Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Why Can’t Johnny Do History?
POTATUS – or “Doctor” Jill, or the social media intern – spoke last week: Question: do any of them know how this nation started? Or why?
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The DFL Is Minnesota’s Gaslighting Abusive Spouse
In the immediate aftermath of declaring that realizing the non-charges against Trooper Londregan were “anti-queer” (???), Henco Attorney Mary Moriarty tells us that all that talk about crime in her jurisdiction is fearmongery: During a May 28 event, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty explained she believes there’s an effort to cause the public to fear…
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The New Political Geography
Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless: Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left…
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Ugly
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Classic literature instructs us: *** Said the Mock Turtle with a sigh, ‘I only took the regular course.’ ‘What was that?’ inquired Alice. ‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle replied; ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’ ‘I never heard…
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His Master’s Voice
The Strib’s editorial cartoonist accidentally took a chunk out of DFL policy. And that could not be tolerated: That’s right – Grove apologizes to the DFL for his paper telling the truth. Heads will no doubt roll.
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Decoy
SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting at a local bar for a small debate society. He’s reading the menu, and doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has entered the bar, carrying a protest sign reading “Debate Is White Supremacy”. BERG doesn’t notice LIBRELLE – but LIBRELLE notices him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Ah, sssshhhhiiut the front door, it’s Ave……
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Decay
Minnesota’s gross domestic product growth – which has long run far ahead of national averages – isn’t anymore: I’ve been observing this for a while now – when I decided to move to Minnesota, the state was simultaneously a mecca of opportunity in the Midwest, a place that Fodor Travel Guides called “The Athens of…
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Contest Time
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I suggest a contest for readers to give new slogans to the Republican party Trump or Biden, handcuffs or Depends. You decide. Trump or Biden, mean tweets or elder abuse. You decide. Want to kill your baby? Vote Democrat. Democrat dilemma, taxes or groceries? Have you been discriminated…
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Words To Live By
This needs to be said. Dennis Prager says “everything the left touches, it destroys”. The language is one of those things, and the left’s been actively working on it for decades. The left has made so many words meaningless: And, in this campaign, “Democracy” – which has come to mean “everything the Democrat party wants”.
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What A Difference A Mask Makes
This was the “white nationalist rally” in Charlottesville seven years ago looked like: Kind of a cantina band scene, a grab bag of endomorphic remainders from a dozen states, waving tiki torches and chanting. Now, here’s another “white supremacist group” – the “Patriot Front” – marching in NYC. Fit-ish looking. Matching uniforms. Marching in step.…
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The Experts Have Spoken
As I noted a couple of years ago, I lost my mother to Alzheimers. There was no treatment that seemed to do anything useful. She went from first really noticeable symptoms to gone in about six years. Research on the disease has been heavily focused on exploring brain-protein anomalies noted in a paper led by…
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End Of The Beginning
Coming in the wake of the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of D-Day, it’d be easy to get hypoerbolic about this. But in today’s academic culture, making an announcement like this is a little like running off a Higgins boat with a BAR and running toward the muzzle flashes: “But they’re a small conservative group!…
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Top Of His Game. For Sure.
We’re assured that President Biden is the most on-top-of-it president in history. This was him, getting ready to attend yesterday’s D-Day ceremony in Normandy: Looks like he could’ve jumped out of a Higgins boat then and there! And this was him later: And right after that: To be fair, I don’t think the President was…
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This Great And Noble Undertaking
I first wrote this piece in 2009. I’ve updated it, bit by bit, on successive D-Day anniversaries. I’m reprising it today: It was sixty-seven years ago today that the Allies started taking Western Europe back from the Nazis. The first, inevitable step was to get past the Westwall – perhaps the most immense set of fortifications…
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A Good Guy With A Car?
The city of Minneapolis just released the dispatch report re the Officer Jamal Mitchell shooting. A good guy with a car [1] apparently rammed shooter Mustafa Mohammed, who was apparently attacking a bystander on a scooter, possibly breaking his leg and immobilizing him: According to the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) report, before police arrived on…
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Chanting Points Memo: The Law
To: The MN DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Deplorable PeasantRe: Positioning w/r/t “The Law” DFL, The other day, your social media intern reiterated a chanting point the entire left was prattling lasdt week: “Nobody’s above the law” – with the apparent exception of the following: Circumstantial evidence indicates they are, indeed, “above the law” . That is…
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Just For The Record
Governor Klink – or his social media intern – turned the gas on the living room lamp down: Biden may be a good man – signs say “no, not really” – but the “steadiness” of his “leadership” have left the Middle East and Ukraine in flames, and I’m not betting against bad things happening in…
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Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work
Mayor Melvin Carter – who makes $132K a year – thanks “the President”… For wiping out his student debt transferring his student debt to America’s plumbers, truck drivers, waitresses and warehouse pickers: I’m not sure what bothers me more: Graft is bad. Redundant graft is worse.
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Four Mostly Peaceful Years
Modern progressivism is a social chameleon; it turns itself, and its history, into whatever it needs to to accomplish its ends. Modern media, for the most part, are oblivious, if not downright supportive. But there are exceptions. David Mikics at “Arts and Letters” reviews Nellie Bowles’ Morning After the Revolution, a brief history of modern…
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When All You Have Is A Dribble Glass Full Of Kombucha, All The World Is A Reichstag Fire
Block a freeway? Burn down a neighborhood? Jack a car, rob a store, shoot up on a train, b**w a john on a bus, attack someone on a train platform? Mary Moriarty’s got your back. Exercise your first amendent right to demonstrate for Mary Moriarty’s enemies, whoever they are, wherever you are? You’re a threat…
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Safety Briefing Required
To: KLM Royal Dutch AirlinesFrom: Mitch Berg, Opstandige BoerRe: The Holiest Time Of The Woke Year Voor Wie Het Aangaat Did anyone consult with the flight attendants about this? Follow-up question: Would the plane take off if I were to buckle my seatbelts as shown above? Thanks for your attention to this matter. Dat is…
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#Found In The Weekend News Dump
As if ther’s not enough to talk about today already. It didn’t take a legal expert to know that the charges against State Patrol trooper Ryan Londregan were unsustainable. Mary Moriarty had to spend a million bucks [1] to find that out. Which, we found out during the weekend news dump, she apparently did: Hennepin…
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One Vibraaaaaasant Minnesota!
It has become an iron clad fact that the only actual “reporting” going on in Twin Cities media is from the “alternative” media. And while I riff on the “MN Reformer” – which is paid for by leftists with deep pockets – I’ll include them as well. “Bags of Cash” allegedly offered to “Feeding Our…
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Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 4
To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know…
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Fearless Prediction
Berg’s 18th Law is still well in effect, and will be for another day or two. But while no details have been released yet about the killer of Minneapolis officer Jamal Mitchell, I’ll wager a shiny new quarter that he/she: Any action on that bet? PS: It’s days like this I miss the “Reverend” Nancy…
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