Blaska Policy Werkes

David Blaska, going out of his way to provoke progressives in Madison WI to make America safe for democracy!

Tag: gunfire

  • Free speech and gun rights will collide Tuesday on the UW-Madison campus

    UPDATE: Campus conservatives say UW stifling Right speech — again UPDATE #2: Two of the few conservative faculty step up. The University of Wisconsin’s commitment to the free exchange of ideas — you know, that “sifting and winnowing” thing — will be sorely tested next week Tuesday. In the shadow of the massacre by an apparent…

  • Madison alders feather their own nest but allow police to twist slowly …

    The Squire can countenance the name-calling that comes with being a Reagan-Tommy Thompson-Act 10-supporting conservative in The Emerald City. He will suffer the credulous whose answer to every ill is blame white privilege, take away the guns, and demand More Free Stuff. They are easily countered. But insults to his intelligence curdles his cream. So…

  • Shots fired; a report from the front lines of street crime and Madison politics

    Wednesday, September 6. Your Humble Squire came, he listened, he spoke, he went home and deadbolt-locked the doors. It was the first of two budget listening sessions scheduled by Madison alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, who operate as a duo. Kind of like Paul and Paula. The second budget session is scheduled from 10…

  • Let the police round-up begin!

    Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do When they come for you? Madison, be prepared to sing along as we welcome the blue surge. Police Chief Mike Koval announced today a round-up of up to 60 people “who have been identified and vetted as some of our most egregious offenders and gang…

  • Alder Rummel is ‘thinking deeply’ about gun violence

    Did we say the worm has turned? (Oh yes we did!) Madison alders and their enablers are turning away from harassing Police Chief Mike Koval, suspending the micro-managing and second-guessing of his sworn police officers, and toning down accusations of endemic police racism. Glory be to God, the Madison Common Council has begun thinking about…

  • From Ferguson to Madison: safe streets are a casualty of the War on Cops

    The War on Cops is real. The victims of this war are more black men slaughtered on the mean streets of America as police pull back, hunker down, drive on by. It’s called the Ferguson Effect and it is being felt today in Madison, Wisconsin, where bullets are flying and bodies falling at record pace.…