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Tag: Emily Mills

  • Is Kavanaugh hearing being held in Madison?

    About the Brewers’ 4-3 win over the Cubs Monday, Labor Day: Did you ever think a fielder’s choice could be so exciting? The opening to the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing this morning was a circus. One friendly viewer asked if the hearing was being held in Madison, so chaotic was the proceeding. Screechers disrupted the…

  • Madison’s Left needs enemies to explain its failures

    The Left needs enemies to explain its failures.  When Stalin’s latest five-year plan failed, as inevitably it would, he rounded up the usual suspects for show trials. The Kulaks (wealthy peasants) were rounded up beginning in 1929. Millions of Ukrainians were starved to death in 1932-3, suspected Trotskyites met their doom in 1936-8 and, finally,…

  • Sun Prairie volunteers are what make a community

    “The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. From what I remember of my grandfather J.M., he was pretty irascible, strange as that may seem. So it is believable that, some time in the late 1920s, working in his…

  • Danger: white men voting!

    ‘Hey white boy, what you doin’ uptown?’ — Lou Reed The social justice night riders are out, baying for the blood of white men — all complicit in the election of Donald Trump. When identity politics is all you’ve got, race and gender is all you see. Thus does Your Progressive Voice team up with…

  • ‘You can’t ask … decent citizens who want to maintain the safety and dignity of their neighborhood to carry the load’

    But first: Random thoughts on a No Packers Sunday, the first day of frost, Fall 2017. Not sure I’d watch if there was a game. Not because of kneeling but because of no Aaron Rodgers. Quotes of the Week “All I had to do was catch it and run forward.” — 300-pound Badger offensive left…

  • Liberal Madison reporter commits journalism, gets played the race card

    ‘Seriously, block his ass!’ (That ass being the Squire’s) Isthmus reporter Dylan Brogan is a reliably liberal voice but he committed some journalism earlier this month and got played The Race Card for his efforts. The incident is a Little Red Book tutorial on how the Madison Left mau-maus members who deviate from the approved orthodoxy…