Category: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics
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Can’t the social justice people just get along?
The bureaucracy from hell! Whether people drawn to that line of work are litigious by nature or they just identify as chronic victims, we don’t know. Probably a case of being both a breath mint and a floor wax. But Norman Davis, the director of the City of Madison Department of Civil Rights, twists slowly…
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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…
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Conservatism ain’t dumb
It’s smart and wants respect! Always thought David Brooks was the kind of pundit that only the New York Times would think conservative. The kind of squish allowed on PBS, which Trump wants to defund for its rampant partisan bias. In any event, Our Mr. Brooks is up with an essay — in Mike Waltz’s…
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Waste, fraud & abuse in local gummint?
If it’s Woke, look the other way! Elon Musk may be brandishing a chain saw like Leatherface, Madison may pour out by the thousands to protest (as they did Saturday 04-12-25), but it’s amazing what a little poke under the hood can reveal. Republicans forced an audit on the University of Wisconsin’s $21.8 million diversity,…
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Quit with the same old same old
Tuesday’s election is another change election! Attention authors! News outlets are hungry for your prescriptions of what Democrats can do to emerge from the political wilderness. Use your imagination! The New York Times editorial board this Sunday says (here Blaska cuts to the chase) Democrats should quit reading the New York Times.
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Now Democrats don’t talk so loud
… pro-crime, anti-school reform, pro-DEI, anti-Voter I.D.! (But show I.D. for admission to their own events) Madison’s bubble boy never met a conservative he’s never met. The publisher of The Capital Times trashes Republicans for doing what a good newspaper should do, which is to hold the powerful accountable. Who wields more power in Madison…