Category: Cops in schools

  • We need more guns in schools & churches

    after the most-recent slaughter in a ‘gun-free’ zone! The signs aren’t working, people! The ones that prohibit firearms. Crazy people intent on death — others and their own — don’t obey no stinkin’ signs. We’ve been saying that for years. Three years ago we wrote, “Our schools are unarmed and dangerous.” It is gratifying to…

  • Madison WI progressives are the ‘uniparty’

    Republicans fear entering ‘the political scrum’ Questions we never expected to see asked in The Capital Times: “Progressives have full control of the city and its schools. Is it for the better?” Figures that it is a freelance journalist, not a CT staffer, posing the question — Marc Eisen, formerly editor of Isthmus. Mr. Eisen…

  • Stop trying to restore order!

    Progressive D.A.’s prosecute the darnedest people! Aside from the President of the United States, do any public officials have more life-changing discretion than your local district attorney? Dane County D.A. Ismael Ozanne has chosen to prosecute for felony child abuse one Corey Saffold, who happens to be the high school director of crisis management (don’t…

  • Fathers! Inspect your kids’ back packs!

    and demand La Follette high school ‘security staff’ be terminated! Your correspondent was carrying a little baby we named Max out of what was then Elmbrook Hospital in Brookfield WI many calendars ago. The newly minted father — only a decade or so removed from childhood himself — half expected a tap on the shoulder.…

  • Failure ain’t cheap

    But progressives want to double down on more of the same! One might think that a poolside party atop the almost brand new, aptly named Lux apartment high rise on a warm evening in June might — as the guilt-ridden do gooders like to say — “build community.” Instead, 12 young people ranging in age…

  • Is Madison willing to pay for a sales tax at the price a Republican legislature will charge?

    Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don’t take it all‘Cause I’m the taxmanYeah, I’m the taxman — G. Harrison, The Beatles How serious is Madison city government about balancing its budget? Rather than address the over-spending that created its $27 million structural deficit, alders are chasing a rainbow-colored unicorn — a city sales…