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  • Old Joe Biden is finished

    Will other dominoes fall? What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Mr. Ecclesiastes got it wrong. What precedent is there for politics in America today? We are riding a fast-moving mudslide, sticky and unpredictable, destroying everything in its way, leading to…

  • Would Donald Trump accept Joe Manchin?

    Would the senator rather switch AND fight? Question of the day for the Werkes advisory (and unpaid) peanut gallery: should Joe Manchin switch parties? Come over to the dark side? Join the Republican party? Wouldn’t be the first. The last U.S. Senator to do so was Arlen Specter in 2009; he turned Democrat. Here in Wisconsin,…

  • Coming to a car dealership near you

    A progressive temper tantrum.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki is not the only one hacking up a fur ball this morning over Joe Manchin’s apostasy. (The Dispatch reports Manchin refused to take a call from the White House after dropping his bunker buster on Fox News Sunday.) Here’s a sampling of New York Times…

  • Manchin delivers lump of coal to Democrats

    What’s in YOUR stocking! Christmas has come early to America. Well, most of us, anyway. Joe Manchin  just dropped a load of West Virginia coal into progressive silk stockings. Sen. Manchin said Bah! Humbug! to Biden’s Build Back Better, the $1.75 trillion / $5 trillion Democrat(ic) party, kitchen-sink wish list. (“One more thing, Santa Baby: a…

  • The woke got their wake-up call

    The alarm bell tolls for thee!  The Great Awakening of America in the 1830s was a moral crusade that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. It was “inspired … by concepts of human betterment under God’s grace and His gift of free will. Out of this fresh religious doctrine … grew a movement that included the plea…

  • Free has never been more expensive

    It’s strictly politics, Sonny Joe Manchin, like Fredo’s younger brother, was proving tough in the negotiations over the $3.5 Trillion spending blowout. You can’t talk reason with the man! So Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, fired an op ed into Manchin’s hometown newspaper accusing the West Virginia Democrat of being the property of…