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The Trump resistance yearns for a post-democratic Leftist Caliphate
Random thoughts on the day after the day before. America loves pomp and circumstance almost as much as the British. We don’t have a monarch to carry us through changes in government so military bands, Stars and Stripes Forever, a hand on the Bible, the familiar oath, are touchstones of continuity. We need that. Our…
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When you can’t win elections you throw sand in the gears
On a recent must-catch podcast (Madison Talkers) Mitch Henck defended retired teachers union boss John Matthews, saying he did his job and was good at it. Your Humble Squire agreed. John Matthews did such a good job advocating for his dues-paying teachers that he can fairly lay claim to be co-author of Act 10. Wisconsin…
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Mark Pocan fights poor minority kids on behalf of the teachers unions
The nastiness isn’t over in Washington D.C. Smug liberals wore the white sheets of the Klan at the confirmation hearings of the nominee for attorney general — a man who prosecuted and got the death penalty for a Klan member. This week, the bloodlust of the liberal losers turns to Trump’s nominee for secretary of…
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‘Our system for prosecuting cops’ is required reading for Madison alders
Madison alderman — 19 of the 20, anyways — are busy investigating police, not fighting crime. • Those 19 city leaders raided the Emergency Snowplow Fund to spend $400,000 to investigate a police force nationally recognized as one of the most “progressive” in the nation. • Led by the far-Left Progressive Dane political party and Black Lives Matter, they…
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At long last, Sen. Corey Racebaiter, have you no sense of decency?
Satellite dishes here at the Policy Werkes are aimed at Washington D.C. for the (almost) gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Trump cabinet confirmation hearings, particularly Jeff Sessions for attorney general. Did the cable networks provide saturation coverage four years ago? Don’t remember it. Recalls the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings when a struggling new network, ABC, resorted to…
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Let’s get this press conference over with
Ruben, my loyal manservant, would you please get your nose out of the liquor cabinet and attend to the news reporters, camera people, and assorted visitors, dignitaries, and hangers-on waiting in the foyer! Tell them the press conference is about to begin. Are the Stately Manor collectibles properly arrayed on the table? We’ve got to move…