule #1: Know Your Audience

    Hamas leader puts out a dog whistle to western leftists: It’s not even close to the dumbest strategy.

  • So What Was With All That Stuff About Music And Relatives And Old Bosses, Merg?

    I took a little vacation. That’s kind of a big deal. I don’t take vacations. It’s a running gag among my European co-workers that I”m the classic American. I’ve never taken a vacation of longer than five days that didn’t involve visiting family or some major household project. So I went to Norway from October…

  • Crush Your Argument, Have A Snack

    I give Pierre Poilievre – conservative candidate running against Justin “No Way He’s Castro’s Son” Trudeau” about a thousand style points for this response: Initially I thought Poilievre was being a little brusque in dealing with a potential voter. I was informed the person “asking” the “questions” is, however, a journalist – someone who’s supposed…

  • Speed

    “Unruly teens” in Chicago attack a Tesla during one of their periodic galavants around their “room to destroy”. Police were reportedly standing nearby. The Tesla driver used some of that torque for self-defense: The cops no doubt have the guy’s license plate, so there’d be no need for them to chase and arrest the guy…

  • If You Are…

    …one of those people who doesn’t need food, energy, shelter, or transportation, Paul Krugman’s got great news for you: And apparently, if you are one of those people who needs those things, you either don’t count or are a failure.

  • Dick Butkus

    Another thing I missed when I was out of the country – the death of the only sports figure I ever actually wanted to be. Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears legend and the man who defined the position of middle linebacker, died last week at the age of 80: A ferocious tackler drafted out of the…

  • Evil

    The Nazis weren’t especially coy about their views on Jews. Hitler telegraphed his intent in Mein Kampf. The Nuremberg Laws were a pretty solid hint. And yet in 1944 and 1945, as the wheels came off the Third Reich, they feverishly bulldozed the camps, shipped or force-marched the surviving inmates to other camps farther from…

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