Category: Election 2022

  • Dane County Republicans repudiate stolen election nonsense

    Don’t want to re-litigate his 2020 defeat Your irascible bloggeur is an “out” Republican. (We’ve told the family. They’re very understanding.) Freed from the strictures of objectivity during our years as an ink-stained wretch at The Capital Times, Blaska paid his dues 30 years ago and recited the secret blood oath amid sputtering candles and…

  • Stop using Covid as a cover for school dysfunction

    Students can’t learn if they don’t feel safe! One conclusion from the first debate among candidates for Madison school board: Stop blaming COVID for our failing schools and own up to what we’ve done to our kids. Covid was the cover story school board president Ali Muldrow spun for the on-going chaos in Madison’s classrooms. (Another…

  • Blaska goes out of his way to provoke change

    in Madison’s public schools! David Blaska is running for Madison school board after all. No, his name won’t be on the ballot because he is a write-in for Seat #4. That’s the one occupied by school board president Ali Muldrow. We were opponents three years ago and Ali (truly a lovely young lady in many ways)…

  • Newspaper demonizes parents running for school board

    They might be Republicans! News bias alert: if someone is “railing against” something, it’s a conservative opposing the progressive agenda. Democrats criticize, Republicans rail. A Sunday “news story” uses the term to pillory parents concerned about the direction of their schools. Finally, conservative parents are engaged as they are enraged! They’re running for school board! Maybe not in…

  • How hard-core Left can Madison go?

    ‘Her name was Magill and she called herself Lil [but] everyone knew her as Nancy.’ The Werkes revises and extends its remarks on the nuthouse called the Madison school board — but we do not yield our time. We did not give What’s-Their-Pronouns their full due in the last thrilling episode. We’re talking about school board…

  • Do American elections need UN observers?

    Someone hacked this blogge! Who says bi-partisanship is dead? America has now achieved bi-partisan agreement that our elections are as crooked as one of those carrots in the TV drug commercials for Peyronie’s disease. (Poor Peyronie, we knew him well.) As he proved in Arizona last week, #45 continues to pack ‘em in, thereby proving P.T.…