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All 9 Dem governor candidates are Hong lite
They just don’t curse as much. Despite the best efforts of John Nichols to mainstream and Main Street his fellow/sister socialist Francesca Hong, voters in rural Lafayette County — “about as far as you can get from the urban centers and college campuses” — are not fretting over “the fate of Palestinians in Gaza,” as…
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What do birds know?
about fairness? Even Blaska gets fed up with politics, as we’re guessing Sen. John Cornyn is feeling right about now in Texas. He’s like the guy who didn’t applaud Kim Jong Un with enough enthusiasm. Gone. We say again, there is nothing fair about politics. A good conservative who played by the rules goes down…
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Memorial Day is for thanking
Better late than never. Like probably every son who ever lived, Blaska wishes he had told his old man that he didn’t do such a bad job after all (although some may differ). We knew he was on his way out but he never complained except to say, “Nothing seems to be working right.” My…
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Sorry, Mr. President; you can’t do that
Standing up to Trump for the party’s sake. A growing number of Republicans are learning that their party has to rise above Donald Trump if they want to defeat socialism. They’ve come to understand that voters have an innate sense of fairness. They sense that the oligarch’s retribution and self-aggrandizement have worn thin this election…
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Flush with cash, Madison schools hand out more free stuff
courtesy of us taxpayers. Blaska is back in kvetch mode today. Madison public schools will do it every time. The district is giving away more free stuff to its employees: 12 weeks — 60 days worth — of taxpayer paid parental leave for every teacher, custodian, lunch lady, and bureaucrat. Price tag: $1.2 million/year. No…