Blaska Policy Werkes

I had worked with Lt. Col. Tim Donovan while writing speeches for Gov. Tommy Thompson in 1998. Thank God for Colonel Tim, I didn’t have to write TGT’s military speeches. Tim was the master. Tim Donovan was an excellent writer and a stand-up guy. He coordinated several of the gubernatorial swearing-in ceremonies. Always friendly colleagues, we became friends only within the past 12 months when he agreed to join our monthly burger lunches. This summer, he took us out aboard his spacious deck boat for a cruise across Lake Mendota. He begged off October’s hamburger lunch at the Oakcrest…

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Madison police, Dane County Sheriff’s Department, UW and Capitol Police — red alert. Be prepared to cancel leave at a moment’s notice. The Donald Trump resistance is going to get ugly. Madison’s radical left is “Moving beyond marching,” according to its mouthpiece, The Capital Times.  It is a timely article, given the 75,000 who marched Saturday in Madison against the Trump regime and the 2.5 million said to have done so in Washington D.C. and in cities around the country. Well written and deeply sourced. “Beyond Marching” serves unmistakable notice — No More Mr. Nice guy for Madison’s Radical Left.…

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It is good to see Tommy Thompson on stage again, as he was Monday with Gov. Walker to roll out a new welfare reform. The two governors propose that food stamp recipients must work at least 80 hours a month. Works for me. Government welfare payments to able-bodied adults has corroded generations, turning independent citizens into government dependents. It’s the bitter fruit of the Cult of Victimhood, wherein our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances convince various populations that they cannot survive without the beneficent ministrations of Big Gummint. Now you owe us your votes, dammit. You will hear the squealing from the…

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The indentured servants here at the Manor are in a funk today. Had to brew my own coffee. The unlettered field hands are making menacing motions with their pitchforks. Ol’ Sparky, the Eisenhower-era mainframe, isn’t sparking. The machine had, after all, predicted a Packer victory Sunday. Ergo, the results you thought you saw on the TV or read in the morning paper cannot be true. The white lab coats here at the Policy Werkes refuse to accept the results of the NFC championship game. Clearly, the Russians have twiddled with the scoreboard. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman showed their…

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Enjoy debating issues and ideas so much that it has to be my favorite recreation. So I was surprised when former mayor Dave Cieslewicz unleashed a short string of profanities last week when Your Squire expressed agnosticism on the human contribution to “global climate change.” Fortunately, Mitch Henck’s show is now exclusively on-line so it faced no retribution from Barack Obama’s FCC. (Find it here.) The science is settled, said Citizen Dave. I riposted that science is never settled. • Neanderthals were brutish, ape-like hominids. Oops! Turns out they were about as intelligent as homo sapiens, just never achieved…

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Random thoughts on the day after the day before. America loves pomp and circumstance almost as much as the British. We don’t have a monarch to carry us through changes in government so military bands, Stars and Stripes Forever, a hand on the Bible, the familiar oath, are touchstones of continuity. We need that. Our Presidents walk part of the parade route even if only for a few steps, post 9/11 and November 22. A good president recognizes optics. A presidents’ words must have music (to paraphrase Reagan). Speaking of continuity, major kudos to Hillary and Bill Clinton for…

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