Category: Progressives

  • UW-Madison journalism prof is white and implicitly biased

    … and now explicitly biased! Sue Robinson is why Fake News. The University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor is why Sean Hannity and Donald Trump, Rachel Maddow and Bernie Sanders. To every excess there is an opposite and even crazier reaction. Professor Sue Robinson is proof of the postulate. The lady teaches the sneering Don Lemons of…

  • Dead bank robber is another victim with ‘unmet needs’

    Money is protected by force of arms; children are not The aborted bank robbery on Madison’s far east side is what separates our liberal-progressive-socialists acquaintances from the rest of us. Thursday’s was the fourth robbery in 14 months at the Chase branch bank on Milwaukee Street, located in a residential neighborhood. Following the one in…

  • ‘The Left doesn’t fight evil; it fights those who do’

    Must not allow victims to defend themselves A persistent Madison pest who infests my Facebook page insists that anyone who defends our schools from mass shooters be tested first for “implicit bias.” Along with rubella, most likely. Yeah, the pest just played the Race Card. As if the police officer assigned to the school or…

  • Madison school board gets an earful from La Follette High School parents & students

    Madison School District’s goal is not safety, it’s making the racial disparity numbers work While the Madison School Board considers expelling police from its four high schools, our classrooms are being disrupted in the name of racial equity. Large-scale student brawls disrupted all four high schools in the last two weeks, starting February 13, when…

  • Blame Big Gummint for the high cost of affordable housing

    It’s called ‘distorting the market’  If you think housing is expensive now, wait until the City makes it “affordable.” Remember Madison’s “inclusionary zoning” fiasco of a few years ago? Ald. Brenda Konkel concocted a city ordinance mandating that developers set rents on a portion of their new construction at below-market rates. Yes, even on lakefront…

  • Let’s experiment with public safety

    Do you feel like Madison is safer today than 10 years ago? Honey, I shrunk the jail What have we been saying? The Blaska Policy Werkes bucked the Derail the Jail crowd last fall to support a more humane Dane County jail, one that offered mental health and AODA treatment. But we argued that they weren’t…