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County to fund Corey Ruiz memorial?
Simply unbelievable! That didn’t take long. The peaceful bliss created by a news-free Maine vacation has evaporated like the latest Iran peace plan. Dane County WI supervisors are considering tapping the taxpayer for $25,000 to design and erect a Corey Ruiz memorial on Willy Street. A memorial to a career criminal! In a city where…
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We went to Maine
A real palate cleansing! Took a much needed news break these last five days in the state of Maine, which is a lot like northern Wisconsin but with lobster. Our homey, cedar-shingled inn on the southern tip of the island that hosts Acadia National Park had no CNN, Fox, or PBS — no TV…
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Woke progressivism is a public nuisance
How much more can Madison stand?! How fitting is it that Brenda Konkel’s Social Justice Center is being called a public nuisance! Home to congeries of dependency enabling non-profits, many of them taxpayer subsidized, the SJC was the command center for the hostile takeover of city streets to valorize the Exceptional Corey Ruiz, a career…
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Social justice warriors are better organized …
… and funded with your tax dollars! Maybe you don’t do politics. You vote for the person, not the party — when you do vote. You can’t understand why you’re being taxed out of your home; why you don’t go on State Street after dark any more, why your kids report the day’s chaos in…
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‘Hang on Tom and buckle up because we’re going to go down.’
Could Wisconsin’s governor’s race get any more interesting? Doesn’t rise to the level of George W. Bush standing with the veteran fire fighter at Ground Zero, but Tom Tiffany speaking in front of the rescue personnel in Wausau was moving just the same. If you’ve been living under a rock, the Republican candidate for governor…
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America spoke as one for awhile after 9/11
Back when Rudy Giuliani was a hero. We’re old enough to remember November 22, 1963 and it still brings a lump to our throat. Since that day in Dallas, only 9/11/01 ranks with that. Maybe Princess Diana’s death and the 01/07/21 storming of the Capitol. Charlie Kirk? At my desk in WI Revenue Building, I wrote…
Blaska Policy Werkes
NY Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at the dedication of the 9/11 police memorial: “Preserving that history means also preserving that moral clarity that the men who attacked this city were terrorists, the men and women who ran into that towers to save lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”
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After 9/11
The urge to blame America and stop it from responding began immediately.
In the years after 9/11, blaming America for the activities of Islamic terrorists became a mania among left-tilting scribblers the world over. When they couldn’t reasonably attach culpability to America—because the attack happened in France or Spain, which consistently oppose U.S. interventions—the enlightened blamed America’s stand-in, Israel. Somehow the jihadists always lacked agency. …
The war on terror launched in the days afterward involved innumerable blunders and still invites derision from the globe’s expert class. But a quarter-century later, the country hasn’t sustained another strike of similar proportions, and the terror networks that once produced fighters by the thousand have had their leaders killed, their money frozen and their recruits severely pruned.
America wouldn’t, and couldn’t, consent to live with the madmen. — Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
Political stupidity
Another election season is upon us. … One party is hoisting monuments to a fading 80-year-old president who hasn’t done much except get America stuck in another Middle East war while attacking the nice Canadians to our north with irrational tariffs and weird hockey memes. The other is making sweeping promises to do something about the “cost-of-living crisis” through massive government spending and price caps with scant reflection on why they didn’t address the high cost of living just a few short years ago when they had control of government. — John Halpin, “The emptiness of contemporary politics”
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will Trump’s Canada geese become Donald Ducks?