Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Scenes From The Gun Safety Renaissance
As the Minnesota state legislature, led by the no-way, no-how insane Nicole Mitchell, meanders toward passing a “safe storage” bill, I went out to try to take the community’s temperature on the issue. I started out at a Menards. There was a line of people in various gang colors, lined up waiting for new safes…
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Government Is The Things We Do Together, Stupidly And Self-Destructively
A friend of the blog sends this email: Saw this article this morning & thought you might have fun with it. Icould see a headline like “White colonialists invade Native Americanland and destroy culturally sensitive structures”. The articlementions that the land belongs to the Leech Lake band and thestructures involved belonged to Native Americans The…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Go here to find out more about United We Transform. And don’t forget Clarence Henderson – of the Woolworth Lunch Counter sit-in – will be keynoting the “Justice For Our Generations” event at Shiloh Baptist in North Minneapolis tomorrow. And here’s today’s music:
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Til I Shine In The Dark
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the best albums you’ve never heard – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson. How do describe the record? Let’s take a run at it: Eccentric Celtic folk-rock via the Byrds? Their marital breakup was inadvertently chronicled eight years later…
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DFL: Criminals AND Misogynists
Today’s DFL: What? You thought I was kidding? This would be called “mansplaining” anywhere else. Which brings us to the female face of misogyny, Jamie Becker-Finn: They are treating their moment in absolute power as a way to say “nya nya” to people they hate. No more.
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We Don’t Expect Much…
…from our younger generation. Almost 80 years ago, this was what a group of 18-22 year olds did: Today? Well, this may be the modern generation’s analog: A bunch of guys (lefties call them “frat boys” which I suspect means “any college student that doesn’t have blue hair or non-intuitive pronouns). We don’t expect much…
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Open Letter To Campus Protesters And Their Faculty/Administration Simps
Everything that needs to be said about you – those who deny the use of the institution for which the majority of the students, and the taxpayers, pay (and pay, and pay and pay and pay) was said almost six decades ago… …by the best president of my lifetime (and yours, if you’re over 37…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Q: How Do You Make A Minneapolis “Progressive” Scream?
Answer: Show them you exist and aren’t going away: The comments on this tweet are the tip of the rhetorical iceberg, and bespeak a crowd who treat violations of their ‘Urban Progressive Privilege’ like getting jabbed in the yarbles with a knitting needle.
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A Modest But Emphatic Proposal
It’s high time we stopped calling Ivy Leaguers like this Columbia spokesbeing: …as “our best and brightest”. By the way – at “Mitch Berg University”, students who infringe other students rights – Jewish, conservative, liberal, communist, I don’t care – by depriving them of the use of the campus they pay to attend will be…
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Your Periodic Reminder…
…that Ilhan Omar is a truly reprehensible person: But hey, if you live in CD5 [1], feel free to vote for her, whether you are pro-corruption, graft and antisemitism, or against it. [1] Or are buried within the borders of CD5
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Just Asking Questions
Just a quick point before we get started. The “I’m just asking questions’ school of opinion journalism – whether Rachel Maddow or Tucker Carlson or anyone in between – is a particularly toxic practice. “Asking questions” that aren’t intended to elicit the truth is pointless at best; doing it as a substitute for seeking the…
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Hear Me Out
As predicted, Nicole Mitchell isn’t leaving the Senate until the DFL has squeezed every last possible vote out of her: So Real Minnesotans should picket the Capitol, and to the extent possible the Senate chambers and hearing rooms, dressedin all black, carrying tupperware and basement storm windows.
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Real American Heroes
Today is the 32nd anniversary of the mostly peaceful LA Riots. And of perhaps the greatest testimony for the 2nd Amendment in modern times – the impromptu armed resistance of the merchants of Koreatown: Here’s one take on the story (some language NSFW). We are in a state where the current political majority believes that…
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Public Order
“Occupiers” at UCLA stymied – by someone with bananas: The next time America’s spoiled, boundlessly entitled white progressives decide to run riot, I’m going to rent a small plane and drop bananas, peanuts and Chick Fil-A on the crowd. That should send them running back to on-campus housing. Bazinga. Order. You can thank me later,…
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Crikey
New Zealand’s government imposed draconian gun regulations in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre (which, let the record show, would have been worse without a good guy with a gun). “Unexpectedly”, gang membership has skyrocketed, and gang-related shootings are up by a third: “Over the last five years gangs have recruited more than…
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I Heard It On The NARN
We talked about A Nation of Cowards by Jeffrey Snyder. It’s one of the things that crystalliized why I’m a Second Amendment advocate. And of course, Senator Nicole Mitchell, the most important politican in Minnesota today, was the subject of hour 1. Finally – today’s show was pre-recorded, because I was at the Gun Owners…
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Brand Identity
Decades about, the Left used the term “Politically Correct” as a positive virtue; it referred to people, ideas and brands that, in 21st century parlance, signaled the correct virtues. It took a few years of relentless grassroots conservative satire to turn “PC” into a cultural punchline. Ditto “Woke”; it had an organic meaning among the…
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Don’t You DARE Say…
…the DFL is plagued with narcissistic ninnies. The whole world is all about them.
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Lesson Learned
Israel has always had a paternalistic but pragmatic view of civilian firearms. As a general rule, they are opposed – but there’ve been exceptions. After a series of school massacres fifty years ago, they liberalized teacher carry in the kibbutzim – until they turned the job over to security (successfully, so far, where “success” doesn’t…
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The DFL Has A Bit Of A Felon Problem
Last week, the SD12 DFL Committee [1] endorsed convicted felon Judd Hoff, who has been credibly implicated in stalking his opponent, Rep. Mary Franson, by none other than Judd Hoff himself. “The Senate District 12 DFL Central Committee is sticking with its decision to endorse Judd Hoff of Alexandria, a convicted felon, to run against the Republican…
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The Real Problem
Metro Transit and the Strib have put out a “climate conscious newcomers guide to using Metro Transit”. It’s tempting to snark “they figure out who the real problem is”: Familiarize yourself with Metro Transit’s code of conduct, a lengthy and often-ignored rule book that mandates such things as keeping non-service animals in carriers, one seat…
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Fishy
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: From Powerline: Something strange has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately Calling the state of the U.S. jobs market these days stable seems like an understatement considering the latest data coming out of the Labor Department. That’s because most of the past several weeks have shown that…
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Senator Mitchell, Redux
Senator Mitchell (DFL Woodbury) was arraigned for First Degree Burglary in Becker County yesterday. I’ll cop to the fact that I honestly hope someone who has attitudes about civil liberties and rights like she has, has a short political career. Now, I really need to follow my. own counsel here; Berg’s 18th Law applies. We…
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A Public Service Announcement From Avery Librelle
Hello. This is Avery Librelle. Conservatives are seizing and pouncing on this story: Some of you retrograde wingnuts have claimed that this vindicates Republican Christofascist Scott Jensen’s claims during the 2022 gubernatorial compaign. Let me be perfectly clear: If there isn’t a litter pan, meaning a literal pan full of litter – physicallyl in a…
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