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  • Bonfire Of The Inanities

    Caitlin Flanagan at that noted conservative tool The Atlantic notes that h Big Media botched everthing that could be botched about the Covington flap – and gave us the pullquote of the week: The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it. But read…

  • “Why Does A Civilian Need A 30 Round Magazine?”

    The serious answer – so the good guy doesn’t run out of bullets before the bad guy runs out of attack. Homeowner in Houston repels a violent, armed home invasion… …by five men with “big guns”: One man was left dead in front of the house, at least one wounded man took off on foot and…

  • This Is Modern Academia

    Academic writing on foodie site:  “Foodie authenticity-snobbery is racist“.   The concept was good for a masters’ thesis, apparently, which is further evidence of the free fall of the modern academy. Which occurs to me –  I’d like the writer and so-called “academic” – Sara Kay, which may be the most Brooklyn-hipster nom ever put to plume – to…

  • A Spoonful Of…Doakes?

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails a movie review: I saw “Mary Poppins Returns.”  Sold out show.  Herewith, my movie review.  Don’t go.  Wait for Netflix.  SPOILER ALERT: Mary Poppins wins in the end.  Sorry if I ruined it for you. First off, let’s be clear.  The original Mary Poppins movie is one of my…

  • The Covington Rohrschach Blob

    Your opinion of what happened at the March for Life last weekend largely depends on your point of view on the Trump administration. You either…: Watched the full two hours of video (or take the counsel of those who did) and have come to believe that that CNN edited the video maliciously, with full intent…

  • As The Ramp On The Higgins Boat Slams Down

    The SCOTUS will be taking on serious Second Amendment issues for the first time in almost a decade: The court granted a right-to-carry case out of New York that that pits the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association against the City of New York. New York bans transporting permitted handguns outside city lines, even…

  • A Good Chicago Gal With A Gun

    Woman defies the odds in robbery attempt in Chicago. Not by driving off a robber…: A man in Hyde Park was in for a surprise when the woman he was trying to rob pulled out a gun and fired. Just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday near 56th and Dorchester, Chicago police say the woman took out…

  • How To Change The World (When You’re A Sniveling Coward)

    David Brooks wrote this piece – “The Cruelty of Call-Out Culture” – almost a solid week before the Covington kerfuffle, in which a dishonest media led a pack of bovine keyboard commandos to a high-tech lynching of a MAGA hat and the kids standing around it.  But the episode brought it back to mind for…

  • Advice

    I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it at least once a month until “Protect” MInnesota finally gets laughed out of polite company in this state: the local gun grab group and its arious leaders – the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence today, Rep. Heather Martens before her – have never, not once, made…

  • Remember: The Democrats Are The Party Of “Science”

    Democrat (what else?) California (where else?) state assembly committee chairbeing  bans the use of gender-specific pronouns: [California State Senator and Senate Judiciary Committee chair Hannah-Beth Jackson] said that new committee rules recognize California’s designation of “non-binary” as a gender. The words “he and she” will now become “what my grammar teacher would have had a heart attack…

  • A Good Guy With A Gun – And One Lucky Cop

    Arizona man saves a state trooper’s life after an ambush on I-10 following a “shots fired’ radio call that led the officer to a crashed car and a mortally-injured woman: [Arizona Department of Public Safety director Col. Frank Milstead] said as the trooper began blocking off lanes of traffic and laying out flares, he was…

  • “…I’ve Seen The Promised Land” (Repost)

    I collect great speeches. I’ve got a whole slew of big ones; Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” and the “Dunkirk” speech, Reagan’s “Shining City” and “A Time for Choosing” and the Brandenburg Gate speech, Kennedy’s “To The Moon!” and his Little Rock speech, “I Have A Dream”… …and about a year ago, I finally…

  • Somewhere, Bobby Riggs Is Smiling

    I’m not the only one that figures that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is setting back feminism half a decade or more: In mere minutes, Ocasio-Cortez managed to affirm nearly every negative stereotype about the female sex, from the trope that we’re no good at math to the notion that you shouldn’t trust us with a credit card. If…

  • Buzzfeed Is To “News”…

    …what Ashley Simpson was to “live performance”.

  • New York State Of Mind

    Last year, we talked about Minneapolis “it” restaurant Hell’s Kitchen which, after years of virtue-signaling its approval for things like mandatory #FightFor15 minimum wage hikes and compulsory sick time, had had to eliminate the equivalent of five full-time, $15/hour jobs – partly due to bad management, partly due to hikes in bottom-line expenses, and partly…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

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  • He Fought Soccer

    Soccer won.

  • I Can Honestly Say…

    …that if Ilhan Omar were a white, Presbyterian, Christian, humble, quiet-spoken conservative with an actual record of public service who said crap like this, I’d be mocking, taunting and condemning him – er, her, or whatever – with just as much schadenfreudy glee as I am today. Because they’d both have it coming. First –…

  • Movie Rights Are Currently On The Table

    The only response to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. It helps when the good guy is a long-serving member of one of the world’ premiere special forces units. A British Special Air Service (the original model for US Army’s Delta) trooper in town to train Kenyan special…

  • Great Moments In “Social Justice”

    It’s close to becoming a Berg’s Law: terms like “White Privilege”, “Misogyny”, “Bigotry”, “Hate” and “Mansplaining” are rarely anything more than ad homina that one can use without being accused of trafficking in a logical fallacy. Yet. Maybe after CNN “Legal Analyst” Areva Martin’s performance yesterday on Sirius XM’s David Webb show, we could start talking about…

  • Forget The Russians…

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I gave up my landline years ago. The only people who called me were telemarketers. It was nice having a cell phone, because nobody bothered me. But lately, I’ve been deluged with telemarketers robocalling recorded announcements about health insurance. This would be illegal on landlines, but for cell phones,…

  • Unconstitutional

    Beto O’Rouke – flirting with the idea of running for president with all the grace of an elementary school choir singing a medley from Les Miserables – discusses his take on the Constitution. Caveat: I did not make this up. Emphasis added by me. “I’m hesitant to answer it because I really feel like it deserves its due,…

  • The Nice Thing About Being A Democrat…

    …is that you can be a corrosive, giggly bigot, and nobody will ever, ever call you on it. I add the emphasis: MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle implied without evidence Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has something to hide and the president is blackmailing him over it.Graham has become one of the President Donald…

  • Why Nobody Who’s Paying Attention Trusts Big Media, Part MMXMLVIII

    Let’s talk social fashion in the mainstream media. Out: “Violent Home Invader” In: “Unwanted house visitor”. No, I’m not making this up: Rape is “a bad first impression”, too.

  • The “Passive Aggression Toward Law-Abiding Gun Owners” Act

    The Metrocrats dropped “House File 8” (HF8) this past week. The bill will institute “Universal Background Checks” for all firearms transfers in Minnesota. The bill: Expands background checks to all firearms. Current law requires the for pistols and “assaault weapons”. Raises the age to purchase a firearm to 21. A permit to purchase is good…

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