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John Koch, “The Reader” 1935

Tag: Zohran Mamdani

  • But baby it’s cold inside

    58 degrees F is the new 72° Have to confess, the indentured servants here at Stately Blaska Manor will be disappointed if we don’t get the six to ten inches of snow predicted overnight through Sunday 11-30-25. We’re demented that way. Would think that the threat (or promise?) of the first heavy snowfall of the…

  • Were Democrats blinded by the light?

    Mesmerized by the Marxist Mamdani mirage. Being tormented again today by gorgeous photographs of the Northern Lights populating our social media feed. Not from Norway or Nome but right here in Madison WI. Hellz bellz, they’re seeing them in Arizona! Once again Wednesday night 11-12-25 the Head Groundskeeper ventured out from the Stately Manor into…

  • Nothing is too big or small for progressives

    to put under government control. “Everybody in America knows our current health care system is broke, it is dysfunctional, it is cruel … by far the most expensive health care system in the world.”  Bernie Sanders said that. Them’s his own words, delivered on the floor of the Senate Monday 11-10-25. Fifteen years after a…

  • Learning all the wrong lessons

    in all the wrong places. Let’s not get carried away. Democrats won three Democrat strongholds Tuesday night 11-4-25: New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City. Let the church bells ring! The current Real Clear average of national polling still shows the party 26 percentage points under water — double the unfavorability of Republicans. Thanks to…

  • Democrats help socialists hijack Minneapolis

    They’re still fighting the cops! Democrats wandering the political wilderness are flirting with Havana-style extremism rather than meeting voters where they live — in the middle.  Looks like the victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York city’s Democrat(ic) primary three weeks ago was not a coastal one-off. Progressive desperation has migrated to the Midwest —…

  • More Free Stuff!

    Get someone else to pay for it! Our book club has chosen as its next read, Abundance, which argues that Democrats must become the party of economic growth and innovation if they want to restore their fortunes. But the Democrat(ic) party, wandering backstage like This Is Spinal Tap, retreats instead to the moldiest of its…