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The Best Election System Anywhere. The Best Election System Anywhere. The Best Election System Anywhere.

3 hours 28 min ago
Via Breitbart.
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Where Used Car Salespeople Fear To Tread

5 hours 30 min ago
Say what you will about the Minnesota Poll and the Hubert H. Humphrey poll.  As bad, inaccurate, DFL-biased and seemingly-rigged as both are, they both actually release their cross tabs – such as they are. So far. With the WaPo’s … Continue reading →
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Time To Stand Up For Stand Your Ground

7 hours 36 min ago
Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill – which would make legal self-defense a more tenable option for law-abiding Minnesotans – is coming up for another hearing in the Senate Thursday. The bill – which got side-tracked in the last session, … Continue reading →
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Why I’m Caucusing For Santorum

9 hours 29 min ago
I agree with what Mitt Romney (I think – maybe it was Huntsman) said in one of the opening GOP candidate debates; any of the people on the stage, then and now would do a better job of rebuilding this … Continue reading →
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken

10 hours 30 min ago
SCENE:  MITCH is talking with Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, a meme-buffer at Alliance For A Better Minnesota, at a Cathedral Hill bar. CARROLL is sitting at a table with an empty martini glass, sipping a cosmpolitan from a second as MITCH … Continue reading →
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Into The Vortex

10 hours 35 min ago
The management at the Strib has apparently decided that even Lori Sturdevant’s grueling one-column-a-week schedule at the paper just isn’t enough.  Now, she’s got a blog. And there’s another surprise; even Lori Sturdevant has found a left-on-right attack that’s ruffled her … Continue reading →
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“But How Does Excessive Regulation Kill Jobs?”

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 12:00
The GOP’s plan to help the economy by, among many other things, dialing back regulation, makes intrinsic sense if you have the faintest sense of how business works. Most liberals do not.  They think jerbs are created when government submits … Continue reading →
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Open Letter To President Obama

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 07:33
To: President Obama From: Mitch Berg, Mere Citizen Re: Our Stature In The World Dear Mr. President, Maybe if you bowed deeper and more vigorously, you could fix this little mess. That is all. PS:  Please ask Rep. Ellison if he’ll … Continue reading →
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It’s Reagan’s Birthday!

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 06:00
While we won’t be doing the traditional Reagan’s Birthday family dinner tonight, there’ll be jelly beans for all at work today.  It’s Reagan’s Birthday! Today would be the 101st birthday of the greatest president of my lifetime, so far. It’s … Continue reading →
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14,000-Odd Posts

Sun, 02/05/2012 - 08:08
2612 weekdays of waking up at 5:30AM and writing til 7-ish. 520 weeks of following the Minnesota news cycle. Two Presidential, three Gubernatorial, three Senate and 32 Congressional contests, plus five complete legislative election cycles and 11 Legislative sessions.  One … Continue reading →
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NARN On Ice!

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 10:55
Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism – with ice-fishing thrown in to boot!  We’re broadcasting from the “Holes for Heroes” event, on Medicine Lake.   The event is a benefit for veterans; we … Continue reading →
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All That Glitters Isn’t Intelligent

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:05
A while ago, I issued a challenge to supporters of single-sex marriage, and opponents of the proposed Constitutional Amendment on the issue this fall; develop an argument that’ll convince a majority of Minnesota voters that you’re right about the issue. … Continue reading →
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Coat-Tails Like A Tank Top

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:00
How’s that Hopey Changey thing working for ya? If you’re one of the 23 Democrat US Senators defending their seats this year, notso hotso, according to this NaJo photo-essay.  Democrats are distancing themselves from The One, especially in states not … Continue reading →
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Back Pay

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:50
A letter from a former slave to a former master, from the 1860s. Real or not?  Apparently real. Judge for yourself. Just go read it.
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Sartre Had A Point

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 05:48
When it comes to D-list political punditry, hell is other peoples’ predictions. Don’t get me wrong.  I’m someone else’s “other people”.  And my predictions have been…well, generally good.  I called the 2004 Prez and 2006 Governor’s races pretty much to … Continue reading →
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Shocked. Shocked.

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 05:37
A program that has been taking from the middle class and giving to the rich… Rising impatience in tax-rich Twin Cities suburbs over a regional program that takes millions from their budgets and awards it to less affluent communities will result … Continue reading →
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Apropos Not Much

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 05:02
Wolf cubs. No, they’re not actually family pets. Because I can, that’s why. Discuss.
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Frequently Asked Questions IV

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:20
I get a lot of questions from readers.  Occasionally, I like to answer them. “Hey, you got a piece published on Hot Air yesterday!”  -  That wasn’t really a “question”, but, well, yeah, I did, and thanks for noticing!  My piece, … Continue reading →
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Train In Vain

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:00
Dave Osmek – the Mound City Council member who’s running for Senate this fall – has gotten an op-ed in the Strib today hitting the same notes about light rail that he hit in this space a few weeks ago (Part … Continue reading →
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Rule By Complaint

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 05:51
One of the things I predicted on election night back in 2010 was that, out of power, the DFL would revert to whatever forms of power it actually had with more passive-aggressive vigor. One of those forms of power was … Continue reading →
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