Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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I Heard It On The NARN
Donald Raleigh is running for MN State House in District 38A.
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The Democrat Party’s Stormtroopers
On this, the anniversary of the last major catastrophic attack from without, it’s time to look at a potentially vastly more devastating attack from within. Worse than 9/11? Very likely, yes. “Anti”-Fa – which, we are assured, doesn’t actually exist, except in the earnest hearts of a bunch idealistic kids – is worse than a…
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Ted Antoinette
Remember when your “progressive” acquaintances would scoff and say “there’s no such thing as a ‘limosine liberal’, a ‘condo pink’, or any of that?” I do. And they’ll do it again. But here – along with Lori Lightfoot’s haircut and the blowout that was apparently inflicted on Nancy Pelosi by GOP operatives – is Exhibit…
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The Phantom Boogeyman
Salem had “witches”. The far right and far left in Europe from the middle ages through the 1940s (and beyond) had “Jews”. Jordan, Minnesota had “satanists“. And Governor Klink and Mayor McDreamy had “white supremacists”. It seems like such a long time ago that Big Left started predicting an imminent wave of “right wing white…
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Appeasement
Kyle Rittenhouse. Murder. Another tough case for the prosecution. Sure, the prosecution has a tape of a kid shooting people. But the defense gets a turn, too. Here’s their opening salvo. And that’s not to mention that all three of the people he shot were convicted felons – not exactly the kind of people Kenoshans want…
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Who’s Afraid Of Jan Levinson?
We’ll take a break from stanching the flow of blood from Western Civilization to reach across the aisle to admire on of the civilization’s crowning achievements. Submitted for your fan-geek edification, this very long, gloriously detailed oral (well, transcribed) history of perhaps the greatest single episode of comedy television of the 2000s, the “Dinner Party”…
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Junk Food For Thought
Verdict…: …true.
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Proletarian Heroine
Lenin, Stalin and Castro were all children of the middle-to-upper middle classes – people with a certain amount of privilege in the context of their times. Hitler was from a bourgeois background. Most of the “Hitler Cabinet” that ran Germany and then the Nazi empire fro 1933 to 1945 were artists, self-styled or successful or,…
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Bombshell
On May 31, prosecutors learned Floyd died of an overdose. On August 25, they admitted it in court. Charges against the officers still have not been dismissed. One remains in jail, in super-max prison, in Oak Park Heights. I seem to recall someone in the comments lecturing me on the ethical duties of a prosecutor as explanation…
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Statement Against Interest
“Prog” columnist looks at the statute and the evidence, concludes Kyle Rittenhouse will likely be acquitted. I don’t disagree – and find that there’s ample grounds for caution for all the rest of us that take the Second Amendment seriously. I homed in on these two passages: When [the first “victim”, Joseph] Rosenbaum, who was…
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Karen Almighty
This was posted on one of those insidious neighborhood Facebook pages around which America’s newest plague, “Karen”, congeals: So, let me get this straight: people, mostly college students, being in an age bracket that has suffered precisely zero COVID-19 deaths in the state of Minnesota, are going to a bar staffed mostly by people in…
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You Have Questions. Berg’s Law Has Answers
“So, Mitch – why are the Democrats and media (ptr) spending so much time saying that Trump wants to delegitimize the election?” The answer, of course, is because they need to deflect away from the fact that they are trying, in advance, to delegitimize the election.
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A Children’s Story
The Story of the Little Governor Who Cried Surge, by Joe Doakes Once there was a Governor named Timmy. He had a fine house and many servants, but he was bored. “I know,” he thought, “I’ll cause some excitement. That’ll be fun.” So Timmy ran through the streets yelling “Curve! Curve! We’re all gonna die!” …
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Privileged Couple’s Gentrified Night Out Interrupted By Austere Social Scholars’ Mostly Peaceful Protest
OK, that’s not the real tag line on the story. Yet. But it doesn’t seem implausible at all, does it? Minneapolis couple out on the town in the North Loop, attacked by 8-10… …well, the piece leaves that wide open: Probably more white supremacist Hells Angels. They’re behind everything that’s wrong in Minneapolis. Darned white…
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I’m Joe Biden, And I Approve This Bit Of Gaslighting
My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the latest Biden ad, about the violence in our cities. It’s not what’s in the ad, per se. It’s what’s missing. Go ahead. What do you not see in this ad? I’ll wait. No identifiable “Anti”-Fa or BLM. The only identifiable people in this ad are…
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Hail To The…Er, VIP
A friend of the blog emails: Last night at a prayer meeting one of the members of the group told us that Minneapolis public schools made a change to job titles. This friend of mine is a teacher at Minneapolis South. He said it was announced yesterday that all titles in the Minneapolis public school…
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Public Policy
If I told you that scientists had discovered a new virus which wasguaranteed to kill one guy living in Schenectady, New York unless theentire nation went into super-strict lock-down, should we do it? No, because public policy isn’t made for one guy, or ten, or 100, or1,000 or even 10,000, which is more than the…
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Cowed
We knew the numbers were bullshit, but not why. This article explains why – any trace of the virus counts as a “case” even if the amount is so tiny the carrier is not sick or not even contagious. Once again, the numbers have been inflated to frighten the public into believing they are in danger and…
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Blue Fragility: Be It Resolved
Whereas the United States’s death toll per million citizens ranks as the eighth-highest among significant nations (forget about Andorra and San Marino), at 572 Covid fatalities per million…: And whereas every state with a death toll (in fatalities per million) higher than 572 per million (as of September 2, 2020) is a “blue”, Democrat-run state…
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Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare say the left is waging a war… …against Western Civlization itself.
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Slippery Semantic Slope
I keep hearing these words used interchangeably, typically by liberals.That is wrong; they are not the same words. They do not mean the same thing. Equality is when everyone gets the same. Equity is when everyone getswhat they deserve. You studied hard, went to class, turned in assignments on time. I nevercracked a book, skipped…
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Gleiwitz, 2020
On August 31, 1939, groups of SS officers staged “attacks” on several German border outposts. Near a radio station near the village of Gleiwitz (modern day Gliwice, in Polish Silesia), a group of operators “captured” the station and broadcast militant Polish propaganda, and then dumped a group of recently-executed prisoners, dressed in Polish uniforms, around…
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Cop Out
The Defund the Police movement hitches it’s wagons into the western suburbs. In the apparently halcyon days of April 2018, students and school officials of the Hopkins School District gathered together in what was called “National Walkout Day” in memory of the horrific tragedy of the Columbine school shootings 19 years earlier. Students spoke of…
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Choice
A friend of the blog writes: Just had an online meeting with our kid’s teacher. Expectations were laid out and kid is expected to be on time and we can expect a daily schedule that has the kid doing school work live, on line from 9-3:30. (There are breaks built in as there are during…
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