Really? Are they really that gullible? I’m talking the majority of the Madison Common Council gnawing at their knuckles over the prospect of banning “the homeless” from busy street median strips. They’re not homeless. They’re scam artists guilt-tripping liberal white guilt of fools like Brenda Konkel and Marsha Rummel for dollars. The Common Council is scheduled to…

I had worked with Lt. Col. Tim Donovan while writing speeches for Gov. Tommy Thompson in 1998. Thank God for Colonel Tim, I didn’t have to write TGT’s military speeches. Tim was the master. Tim Donovan was an excellent writer and a stand-up guy. He coordinated several of the gubernatorial swearing-in ceremonies. Always friendly colleagues,…

Madison police, Dane County Sheriff’s Department, UW and Capitol Police — red alert. Be prepared to cancel leave at a moment’s notice. The Donald Trump resistance is going to get ugly. Madison’s radical left is “Moving beyond marching,” according to its mouthpiece, The Capital Times.  It is a timely article, given the 75,000 who marched…

It is good to see Tommy Thompson on stage again, as he was Monday with Gov. Walker to roll out a new welfare reform. The two governors propose that food stamp recipients must work at least 80 hours a month. Works for me. Government welfare payments to able-bodied adults has corroded generations, turning independent citizens…

The indentured servants here at the Manor are in a funk today. Had to brew my own coffee. The unlettered field hands are making menacing motions with their pitchforks. Ol’ Sparky, the Eisenhower-era mainframe, isn’t sparking. The machine had, after all, predicted a Packer victory Sunday. Ergo, the results you thought you saw on the…

Enjoy debating issues and ideas so much that it has to be my favorite recreation. So I was surprised when former mayor Dave Cieslewicz unleashed a short string of profanities last week when Your Squire expressed agnosticism on the human contribution to “global climate change.” Fortunately, Mitch Henck’s show is now exclusively on-line so it…