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David Blaska
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  • Madison WI is under siege

    This is what democracy socialism looks like! Social justice warriors have established their autonomous zone on Madison’s Willy Street, 10 blocks from the State Capitol. Barricaded with commandeered trash bins, pestilential mattresses, wood pallets, and iron pipes.  All to “honor” a career criminal named Corey Ruiz who stabbed police attempting to take him off the…

  • How a former police officer sees the Corey Ruiz case

    ‘Could have told you one day he would be killed by police.’ An account from former Madison police officer and security expert Adrian Alan: “The [police] officer involved [in the Corey Ruiz case] is someone I field trained many years ago. … He was solid back then and he is today. By all accounts and…

  • There will be blood

    Corey Ruiz is not the cause; he’s a means to an end. Our Platinum Subscribers know why Madison police, uniquely among large police agencies, are not equipped with body-worn cameras. “The Community,” as the chronically aggrieved describe themselves, does not want to see what the police officer sees on the job, is why. Because “The…

  • Francesca Hong: ‘This was an execution’

    In WI governor’s race, Defund Police is back in play. Here we go again. Another white cop, another dead black man. Cue The Resistance. How many days before a mural dedicated to the latest undeserving martyr is splattered on a Madison WI wall? How many more events disrupted like last night’s Concerts on the Square?…

  • WI governor’s race coming down to Hong vs Stop-Hong

    and Paul Fanlund v John Nichols. Like any public opinion poll, there’s enough wiggle room to satisfy Harry Truman’s two-handed economist* in the latest Marquette Law School poll released today. For one thing, it was conducted before Sara Rodriquez pulled out and David Crowley got back in, which limits its predictive value. Professor Charles Franklin’s…

  • Nine big problems for Democrats running for WI governor

    or as Sara Rodriguez would say, ‘3 or 67 problems — maybe 32!’ No matter who Democrats wind up nominating for governor, they’re already backed up against their own goal line against Republican Tom Tiffany. (If we can use an analogy from the real game of football. The one that has what we like to…