Shot in the Dark

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  • A Bad Look

    To: Mike Lindell, Likely Gubernatorial CandidateFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Conservative PeasantRe: Love Your Pillows. Don’t Love Your Rhetoric. Mike, For someone who wants to represent the party of liberty, the rule of law as opposed to the rule of men, and rationality, this is a really terrible look: Look @dougducey you made the list and your crooked…

  • Future Alternative

    Minnesota legislature passes bill to help victims of state government, unless someone else does. That’s not how they worded it, of course. The state legislature adopted a bill to give aid to small businesses closed by Governor Walz and to extend unemployment benefits for workers laid off by Governor Walz, but the aid is conditional.…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Details on American Commitment and the Pelosi Drug plan.

  • Priorities

    A friend of the blog emails: I don’t really like having police departments barricaded. But, I understand it. I look at [Saint Paul city councilwoman] Nelsie Yang’s post and I really don’t see a lot of support for her demand that the barricade be torn down, especially from non-White constituents, the very people she claims…

  • Governor Mussolini

    Governor Fredo bans the sale and most display of “hate symbols” like confederate flags and swastikas in New York. Because he can, that’s why. I mean, there’s that pesky First Amendment and all.. But noted First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams argues Cuomo may have a larger problem on his hands, extending beyond a quick “technical”…

  • Orwell Overestimated Minneapolis DFLers

    From the never-ending “It depends on what the meaning of the term ‘is’, is” files – after seven months of demanding the defunding of the police, and a week of acting on it, members of the Minneapolis Student Senate…er, City Council claim they’re just misunderstood: In June, Minneapolis city council members Steve Fletcher and Phillipe Cunningham…

  • Audience Particpation

    A friend of the blog emails: What will be the next “crisis” needed to keep a Democratic governor in unchecked power? The options are endless. Thoughts?

  • Scenario

    Democrats conspired with Deep State bureaucrats to prevent Trump’selection with the phony dossier. Didn’t work. Democrats conspired with Deep State bureaucrats to impeach Trump basedon claims Russian Facebook ads influenced the election. Didn’t work. Democrats conspired with Deep State bureaucrats to steal the election byfalsifying the machine count (as well as by stuffing the ballot…

  • Adding Insult to Injury

    I believe a blogger of our acquaintance predicted this was going to happen. c”A Minnesota court recently agreed to an uncommon approach to resolve criminal charges filed after the statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled at the Minnesota Capitol on June 10, 2020. Ramsey County Chief Judge Leonardo Castro accepted the restorative justice approach proposed…

  • All About The Science!

    Cornell – the Dollar General of the Ivy League – is requiring students to get vaccinated for Covid when a vaccine is available. Well, most students: That is, unless those students are “Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC).” Those students aren’t subject to the same stringent vaccine requirements of their white classmates, and…

  • Just Dropping By To Say…

    …that if you call yourself an “ethicist” on the one hand, but on the other seek to deny people either a good or service for which they’ve paid, or perhaps to which they are entitled, directly or indirectly, because they exercised their right to free speech, you’re not actually an ethicist. You’re a wanna-be Mussolini…

  • A Line That Needs To Be Drawn

    No Republican should vote for anything in this Specisl Session until Governor Walz relinquishes his dictatorial and arbitrary control of the state. Participation is acquiescence.  Acquiescence is surrender. Joe Doakes I couldn’t agree more. House and Senate GOP caucuses – give us a reason to get passionate about supporting you in 2022.

  • National Slander

    I’m particularly proud of the interview I had last weekend with Peter Wood, author of 1620 – A Criticial Review of the 1629 Project. Wood and his book take a hammer to the historical fraud that the NYTimes sicced on the nation… …and, worse, the miseducation of an entire generation about the history of our…

  • Governor Klink: You Had One Job

    Remember last spring? When Governor Klink told us we all had to sacrifice, while the state built up his heart hospital bed capacity (a commodity regulated by the executive branch he controls)? Either, apparently, does Governor Klink. The supply of hospital beds has dwindled since the spring:

  • Masklighting

    Whether government responded to Covid with draconian lockdowns (New York, the UK, Germany, Norway) or deferred to individual responsibility (most of the rural west), or skittered back and forth between both extremes (Italy, Sweden), Covid infection rates have seemed to exhibit the behavior of… …well, respiratory viruses, waxing and waning along with weather conditions more…

  • Obligation

    It’s that time of year.  I’m receiving exhortations to Give Back such as this one from TCF Bank.  They annoy me. Why this time of year, particularly?  The message doesn’t explicitly link December to Christmas to Jesus Christ and thence to a duty of Christian Charity, because that would be overtly religious and might offend…

  • Prime Gaslighting

    Berg’s Eighth Law of Diversity states: “American Progressivism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from sociopathic disorder.” And given the news that Trump had the highest share of the African-American vote since Richard Nixon in 1960, I’m…

  • Maybe It Was Considered A Peaceful Demonstration?

    A friend of the blog emails: Wow! Think the media will report Covid19 at our military academies in the coming weeks. No distancing, many with masks not covering their faces. Nothing to see here, right? Another friend of the blog pointed out that the cadets and midshipmen were all parts of training cohorts that were pretty…

  • Christmas Dinner Plans

    Never heard of this guy and his Baltimore restaurant – but I like the cut of his jib. Crab cakes are sounding mighty good for Christmas dinner at the moment.

  • As If By Rote

    Just finished my annual physical, which I must take to get my prescription renewed for diabetes medicine. The doctor mentioned I am due for a colonoscopy this year but I said I was thinking about putting it off so I didn’t catch the Covid since medical facilities are one of the most contagious places. He…

  • Blinding Science

    The worst part of this pandemic may be how “science” has been turned from a system for analyzing what we don’t know, into a weapon to logroll people into line behind a conclusion. It’s not just Karens karen-ing, or @NPRNews claiming there’s a “Team Science”, a consistant, constant body of knowledge and its high priests…

  • Weaponized “Charity”

    It’s been nine months since Minnesota landlords have been able to evict people for non-payment. Charity? Well, sure – and an easy one for the State to pay for, since it’s all coming out of the pockets of landlords. In Democrat parlance, landlords are an easy, cheap villain to demonize in order to rally support…

  • Permissible

    So after leaving the Hunter Biden corruption story sitting out there untouched during the run-up to the election, the media is suddenly “discovering it”. Why, it’s almost as if they were worried about hurting the Democrats’ chances before November, and realize the downside is “President Harris” now. “Almost”.

  • Ho Ho Ho

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Does this look like $125? On the other hand, they were delivered right to my doorstep when I know there’s none to be had within a hundred miles, so I’m not complaining. Not for me, of course, since I lost all my firearms in that tragic canoe accident a…

  • Oppressing From Below

    Our stereotype of the banana republic dictator is that he/she does their oppressing from above – with the military, the secret police, the “legal system” and so on. And that’s all true – the KGB, the Gestapo, the Pasdaran, were or are all pretty effective at making life miserable, nasty, brutish and short for those…

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