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When you can’t win elections you do a One Scot Ross
Once again, the white lab coats here at Blaska Policy Werkes (and Tanning Salon) derive inspiration from one of the great political movies of all time, Animal House. Expelled from school, their fraternity charter revoked, Otter — himself battered and bruised — proposes one last desperate recourse: “I think that this situation absolutely requires a…
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Attention burglars (and liberals): leniency could be fatal
The narrative that gets all the news media attention, the story that Madison alders subscribe to, the article of faith among our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances is this: the criminal justice system is more draconian than Les Miserables. Prosecutors and judges are eager to fill our jails and prisons with the victims of economic injustice, or so…
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Psst! (Did you know that Hillary was female? Pass it on)
The curse of identity politics that has consumed and devoured the Democrat(ic) party is sanctioned by none other than its most recent standard bearer. Hillary Clinton’s rationale was always thin gruel — it was her turn as a woman. A compromised, ethically challenged, spinning weather vane of a candidate. An under-investigation by the FBI candidate. But her…
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Getting Linda Cross-wise with the Super of Education
Memo to Linda Cross: A good conservative Republican, name of Scott Walker, has been governor of the State of Wisconsin since January 2011. Here we are, seven years in, and the statewide school chief is a liberal Democrat. The state superintendent of public instruction is ALWAYS a liberal Democrat no matter who is governor. A liberal…
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A tough election night in Madison
A tough night at the Stately Manor. Our candidates lost all across the board. Bob Dylan sang that the times, they are a’changing. But in Orchard Ridge’s case, it is the neighborhood that is a’changing. In driveways on my street and the next one over moving pods await, one of those residences took my candidate’s yard…
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Forget about crime, the issue in SW Madison is low-cost internet!
It was said that if you crossed Lyndon Baines Johnson you lay awake nights fearing your barn would burn down. Back in August, the Wisconsin State Journal (my favorite local morning read) published a strong editorial supporting the mayor’s “effort to stop young drifters from distracting drivers who should be watching the road.” The ban on…