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‘Homeless’ schmomeless; Now they’re using children in their scam
Really? Are they really that gullible? I’m talking the majority of the Madison Common Council gnawing at their knuckles over the prospect of banning “the homeless” from busy street median strips. They’re not homeless. They’re scam artists guilt-tripping liberal white guilt of fools like Brenda Konkel and Marsha Rummel for dollars. The Common Council is scheduled to…
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Saluting Col. Tim Donovan
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,…
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Madison’s anti-Trump militants are ‘Beyond marching’
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…
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No work, no eat
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…
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Packers beat Falcons, go to Super Bowl
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…
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The science is settled, except when it isn’t
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…
Blaska Policy Werkes
NY Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at the dedication of the 9/11 police memorial: “Preserving that history means also preserving that moral clarity that the men who attacked this city were terrorists, the men and women who ran into that towers to save lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”
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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?