Tag: Kim Norton – Idiot
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Declaring The Causes That Impel Us, 2025 Edition
The below is an update of a piece I first wrote almost five years ago. It was at that moment about the time when people – smart people, anyway – were starting to realize that Covid wasn’t the new Bubonic Plague, that the sky was not falling, and that whatever “model” Governor Klink was reading…
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Declaring The Causes That Impel Us, 2024 Edition
The below is an update of a piece I first wrote almost four years ago. It was at that moment about the time when people – smart people, anyway – were starting to realize that Covid wasn’t the new Bubonic Plague, that the sky was not falling, and that whatever “model” Governor Klink was reading…
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I’m Not Going To Say…
…that Kim Norton, mayor of Rochester, is simultaneously both the most authoritarian person in Minnesota politics and the most groaningly, er, ill-informed, incurious and tone-deaf. But I will say… ..that if you think I’m inferring that message between the lines, I’m not going to argue with you all that hard.
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Life In A Time Of Mayor Norton
This tweet came out from the Olmsted County sheriff’s office yesterday: If you have time to screw around with posts like this, you have time to figure out how to accept MN Permit to Carry applications as required under MN 624.714. https://t.co/sOdYpqLfM2 — Bryan Strawser (@bryanstrawser) May 4, 2020 While Olmsted County is not controlled…
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Declaring The Causes That Impel Us
We’re into month two of the “State of Emergency” in Minnesota. Let’s stipulate in advance – government does have emergency powers, and should have them, at least as a broad concept. One of government’s few genuinely legitimate roles is to exert its power to react to things that are beyond the power of the individual,…
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Lie First, Lie Always: When The DFL Does Polling, The Truth Dies A Little
Kim Norton – the former MN Representative from Rochester who asked for a “conversation about gun safety”, and then blocked everyone who disagreed with the conclusion she’d been given by Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown” – tried her hand at “polling” to try to gin up the impression that there was some actual support for gun control…
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Lie First, Lie Always: And Out Come The Ghouls
The last spent cartridge casing had barely pinged off the ground when the ghouls of Minnesota’s “Safe Criminals” movement came streaking out of the shadows to rip the bloody shirts off the (ahem) victims of an ISIS terror attack to try to jam their agenda down our throats. Kim Norton – fresh from utter failure in the legislature,…
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A Good Grandma With A Gun
An 80 year old woman in Sultan, Washington shot and killed a man who was trying to go all teppanyaki on her husband: The woman called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. from the home in the 13700 block of Woods Lake Road and said “she had shot an intruder after he broke into her home…
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How Can You Tell We’re Not In Minneapolis?
Because outside the Twin Cities,every once in a while, the editorial cartoons slip up and tell the truth about Democrats;. The Rochester Post-Bulletin printed this editorial cartoon about Rochester Representative Kim Norton yesterday: Not bad. Not bad at all. Of course, there’s always room for improvement. During a session in which representative Norton has…
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Everything You Need To Know About Heather Martens, “Everytown” And Moms Want Action
To: The Twin Cities Media From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: A Guide To Gun-Grabber Rhetoric Dear Media, When the topic turns to guns, the Second Amendment and gun control, there is so much that so many of you are groaningly misinformed about. Now, many of you are actually doing what, 20 years ago, would…
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Lie First, Lie Always: The Strib Marinades In The Bloomberg Kool-Aid
The Star/Tribune’s editorial board is a group of people, apparently in their sixties and seventies, who seem to spend their days pining away for a time when the media could say anything they want without fear of being caught out in public by people who know better. Those days are long gone. Only the editorial…
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Another Open Letter To Kim Norton, Rep. Martens, And Their Peeps
To: Rep. Kim Norton, Rep. Heather Martens, et al From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: Your Sources All, Don’t say I never did anything for you. This is as good as any case you’ve ever made: Feel free to just cut the crap and quote this at will. That is all.
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Question For Rep. Kim Norton, Heather Martens
When/if the police finally catch the person responsible for this shooting, at the corner of my neighborhood on Saturday night, what do you suppose the odds are that he bought the gun at a gun show, or from a law-abiding citizen in any location?
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Kim Norton: Minnesota’s Greatest Gun Salesperson
GOCRA notes that since Barack Obama and Kim Norton started their parallel offensives against guns (in the hands of the law-abiding citizen), Minnesota carry permits are flying off the shelves as fast as guns of all types. January was a near-record month for permit applications: The number of valid Minnesota carry permits is now 221,712,…
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Disparity
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Compare the green shaded areas on this map: with the red circles on this map: I know, I’m comparing apples to oranges but it’s the best available data to make my point. The area of the state with the most shots fired has the fewest permits to carry. Why…
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This Is “Gun Safety”
Chicago has dragged their feet and obstructed the law-abiding gun citizen’s attempt to protect themselves ever since the day the Heller decisions was announced. And the city’s murder rate is setting new records; January saw 51 homicides, the bloodiest January since the gory days of the ’90s. Gang conflicts and retaliatory violence drove the “unacceptable” increase in homicides,…
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A Good Guy With A Gun?
A couple of wannabe thugs apparently tried to turn a craigslist transaction into a heist in Shakopee yesterday. And while the article doesn’t say so explicitly, reading between the lines, it would appear the Fugs picked the wrong guy: Police radio reports indicated that the apparent victim of the attempted robbery had a handgun and fired…
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Our Illogical Ninny Overlords
Told that the State Capitol Police wanted to hold “active shooter” training for the legislature and its staff, Rep. Kim Norton decided to introduce a bill repealing last year’s law allowing law-abiding carry permittees to have their legally-carried firearms in the Capitol complex. And the logic was… …entertaining: If law-abiding citizens can’t bring guns…
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Shots Fired
Rep. Kim Norton is going to come for your guns this session. It may not work, but it’s the next measure in what Big Left hopes to make into a steady drumbeat that eventually wears the great, underinformed middle down on the issue. But the facts are out there. Location, Location, Location: If you…
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Why We Fight, Part IV: The Underdog
In Charles C.W. Cooke’s fantastic piece in National Review last week on the power of emotion in the gun debate, he made an excellent point; the gun debate is about more than just cold numbers. Much more. Influence: I grew up in a family that was very uncomfortable around guns. My mom didn’t let me…
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The Question Is Not…
…did gun control fail. Civilian guns are pretty much trayf in Canada. The question is not were the two shooters acting in the interest of Jihad. No. The question is “How will Kim Norton try to blame this on the law-abiding gun owners of Minnesota”.
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The Client Is Obviously Guilty
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: See, we need to get rid of this concealed carry law cause this is what happens. Shots going off in Target because somebody with a concealed handgun ……. Yeah, except that he was a felon ineligible to possess a gun, clearly didn’t have a carry permit. But let’s not…
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The Gore Line And The Rail Of Death Line
Yet another pedestrian has been killed along the Rail Of Death Line from downtown Minneapolis to the Airport. I’ll urge prayers for his family and the people in his life. This follows on two more train-pedestrian accidents on the Rail of Death Line, as well as the Gore Line through Saint Paul, last month. If It Saves Even One Life…:That…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Kim Norton soundbites via the MN Gun Owners Caucus. Here’s the article on one-party cities I referenced. And of course, here’s our song list for the show.