Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Actual Journalism
Since the entire media will try to suppress it – here’s “The Fall of Minneapolis”, by Liz Collin and the Alphanews crew: Watch it. Pass it along. I won’t give you any spoilers – you already know that Mayor Frey was a hapless stooge at best, a theatrical ninny at worst. Chief Arradondo lied through…
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Reality
Back in the ’80s, the Twin Cities were plagued by a mass of Peace Creeps; a group of dolorous, white, upper-middle-class progressives who believed that if the US just disarmed, the Soviets – who, being the intellectual children of Stalin and the parents of Putin, would naturally join hands with the theretofore war-mongering West and…
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Making The Trains Run On Time, Part MMMCLVI
The shocking part, at least to me, is not that he did it, or talked about it. It’s that most “Progressive” voters don’t get what an authoritarian statement and action this is, or why that could possibly be a problem.
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The Army Of Davids
The good guy with the gun does in fact make a difference. But according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, they make a much bigger difference than even I thought: Evidence compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the sources the media relied on undercounted the number of instances in which armed citizens have thwarted…
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Want To Feel Depressed Out Of Your Mind?
I mean, even more than the results themselves? Then read the comments. Otherwise, avoid both. I stipulate this may be just this guy’s audience, but I don’t want 90% of these people reproducing, much less babysitting. .
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The Machine
Think back on all the financial corruption scandals in recent Minnesota history. The non-profit scandals that edged a couple of Minneapolis DFLers out of office ten-ish years ago. The DHS Daycare fraud case – involving hundreds of millions of dollars. “Feeding our Future” – $250M at least, probably more like $500M. What do they all…
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Things I Didn’t Have On My Bingo Card For Today…
…or ever: Ryan Winkler is right. And the Minnesota Federation of Teachers has gone full Brownshirt. Notice that the “Resolution” says nothing about the Hamas Charter’s call for the extermination of the Jews “from the river to the sea”. Weird. Also – BDS is not “peaceful”. It’s just an unarmed form of belligerency.
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Open Letter To Modern Day Nazis
Tear these down, bitch. (The above PDF loads kind of slowly. Small JPG below: I don’t have a literal wall to paste ’em up on. Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Controlled Demolition
This past Sunday was the 34th anniversary of one of the highpoints of the entire history of Western Civilization. Along with the signings of the Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence, VE Day, and a short list of other highlights, the literal and figurative collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the fall of the Soviet…
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Multiculturalism In Action
Scene from a “mostly peaceful demonstration” in Dacca, Bangladesh on Veterans Day: Nah. It’s New York. I’ll work 60 hours a week for the Presidential and Congressional candidates who will build a wall, deport any miscreants with anything less than or including a Green Card, and make naturalization 100% contingent on loyalty to American small-l…
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A Certain Resonance
The DFL wants to build a new monument to itself. . Well, that’s not literally true. It’s a replacement for the State Office Building, on John Ireland and Constitution, southwest of the Capitol. It’s currently slated to cost $730M. GIven government inflation and the inevitable cost overruns, I suspect the all-up cost will be $1…
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Note
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Remodeling With A Smaller Overton Window
My friend, advice columnist and author Amy Alkon, has been chronicling the orgy of antisemitism bursting out in the Los Angeles area. She filmed this encounter over the weekend: Let’s take Judaism, Antisemitism and the Middle East out of this incident. Let’s say this was a domestic altercation. A man Two men use their physical…
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Experience Vs. Idealism. 15 Rounds.
This blog has had a constant, self-imposed tension to it, at least to me. Idealistic, Small-L Liberal Mitch is a free speech absolutist for reasons not the least of which being when people who find not only disagreeable but hateful are speaking in the open, then they’re doing less skulking through back alleys and plotting…
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Veterans
This post originally appeared on November 11, 2007. When I was a little kid, I remember going to see a parade on First Avenue in downtown Jamestown. One of the highlights for the five-year-old me was walking down by the Armory building (where, a decade or so hence, my first bands would play their first…
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Happy Birthday, Poland
Let the record show that Poland was fighting the fight we currently face over 100 years ago… …and is still a leader. Happy 105th birthday, independent Poland!
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All Talk
Back when I was working in bars, I was working at this toilet bar in North Saint Paul. It was a boring Friday night in the middle of summer. Once of the bouncers left early, leaving the bar with one bouncer – a big guy with a curly perm that was trying to get into…
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Big Changes
…coming Monday.
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Shall Not Be Infringed
“But Mitch – why are you so intransigent a Second Amendment advocate?” Glad you asked. Growing up left of center as I did, the first real inkling I had that gun control was a stupid idea was reading about the Holocaust, and realizing that armed people don’t get shoved into boxcars. And seeing the same…
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Open Letter To An Entire Generation, Maybe Two
To: Millennials, And Maybe Some ZeepersFrom”. Mitch Berg, Obstreperous Peasant, Millie Parent And Generational AgnosticRe: Stop Digging Dear Millennials – and many of you in Gen Z, It’s not like I don’t understand the anger. When I was in high school and college, the “Baby Boom” was barely entering its prime years. The oldest ones…
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Muslims: Shut Up Or Get Cut Up
Lest anyone doubted that Big Left today is Marxist to its foetid roots, we now join a white, uppser-middle class white progressive member of the Saint Louis Park School Board pulling intersectional rank on…. …Muslim parents objecting to porn in elementary schools: That’s the thing about intersectionalism; while more virtue attaches to people the farther…
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The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law
The Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is a new addition to the canon – and like all the Berg’s Laws, it is an observation that started as satire. To wit: In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. It’s named for the former…
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All Relative
The incredibly aptly named Representative Debbie Dingell lectures us on semantics: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free“ means different things to different people in different times!“, says the font of wisdom, in rising to the defense of the loathsome modern Nazi Rashida Tlaib. And she’s right, in a sense. The phrase…
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The Enemy Within, Around And Above
This is this sort of thing that should send Americans to be barricades. This is ample reason to block freeways (in DC and Silicon Valley and Saint Paul’s Government Canyon anyway). This is a reason to break out tar and feathers and lots and lots of harsh tweets. It’s a thread. Click through in Twitter.…
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Review And Revise
Whatever opposition I’ve had to deportation of illegal immigrants is waning fast: I’ll work my ass off for the first Presidential candidate to promise to deport aliens who are actively hostile to everything this country stands for. I said “actively”. And if the people in this mob are citizens? Deport whatever immigration official or politician…
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