Category: cancel culture
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Where is the opinion page for Madison conservatives?
“You are welcome to my opinion.” — William F. Buckley Scrubbing the floors on hands and knees, the indentured servants here at Stately Blaska Manor sang “Praise the Lord” as we read them Friday’s editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal. Madison WI’s favorite morning daily newspaper has lobbed a juicy spitball at a worthy target:…
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Trump takes more lumps in Wisconsin nice
In Tuesday’s primary election. The Blaska Policy Werkes decision desk was right on the money predicting Tr•mp-endorsed election denier Janel Brandtjen would lose big to Speaker Robin Vos’s man for state senate in suburban Milwaukee. We had it at Dan Knodl 60%, Brandtjen 30%, Van Mobley 10%. Final score was 57% to 28% to 15%. Must…
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Are you offended?
Better yet, have you offended? Remember Piss Christ, the object d’ art of a crucifix dipped in a jar of urine 35 years ago? How the rubes and Babbits howled! The chattering classes scolded: Isn’t art supposed to discomfit the comfortable? Except that “artist” used taxpayer money to finance his offensive speech. By contrast, the Stockholm firebug…
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Trust, but verify
You got to hand it to Madison’s bleeding hearts! (And if you don’t, they will trash you.) A trusting, loving bunch eager as beagles to slobber empathy all over the floor. That is what we love about Madison WI progressives, we really do. Willing to help even upon hearing a trivial tale of victimhood too…
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Court must take a hammer to racial preferences
John Patrick Hunter was a West Virginia native who took Bill Proxmire’s place as a reporter for The Capital Times here in Madison WI. On July 4, 1951, the young reporter circulated a petition on Madison’s Capitol Square — a word-for-word reprint of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Only one citizen of the…
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What is freedom of speech?
So much for ‘Sifting and Winnowing’ Nowhere is Freedom of Speech in greater danger — outside of North Korea, Iran, and Putin’s World — than an American university campus. Nowhere are their more intellectual cowards than the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin. Home of Cancel Culture. Channel 3000 is reporting that “Multiple landmarks…