Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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The Leading Causes Of Death In Minnesota
#3) Cancer #2) Heart disease and its complications #1) People dying while holding their breath waiting for the Star/Tribune, MPR News, and the Big Four TV stations to cover Ilhan Omar’s successive bits of corruption. Fortunately, we’ve got that conservative-biased New York media to do it for them. Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to…
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Surprise In The Box!
Wait until gang members learned that the first aid kits stock Israeli bandages. What a dilemma for a dutiful Muslim: bleed out or owe your life to a Jew?Joe Doakes Progressives, likely, even moreso.
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Mark This Down
October/November, 2019: The Star/Tribune Editorial Board – presumably including member Patricia Lopez – endorses nearly every DFL candidate (with the exception of a scant few Republicans who are either shoe-ins or can’t possibly contend). This pattern has been repeated in nearly every election in recent memory – the past 50 years, at least. Certainly since…
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We Need A Word
We need to have a word to convey the most commonly-used idea in conservative media criticism. The idea, to wit, is: Can you imagine what the media would do if a Republican had done something this stupid? It is, of course, one of the most evergreen concepts in media criticism – the notion that if…
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Rhyme Unreason
What a horribly un-woke childhood I had. I remember the old version.Of course, the new version works for the LGBT+ crowd nowadays.And here’s the family court version.Of course, you must listen all the way to the end to get the humor. I suspect college professors in Wymins Studies never got beyond the first sentence before…
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Full Gaslight
On Facebook the other day, The “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence went full-on gaslight: “To face the reality of our gun problem, you’ll have to admit that you are the problem too. You’ll be forced to connect the dots between guns and your white theology, guns and your nationalism, guns and your Islamophobia, guns and your…
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Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Need To Think Things Through
Ilhan Omar on Twitter over the weekend: Wouldn’t make property taxes the equivalent of a poll tax? Of course, politicians in safe blue sinecures don’t have to make sense.
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Another Walmart. Another Shooting.
And another good guy with a gun saves the day: From KSWO ABC Channel 7 in Oklahoma: “Multiple witnesses have said the gunman shot two people in a vehicle and a civilian with a gun confronted him, causing the gunman to turn the gun on himself. We are working to confirm that story with Duncan…
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When The NARN Talks, People Listen. Eventually. Maybe.
Back in 2007 or so, James Lileks stopped by the NARN broadcast at Back to the Fifties – the classic-car show at the State Fairgrounds that used to be such a vibrant focus of life in the Midway before the same people that brought us Tony Soprano-style trash collection badgered the cruising hot rods out of…
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When Politicians Try Planning
The Midway Monitor is delivered free to my doorstep. Big article about the Hamline Midway Coalition trying to figure out what went wrong with parking at the new soccer stadium. Apparently, there’s not enough parking! People are parking without permits in the neighborhoods, illegally parking vehicles in no parking zones, clogging up side streets, traffic…
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Open Letter To FedEx’s Fred Smith
To: Fred Smith, CEO, FedExFrom: Mitch Berg, Crabby PeasantRe: Debating Big Left Mr. Smith, I applaud your challenge to the NYTimes’ publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, to a debate between him, his business editor, your tax executive and yourself over your enterprises’ relative tax burdens and financial contributions. I also note that progs – whether in government…
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Your Best Interests, Peasant
Just remember – when “progressives” whinge about red areas and GOP voters not “voting for their best interests”, that they are the people who brought you stories like this: Baltimore has just hit 300 homicides for the fifth consecutive year, reported The Baltimore Sun.On a per-capita basis, Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in…
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Re-Education Needed
Target claims it is a corporate leader for social responsibility, even going so far as to have transgender bathrooms, but they pay their workers a pittance. Evil selfish bastards. Fight for 15! In 2010, Target found on the hard way that there is no “progressive enough” when dealing with the Big Left’s mob; that a…
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Great Job, Minneapolis
Whatever you do, stay the course: Keep giving the DFL more chances to try to run a city. Maybe a few hundred more second chances and they’ll get it… …nah. Can’t keep a straight face.
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Snapped
Why are progressives so anti-gun? Perhaps because, subconsciously, they know Berg’s Seventh Law is for real. Gun-controller shoots her kids, self: Ashley Auzenne, 39, fatally shot Parrish, 11, Eleanor, 9, and Lincoln, 7 — and then herself — in their Deer Park home, local police said in a statement. Authorities found their bodies when they…
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OK, Millie
A friend of the blog emails: “I’ve often found great enjoyment watching millennials fight with baby boomers in St Paul over “save the earth” issues. They seem to think they are vastly different from each other. I have yet to notice the difference. “So, I found the Disney heir’s recent comments even more…
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Other Than Bring One Of The World’s Great Countries Back From The Brink Of Suicide, I Mean…
The Smartest Woman Ever and her daughter, Chelsea “The Ryan Winkler Of New York” Clinton, wrote a book about great women. And of course – you could see this coming – they left out “arguably” the greatest woman of the 20th Century. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton haven’t included Margaret Thatcher in their book of “gutsy”…
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Coincidence?
In the old Soviet Union, people used to joke that they could tell when there was a shortage of butter, winter boots or heating oil was on the horizon, when Pravda would start running stories about how bad butter was for your health, how good it was to get your feel wet, and the benefits…
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I Get The Sentiment
I really, really do. What conservative, when seeing the precious, twee pretense of “arty” progressives’ political statements, hasn’t been tempted to cut loose with a can of spray paint, a sawzall or an air horn, just as a statement of artistic criticism? The grotesque caricature masquerading as commentary? The sanctimonious preening masquerading as high-concept art?…
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“Best Interests”
Progs wonder why the bitter clingers don’t vote in “their best interests” – i.e., for Progs. Because this is what “best interests” look like under “progressivism”.
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Pitchforks
The FBI is politicized. The Federal law enforcement system is largely an extortion racket. The IRS is weaponized against conservative groups. Academia from Kindergarten through Post-Doctoral levels is an indoctrination scam. The media – on whom we once counted to keep government accountable – is a PR firm for one political party. Sometimes it seems…
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Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day in America. It’s the day we who didn’t serve in the military honor those who did. And it’a also two days after the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – a symbolic event, to be sure, but one whose symbolism should not be diluted by modern revisionism. And…
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Hollywood Polishes The Cannonball
Some stories shouldn’t need Hollywood to go all, well, Hollywood on them to make them riveting utterly compelling. But they do it anyway. And it’s almost always a massive drag. It’s not a new phenomenon; The Battle of the Bulge was utterly atrocious, seemingly feeling the need to dumb World War 2 down to a…
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Getting It All Wrong
The notion of biological men “idenitfiying as women” (and vice versa) is old news. Male athletes “identifying as women” and clobbering the people who are, in the various sports/events, the weaker/slower/less agile sex is becoming both a little commonplace and a cultural punchline. So what’s going to bring some sense to this “social debate”? When…
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Bob Fletcher Will Never Do Lunch At The Lex Again
This blog has taken considerable issue with Ramsey County’s once-and-again sheriff, Bob Fletcher, on many issues. But it’s hard to see this statement as much of anything but the inconvenient truth – at least as far as Mayor Carter is concerned: Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS this year’s sharp rise in gun-related deaths…
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