Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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The Denunciation Of Bukharin
Matt Yglesias, fighting in his own way for freedom (for him, but probably others as well), has found himself out-intersectioned: Part of me thinks that if we just step back for a bit, the American left will just destroy itself and leave the rest of us alone. I”m too optimistic, I know, especially on that…
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Open Letter To President Trump
To: President TrumpFrom: Mitch Berg, Irasicble Peasant and Scott Walker supporterRe: Disaster Request Mr. President, This past week, Governor-For-Life Walz asked you to declare Minneapolis and Saint Paul “disaster areas”. Make no mistake – they are. But they are a disaster entirely due to generations of DFL policy, decades of mismanagement, and a week of…
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Fearless Prediction
I hereby wager a shiny new quarter that this episode is one of two things: A harried, part-time employee in a busy, loud store, hearing someone talking, very possibly with an accent of one kind or another, hearing “Isis” when someone, possibly with a mask on, said “Aishah”. A hoax, exactly as spelled out in…
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If You’re A Twin Cities Leftist…
… then stories like this have to be incredibly confusing.
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Sustainable!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Looking at the recycle bin at my house, I’m curious how many trillion board-feet of lumber get turned into cardboard for Amazon boxes every year? The lumberjacks and paper mills should be kissing the ground Jeff Bezos walks on. Joe Doakes Oh, I have a hunch they are. And…
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The Minnesota Stasi
The state is going after Senator, and Doctor, Scott Jensen, for… …well, counterrevolutionary activity, apparently: Minnesota senator and medical physician Dr. Scott Jensen says he is under investigation by the Minnesota State Board of Medical Practice for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Jensen revealed the investigation in a Facebook video on Sunday, saying the medical board…
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“Shot In The Dark”: The News That Matters, First
Powerline’s Scott Johnson on his wrapup of what happened in Minneapolis over Memorial Day. In his initial comments the morning after the Third Precinct was destroyed, Governor Walz threw Frey under the proverbial bus for the decision to abandon it. Warned in advance of the decision by Frey, Walz professed himself “not comfortable” with it.…
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Divisive!
The Paper of Walter Duranty, the one that published the deeply ahistorical, revisionistic and nothing-but-inflammatory “1629 Project”, the one that published Paul Krugman’s innumerate claims that “blue” America bankrolls “red” America, which has been openly advocating “progressive” ideals in its editorial pages since I was in high school, which has been one of the primary…
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Love Letter To America
Manny Laureano – friend of the blog, of the show, and of the good guys all over the Metro – writes this love letter to America on the Independence Day holiday. You should read the whole thing. I’m gonna pullquote a bit anyway: I love being an American. I love that in an airport terminal…
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Accountability
The Senate GOP – the only real bit of power the opposition has in Minnesota – is finally going to ask the question that it seems nearly nobody in our media will. Why didi the DFL politiclal “chain of command”, from Mayors Carter and McDreamy up through Governor Klink, allow two of the Twin Cities…
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They Own These Towns…
…but that doesn’t leave Republicans off the hook for the collapse of America’s cities: Despite all of these Democrats, the number one factor stopping real progress in the inner city is Republicans. If Republicans can’t figure out how to speak to minority voters, it is pointless to discuss alternative solutions. President Trump has been the…
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Public Order
There was an apparent homicide last night – a woman was killed in the alley behind the Trend Bar on University at Pascal. The Trend – known throughout the neighborhood as “the place where alcoholics go to get drunk and robbed, and the drug trade goes to romp and play” – is eight blocks south…
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Compare And Contrast
In watching yesterday’s kerfuffle about the couple in suburban Saint Louis who strapped up – to a horde of catcalls about their deeply flawed gun handling – against a bunch of “peaceful” protesters who’d just smashed their community’s gate – I can’t help but recall four scan weeks ago… …when armed Americans were briefly all…
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This Is War
Shizzle just got way too real: This is getting personal. Keegans was where I met some of the favorite arcs in my social circle: the NARN guys (Brian, Chad, Ben, Ed Morrissey, King Banaian, Michael Brodkorb), John Stewart and Marjorie Farnsworth Stewart and their kids Patience Stewart and Faith Worley , who at least started…
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Take Your Pick
The left, last week: “People don’t need the police! People can defend their own communities!” The left, this week after people defended their own community: “Chilling”. The “protesters” were encroaching on private property after forcibly breaking down a gate. The implied threat could miss nobody who isn’t already insulated by Urban Progressive Privilege. The only…
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Fact-Checked!
Democrat run cities are crime infested hell holes. It’s not even a controversial premise. Which isn’t to say the “fact checked industry – which exist primarily to uphold, or at least try and prevent the destruction of, leftist narratives Dash isn’t going to take a run at it. From WaPo: And let’s just say that…
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Let Them Eat Committee Minutes!
Minneapolis voted last week to change its police force into… …well, something. And if that makes you nervous, don’t worry – accountability for the results of this sweeping change is going to be split 14 ways. Because we all know the stories of successful enterprises in the worlds of politics, business and ideas that’ve had…
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MiniHealth Has Never Been At War With MiniPol
Some Henco Commisioners want to declare racism a public health crisis: Hennepin County Commissioners Angela Conley and Irene Fernando plan to introduce a resolution on Tuesday declaring racism a public health emergency in the county. “We need to be explicit about racism,” Conley said. “We need to say that at the root of the disparities…
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I Heard It On The (Sunday) NARN
Here’s Peggy McIntosh’s article that coined the term “White Privilege“. Here’s the facts about Peggy McIntosh’s class privilege. And this is where I coined “Urban Progressive Privilege“. And here’s the link to Dr. Frank Models – which is, well, Doctor Frank’s modeling of the Covid pandemic.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Diane Napper is running for the MN State Senate in Senate District 63 – southeast Minneapolis.
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A Little Bit Country
I left North Dakota for a lot of good reasons. Pretty much everything I wanted in life, especially back when only Al Gore had the Internet, was in a major metropolitan area; a place to try to be a songwriter, a musician, a writer, or something just different than I could be back in one…
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Reagan Spoke Too Soon
What’s the most dangerous phrase in the world? 1980: “I’m from the governent and I”m here to help” 2020: “I’m an ‘ally’ and I’m here to help. “ A friend of the blog emails: Privileged Liberal White People: we’re going to help those poor communities of black people. We’ll build a train so they can…
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Human Nature
In college poli-sci classes, you learn there are two schools of thought about what humans would be like in the absence of government. Some think humans are Basically Good and government corrupts us, so if we could get rid of government, everything would be wonderful. Others think humans are Basically Rotten and only government protects…
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Transit Memorial Day
Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the Metro Transit Blue Line – the beginning (or re-beginning) of light rail transit in the Twin Cities. So on this anniversary, let us remember the people who gave their lives – unwillingly and probably unwittingliy – to further Big Minnesota Left’s obsession with feeling like…
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