Category: Ukraine
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Would this stop the killing and destruction in Ukraine?
Is it time to throw long instead of bleeding money for more of the same? The only thing more presumptuous than an armchair quarterback is a desktop general blogging from the safety of the Emerald City in wintry Wisconsin USA. But does that stop the Squire of Stately Blaska Manor? Hell no! Volodymyr Zelensky’s well…
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Peace means protecting freedoms
Not the absence of war! Happened to catch on C-Span a 1987 speech in Berlin from our greatest President of the last 60 years, Ronald Reagan. No, it wasn’t his “Tear Down This Wall” speech. The occasion was the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city. Two years later, the Berlin Wall would come…
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Mark Pocan, Gwen Moore demand Biden negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine!
Letter pulled after mainstream Democrats howl their disapproval Thirty members of the House progressive caucus today backtracked faster than Britain’s Liz Truss after releasing a letter urging President Biden to beg Vladimir Putin for a negotiated settlement in his war against Ukraine. Those Democrats include Wisconsin’s Mark Pocan, representing the Madison-based Second District, and Gwen…
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Stealth candidates got stealth votes 
Fly under the radar in Ukraine, not Dane County! Catching up with our jeremiad posted before the election on April 5. We excoriated seven candidates for Dane County Board who blew off the WI State Journal and the League of Women Voters with “No Response.” Both venues asked softball questions and promised to print verbatim…
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Unconditional surrender would be a good start
Hand over Putin and the dog doesn’t get hurt! Joe Biden was right. Yes to regime change. Walk away from the peace talks. Use Ronald Reagan’s playbook: “My strategy? We win; they lose.” Vladimir Putin must go, Russia must vacate and pay reparations. The WW2 Allies at Casablanca insisted on unconditional surrender. It is a matter of…
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Speaking of snow flakes …
No micro-aggression too trivial! We forget name of the philosopher who updated the biblical injunction: “Wherever two or three feminists gather, there shall be a TV crew in their midst.” Cry Racism and get the same 15 minutes of sacred victimhood. The venerable Toni Galli reports at WKOW-TV27 the latest evidence of Jim Crow Madison: “A…