Category: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics
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Sierra Club goes Woke, goes broke
Not content with fighting coal, it took on cops and Israel. It is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an organization and to a society that goes Woke. Not content with being green, the Sierra Club embraced “social justice” and proceeded to devour itself in backbiting, blame-gaming, and inquisitions. Membership in the environmental…
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Madison’s public schools are progressive
expensive and disappointing. Everything progressives believe about K-12 education is wrong. It’s minority students who suffer most. So says The Atlantic magazine — hardly a MAGA outlet. “America is Sliding Toward Illiteracy,” its headline warns. “Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.” Bad enough State schools superintendent Jill Underly cooked the books to…
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Brave voices are stirring
But courage is needed. It is only a small generalization to say that elected government in Madison and surrounding Dane County wallows in guilt, apologizes for success, cultivates grievance, and celebrates victimhood. Now Mayor Satya wants to fly the Ho Chunk flag at city hall at equal height with the U.S. flag. The stolen land…
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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It won’t sell in Rockford
How Democrats lost the working class. The party of More Free Stuff may have shut down the federal government but Blaska’s Policy Werkes will soldier on even if, like those generals summoned to the Hegseth/Trump endurance test, we sit on our hands, stone-faced and cold sober. Paul Fanlund visited his hometown of Rockford IL so…
