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  • Things You’d Love To Hear On NPR News, But Know You Never Will

    ANCHOR: “There are some who say the death of Al-Zarquawi isn’t that important, given that he was at the head of an asymmetric worldwide terror organization. How important was his death, really?” EXPERT: “While it is true that asymmetric terror organizations are built to survive, on the other hand, if you’re talking about the history…

  • Sense

    Finally, someone else arrives at the conclusion I reached back when Obama was welcoming floods of Mexicans riding atop trains.  Don’t mend it, end it.  Moratorium on ALL immigration to allow time for assimilation – probably two generations, maybe three, going by history.  Close the gates.  Pull up the drawbridge. Build the wall. Joe Doakes Or – y’know – do…

  • Reliable Risible Sources

    Anyone remember Dave Mindeman? About ten years ago or so, he ran a blog – “MNPAct” – which was a website for putative organization Dave putatively ran. Now, let me be clear: Dave was one of a small handful of “progressive” Metro-area bloggers from blogging’s heyday in the ’00s that didn’t and, to the best…

  • Campaign Contribution

    Trump goes to hostile areas – Minneapolis, the Nationals’ stadium. “Progressives” – spoiled, entitled public unioneers, academics, PR flaks disguised as journalists, “students” and non-profiteers, eternal beneficiaries of a prosperity they had nothing to do with creating – act like spoiled toddlers, continuing the tantrum that started three years ago and looks unlikely to stop…

  • I’m Sure It Will Be A Fair-Minded Airing Of Issues, Yessireebob

    Mayor Carter, presiding over the worst murder rate in almost a quarter century (even as crime outside the metro continues to fall) is holding a series of meetings: In the midst of an uptick in gun violence in St. Paul, Mayor Melvin Carter announced on Monday that he’ll host three community meetings about public safety.Carter…

  • Redundant

    It’s about time for President Trump to suggest that Congress repeal Title IX and eliminate Girls’ Sports on the grounds that since Boys can compete in Girls sports simply by declaring themselves Girls, having a separate sports system is a wasteful, duplicative, expensive boondoggle. We’ll just have one system, winner take all. True, boys will win everything…

  • Washington Post: Adolf Hitler, Vegetarian Dog Lover Who United Europe Like Nobody Before, Dead At 58

    I mean, is it any dumber than the WaPo’s headline about Al-Baghdadi?  One suspects had Obama ordered the raid that erased Baghdadi, the headline would have been a little less…conciliatory toward the man who brought seventh-century horrors back to the world, murdering thousands in ways designed to cow and horrify his enemies, the stuff of…

  • Point Of Order And Information

    California congresswoman Katie Hill is a pretty loathsome person (and that’s without even referring to  her ideology, which seeks to do to the entire country what it’s done to Califonia, Newark, Chicago, Detroit, NOLA and Baltimore), whose sex scandal – she was apparnently doing with her husband (asterisk; west coast version), a female campaign staffer,…

  • Blowing Smoke In Saint Paul

    Saint Paul’s new garbage hauling program is a rousing success and if you don’t vote to continue it, taxes will increase dramatically to pay for the five-year contract the City illegally signed.Mayor Carter’s statements in the linked article defy common sense, casting doubt on his credibility.We have significantly reduced emissions from our garbage trucks.  Really?  You monitor…

  • The Life March

    The last living Bataan Death March survivor in Brainerd – and, one suspects, one of few remaining anywhere – turns 100: A once unthinkable centennial looms large on Walt Straka’s calendar.It’s led to a host of reflections for the former prisoner of war, who didn’t believe he had a snowball’s chance of surviving Bataan, let…

  • What’s With All The Rhetorical Questions Lately?

    Why isn’t Trump getting credit for this? Joe Doakes Heh.  Along those lines:  while I’m the Twin Cities’ best feminist, I am actually 104% male, so I have to wonder; do women ever feel patronized by all the “First Female…” <fill in the event> hype?  Especially given that the event took place on the shoulders…

  • The Bureaucrat’s Burden

    Without government, who would “inspect” the retro-pinup girls before they visit vets at the VA? Pin Ups for Vets received an email from the San Diego Veterans Hospital on Monday banning the calendar and telling them the outfits of their volunteers must be scrutinized in advance. Additionally, the costumed volunteers will not be allowed to…

  • I Sometimes Wonder…

    …if “educators” – secondary and university-level – in the “humanities” know anything about the history of the “humanities”. Teachers are worried about teaching the otherwise (ostensibly) brilliant work of artists whose personal lives are, well, problematic, in the #MeToo era: For Martina Myers, a high school English teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, Sherman Alexie’s novel…

  • That Gas Mask Looks Fierce

    I knew actors were an odd bunch, but now the Guthrie Theater is embracing its inner drag queen with a special event.  And on Armistice Day, no doubt to honor all the cross dressers who died in the trenches.  I don’t think I’ll be going. Joe Doakes. I could not be dragged – as it were – kicking…

  • The Institution That Cried Wolf

    It’s become a little like the classic movie “Groundhog Day”. A new scandal comes that will supposedly rend the Trump Administration to its core. It turns out to be a damp squib. Lather, rinse, repeat, until 2020. Why do people still trust the media at all? Joel Kotkin – who’s moved from being America’s foremost…

  • Toxic Not-Masculine-Enough-ity

    According to at least one bit of research (qualify accordingly), turns out testosterone isn’t linked with rage and other mood problems. On the other hand, this factoid is cited as an apparent part of the ongoing effort by Big Lefty Culture to erase the perception of differences between the sexes, so there’s that.

  • Welcome To Red Canada

    Greta Thunberg is used to swimming in the warm water of the adulation of the deluded blue-state masses. But getting outside the moldy blue confines of the parts of this country that take CNN seriously is a whole ‘nother thing. Even if it’s the red part of Canada:

  • Deerskin In The Game

    I’m a member of a gun club just East of The Cities. Every member volunteers two days to serve as range safety officer while members of the public use the range to sight their hunting rifles. It’s always an eye-opener to see all ages, races, genders, incomes, occupations, coming together to get ready for their…

  • Strib: Dishonest

    Oh, look – the Trib has another badly worded poll intended to elicit results to be used as blunt-force DFL rhetoric. In this case, on Minnesotans’ views on gun registration – AKA “Universal Background Checks” And yes, it’s dishonest. I add emphasis: A strong majority of Minnesota voters support universal background checks on all gun…

  • Eurasia Has Never Been At War With Eastasia, Winston

    2015: “There is no deep state, paranoid conservative”. 2019: “Of course, there’s a deep state. And it’s a wonderful thing”. Of course, it’s only Michelle Cottle, who is a one-woman argument in favor of a gender pay gap.

  • Bias

    Lara Logan has figured out the problem with modern journalism – namely, having spent the past couple of decades leading with bias and advocacy have left them less trusted than used-car dealers: Today, as a whole, we are not at our best. Just ask people in towns and cities across this country, as I do.…

  • What, Is This A Rhetorical Question?

    Imagine the Mayor of some Southern city announces Kamala Harris is not welcome in his town but since she’s coming, he extends an open invitation for all KKK to protest her visit in the spirit of “free speech.”  The city demands she post $1 million security bond “in case there’s trouble.”  The police chief assigns dozens…

  • That “Exploding Heads” Sound In Dinkytown Last Friday…

    Actual anti-fascists coming to the U of M: A global debate over democracy and Hong Kong’s relationship with China boiled over at the University of Minnesota on Friday, as Hong Kong protesters marched through campus in the state’s first known organized event. The organizer of the march, a Hong Kong native and university student who remained…

  • Progsplained

    Mayor McDreamy tries to intersectionalize. Swings. Misses: Especially conservatives on “the internet” who happen to be women, gay, black, latino, or any other that Mayor McDreamy’s party thinks are “theirs”. But if you’re worried about you’re safety, I’d be happy to provide security. For $500,000.

  • Hero For Modern Times

    Safe space abolished, snowflake: He deserves a medal.

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