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  • The DFL’s No Good, Very Bad Day (Part I): Polled

    It was a rough day for the DFL yesterday. One we’ll be talking about on Saturday at some length. First: a Trafalgar poll showed the Governor’s race tied, and Jim Schultz and Ryan Wilson ahead in the Attorney General and Auditor’s races: After the cold bucket of water from SUSA three weeks ago – showing…

  • No Sense Of Measure

    I’ve never been a huge fan of 60s-80s prog-rock band “Yes”, really. But I am a huge fan of artistic excess. Actual “Yes” fans dunk on me pretty hard for being much more into their eighties incarnation, with Trever Rabin replacing Steve Howe on guitar – the edition of the band that did Owner of…

  • This is Minneapolis

    Couple finds their stolen business work van at a homeless “encampment” – naturally, after doing their own investigating. They called the Minneapolis Police. It didn’t go well: “If I can see my stolen property, I don’t care if its in someone’s home, in their business or on the street, I should have the right to…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Giants In The Associates Washroom

    DFLers are of the opinion that Keith Ellison is a legal giant compared to challenger Jiim Schultz. Here’s an example from a repeat Point Chanter: The truth is, Ellison was a very junior litigator for three whole years, before becoming a “community organizer”, non-profiteer and politician. Ellison was a very junior attorney, when he was…

  • Don’t Forget

    It’s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it’s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span‘s, about what this last couple of years have been like. The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode: Governor Klink created a three…

  • Government Of Merriam Park NIMBYs, By Merriam Park NIMBYs And For Merriam Park NIMBYs

    The sentence from the title isn’t officially in whatever passes for a “constitution“ for the city of Saint Paul. But it might as well be. The neighborhood – southwest of Allianz Stadium, south of the freeway and west of Snelling – is the home of an awful lot of ELCA-haired “progressive“ with boundless spare time…

  • The Shorter MNDFL

    “ The rule of law has collapsed so badly in a city we used to proudly brag about “owning“ that crime flourishes openly and without fear in the streets“ “And if you don’t accept an invitation to come see this collapse face-to-face, it is you who is the problem!”

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Kevin Fjelstad is running for the MN House of Representatives in HD 65B.

  • This Should Solve Everything

    Rights come with responsibilities. Exercising rights without responsibilities is libertinism. By the opposite token, having responsibilities without rights is tyranny. With that thought in mind: Attorney General Ellison, trying to look “tough on crime” after 3.85 years of actively coddling it, is going after public enemy number 1: the businesses where the crime takes place:…

  • No Bias Here

    This is the graphic that WCCO used yesterday, to show Keith Ellison‘s 46 to 15 lead over Jim Schultz: Er, wait… What?? It’s actually a 46 to 40 lead, with a margin of error considerably more than the gap? Look, it’s possible that the station that keeps putting Esmé Murphy on political stories might not…

  • Open Letter To Governors Abbot And DeSantis

    Governors, Seeing the hair pulling response of upper middle class leftist to actually have to pay the freight for their own policies on the border is, to put it frankly, utterly glorious: Put another way: Might I humbly suggest you send a couple of buses to: Merriam Park in Saint Paul Kenwood in Minneapolis City…

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: Their Own Dog Food

    Governors Abbot (TX) and DeSantis (FL) sendig illegal immigrants to New York, DC and – major kudos to DeSantis here – the epicenter of Urban Progressive Privilege, Martha’s Freaking Vineyard. The Vineyardians are not amused: The bleating of the likes of Fernandes (to say nothing of NYC Mayor Adams and DC Mayor Bowser) is pure…

  • Deflection

    Gosh, why is it that Governor Klink and Co-Governor Flanagan can’t stop talking about abortion? White, upper middle class progressive women – the people who are the new DFL base – never come to North Minneapolis, so it’s all OK.

  • Messaging

    There is an ad running at my station, from some major police organization, urging people to not escalate issues with the police during routine contacts. “It’s easier to de-escalate if you don’t escalate” , the add urges.Which is good advice, provided you trust both sides of the episode to be above board and trustworthy. The…

  • Spit Hits The Tracks

    The good news for Republicans: all those price drops in gas will likely turn around and head north again starting Friday. The bad news: the apparently upcoming rail strike is going to bodge up a good chunk of the rest of the economy. And you’ve probably heard next to nothing about it. The typical Democrat-voting…

  • Diligence!!!

    They’ve been in office a combined total of thousands of years. Two months before the midterm elections, the three of them erupt in a spurt of tweeting about needing to reform congressional stock trading laws. Gosh, I wonder why? The good news for the three of them? This is the last that will be heard…

  • Evidence

    It’s been my theory – almost but not quite a Berg’s Law – that DFL pols know they can say anything they want about anything they want, because they know “their” voters – especially the highly “educated” middle-class white progs that have become the DFL base – are basically herd animals incapable of critical thought,…

  • TikTok Is A Hemorrhoid On The World’s Intellectual Lower GI Tract…

    …but I’ll grant it a days’ grace for passing this anecdote on to me:

  • Anniversary Notes

    What about this time 21 years ago, Americans were united in a way they had not been since the VJ day; President Bush’s popularity rating was climbing towards 90% faster than an F//15 scrambling to find a bogey. And we were pretty sure we knew who the enemy was. I have a hunch that if…

  • Utopienfergnügen

    I caught this Twitter thread last week, and wanted to make sure I got a chance to talk about it. It’s by Andrew Hammel, an American living in Germany. The first people to pass it around to are all of your friends who still think Angela Merkel was the real leader of the free world…

  • Polled

    I’m going to guess some internal poles give representatives Angie Craig and Dean Phillips a bit of a wake up call. 2022: representatives Craig and Phillips have a bit of a change of heart, just in time for midterms: I’m going to guess that all those soccer moms in Lakeville and Wayzata aren’t amused at…

  • Just Take My Money

    Trailer for the new Hunter Biden satirobiopic: Note that Breitbart is joining Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and Salem (which owns my radio station, AM1280) in the guerrilla film business. So there is a chance we could see Trulbert: The Movie after all.

  • Trigger Warning

    DFL comms dweeb is triggered by… …a baby? If this thread – full of DFLers triggered by the sight of a live baby – isn’t enough to get you to drag every citizen in your house to the polls this November, I’m not sure what is.

  • Russia/Ukraine Open Thread

    Wanna talk about Russia v. Ukraine? Russia’s gonna get its coub de grace – finally, again, for reals this time? Ukrainians will be marching down the Leningradskiy Prospekt by Christmas? Have at it.

  • Renters Remorse

    A friend of the blog emails: These amendments wouldn’t have changed my vote, but I wonder if it would have even passed if rent control as defined through the council’s amendments had been on the ballot? Not likely, which is how it should have been in the first place – not passed. I ask, as…

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