Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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It Shouldn’t Surprise Me…
…that Democrats are illiterate about history that’s less than a quarter of a century old. But they keep doing it: Forget for a moment that this episode occurred on the orders of Bill Clinton’s disastrous Attorney General, to placate Fidel Castro (who is no way no how Justin Trudeau’s father). It’s also crap; employer ID…
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“We Own This City”
For a while, after winning complete lopsided electoral sweeps in Minneapolis or Saint Paul, the DFL victory parties would break out into chanting the line in the title. Ownership has its privileges, as they way – but local DFLers sure seem to be squiggling away from any responsibility for that ownership. A friend of the…
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Things On Your Bingo Card For 2024
Why, yes – this was on mine! Can’t wait until someone does a comparative study about how EVs and gas cars compare when stranded in blizzards.
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WUPHs: It’s Not Just Minneapolis
In 2015, I spent some time in Detroit on a business trip. And even then, before Covid, downtown Detroit felt…vibrant. Fun. There was stuff going on in the evening. There were places to go, things to do, people around and about. Companies were paying people good money to buy or rent downtown and walk to…
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Angie Craig: MODERATE! MODERATE! MODERATE!
Remember Angie Craig? Every two years she dusts off the ads with her four-wheeling around the back roads of her district, hanging out with the good ol’ boys in LeSeuer County, trying to appear “moderate”. Remember Yusuf Haji? Probably not. He’s running for Dakota County Commission. Seems pretty innocent, right? Turns out Haji’s got friends…
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Debacle
Video smuggled out of Kamala Harris HQ after the Fox interview last night: This should help affect the votes of the four undecided voters out there. These outtakes give you a pretty fair idea how the interview went: A little more seriously? I didn’t get fooled by the “Red Wave” hype two years ago –…
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Never Forget
Say what you will about abortion – but as we get close to the elections, let’s remember the “debate” that the DFL jammed down in the ’23 session. I actually wrote this post during the last session – one of those “let’s make sure it doesn’t go down the memory hole” things. And while the…
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WUPH
JD Vance’s visit to the Third Precinct brought out, if not the worst of the plagues facing today’s Minnesota, at least the most comical: the WUPH. The White Urban Progressive Homer. Generally a 20-30-something male, employed in the non-profit, public or academic sector, part of the laptop class, single, socially mobile, mostly self-focused. And they…
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We Were Promised…
…a lot of things in the 21st century. Flying cars, food replicators, houses in the sky. Most of it crapped out. But this… …is certainly getting closer.
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Compare And Contrast
Martha Raddatz, on behalf of all media/Democrats (pardon the redundancy) re Venezuelan gangs: “Hey, it’s a big country. Let’s keep things in perspective! Also Martha Raddatz, on behalf of all media/Democrats (pardon the redundancy) if five self-identified Boogaloo Boys are seen hiking in the woods somewhere in northwest Georgia: “Lets examine this wave of white…
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I Was Warned…
…that if I voted Republican, then wannabe tyrants would have the President on speed-dial. And they were right: It’s Michael Moore – Flint Michigan’s own wannabe Mussolini. And in case you didn’t want to read the whole piece (it’s probably the right call, other than sociologically), here’s where he wants POTATUS to wave his magic…
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Just So We’re Clear
A guy who started a snitch line, enacted a thoughtcrime database, sicced the Attorney General on businesses that tried to survive his draconian and capricious Covid regulations and turned radical protesters into a fourth branch of government when he wanted social policy done… …is lying to warn us about authoritarianism.
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“Buddy, Could You Try To Be A Little Less Awkward?”
Call me old-fashioned, but I’d think a governor who’s built his entire career out of rigorously-contolled optics – lots of photos of eating fair food and holding animals and social media strawmen, no uncontrolled press conferences or public debates – would know better than to do… …that.
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Notes From The Soggy Zone
Last week, I ruffled some of the usual feathers by posting a link to this video by Ryan McBeth. McBeth is a former anti-tank grunt who now does open-source intelligence and systems work. His Youtube and Substack channels are interesting; he doesn’t get everything right (he is still claiming Mossad figured out how to remotely…
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The New Lexicon
“Grassroots”: When a candidate who has never earned a primary vote, and only run one seriously contested election in her life, gets installed by the troika of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama after defenestrating the current President for being unfit to run a campaign (although apparently not to be President of the United…
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The Walz Campaign In Two Videos
How It Started This, of course, is the campaign Tim Walz is used to running: carefully curated photos of him holding animals, being fed corn dogs by Peggy Flanagan, and occasionally spouting risible strawmen via social media. An “Instagram” Governor. The bit above may be the perfect metaphor for Tim Walz, 2004-2023. How It’s Going…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Paul Donohue is running for MN House in 64B, against Dave Pinto. Brad Olson is running for the House in 38A. And here’s today’s music list!
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This Should Fix Harris’s Problems With Male Voters
“White Dudes for Harris” – the collection of online man-buns, barristos and Soho cliches from earlier in the summer – didn’t do it. Picking Tim Walz – a thinly-closeted authoritarian with penchant for dressing up in Elmer Fudd costumes and eating Pronto Pups on camera – didn’t do it. But this? This ad should solve…
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Why We Call Berg’s Seventh Law A “Law”
Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting quite a workout over the past nine years: When a progressive issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds. When leftists warn of waves…
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Berg’s Seventh Law In Action: Getcher Speech Permits
Shot: Democrats act like there’s an exception in the First Amendment for “misinformation”, a term so broad literally nobody can define it (emphasis added): Chaser: The “Referees” we once had to tune into for information are, not misinforming, but actively disinforming us: After Rathergate, and seeing Lesley Stahl humiliated while covering for Hunter Biden in…
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Compare And Contrast
From a Trump rally last night The decline of the American military is a serious problem. Crude but merciless satire may not be the solution. But hopefully it helps lead us there.
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
University of Kansas prof says that men who don’t vote for Harris/Klink should be… Well, it’s all right here. Go for it. Not that this is news, necessarily. The University issued one of those “Oaaaaakaaaay, we’ll look into it, because hypothetically that’s not the kind of thing we approve of here, if it happened…” statements…
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When Vibes Aren’t Enough
Can Kamala Harris ride “Vibes” and “Rizz” all the way to the White House? Pessimistic as I am about the collective intelligence of half our population, I’m not always optimistic. But Jim Geraghty has his doubts: My semi-related theory: Democrats have been using Minnesota as a testbed for their approach in campaigning; running for high…
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Speaker Points
I mean, Esme Murphy doesn’t tongue-bathe Democrats like Stephen Colbert does. And yet Kamala Harris botches even that: If you’re one of the world’s dictators, it’d be negligent of you not to the trying to influence the election in Harris’s favor.
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Stuck On Stupid
After well over a week, the Administration is putting our money where it’s mouth is as re Hurricane Helene. Just kidding: It’s sending money to get Hezb’allah back on its feet.
Got any book recommendations?