Tag: John Nichols
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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…
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Arrest the social justice brownshirts
“This is what democracy looks like,” the Derail the Jail mob chanted Monday night as they disrupted a scheduled meeting of the Dane County Board of Supervisors. No, this is what the Bolshevik putsch 100 years ago looked like. This is what Mao’s Cultural Revolution looked like. This is what brownshirts do in banana republics.…
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Lipstick on a pig or putting a hard hat on a socialist
Blaska is in Beast Mode With all the attention given apostate Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, Republican dissension is more about Trump’s style (count me in) than substance. If Trump could just stop the schoolyard name calling, his presidency would be much more successful. Our Democrat(ic) acquaintances, on the other hand, face an existential…
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The Capital Times: No sifting and winnowing for ‘extremists’
Predictably, for a newspaper whose editors promote the cult of Che Guevara and his Antifa descendants, The Capital Times gives a free hall pass to the speech disrupters. Confronted with silenced speakers here and across the nation, The University of Wisconsin Regents voted last week (more here) to penalize students who “materially and substantially disrupt…
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Two monuments defaced in Madison: one gets big media play, the vandalism to the police memorial, not so much
False flag operation? A reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio reached out Wednesday (9-20-17) to the Blaska Policy Werkes for a statement on the vandalism done to the Voluntarios Internacionales monument in James Madison Park. The reporter noted that just one month earlier, the Werkes had called for the removal of this monument to Communism, for…
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‘Real action’ is removing statues instead of improving schools or saving black lives
Symbols are important. Symbols communicate more viscerally than words. Think of the Statue of Liberty, the Arc de Triomphe, the Vietnam Wall, or the crucifix. At the other end of the ledger, Lenin’s Tomb, the swastika, and, yes, a triumphant Confederate general astride a prancing horse. If Madison had a symbol, it would have to…