Category: George Floyd riots
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Confronting whiteness
Are you successful? Work hard? Sorry, but you may be white. It is a warning sign of how pathological the American left’s obsession with race has become. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (one of the Smithsonian museums!) issued a handy dandy chart (suitable for posting on the kitchen fridge) detailing that insidious…
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UW-Madison is training ‘co-conspirators’ to fight ‘white supremacy’
S.O.S. Tommy Thompson! If University of Wisconsin students are more ‘woke’ than the habitués of an all-night coffee house, it is because they have been trained in race warfare. It is not happenstance that State Street is boarded up from Bascom Hill to the State Capitol. Now UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is mandating “cultural competency”…
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Getting out of Madison’s occupied zone on the Harley D
Escape to Beautiful Logged 630 beau-ti-fic miles on the Harley Davidson Softail Slim over the weekend, guests of a hard-working farm couple at their lakeside getaway home. Seven couples in all. Our host reports the dairy economy on his farm is in excellent shape — something the news media is not mentioning. Good news rarely…
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Madison police brace for more cuts
More shootings, riots, looting? Would cutting the police help? The more cynical among the gray lab coats here at the Werkes suggest a civic improvement for our beloved Madison WI: receptacles for spent firearm shell casings. Now seen only at the better shooting ranges, they would be positioned on street corners where once the U.S. Postal…
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This hoax is for progressive folks
A sucker is born every minute The Werkes continues to marvel how my old boss at The Capital Times, editor emeritus Dave Zweifel, could have grown up on the farm (outside New Glarus WI) and gone so wrong. Dave still follows the progressive line long after the La Follettes left the parade grounds. He now…
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Quotes from the battlefront #2
Progressives say the darnedest things! A followup to Part #1 “Just give us some free food and beer and we can end this now. You don’t want 600 people to come here and destroy your business and burn it down. The cops are on our side. You notice that when you call them, nothing happens…