Blaska Policy Werkes

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

Tag: John Doe

  • News media suppressed free speech in John Doe probe

    “A classic case of an imbalance of power” “In Wisconsin, the prosecutors had the [news] media in their pocket” The news media likes to portray itself as defenders of the little guy. But when it comes to citizen activists participating in our democracy the institutional news media sided with prosecutors because, one suspects, those citizen…

  • WI State Journal stands tall to defend its own free speech, falls short on everyone else’s

    Much whining over a little name calling and some bias shaming After posting his Fake News Awards last week, President Trump is accelerating his war on the news media, the Blaska Policy Werkes has learned. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing pre-dawn raids on news organizations the Trump Administration regards as partisan. Those include the…

  • Bruce Murphy is at it again: defending the speech police

    Milwaukee’s Bruce Murphy has committed some solid journalism. He broke the Milwaukee County pension scandal that helped elect reformer Scott Walker as county exec and, ultimately, governor of Wisconsin. Good liberal that he is, Bruce has been doing penance ever since. Bruce takes the side of unelected government commissars empowered to determine who can say…

  • Attorney General Schimel must resign over that footnote on page 39

    Receives coveted honor from Progressive mouthpiece The Nobel Peace Prize? Barack Obama got one roughly a week before he was sworn into office, if memory serves. The Pulitzer Prize? Walter Duranty of the New York Times won it for covering up Stalin’s forced starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Art Carney the best actor Oscar…

  • Journalists, pls defend political speech; I’ll help write the editorial

    [ UPDATE: State Journal editorial czar Scott Milfred responds: “Thanks, Dave. Our editorial board is still digesting the latest and lengthy John Doe doings, and may editorialize next week.” ] To: John Smalley, editor, and Scott Milfred, editorial page editor, Wisconsin State Journal To: George Stanley, editor, and David Haynes, editorial page editor, Milwaukee Journal…

  • Now will the State Journal and Journal Sentinel finally condemn the speech police?

    Vicki McKenna among those GAB spied on Thank the Good Lord for Brad Schimel, the first conservative state attorney general in long memory. Thank you the heavens above for the too few brave souls — Eric O’Keefe, the Wall Street Journal, Vicki McKenna (her interview with Schimel), and Matt Kittle (his report) among them — for…