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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…

  • A Real American Hero

    I don’t care what you say. This… …makes me feel genuine joy.

  • Take The “W”

    It’s been a rough 3-7 years to be a conservative, a Republican, an originalist. An American who believes in what America was intended to be, really. But let’s enjoy some good news. This past two weeks have been a speedbump – it’s way to early to say “Battle of Waterloo” – for “Diversity, Equity and…

  • Ask And Be Answered

    Last week, I asked “why all the hate for National Review?” Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, responded: I had a subscription to National Review for decades.  I let it lapse when I realized O’Sullivan’s Law applied to his own magazine.  The writers I admired – who stated my views better than I could –…

  • Enforcing Public Ordure

    Pro-Hamas protesters blocked a freeway in in Toronto. But…is there something special about the neighborhood? So – what is the Canadian government – the government that sicced the military on entirely peaceful anti-Covid-lockdown protesters three years ago – doing with this disruption to public order? Canada – or at least, Toronto and Ontario and the…

  • In Search Of A Solution

    Mere days after the Biden regime sued Texas for trying to stop illegal immigration – i.e. doing the Feds job – we see this: Doesn’t compute? Of course it does. The Biden Administration is holding up the spending for the border and Ukraine because it removes the funding “Biden” wants – to process “asylum seekers”…

  • As The Hung-Over, Indolent Giant Rouses And Thinks About Heading To The Gym

    Scene: MItch BERG is picking up a piece of litter and throwing it into a public trash can. He almost walks into Avery LIBRELLE BERG: Oh. fuuuuuuurcryingoutloud Avery… LIBRELLE: Merg! Shut up. I’m as giddy as a little menstruating person! NRA president Wayne LaPierre has resigned! The pro-murder movement took a huge hit. BERG: Heh.…

  • “Show Me The Gun Owner, I’ll Show You The Disorder”

    Yesterday – four days after the DFL’s vaunted “Red Flag” swatting-enablement and gun confiscation bill came out – the form to file to appeal a Red Flag order is out. And it’s worse than you might have expected: It should go without saying that your metro county attorneys – the ones that can’t be bothered…

  • Something In The Water Does Not Compute

    The top story in Twin Cities lefty alt-media, and media in general, was the “eviction” of “Camp Nenookasi”, a homeless camp in South Minneapolis: Not really commenting so much about that… …as about this: According to homeless advocates – whose estimates can be expected to skew toward the, er, generous – there are about 8,000…

  • A Small Win

    Mia Schem is a 21 year old Israeli who was kidnapped at the Nova EDM festival on October 7, after her arm was mangled by a terrorist with an AK. She tells her story on Israeli TV. I’m trying to imagine a 21 year old American of either (any?) gender responding to 55 days of…

  • Haleyed

    I don’t get the National Review hate – that might be worth a letter from Joe in and of itself. Anywayt, Joe Doakes emails: I know better than to read National Review Online but sometimes I can’t help myself.   The recent article about Nikki Haley reminds me why that’s such a dumb thing to do.  I hate…

  • Blast From The Past

    One of the moments that made me realize my old former friend known to all of you as “Dog Gone” had slipped the surly bonds of reason was their claim that gender reassignment surgery altered the patient’s biological makeup at the DNA level – that it changed gender-related chromosomes [1] I told myself “nobody can…

  • Who Says Minnesota Can’t Win Championships

    Football? Baseball? Hockey? Hoops? Soccer? Nah. But collecting memorabilia from a band whose career bell curve peaked during the Carter administraiton? We are – or at least, one of us is – the champion! Vern Simon received certification that his collection of KISS memorabilia has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records…

  • Let’s Not Forget…

    …who the real victim in the Claudine Gay flap at Harvard (according to the university’s governing “Corportation”) actually is. It’s Claudine Gay: “And she’d have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those darn meddling pouncing conservativesI”! And while Gay is gone, let’s remember that it’s not for the reason she should have been…

  • Amicus Curiae

    In a conversation with a couple of other conservative alternative media pluggers a few months ago, the question of where the trans argument goes from here popped up. The consensus was that eventually, given the exceedingly experimental nature of the “treatments” involved, is that eventually the courts are going to settle this – making a…

  • “Unintended” Consequences

    Among the many laws that went into effect on Monday, Governor Klink was proud to announce this: For starters: 68? Sweet Jesus, what is this, “Cool Hand Luke” sweat fetish pr0n? Beyond that? Mandatory temperatures (outside the obvious safety habitability rules, which already exist) combined with rent control = less housing. Or does nobody study…

  • A Parable For Our Time

    You’re on a cruise ship. It hits an iceberg and sinks. You climb into a lifeboat with nine other people, and break out the oars. One of the people starts rowing toward the cruise’s destination. They paid for it, dammit. Another starts pulling toward Florida, because Florida would be cool. A third starts rowing toward…

  • The Galling Part Is…

    …that 45% of current university students will think that this… …is a documentary.

  • News You Can, And May Well Need To, Use

    What to do if you’re surrounded by a mob on the road? Like most self-defense law, it’s a lot more complicated than you think. While the lawyer is talking Washington State law (talk with a Minnesota defense attorney before assuming anything) they highlight the episode that happened in Minneapolis, by the Walker, a month or…

  • One Needs To Realize…

    …by this point that nobody who supports absurdly high minimum wages at a policy-making level can possibly actually believe that it’s about helping working people, can you?

  • Expert Analysis

    “Experts” have gotten a bad name over the past couple years. It’s a fun palate cleanser, once in a while, to see the real thing in action. Ian “Gun Jesus” McCallum goes over the reports that Hamas is “manufacturing its own sniper rifles”. The thumbnail is kind of a spoiler – but seeing how he…

  • Do It Yourself

    Back in high school, there were two radio stations in Jamestown. Up above White Drug was KEYJ, my station, a little 1,000 watt AM station whose boss, Bob Richardson, always made a point of hiring local kids and showing them how to do radio. Across First Avenue, above the jewelry store, was KSJB and KSJM.…

  • Prediction

    I’m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and say that either… For his sake, I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for “b”.

  • Settler Projects

    Among the “setter projects” that Americans established as we (yes) conquered the North American continent, along with representative democracy, were universities. And I’m thinking that those are among the “settler projects”… …that actually need to be dismantled. Or at least, it’s time for an actual honest-to-god McCarthy-style purge of Universities.

  • Community Note

    Caught in passing from Rep. Murphy: Cute. But it’s actually up to Democrats to show that Ukrainian aid is more important to them than closing the southern border of the US. Glad we could settle that.

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