Category: Liberty
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Welcome To The Party, Pal
Hey, look! The guy who banned family Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings, limited the Cathedral of Saint Paul to ten worshippers (and Kissin’ Cousins’ Sports Bar in Newfolden to 50) and tried to get you fired for not getting vaccinated…: …is suddenly a liberty hawk!
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The Right Victims
Star-Tribune, 2020: Crippling mass layoffs due to knee-jerk government response to Covid. Economy in the tank. Governor Klink sics his pet Soros Attorney General on dissenters, declares emergency power, sets up a snitch line. Star Tribune: <Crickets> Star Tribune, 2025: A pulse: I keep saying “you don’t hate the media enough”. I’m trying to figure…
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Our Moronic Elites
Margaret Brennan has emerged in this past few months as the poster girl for all that is stupid and depraved about our “elites”. But even I didn’t think she’d go here…: Stupid reporter? Or a natural progression of the whole “free speech is bad” thing that elites were pushing during a campaign where the Democrats…
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This Is Your Federal Government At Work
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Check out this thread at Thread Reader App, Since Threadreader may or may not launch from the link depending on your browser, I’ve provided the entry point on Twitter. It’s a long thread. Read it. “Draining” is too good for some parts of the swamp. They need to be…
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The Bullets We Dodged
Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week. For starters – as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election – the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to “save democracy”, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers. And…
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The Satanic Choruses
SCENE: The rotunda at the Minnesota State Capitol. A press conference is underway. Standing at the podium, in front of a “Satanic” display, are three members of the Twin Cities Church of Satan: Joshua Micah GUMPKE – a tall, morbidly obese 30-something man with thick, unkempt back hair, and a black neckbeard. His arms are…
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Heavy Is The Crown
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como. Park, emails: Some historian – I forget who – described the British monarchy of myth, from its origins until probably the 1600s, as the old-world equivalent of Mafia factions duking it out for the position of Capo di Tutti Capi, only with no FBI to prevent slop-over to the wider…
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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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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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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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Self-Fullilling
They warned me if I voted for Donald Trump, democracy would be in danger. And they were right: It’s the things they say when they are among friends that really illuminate.
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The Terrorists, Communists, Nazis And King George III Won
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who look at statements like this and think: And, moreover …either: “WHAT? Government doesn’t have a plan for me? Ehrmuhgerd what will I do?“ Or “Well, good. That’s why my ancestors came to America; so we could have our own plan and not worry about…
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Komissar Ellison
This past week, Brazil’s “supreme court” ordered a shutdown of “X” (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk declined to participate in a sham court proceeding. The justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to…
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That Pesky Constitution
Freedom. It’s such a big deal, our “elites” don’t think you can be trusted with it: Keith Ellison thanks the authoritarian socialist government of Brazil for threatening to criminalize Twitter: Kamala Harris thinks free speech is a privilege, and needs supervision. Democrats are warning me democracy itself is at stake. I guess they’re right.
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The Beautiful Reward
Once nice thing about being a conservative these days… …is that all your “conspiracy theories” turn out to be true.
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In His Own Words
So, Governor and Veep Candidate Walz supports censorship of “misinformation” (which is defined by his sycophants in the media) and “hate speech”, which is defined by…him. I’m gonna guess this gets called “hateful misinformation”. One heartbeat away from the presidency, if America doesn’t wise up this fall.
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Remedy
Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park emails: In Murthy v. Missouri, the Biden administration was accused of unconstitutional infringement of free speech by pressuring social media to suppress stories unfavorable to the administration. A lower court found it was the most blatant act of censorship in American history. The Supreme Court sidestepped the issue…
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Manners
Joe Doakes, no longer of Como Park, emails: We all know how Minnesota Nice works. Someone invites you to dinner, she’s serving Italian Spaghetti. Everyone in Minnesota knows there’s an unspoken understanding that “Italian Spaghetti” is hamburger, onion, and Ragu from a jar ladled over Creamette spaghetti noodles sprinkled with Kraft Grated Parmesan from the…
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You’ve Got To Destroy Democracy To Save It
Brazil is going through an exaggerated version of the US’s current gyrations; between a “right wing” leader who, the expert class told us, “is going to destroy democracy“, to a left-wing oligarch who is actually destroying democracy in the name of “saving democracy”. In particular, they – and their American, Democrat party (and American big-media…
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Compliance!
This got some headlines yesterday: a group of Somali Muslim families in Saint Louis Park pushed back against the school board, with the aid of a couple of conservative public interest law firms, and forced the district to allow their children to opt out of LGBTQ content in school. I’ve added emphasis: This change comes…
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Grapeshot
OK, so something useful, non-toxic and non-authoritarian happened at Davos. Javier Milei loads his carronades with rhetorical grapeshot and aims them at the decks: We need one of him here.
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The Conversation We Need
I’m going to commend you to this particular episode of Ben Shapiro, from a couple weeks ago. He’s talking about the Republican Candidate debates – comparing the debates Republicans deserve with the one the nation needs. The one we deserve? Well, the donnybrook between DeSantis and Newsome was a great one. In another time and…
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The Gulag On The Hudson
New York State christened the “least free” in the United States: The report, conducted by the Cato Institute, showed that New York ranked last place among the 50 states for 2022 policies that impacted economic, social, and personal freedoms. New York ranked 50th for economic freedom and scored at or near the bottom for debt…