Tag: The Capital Times
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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…
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Liberal news media seeks the elusive Trump voter in dive bars
Professional journalists’ lack of credibility gave rise to “alt media” Say this for The Capital Times, it provides sand for the Squire’s oyster, from which these pearls flow. Intellectual ferment is welcome at the Stately Manor, if not among our acquaintances on the Left. Paul Fanlund has a column up about the mortal challenge to…
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Conversing within the safety of the Madison bubble
Intellectual incest deep within the Madison bubble One of these days, the editor of The Capital Times is going to interview a conservative. Maybe. Unintentionally. By accident, in a case of mistaken political identity. Paul Fanlund once did interview a UW-Madison social scientist who took a field trip to Trump country in the Wisconsin outback. Today…
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When political hate substitutes for principled reason
The Capital Times advises: Take the money and run Any day now, the nicest guy in the world, Capital Times emeritus editor Dave Zweifel, will write a paean to a kinder and gentler politics, civil discourse, and the Chicago Cubs. Until then, his newspaper is talking more trash than Donald Trump on a tweet storm.…
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Capital Times quotes Trotsky to urge Scott Walker’s defeat
What was your New Year’s resolution? More civility toward those with opposing views? Reaching across the aisle to find common ground? Not if you are the hyper-partisan Capital Times. The CT takes as its sacred mission to “consign Scott Walker to the dustbin of history.” The Blaska Policy Werkes gets policy differences. We understand rough and…
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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…