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More Free Stuff!
Get someone else to pay for it! Our book club has chosen as its next read, Abundance, which argues that Democrats must become the party of economic growth and innovation if they want to restore their fortunes. But the Democrat(ic) party, wandering backstage like This Is Spinal Tap, retreats instead to the moldiest of its oldies: socialism. Zohran Mamdani is the party’s latest teenaged heart throb, succeeding the likes of Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams — the Bobby Shermans of the progressive party. We can hear the bubblegum snapping. Creating abundance, it would seem, requires too much music. To…
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CNN obliterates its credibility
Who says? Sources say! Has a single word ever been sliced, diced, and parsed more obsessively than Donald Trump’s announcement that Iran’s nuclear weapons program has been “obliterated”? The hated Trump had struck the most decisive blow against nuclear proliferation in history — and against a predator nation. Made Democrats look feckless. The precision bombing was a sit-up and take-notice triumph of technology, human skill, and resolve as compared with Jimmy Carter’s disaster in the desert, Barack Obama’s disappearing red lines, Biden’s shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Must do partisan damage control. Iran’s nukes weren’t “obliterated.” They’ll be back at…
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Something crazy this way comes
Trump can win on his own but thanks, Democrats, for helping! Try this theory on for size: Donald Trump has driven Democrats so crazy that the party of the coastal elite, still tethered to identity politics, has chosen to refine its political plutonium to weapons grade rather than use it for peace and meet middle America halfway. Instead of returning to the party of JFK and (oh, let’s say) Dick Gephardt (tribune of real working people), they’re doubling down with A.O.C., David Hogg, and now, for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. The socialist immigrant who bashes cops and…
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Healthy soil, healthy folks?
Well the man IS a vigorous 80! Few personalities have been more consequential and just damned interesting than Jonathan Barry. Former Dane County executive, state legislator, UW Regent, deputy secretary at Workforce Development, business exec in the private sector, candidate for governor, and Democrat turned Republican. That’s only a partial list. Probably his most enduring claim to fame is helping found Madison’s farmers market 51 years ago, after he parked his farm produce truck on State Street and the City kept ticketing it. The Saturday market on the Square is now as much part of the city’s culture as…
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Stones of steel — bringing the hammer down at midnight!
FA&FO! Donald Trump met the moment! Not that the world awaits the seat-of-the-pants reaction of a retiree blogging from Madison WI but here goes just the same: What a contrast is Donald Trump from dithering old Sleepy Joe! The previous occupant cut and ran from Afghanistan with local allies hanging in desperation onto the landing gear of aircraft lifting off from Bagram AFB. Wouldn’t that air force base have been useful when Donald Trump unleashed his unholy hell on Iran’s nuclear sites Saturday 06-21-25? What a contrast is this President from Barack Obama who tried to buy peace with…
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About those No Kings rallies
“Feelings are increasingly treated not as signals to examine but as conclusions to affirm.” — psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, “Politics as bad group therapy”
Today’s Laff Riot!
“Media: No motive yet In attack on Jewish synagogue by radical Muslim.” — Babylon Bee