Category: Kids gone wild
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Bringing a gun to a knife fight
Not so sweet 16 About that 16-year-old girl named Ma’Khia who tried to stab to death another black teenage girl in Columbus OH Tuesday 04-20-21. Ah, the good ol’ days. Philip Klein in National Review remembers how he spent his benighted childhood: Fridays were idyllic: We’d play some football, try a little Super Mario Bros, have…
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Spend that Biden stimulus money on saving Madison’s gang bangers
The infrastructure we really need It is a beautiful Easter Sunday this April 4th, temperatures in the 70°s F a second straight day. But one wonders if, along with the crocuses, those pop-up memorials to the dead will sprout on utility posts to memorialize young men shot in the line of gang warfare. Usually with…
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Get your mind right at Madison public schools
Deep mindsets wanted! Two years of intimidation worked when Madison city and school officials last year (2020) expelled police from its four main public high schools. A good, progressive F-bombing of school board president Gloria Reyes at her private residence did the trick (recounted here). The Madison school board then did its own take on…
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Hoist the white flag over Madison schools
Did you screw up? Blame the pandemic! It’s the all-purpose scapegoat. Some blame coronavirus for the insurrection at the nation’s Capitol 01-06-21. Madison’s school board president blames the Wuhan woo woo for the “dearth of candidates” running in this spring’s school board election. (Story here.) Blaska Policy Werkes blames the school board president, Gloria Reyes.…
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The Tragedy of Black education
This article by Walter Williams in the Daily Signal is dated 12-02-20, the day professor Williams died after teaching a class at George Mason University. In 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math. In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading. Despite these academic…
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Another gang war shoot-out on Schroeder Road
More blood and bullets at site of previous whacking Do Black Lives really Matter? From the Madison Police blotter: On August 24, 2020 at 5:34 pm several callers to Dane County Communications Center reported five younger Black males with guns and then numerous sequences of gunshots (15-20) being fired in the 5900 block of Schroeder Rd.,…