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Monitor blames police for criminal’s poor choices
Committing crime is so stressful! Stop the presses! Madison’s independent police monitor blames police for the demise of criminal suspect Richard Lee Johnson. One day after his arrest on 12-30-24 the man died in a Madison hospital. O.K., he had cocaine working in his blood stream. Yeah, he ran from police after stealing a car…
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Democrats sort through their seven dwarfs
No trillionaires need apply! Political junkies are trying to extract meaning from the results of the WisPolitics straw poll taken this past weekend at the Democrat(ic) state convention here in Madison WI. Among the seven dwarfs vying to oppose Tom Tiffany for governor, Sara Rodriquez — rumored to be the state’s current lieutenant governor —…
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An apology, Senator!
Shouldn’t everyone get one? Nino Amato wants an apology. So do Betty Mitchell Banks, a children’s TV producer; Richard Harris, author of Growing up Black in S. Madison; and M. Kinney James, Madison’s first black woman police officer. The last three want mea culpas, on behalf of black people uprooted from Madison’s old Greenbush neighborhood.…
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No country for pompous blowhards
Do WI Democrats have a middle ground? Admitting that we admire former governor Scott Walker triggers indignant glossolalia among Madison’s progressive elect, which is why we sing his hosannas every chance we get. The former governor and author of Act 10, which reined in government employee unions (but not enough), has this to say about biased…
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Does Trump help or hurt Tiffany?
In November, when it counts! Wisconsin Republicans don’t have many friends in the news media aside from Jessica McBride at Wisconsin Right Now. The obstreperous journalist is no shill. She dares ask whether Tom Tiffany should share a stage with the President Friday 06-05-26 for June Dairy Month in beautiful Chippewa County. Like all good…
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When the news broke that the married Graham Platner was sexting with various women, feminist writer Jill Filipovic declared:
“The Graham Platner story is landing because it confirms a bunch of his critics’ prior concerns: unvetted, history of poor decision-making, the kind of light misogyny that tends to go along with male bad decision-making. Those are all problems! But it’s worth asking if they’re problems that should be disqualifying for a senate seat and I think the answer to that is no.” …
So, Platner’s “light misogyny” and “history of poor decision-making” have little bearing on his ability to do the job of being a senator. I don’t exactly know how to define the job of a senator, but I kind of feel like “decision-making” is part of it. — Jonah Goldberg, the Dispatch
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will America survive the murder of “60 Minutes”? … If they can eliminate in plain sight an institution as central to the survival of the republic as Mr. Pelley and his carefully chewed spectacles, surely no one is safe. …
First they came for the preening, powdered popinjays of television news, but I did not speak out because I am not a popinjay. — Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal