Category: Progressives
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Liberal Madison reporter commits journalism, gets played the race card
‘Seriously, block his ass!’ (That ass being the Squire’s) Isthmus reporter Dylan Brogan is a reliably liberal voice but he committed some journalism earlier this month and got played The Race Card for his efforts. The incident is a Little Red Book tutorial on how the Madison Left mau-maus members who deviate from the approved orthodoxy…
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When race is all you see, race is all you get
Using the ‘Prism of Equity’ we can see the Dane County Board is race cra-zee! The Derail the Jail crowd is not the only ones who can rhyme their doggerel. Justice is personified as a blindfolded lady holding a balance scale. But Dane County, like the Emerald City and other bastions of liberal-progressive-socialism, has removed…
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Madison’s Left wants to ‘Derail the Jail’
Part #3: Even though it would be a hospital in a jail Sheriff Dave Mahoney wants to rebuild the county jail to accommodate mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, and job skill training. At $76 million, a safer jail for both inmates and his deputies. More humane but less capacity — 9% fewer inmate beds.…
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The Capital Times: No sifting and winnowing for ‘extremists’
Predictably, for a newspaper whose editors promote the cult of Che Guevara and his Antifa descendants, The Capital Times gives a free hall pass to the speech disrupters. Confronted with silenced speakers here and across the nation, The University of Wisconsin Regents voted last week (more here) to penalize students who “materially and substantially disrupt…
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Caution: political agitprop in downtown Madison
It’s called “posing for holy pictures.” Feel-good government resolutions that condemn hate, plague, pestilence, and things that go bump in the night. Except that those Hallmark card resolutions tend to be tendentious mousetraps of selective outrage sprung for partisan purposes. At least, in Madison and Dane County. One such is County Board Resolution #195, written…
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The Squire takes a knee for racial e-qual-i-tee!
The Squire is taking a knee — not, like Colin Kaepernick, to protest police brutality toward black people — but to protest the NFL’s brutality toward football players. (Aaron Hernandez, any one?) And the Left’s brutality toward the black community. Police and prisons are how whitey has kept the black man in his place ever…