Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Wild
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Kids these days. Grotto and Arlington is one block from the rec center, where I know for a fact they have entertainment programs for youth. It’s also a couple of blocks from my house, on the east side of Como Park. This is not Frogtown. This is a good part…
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As Predicted
I’ve lived in Saint Paul for a little over three decades. I’ve seen worse crime than the current wave. It was much worse in the mid-eighties. One thing I don’t remember was the DFL’s frantic swishing between pollyannaism and alarm when it comes to crime. For example, when the subject is law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights, we’re…
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Pauline Kael Syndrome. With Weapons.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison confesses, de facto, to spending the past three years under a rock: So many comebacks possible – and the conservative Internet delivered a lot of them. So much so that it modified the dictum to “never look at the comments”. But Steve Scalese topped ’em all:
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“Evidence-Based”
The bit of “science”-y content that fueled governent’s current vape panic… …has been retracted. Last June, the authors, Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco, stated in the original study that vaping and smoking cigarettes posed a similar risk, while doing both at the same time was an even more…
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These Are The Barricades
The similarities in demographics in population between Virginia and Minnesota are inescapable. Both states are large, solid red expanses of land and people, surrounding small, densely populated democrat dominated Metropolitan areas. And of course, both states have Democratic parties prone to going wild on orgies of spending and power grabbing whenever they get unfettered power.…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Lie, Finally
Has it only been four years that the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence took over as the ‘Executive Director” and one of about five actual “members” of “Protect” Minnesota? Sometimes it seems like so much longer. Even by Twin Cities “progressive” standards, the “Reverend” Nord Bence blazed a trail of intellectual and moral depravity in which…
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If Its Tuesday, Minneapolis Must Be An Urban Utopia
 rumors that violent crime and homicide have spiked in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the last year are… … Well, pretty much a political football. Yesterday, House Republicans started messaging on the imperative to clean up Minneapolis: Outstate Republican legislators today unveiled a proposal to tackle urban crime, months after they first started planting…
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Remember…
…when Democrats said “death panels” were a GOP conspiracy theory and scare tactic? [1] I’d like some of those “progressives” to explain what Michael Bloomberg is describing here: I’ll wait. [1[ It’s come to my attention that Twitter links frequently disappear from some browser. Technicians are working on it. And by “working on it”, I…
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Identity Genetics
Joe Doakes from Coko Lark emails: I’m informed race is not genetic, it is a social construct. The Obama’s lived in America when their daughters were born, hence, they look like this: If the Obama’s had lived in Sweden when their daughters were born, they’d have looked like this. Okay, I get it now. Makes…
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The MNDFL: Literally The Nanny State
Congratulations. Clearly, you’ve solved all the real problems: A group of Minnesota House Democrats introduced a bill this week that would require restaurants to serve certain drinks as the “default beverage” for children’s meals.The bill was introduced Tuesday by Reps. Jeff Brand (DFL-St. Peter), Samantha Vang (DFL-Brooklyn Center), and Rob Ecklund (DFL-International Falls).Under the bill, all…
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Pace Lap
President Trump is going to Daytona. Oh, he has GOT to do the burn-out at the end of the lap, like the race drivers do. You know his car can do it. And the Secret Service driver would love it.And while it’s happening, play Trump’s voice over the loudspeaker, “Hey folks, THIS is how Daytona feels…
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Our Brownshirts
A dozen masked, hooded, armed “Anti”-Fa thugs attack a citizen journalist in Olympia, Washington. This is graphic and very upsetting: Video recorded by antifa writer Shane Burley shows the mob harassing, assaulting & pepper spraying local citizen journalist Brandon Brown. Brown was attacked & robbed by antifa militants for recording them in Olympia, Wash. in…
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Lie First, Lie Always: We’ve Been Through This, Right?
As we noted earlier this week, Roseau County became Minnesota’s first Second Amendment Sanctuary county. And you just knew the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence wouldn’t take long for an… …er… …er, “interesting” take on the situation. But she pretty much outdid herself on Twitter: Local anti-gun group Protect Minnesota claims that the Rouseau County Commissioners…
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More, Faster
Roseau County becomes Minnesota’s first Second Amendment Sanctuary County: The resolution, passed unanimously to applause from the dozen residents in attendance, reads that the board “wishes to express opposition to any law in the future, beyond existing laws to date, that would unconstitutionally restrict the rights of the citizens of Roseau County to keep and…
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The Day Before Tomorrow, In Beijing
“This meeting of the State Committee for National Security will come to order. First item of business, a report on biological warfare research. Minister? Minister? Uh, does anybody know where the Minister is?”“Excuse me, sir. I’m from that department.”“Who are you?”“I’m the Assistant to the Junior Deputy’s Secretary.”“Where’s everybody else?”“Dead, sir. Or missing.”“WHAT? What’s going…
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A-Klo Belches, Calls It “Chanel Number 5”
Senator Klobuchar, fresh off having a third-place finish in a decreasingly important primary hailed like the victory march in Paris by a local who has acted like her personal PR firm ever since they were all getting pass-out drunk with her father, has this to say about gun control: During the first 2020 Democratic…
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Limbaugh
I got caught up in one of KSTP-AM’s constant rounds of staff reductions on April 4, 1987. I was 24, and very much in love with the idea of finding a career in a medium I’d discovered less than two years before, talk radio. Especially the conservative wing of it – as a newly-minted Reagan…
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The Historian’s Conundrum
Shouldn’t the torn-up pieces of Trump’s speech be in the Smithsonian? First State of the Union Address Ripped Up by the Opposition Live and On Camera?If Trump was black they would have done it. Just because he’s orange is no reason to discriminate against him. This is racism, straight up.Joe Doakes I have to wonder…
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Just Another Diversion While We Wait For The “Epidemic Of Right-Wing Violence”
Florida Man (C) drives through tent full of Republicans, drives off. Hours after a van plowed through a Republican Party tent where volunteers were registering voters, Jacksonville police arrested a 27-year-old man on two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office…
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The Plague Of Deceit
The situation in China seems to be much, much worse than the all-powerful Communist Party is willing to let on. From an American doctor with a Chinese wife: My mother-in-law lives in a smaller city – far on the western fringe of China – If Wuhan were Atlanta – she would be in a place…
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Signs We’ve Reached Peak Urban Progressive Privilege
Urban Progressive Privilege – when nobody in your social circle or professional life is allowed to question your personal, moral or political choices… …but you pay someone to do it for you. You pay them a lot of money, in fact.
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Believing Their Own Press
Democrats accept on faith that they are smarter than Republicans. Indeed, accepting this as a matter of faith is a key tenet of “Urban Progressive Privilege“. And the fact is, I’m always leery of surveys and social “science” that try to correlate virtues – intelligence, cognitive flexibility, and on and on – to political orientation.…
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