Tag: Scott Walker

  • Democrats should blame Mark Pocan, not the Koch Brothers

    In Wisconsin’s fall they’ve sinned all. If our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances ever overcome their obsession with convuluted conspiracy theories they might actually get somewhere at the ballot box. Which is unlikely, now that the Madison Common Council has banned conversion therapy. Our acquaintances are all a-twitter over a new book titled “The Fall of Wisconsin: “The…

  • Bernie Sanders, clouds, and the lost dogs of Madison

    The Squire feels like going feral The Squire used to believe that when one died, God (or one of his representatives) would whisper a short sentence into your ear that would explain the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of life. It would be so head-smackingly simple that you would wonder why it had…

  • Madison school board poised to boot cops out of schools

    Schools plagued by violence? Blame the police ‘Hard to believe!’ Study the wrong thing, get the wrong result. A School Board committee is poised to recommend getting police — aka “educational resource officers (EROs)” — out of Madison’s troubled public high schools. The chairman of the committee, Dean Loumos, says “I do not see the…

  • About that Blue Wave: Not so fast!

    Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover? All we know here at the Stately Manor is what we read in the Boys Weekly Reader, delivered to our marbled doorstep in a plain brown wrapper. But results from Tuesday’s primary elections across the country (but not here in Wisconsin) would seem…

  • Help, Wisconsin has fallen and Democrats are desperate

    More ‘sky is falling’ hyperbole from inside the Madison bubble One of these days, Paul Fanlund will encounter a real live conservative instead of getting his morning cup of joe filtered through some sociology panel at RadFest.  Perhaps the Capital Times editor, hopelessly lost somewhere outside Dane County, will take a stool next to that over-the-road…

  • Scott Walker, time to take over Milwaukee public schools

    Send in the National Guard; Milwaukee schools are a disaster The unemployment number for the month of April is out and it is an astoundingly low, can-you-believe it 2.8%. This is in territory called “full employment,” people.  Democrats are no longer taunting “Where are the jobs?” Instead, they are reduced to trotting out the occasional…