You return home and your house has been burglarized. The place has been ransacked, destroyed. Your valuables are gone. Worse, you wake up and there’s a burglar in the house. In Your Home! We can imagine but only those who have experienced it know the feeling of being violated. So there’s a fellow who has…

The Emerald City, my home these last and wonderful 25 years, is in the grip of a false secular religion: identity politics and the Cult of Victimhood. Adherents of this faith hold that there are too many black people in our jails and prisons. Never are these faith adherents troubled by the possibility that the…

Extra, extra, read all abouddit! First queer woman of color elected to Madison school board! That’s the pitch a good Madison liberal contributed to this morning’s (3-30-17) Wisconsin State Journal. “Ali Muldrow is a candidate for Madison school board who, if elected, would be the first queer woman of color in the board’s history,” his letter…

The Squire of the Stately Manor had just entered the elevator of the City-County Building when Sharon Irwin and Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores flew past on the way to Monday night’s (3-27-17) City of Madison Board of Estimates meeting. They were late. The two missed all the fun. The Board of Estimates (BOE) had just recommended (by…

Will the Madison Common Council continue its war on police or will it reimburse Police Chief Mike Koval for the $22,000 he expended out of his own pocket to defend himself against frivolous charges? We’ll get a hint today (03-27-17) from the council’s powerful Board of Estimates. A budget amendment co-sponsored by Ald. Paul Skidmore would recompense…