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America spoke as one for awhile after 9/11
Back when Rudy Giuliani was a hero. We’re old enough to remember November 22, 1963 and it still brings a lump to our throat. Since that day in Dallas, only 9/11/01 ranks with that. Maybe Princess Diana’s death and the 01/07/21 storming of the Capitol. Charlie Kirk? At my desk in WI Revenue Building, I wrote…
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The Blaschurian candidate
Haven’t we tried enough progressivism? “I’ve heard rumors you are running for mayor,” Bonnie Roe told the proprietor of the Policy Werkes. (Bonnie, if you don’t know her, is a knowledgeable supporter of police in a town that needs more of them.) Not wanting to disillusion Ms. Roe, Blaska answered that he has heard the…
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Court issues restraining order against police monitor
Restrained 4 years for harassment A restraining order has been granted against Madison’s independent police monitor. Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke granted the restraining order this morning against Aeiramique Glass Blake at the request of a police officer who alleged harassment. The request for a restraining order was filed 08-31-26 by a female Madison police officer…
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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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Zohran Mamdani’s moral obscenity
“Hamas didn’t just kill its victims in pursuit of a strategic objective. It tormented and slaughtered them like an army of serial killers who delight in the suffering of their victims. Corpses of Israeli women were described by one coroner as “shot in the crotch, intimate parts, vagina, or were shot in the breast.” Others appeared to have been raped so violently that their pelvises were broken. Parents were killed in front of their children; children were murdered in their beds. …
“It is obscene because, whatever else you may think of the war in Gaza, on the eve of Oct. 7 the border of Israel and Gaza was governed by a cease-fire. It was Hamas that chose to kick off the violence, just as the Japanese did in 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor. …
“It is obscene because Hamas’s intentions toward Israel really are genocidal. ….
“Finally, it is obscene because Mamdani is the mayor for about one million Jewish New Yorkers … who deserve better on a day of grief than to be offered the equivalent of an “All Lives Matter” homily.” —Bret Stephens, NY Times
She had it coming?
After the President called Marjorie Taylor Greene a “traitor,” of the torrent of threats that followed, one stood out. It was aimed at her son.
Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks.
She got a five-word reply from President Trump: “Your fault, you deserve it.” — New York Times
“Could this be a wave that takes the House, or a tsunami that takes the Senate, or an asteroid that just cleans out the party?” asked Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump appointee. “We will see, but the polling and the feelings — nothing is good right now.” — Wall Street Journal 10-10-26
Today’s Laff Riot!
France insists that what is happening there these days is not a riot. The “Riot” appellation can only be used if it is from the Riot (“ree-OTE”) region. What is happening is properly called a sparkling social discontent.
Fox Sports analysts pick Dodgers to win Game 5.