Category: Progressives

  • ‘No surprise the school behavior plan failed’

    A young man reached out to the Policy Werkes to relate his involvement in crafting the Madison school district’s Behavioral Education Plan. He asked that his name not be published as he wishes to have a career someday in Madison. This is his story: As a Memorial high school student in the summer of 2015,…

  • Stu Levitan, you’re making me cry

    When the WI State Journal’s remarkable cartoonist, Phil Hands, draws the prototypical Madison liberal, it sure looks like Stu Levitan. Which is only fair because Stu IS the prototypical Madison liberal. A reliable Democrat, progressive propagandist, city government insider, and occasional candidate. He’s also abrasive, caustic and irascible. He makes Paul Soglin look like a…

  • Cursing in Madison schools: level 2, 3, or 4? — D*#*’d if we know!

    How many bottoms can little Johnny touch before he gets ‘restored’? Restorative justice.  Got to admit, it sounds good, doesn’t it? Kind of like “each according to his need.” “Social justice.” The Sacagawea dollar coin. ABC-TV cancelling Last Man Standing. Or at least, it did at the time. The Madison school board has doubled down on…

  • Chief Koval: No cops in Madison schools under those terms!

    Police Chief Mike Koval today says there is NO WAY he will agree to contract with the Madison school district after the school board tossed in yet another poison pill Monday night (12-17-18). Board of Education member T.J. Mertz added an amendment — agreed to by the other five voting members — that the school…

  • Official Madison’s war on diversity

    No thousand points of light here! One sees those “DIVERSITY” stickers on every other Prius bumper here in the Emerald City. But Madison is a community that demands rigid conformity to the approved liberal dogma. Stray off the plantation and fear the consequences. Fear being called a racist for running against an incumbent alderman, who is…

  • Give it to Freedom Inc., they never quit (and are never quiet)

    We’re proud to be sore losers The white lab coats here at the Policy Werkes, the indentured servants at the Manor, and the unlettered field hands toiling the frozen fields of the Experimental Farm (and Penal Colony) are normally more fractious than a university race- and gender-studies faculty meeting. But we agree on one thing.…