Category: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics
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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…
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No $$$ reward for failed school board
Speak out against pay grab! The tragedy of Madison’s public schools is that the minority-race students it valorizes are the ones who suffer most from its disempowering Woke racism. For its failures, the seven school board members are poised to reward itself with pay raises, health insurance, and out-of-town junkets. They meet tonight starting at…
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Woke is what broke Sun Prairie schools
Equity was embedded in all policies Your irascible host is a proud graduate of Sun Prairie Sr. High School, Class of 19xx … well, never mind. The farm village of our youth had a working blacksmith (he was village president) and a harness maker on Main Street. In the years since, the city has grown…