Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Selective
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds’s approval rating has been moving up well into positive territory. Current polls in the Des Moines register show 53% of Iowans approve of her job, while 43 do not – which, at +10, pretty decent ratio in this very polarized society. The article in the Des Moines Register is actually fairly…
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What’s Up With The Japanese?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:What on Earth is going on here? Do they even have horses in Japan? How can their SCIENCE be so different from ours? Joe Doakes The Japanese are prescribing ivermectin. The people who stormed the capital“ on January 6 believe in ivermectin. Therefore, the Japanese are behind January 6. Hey,…
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I Heard It On The NARN
State Senator Michelle Benson is running for governor of Minnesota. Also – here’s today’s music!
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What A Difference A Little Access To Power Makes
Senator Melisa Lopez Franzen took what some called a “brave” stance in going after the perps in a sexual harassment scandal at the MN STate Capitol earlier this year. A Senate staffer, Cynthia Callais, reported being harassed by a Legislative staff manager who happened to be related to Senator Jason Isaacson, a prominent DFLer. The…
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A Small Victory
Half of our society is figuring it out: Lots of ground to make up. But it’s a start.
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Urban Progressive Privilege:Somebody Else’s Neighborhood
Saint Paul progressives are all about high density housing and development. In the Midway. Or out on the East Side. Or all up and down University Avenue. Not, you know, where they live: Neighbors who rallied together under the title “Friends of A Better Way St. Paul” had said the St. Paul Planning Commission had…
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Congratulations, Gavin Newsom
To: Gavin Newsom, Premier of CaliforniaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Congratulations Governor Newsom, In a state dominated 2:1 by registered voters from your party, you evaded being recalled by a 7:4 margin. After outspending the initiative by 5:1, with the united efforts of an in-the-bag media and a full turnout of the national social nomenklatura,…
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We Interrupt…
…the frat bros and sorority sisters of Big Left fist-bumping each other over Gavin Newsom winning the recall (after outspending the opposition 5-1) to point out that the ongoing Prog pipe dream of a “Blue Texas” seems to be slipping away as we speak. Texas Monthly stated that much of the problem is the Democrat…
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The Praetorians
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Our last defense against liberal tyranny has always been the military. They won’t fire on us, they are us, the military think the way we do.Not anymore. In a couple of years, the new officers trained under the new regime will be in the field commanding troops. Either we…
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Being Locked Down And Nothingness, Part II
As I pointed out yesterday, I didn’t have a lot of personal sturm und drang during the “lockdown”. Life changed, of course – but I don’t think I especially did. I was listening to an NPR science show a few weeks back. It discussed new discoveries about the interconnectedness of pleasure and pain – literal…
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Checked And Balanced
A state district judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a group of parents Who were seeking an order requiring the governor to issue a state wide mask mandate and to reinstate the state of emergency. Thankfully, the judge shot the request down: “While this court is gravely concerned about the public health consequences of…
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Out Hateful Racist President
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Black people make up 13.5% of the US population but only 10% of vaccinated people. Executive Orders closing entertainment venues and employment opportunities to the unvaccinated, will have a disparate impact on Blacks. Disparate Impact discrimination is a hateful and invidious form of racism. The Usurper in the White…
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Being Locked Down, And Nothingness, Part I
Back around the fall of 2020, in respect to the mewling avalanche of navel gazing in the media and among parts of my social circle about how 2020 was “the worst year ever”, I made two observations. Tell that to anyone alive in 1942, or 1916 (or the 1918 Influenza), 1861, or any of the…
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At Stake
If you’re voting in California today? Your mission is clear. Gavin Newsom is everything that’s wrong with modern progressivism (although far from alone at that). He’ part of an “elite” that has destroyed one of history’s great success stories, one of America’s onetime great accomplishments. Larry Elder may not have all the answers, and given…
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Statistical Rhetoric
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Article on vaccine hesitancy uses risk graph that shows what they want it to show to support their argument, not what it ought to show for me to make up my own mind. Odds of dying fully vaccinated are 1 in 137,000. Yeah, versus the odds of dying from…
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When A Bumper Sticker Just Isn’t Enough
Minneapolis. It has an educational achievement gap at the very bottom of the national pile. It’s on track to have its worst year for violent crime in a generation. The gap between haves and have nots is daunting; crossing 394 between Kenwood and the North Side, or driving up Washington from the posh North Loop…
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Karen Crow
The “attack” on Jussie Smollett was a reflection of everything wrong about Trump’s Amerikkka, until it almost inevitably turned out to be a hoax. Then it disappeared. The attack on Larry Elder by a “woman” (we weren’t given any actual pronouns to use, so I’m not positive about that) in a gorilla mask – a…
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Nominal
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “Nominal” is Latin for “in name only.” William S. Lind, author of books on 4th Generation Warfare, knows a thing or two about armies. He says the Afghan Army was a ‘nominal’ army – an army in name, only. In reality, it was a bunch of guys who needed…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Kim Crockett’s piece on HR4 – which would instutionalize the stealing of elections. Also – sign up for the “Organizing Citizens” event here. Today’s music list:
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Do You Remember…
…20 years ago, right after 9/11, when some on the left said the overreaction to the terror attacks 20 years ago tomorrow would actually give the terrorists the win they wanted? I can’t have been the only one thinking Joe Biden’s speech yesterday must have made Mohammed Atta smile in whatever part of the Great…
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I Can’t Be The Only One…
…who looked at this Austin Bay tweet on Instapundit and thought he was sneaking in a bit about Minnesota GOP politics…
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Against Type
The pandemic and civil unrest has led, as we’ve noted in this space, to a massive realignment of attitudes about firearms, with Democrats, women and minorities the fastest-growing members of a fast-growing lifestyle. And now – school choice? Granted, the “choice” is for more mask mandates. But any port in a storm.
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Not Unexpected
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The United States still faces a shortage of affordable ammunition. The Garden Administration is going to make it worse. Ammunition made in Russia is imported into the US and sold under brands like Tula, Wolf, Bear and others. It’s generally made from cheaper components (steel case, bi-metal jacket, low-grade-primer)…
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