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Our Founder
and irascible head groundskeeper at the Policy Werkes is David Blaska, former has-been, 33-year card-carrying RINO, recovering know-it-all journalist. Holds the record for banishment on the NextDoor social media app. Aging gracelessly at Stately Blaska Manor on the SW side of Madison WI, the Emerald City.
My pronouns are “Sir” and “Your Lordship” but you dasn’t call me Late For Dinner.
→ “Why I’ll never vote for Trump again.” In Sunday’s 05-21-23 WI State Journal.
→ “Blaska & Me” by Dave Cieslewicz.
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“Get me on the stage and get your popcorn ready.” — Chris Christie
Don’t sell Chris Christie short
Peggy Noonan calls him “a wholly undervalued executive talent.”
“People forget what a good governor he was …. In eight years (2010-18) in deep blue New Jersey he capped property taxes, used the line-item veto to limit spending, increased school funding, got more charter schools, and got the state through the true disaster of superstorm Sandy.
“… He won public-employee pension reform … despite huge and intense public union opposition.”
And reformed Camden police: “Ten years later murder is down 63%, shootings down 68%, and robbery down 70%. No violence after George Floyd.”
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11 killed, 46 wounded Memorial Day in Chicago
Deadliest Memorial Day weekend there in eight years.
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It is to laugh
“The racist, insulting resurgence of work requirements.”
— Where else but in The Nation.
Tag Archives: News media bias
Progressives blamed the gun, now they blame the car
The mother of all SUVs! Defendants in criminal trials are permitted to offer alternative theories to the crime. Maybe the public defenders for Darrell Brooks will blame Elon Musk and his self-driving software for the carnage in Waukesha. For awhile, … Continue reading
Those ‘activist’ parents are getting help!
Where there’s smoke, there’s charcoal! Hope you are burning plenty of meat on the barbie this Labor Day. (Tell Greta to chill.) You have our permission to wash it down with a cold brew or two, guilt-free. Never mind what Obama … Continue reading
Pain at the gas pump? Time to ‘think differently about inflation’!
Bias in the news media, another in a series The news media is nothing if not clever. One of its tricks is to wrap its political biases in the guise of an objective report. The chosen expert, of course, is … Continue reading
What else can the news screw up?
Why Americans don’t trust the news media! Mark Twain once said if you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you DO read the newspapers, you are mis-informed. Anti-Trump New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the kind of news … Continue reading
The New ‘Woke’ Times
The NY Times let itself become hopelessly slanted. An excerpt from “Slanted: How the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson: There’s no more exemplary sign of the death-of-the-news-as-we-once-knew-it than the public unraveling of … Continue reading
Laptop? What laptop, lapdogs?
Must … get … Uncle Joe … across finish line! Out here in the Werkes’ new rural retreat, we’re catching up with the news from the years’ worth of weekly Shopper Stoppers faithfully delivered to this long-abandoned redoubt — many … Continue reading