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Boiling 13 ways to deter police shootings down to one
Are we clear? Featured on the front page of the opinion section of Madison’s favorite Sunday newspaper, Gerald and Merle Sternberg put a lot of thought into devising “13 ways to deter police shootings” in the wake of Corey Ruiz’ shooting death. Too much thought. The Sternbergs’ third point suggests the tone: 3) If use…
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Expel Madison schools’ Behavior Education Plan
Start over with a clean sheet. Blaska said it in 2019 when we ran for Madison school board. The district’s Behavior Education Plan — then in its fifth year — wasn’t working. Would they listen? No-OOOO! Surprise surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. The Behavior Education Plan (BEP) STILL isn’t working! Its failure is…
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Tom Tiffany should put the rock back on campus
And absolve Chamberlin Rock of racism! Whaddaya think of this idea: A TV spot that will put Tom Tiffany over the top in November (pending midnight thumb drives in Milwaukee)! Spot opens with my man standing next to the Chamberlin Rock, more massive than the Deep State conspiracy. “Hi, I’m Tom Tiffany. I promise…
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Kaleem Caire is running for mayor of Madison
It’s already a crowded field! “I’m running!” educator Kaleem Caire told The Werkes. “Will announce on September 15 and am inviting everyone who wants to be there for it. … It’s time!” Kaleem founded One City Schools in 2014 as an independent school chartered by the University of Wisconsin Office of Educational Opportunity after the…
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Madison ain’t seen nothing yet!
“History has shown what that can be.” — Madison’s mayor. At some point, the WI Division of Criminal Investigation will release its report on the shooting death of a black man, Corey Ruiz, by a white Madison police officer. Could be today, could be later this year. This state agency will have had weeks to…
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After 9/11
The urge to blame America and stop it from responding began immediately.
In the years after 9/11, blaming America for the activities of Islamic terrorists became a mania among left-tilting scribblers the world over. When they couldn’t reasonably attach culpability to America—because the attack happened in France or Spain, which consistently oppose U.S. interventions—the enlightened blamed America’s stand-in, Israel. Somehow the jihadists always lacked agency. …
The war on terror launched in the days afterward involved innumerable blunders and still invites derision from the globe’s expert class. But a quarter-century later, the country hasn’t sustained another strike of similar proportions, and the terror networks that once produced fighters by the thousand have had their leaders killed, their money frozen and their recruits severely pruned.
America wouldn’t, and couldn’t, consent to live with the madmen. — Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
Political stupidity
Another election season is upon us. … One party is hoisting monuments to a fading 80-year-old president who hasn’t done much except get America stuck in another Middle East war while attacking the nice Canadians to our north with irrational tariffs and weird hockey memes. The other is making sweeping promises to do something about the “cost-of-living crisis” through massive government spending and price caps with scant reflection on why they didn’t address the high cost of living just a few short years ago when they had control of government. — John Halpin, “The emptiness of contemporary politics”
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will Trump’s Canada geese become Donald Ducks?