Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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The DFL Playbook
2. Keep on letting it stew. Let the “steam” build: 3. Go “I’m shocked, shocked that there’s a crime problem! 4. “Ride to the rescue” with a meaningless band-aid that doesn’t come close to addressing the cultural crisis you, yourselves, fomented: Of course I’m not the first or only one to notice this: Apparently “chaos”…
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Pre-Cognitive Dissonance
Am I the only one that heard about Taylor Lorenz’s “Joy” at the murder of Brian Thompson… …and thought “that certainly puts a new spin on the Harris campaign’s theme?” Freedom is slavery? 2+2=5? Murder is joy? One “joy” I try to deny myself is excessive schadenfreud. Pinky swear. But I’ll confess, I feel quite…
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Fun Facts For Modern People
Fun Fact #1: The people cheering the political murder of another citizen – Brian Thompson, CEO of a company who’s one of the modern left’s betes noire – are the same people who want to disarm you. Fun Fact #2: The people angry about that insurance companies – UHG today, but surely all the other…
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Complicated
The woke mob is doing its best to try to simpify the Daniel Penny / Jordan Neely case into a matter of “if we’d only given him what he needed, he’d be alive and impersonating Michael Jackson today”. For all its squawking about humanism, modern progressivism tries to boil humanity down into a series of…
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The “Professional”
Luigi Mangione has been “questioned” in the murder of Brian Thompson. “They also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual,” Tisch said. “Also recovered was a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting incident.” Citing…
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Maybe I’m Amazed
Daniel Penny acquitted on the last of his charges: Penny was cleared of criminally negligent homicide in Neely’s death. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed earlier in deliberations because the jury deadlocked on that count. I suspect there’s a critical mass of New Yorkers of all races who’ve had enough of the crime wave…
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Krugman
Paul Krugman is leaving the NYTimes. Podhoretz sums up my thoughts on the matter. I can’t speak for Krugman’s career as an economist – I wish King Banaian was still blogging, and hopefully he’ll talk about this in his show one of these days. As for me? Fact-checking Krugman – the guy who said the…
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Annals Of Social Media
Social media has helped create a generation of amoral monsters: And a special note to Millennials and Zs who yap about the crimes of “Boomers”: You are well on your way to being worse, and more hated, than they ever were. “But Mitch”, you may ask, ” how can you tell the writer is a…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Nathan Seabrook talked about the Brian Thompson murder, and security in general. Here’s his company. And here’s today’s song list:
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We Were Warned
They warned us that if we voted Republican, extremists would roam the streets murdering their enemies, as their fellow extremist droogs rejoiced. And they were right. The meme has traveled about that UHG denies claims at double the national average. That may be true, and that may be utterly without context, and neither I nor…
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Friends In High Places
The big that confuses me so much about this story – the DFL jamming down a $10K appropriation to help one of their colleagues settle an issue with her “day job” outside politics – isn’t that the DFL is basically pickpocketing taxpayers to help one of their own with a private matter. (Emphasis added): No,…
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Options
I’ve been doing this blog for a long time – 23 years in February. It’s still a part of my day every morning – I’m usually up doing some kind of writing or another, before 6AM every weekday. And it’s the bulk of my radio show prep. And it’s also kind of a quick reference…
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Only Human
Not sure its directly related to the Trump election – but if there is a cultural realignment going on below our society’s electoral surface, this new ad from Apple is a sign of it. For the past couple of decades, the only acceptable way to present fathers – of any race, of late – is…
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Exactly As Predicted
In 2022, I predicted $17.6B “surplus” would disappear under DFL rule. I’m not wrong on the inevitable end result. Just the timing: Revenue dropping. Spending ballooning. And the productive class “going Galt” and moving to Texas, Florda or Tennessee. Things didn’t get quite as bad quite as fast as I thought – but it’s really…
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El Dijo, Ella Dijo
As I noted the other day when an NPR reporter tried to go all “Boss Lady” on President-elect Trump, the President had a snappy comeback: According to Victor Davis Hanson, Mexican president Sheinbaum walked the idea of compromise back a notch: Hanson goes on to explain what, indeed, is going on. Turns out the open…
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Your Tax Dollars At Work
I consider Dennis Prager, if not a friend in the classic sense, at least a good acquaintance. Most decent people wish him all the best in his apparently extended recovery. If your worldview calls for prayers, they’re being welcomed. I specified “decent” people because… …well… Lakeville schools’ response was predictable enough: Now, I’m not one…
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This Didn’t Age Well
The DFL, 20-odd months ago: Unless they’re Hunter Biden (starting just before “The Big Guy” started getting his cut from Burisma, and ending midnight Sunday). Or Nicole Mitchell. Or Judd Hoff. Or Julie Blaha. Or a whole lot of “Feeding our Future”, Childcare or Medicare fraudsters. Other than them, nobody’s above the law. And Keith…
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Hunter
So the President has pardoned his son for crimes… …that we were reliably informed, by NPR no less, were all nothing but Russian hoaxes. It’s hard to tell if Biden’s timing is the a doddering old guy thrashing about at random, or a massive “FU” to the outgoing regime that pushed him under the bus,…
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Downtown Minneapolis Is (Checks Notes) MAGA Country
Two “transgender women” were assaulted in downtown Minneapolis. No, really. At 5th and Hennepin. No, they weren’t (apparently) going out looking for Subway. But the story is… ..well, I’ll let the Cheerleaders on Four pick up the story: So – 5th and Hennepin, you say? One of the busiest rail stops in the city? With…
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Let The Gaslighting Begin
To hear her partisans call it, Kamala Harris ran an amazing campaign – she just didn’t have the time to actually do interviews! Harris was consistently criticized for shying away from substantive public interviews and appearances, enhancing a public image many associated with inauthenticity and empty spouts of “word salad.” “Real people heard in some…
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Worse For Wear
Walz comes back to Minnesota, looking like… …well, he looks and sounds like hell quite frankly. “ “Take time to heal?” That’s what Minnesota’s going to do after eight years, if it has the sense not to elect someone worse.
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Thanksgiving 2024
Among the things I’m thankful for is that life has evolved. I was looking at some past Thansgiving pieces on this blog, and I found this one, written in 2002 – when this blog was nine months old. And it took me back. I moved from North Dakota to Minneapolis in October of 1985. It…
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How It Started
NPR’s token Aztlani, Maria Hinojosa, yelling “SLAY, QUEEN GIRLBOSS!” as Mexico’s socialist female president briefly flexed on Trump’s border plans: How it’s going: Yep. The whole world witnessed it:
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Back From Vacation
SCENE: A “domestic” set in a media production room in DC. Two Staffers, CHAD and JOSHUA, and two Harris staffers, COURTNEY and CLAUDE, are going over footage from an attempt to shoot a video. COURTNEY: OK, try take 45: KAMALA HARRIS (on playback) “Hey, I’m Kamala Harris, and I spent the past week or two…
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