Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Digging Into The Memory Hole
During the last couple of legislative sessions, the DFL wrote a whole bunch of moral checks. Since we’ve got an election coming up, how about we see how many of them bounced? Abortion Unrestricted abortion is one promise the DFL trifected promised and delivered on. Perhaps very very overdelivered. The DFL brought a certain brusque…
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While Awaiting Kanye’s Two Cents Worth
As a rule, I treat the axiom “government is the things we do together, stupidly” like a well-tested law of physics. Politics – which is what drives government – is the worst possible way to allocate limited resources of any kind. And FEMA’s record is…checkered. But some of the stories coming from the Carolinas, Georgia…
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Public Service
Submitted without comment, here’s Governor Walz’s appearance last Sunday on Fox. Did I say “submitted without comment?” You know me better than that. He does not come off well. I’d like to make sure as many Minnesotans as possible see this – not only for the Presidential tilt, but as people assess the DFL’s performance…
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Again.
It’s been a year since the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 Israelis – the worst pogrom since World War 2. It’s a year that’s made me even more ashamed of America’s foreign policy than the previous 2.5 years of POTATUS and Harris had managed to do. But it tracks with the same I feel when I…
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It Practically Goes WIthout Saying
Which is a good thing, since the Democrats and Media (PTR) won’t say it. Shot: Harris was on board with #MeToo: Chaser: until she wasn‘t: Thing is, I’m all about people being innocent until proven guilty. But given that Emhoff – a guy who knocked up his nanny during his first marriage, not to mention…
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…It’s The Absence Of Coverup
David Strom has a results of VP debate. The ghosts of Richard Stockdale and Richard Nixon are calling back from the great beyond thanking Walz for making them no longer the easiest “presidential debate flop sweat” joke.
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Tortal Recall
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Uh…lawyers?
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I Heard It On The NARN
Bob Gust is running for the MN House in HD 50B – west Bloomington. And here’s today’s song list:
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Annals Of Fieldcraft
We’ve recently seen evidence of the Israeli intelligence service’s (“Mossad”) skill in penetrating their enemies’ operations; from spectacular, “James Bond”-style coups like Operation Grim Beeper to, incredibly, apparently penetrating the heart of Iran’s anti-Israel intelligence efforts up to senior leadership levels. Mossad has developed, over almost 80 years of fighting for Israel’s survival, an almost…
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Truer Words
I’ve been meaning to come back to this. A Harris/Klink op brought it up with a high hanging curveball: Being corralled into a staged propaganda exercise? I’ve never been a big Tim Walz fan. Quite the opposite. But is anyone else getting some…1930s vibes? Or perhaps more appropriately to Walz’s time in Omahongkong: I can’t…
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Willful Ignorance
People can vote for whoever they want to. It’s still a fairly free country. But I have a fair number of people in my social circle – co-workers, high school classmates, former teachers and professors – who are declaiming that they’re voting for Harris and Walz “to save democracy”. And I read that and try…
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Morning In Canada
It’s a cliché of modern Western life – “youth” rebel against their elders. Since the dawn of western “youth culture” right around 70 years ago, that’s pretty much always meant a leftward tilt – and in much of the world, it still does. But something interesting is going on in Canada: I can remember the…
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In Case You Were Wondering
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Tim Walz ducked all meaningful debates in the 2022 cycle. Highlights of the evening: Vance calling the moderators on their fairly naked bias: After the moderators used their interstitial bits to finish Walz’s point for him while trying to “fact-check” Vance, Vance finally had enough, and beat them…
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Pounce
In my interview with former Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka last Saturday, we talked about the depths of Governor Klink’s radicalism. With that in mind – with any luck, this should turn up in the Veep debate tonight: In a very significant development — I am almost prepared to say the most significant development in…
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To The Dacha Born
John Kerry – who came waaaay too close to becoming President, and that’s after acknowledging what a disappointment Dubya was in retrospect – accidentally told the left’s truth: “our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it” It’s disheartening how many Democrats consider that a bug rather…
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Klink Salutes you
On the weekend before the big debate with JD Vance, Tim Walz reminds everone that he’s a thin-skinned petulant little man: For the first time in my politics-watching career, I’m excited to go to a vice-presidentai debate.
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Tim Crow
Governor Walz takes us back to the glory days of “Separate but Equal”: But of course there’s a reason for this: Libraries have got to be woke, you see: One of the goals is to make libraries “more inclusive”. One would think inviting all those bigoted (checks notes) librarians would be pretty vital, if that’s…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Paul Gazelka’s book Lifting the Veil is available right here. Today’s music list:
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His Master’s Voice
Governor Walz, with Alex Soros. Check the body language: Looks like he’s ready to fetch a ball.
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Just Another Day In Tim Walz’s Minnesota
Every day is an opportunity for some new kind of social services fraud. Medicare? Food? Childcare? Old hat! Now it’s “Autism treatment centers“: Autism centers are – this beggars the imagination – not licensed in Minnesota, a state that requires a license to braid hair. But unlike hair braiding (as far as I know), there’s…
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Implausible
This is why I wonder how much prosecuting Kamala Harris did while she was in, and then leading, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. The first rule of armed self-defense, especially in a “blue” city, is you never talk about armed self-defense. A particularly zealous DA – like Harris – could use a statement like…
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But WHY Did She Fail As “Border Czar”?
IT appears our Vice President and possible future President has a dog in the fight: Semi-side issue: I’m a little amazed at the number of Democrats who’ll chant with a straight face “the Democrats don’t support open borders!”.
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Not That It’s An Issue
I’ve said it many times in this space – going back to 1986, I’ve never liked Donald Trump’s public persona. I couldn’t quite bring myself to vote for him in 2016 – I wrote in Scott Walker. And while Trump turned out to be a fine president on a policy level, I thought his behavior…
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For The Record
It was 1980. Thomas Sowell – one of the greatest economic and political minds of the the past century – was being considered for a role in the Reagan White House. Which provoked a, er, predictable response. Which prompted Sowell to give the only response it deserved: And it’s the same response needed next time…
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Never Ever
Few things have made me cringe quite as hard as “White Dudes for Harris” – the bunch of man-buns, ex-celebs, non-profit staffers and other walking caricatures that showed up on a struggle session on Zoom over the summer… …to a fairly universal “ick”. Why ,yes – I thought the whole thing was cloying and patronizing.…
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