Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Call To Action
Check out this still photo of the guy who shot the gunman in church [Jack Wilson – Ed]. If you figure 5 feet between pews, he’s 25 feet away when he takes the shot. That’s good shooting, Tex, way better than me. I need to hit the range. I need practice.Joe Doakes It’s definitely gotten me…
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This Is Nancy Nord Bence’s Mind On…Er…Does Anyone Actually Know?
“Protect” Minnesota – which, as we all know, is Nancy Nord Bence and a bunch of the kind of people who think armed churchgoers are a bad thing, but only if they have never shot anyone and will never shoot anyone – posted this on social media last week: So – prohibition doesn’t work, and…
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Mayor McDreamy’s Dirty Little Secret
Mayor Frey is apparently a White Supremacist: I mean, we’re just going by the standards they impose on others…
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The Peace Filter
Scott Adams on the situation in Iran: It’s a thread, and I urge you to read the whole thing. Putting an Obama-era template – or even a Bush or Reagan-era template – on the situation might be a huge mistake for everyone.
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Normalized
Article in the new Bench and Bar magazine written by Justice Paul Thissen of the Minnesota Supreme Court, entitled “When Rules Get in the Way of Reason: One Judge’s View of Legislative Interpretation.” No need to read the article, the title says it all. Isn’t this pretty much the definition of judicial activism?By giving it…
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The Year Of Living Dangerously In Saint Paul
The Strib puts faces – and, to a fairly cryptic and inconsistent extent, causes – to the 31 homicides in Saint Paul last year. Of the 31 victims, two are white, and five are Latino. Of the remaining 26 victims, gang violence is explicitly noted in several incidents. Gang members were specifically listed as the…
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The Minneapolis Railroad
A GOP volunteer, volunteering at the “Log Cabin Republican” booth at the “Pride” event last summer, got set up by an attack and accompanying smear campaign. He’s currently been convicted of disorderly conduct, in a set of proceedings that the Kangaroos called up and said was b***h*t. A video captured by a Democrat operative, who…
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“Western ‘Progressives’ Mourn Otto Skorzeny”
Listening to the garment-rending among western “progressives” over the death of Otto Skorzeny, the head of Nazi special operations… …sorry. I got my historical eras mixed up. Otto Skorzeny was Germany’s top commando – sort of the David Stirling of the World War 2 Wehrmacht, Germany’s top commando, in charge of creating terror and disorder…
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Passing Lane
All my old heroes are passing. A Moonshiner turned NASCAR racer? Now THAT is the Resistance!Joe Doakes Wow. Shows what I know – I thought Johnson died in the seventies – and that he’d have been a lot older than that. He was a legend when I was a little kid and followed auto racing.…
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All The Same
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking out of a Ukrainian sausage shop in Northeast Minneapolis when he notes Avery LIBRELLE, wearing matching “Meat is Murder” hat, T-Shirt, and carrying a matching sign, beginning to picket the store. BERG tries to tiptoe back inside, but LIBRELLE notices him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er, hey, Avery. What brings you……
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This Iranian Situation Will Take Intelligence And Critical Thought
None of which will come from our idiot “elite”. Rose MacGowan – who, I’m told, is something of a movie star – twote: Ms. McGowan – I suggest going to Teheran to work this out personally. Wearing the outfit in your Twitter profile photo. Get back to us. If you can. The assassination of Soleimani…
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No Action
Bet you a brand-new nickel he won’t send cops door-to-door seizing guns in black neighborhoods to fill the jails with non-compliant gun owners.Joe Doakes Aiin’t risking a nickel on that bet. It’ll be someone in the “blue” suburbs of DC.
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Resolution
Saint Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell sends New Years greetings to the city – with a challenge (to which I’ve added emphasis): Happy New Year, Everyone!As we embark on another trip around the sun, I want to take a minute to thank each of you for the friendship, support, advice and adventure we’ve shared over…
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On The One Hand
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing the two winners of the “Speaking Proudly” speech contest on my show. Much as I razz the kids, they were both pretty impressive. It kind of made me feel a little more sanguine about the near future. And I needed that little dose of sanguinity,…
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Recourse
Office of the President of the United States. Dear Mister Berg.Congratulations, you’ve been selected to participate on President Trump’s advisory team. Its job is to come up with the priorities for this administration for the next four years.I started a list of priorities, which I’d like you to rank. Feel free to add others if…
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In Re The Collapse Of Civics Education
He’s mad so he’s suing because the primary election ballot has limited choices. Party officials decide who we get to vote for. You’re just figuring this out, now? Never heard of the smoke-filled back room?The entire point of a political party is so that voters won’t have to study every candidate’s slate of ideas. Instead, if…
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Little Straw Men
A few weeks ago, I saw the new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott “Little Women“. I’m told there are seven different versions on film out there – I’ve only seen parts of the 1933 version with Katherine Hepburn, and of course the 1994 version with Winona Ryder (of which the less said, the better).…
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Unreliable Sources
I used to ask Twin Cities media figures why they kept taking the likes of Heather Martens and the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence seriously, treating them as legitimate sources on the news, when the leading intellectual lights of Minnesota’s gun control movement burned them so consistently on actual fact. On a national level, the same…
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Two Heroes
The first- Jack Wilson, who pulled off an incredible shot against the shooter at the Texas Church Massacre That Wasn’t. On Sunday, during what would otherwise likely be a quiet worship service at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, an armed gunman entered the church and after talking to a man…
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Settled Science
Great siteJoe doakes I usually deride Medium.com’s “social science” section as “Tumbler for overdramatic solipsists” – but they’ve had some good stuff on 2nd Amendment issues over the years.
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Good Guys With Guns. Again.
Goon attacks church, killing two… …before being brought down by armed parishioners: “It appears that a gunman shot two church members at back of auditorium with a footlong weapon, then a member shot the gunman with a pistol,” [Editor Bobby Ross of Christian Chronicle] wrote. “This is just based on me watching the video again.…
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Attention, Democrats
Good enough is the enemy of perfection. Accept no less than this in 2020.
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Proof
A friend of the blog writes: This retweet- I have no words… … except that if the couple he was retweeting ever read this, then they would find the racism in the US. Berg’s Eighth Law – “American progressivism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office…
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Overmatched
Hunter Biden is being sued in Arkansas for paternity and child support. I don’t know anything about Arkansas child support law, but if this were a Minnesota case, our law requires the court to set child support based on income. Where income has changed downward, the court can rule that the obligor is intentionally self-limiting his…
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Memoryholed
CBC erases Donald Trump’s cameo from the movie Home Alone 2. Steyn’s comment is the part I love throwing out there. Trump is a former Democrat, and spent a couple of decades as a blue state cultural icon before going apostate. Or, as I put it on the air, “I disliked Trump back when “Celebrity…
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