Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Dumb And Dumber And Dumber And Dumber…
Policy is downstream of politics. Politics is downstream from culture. Culture is shaped, to a disturbing extent, by people who want to try to influence it. And it’s been a cultural cliché for generation that television in its many forms has an overwhelming influence on society. And as someone who spent way more time in…
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Pathology
As the bad night that was the 2018 Mid-terms ground along, I pointed out something I believe to be a truism: that “progressive” overreach might be its own best limiting mechanism. The downside (well, not the downside – one of many, indeed) is that we’re going to have to hope that’s the case, or that…
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Your Papers, Please
A federal judge has ruled that a law requiring a citizen to produce identification upon a police officer’s demand is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191700.P.pdf We have that law in Minnesota. This case is not from our district so it’s not controlling. But it’s certainly interesting. Joe Doakes Someone file a test case, already.
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This Is What Urban Progressive Privilege Looks Like [1]
Every spousal abuser in history: “Yeah, sure, I hit you. But you provoked me – again. So you’re at least partly to blame. Maybe mostly. I mean, actions have consequences, baby…” Big Left’s latest line – through one of its local mouthpieces, former Reprentative and Lt. Gov. Candidate and Urban Progressive Privilege poster child, Erin…
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The New McCarthyites
I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars spinoff…
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For The Children
Lowering the voting age has long been a Democrat dream. Phyllis Khan promoted it in 1989, saying: “If we trust them to drive at 16, why don’t we trust them to vote?” The notion is back again, this time in Congress. On the one hand, the notion that people aren’t mature enough to vote until 18,…
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Purge Day
Remember last spring and early summer? When New York’s catastrophic mismanagement of the Covid pandemic led to a national scandal that humiliated Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill “Squiggy” DiBlasio? Of course not. The media tamped it down. With a contentious election already underway, Big Media and Big Left didn’t want any splatter getting on…
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They’re Mad As Hell…
Owners of the iconic “Town Talk Diner” at Lake and MInnehaha in Minneapolis – which was turned into the “Town Talk Pile of Rubble” during the Floyd Riots – are sueing the City of Minneapolis for failing to protect… …well, much of anyone or anything – notwithstanding it being one of the city’s only unambiguously…
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#UnityAndHealing
My first thought in reading this story, I kid you not, is that I’m a little amazed a city government or law enforcement establishment actually did anything about an offense like this: After a hearing last Friday and conversations with the city attorney, the employment of part-time Library Specialist Cameron Dequintez Williams was terminated on…
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Facts: Growing In Office
I feel so stupid. I completely fell for the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory that the election was stolen. But as this article makes clear, the election actually was SAVED. All those unsubstantiated Republican claims that an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of…
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Virtue-Signal To Virtue-Noise Level = 0
Ryan Winkler takes a strong moral stand: About time Ryan Winkler took a strong, courageous stand against corporate prisons… …of which there are zero in Minnesota. Remember when I said DFLers can count on the fact that DFL voters are overwhelmingly badly-informed and lousy at critical thought? Any questions? .
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Of Consequence
I’ll just commend to you this thread by John Hayward – perhaps the thing most worth reading on the misbegotten morass that is Twitter in a long, long time – without further comment: Other than urging you to drill in and read the whole thing.
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I’m Not Saying…
….that Ron DeSantis is high up on my short list of candidates for 2024. I am saying that if he keeps up with his competent, fact-driven crisis management combined with his Trump-like ability to cut through the narrative BS while maintaining an air of measured acerbity… …he could get there pretty quick.
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Democrats: Accept No Waffling!
Joe Biden made gun control an important part of his campaign platform. He noted there are 40,000 gun deaths per year. To stop them, he will ban, regulate, confiscate and tax certain rifles, high capacity magazines and build-your-own kits; prohibit inheritance and private sales; stop minors from hunting with guns by imprisoning any parent who gives the…
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I Tried
I tried to warn everyone. During the presidential campaign, every time candidate Biden went on one of his roughly 200000,000,000,000 television ads saying “… I have a plan…“, I warned you. “Ask for specifics“. What is the plan. Tell us. I mean, neither I nor any of you could ask the campaign directly, of course.…
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True Ex-Believers
I grew up in grew up in a family of Democrats – Dad was a teacher, Mom had a little hippie inclination – and it’s probably not a huge shock that’s how I started out as well. At North Dakota Boys State, I wrote a party platform that would have made Paul Wellstone blanche in…
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Burma, Shaved
Have you heard about the election controversy? Votes cast by ineligible persons? Outdated voter registration lists allowing fraudulent votes to be cast? Warnings before the election of “widespread violation of the laws and procedures of the pre-voting process.” Election officials saying, “There is no evidence” to brush aside allegations of misconduct? Democrats in Congress threatening to punish those who question the…
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Poster Child
He had a lengthy series of convictions, many of them disqualifying him from holding, much less owning or buying firearms. He was in violation of an order for protection – itself a crime. He had a history of same: Gregory Ulrich was already subject to every restriction, sanction and consequence a “Red Flag” law can…
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Click Baited
I confess, I am often tempted by those click-bait ads. This site advertises the 10 Greatest Sports Cheaters.The authors act as if it’s a big deal, as if the cheaters were some kind of villains and the people who called out the cheaters were some kind of heroes. Who cares? You lost. Whether you lost fair…
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Whizzing On Your Foot, Telling You It’s Raining
Where have you gone, our #UmbrellaMan? The Star/Trib turns its lonely eyes to you: In a city ravaged by leftist violence several times in the past year, we’re going to focus, hard, on finding the dozen doughy ex-Libertarians, sitting in their parents basements, who identify as Trumpo-Anarchists. In related news, Germany, expressing alarm over a…
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Western Horror Stories
This site is an endless – so far – catalog of people, frequently but far from always in academia – catalog of “cancelees”. And reading the blurbs is a little like reading log entries from a ship that is slowly sinking, but the captain just doesn’t know it yet.
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If I Were A Harvard Alum…
…I’d be passing the hat to get David Hogg… …to transfer or drop out. But have no fear, Master Hogg. Logically, factually and intellectually, the intellectual foam pillow that is your worldview and movement has been on Mars for quite some time now.
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A Crisis Not To Be Wasted
Covid is acting exactly like any other respiratory virus. It bursts onto the scene, kills a bunch of people who have no immunity, then fades into the background as the vulnerable host population dies off and the immune population go on with their lives. So where’s the big emergency that justifies the dictatorship, again? Joe…
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