{"id":1259,"date":"2007-09-01T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2007-09-01T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:00:38","slug":"true-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"True North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s the big debut:<\/p>\n

\"True<\/a><\/p>\n

About the time this article publishes, we’ll be giving True North <\/em>its big sendoff at the State Fair (tune in on AM1280 The Patriot).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some people have asked – “why another conservative blog?”\u00a0 (Others, rather than asking, have tried to go all Chloe<\/a> on us.\u00a0\u00a0 Really, guys – less drama, please?)<\/p>\n

But as the Democrats try to wheedle the state into holding a special session to repair the bridge (and increase Local Government Aid and put a state trooper <\/a>at every intersection and raise all of southern Minnesota twelve feet and increase education funding and built a light-retaining wall around Nicollet Island and…) and trucks full of Hollywood money are rumbling up I90 to Al Franken’s office and wannabe thugboyz and riotgrrls\u00a0are measuring manhole covers in Saint Paul for next year’s convention and plutocrats pour <\/em>money into buying a left-leaning alternative media presence in this state, it’s time for us – the state’s center-right alternative media – to step things up.<\/p>\n

True North <\/em>is just another blog, in a sense.\u00a0 It’s true.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s also going to be the online equivalent of what Keegans<\/a> is for the non-partisan Minnesota Organization of Bloggers; a place to get together; to talk; to organize things.<\/p>\n

It’s not <\/em>an organ of the state GOP.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 While probably 95% of the votes I’ve cast since age 20 have gone to Republicans (and that is, naturally, a conservative estimate), it’s because the GOP is the only party that even pays lip service to the principles I care about<\/a>; in many other ways, the State GOP and some of the Congressional District party organizations are as much the problem as they are the solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 True North <\/em>is rigorously independent of all parties.\u00a0 It is allied purely to first principles: from the Manifesto…:<\/p>\n