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We don't know if taxpayers are being ripped off

Which is why a full audit is called for! We teased subscribers with a headline “Are taxpayers being ripped off?” Put a password on it so as to run it by some of the principals. Lots of response. We don’t have the forensic tools to determine who is right, which is why we need a full-scale program audit. Because we don’t know. Former Madison alder Nino Amato is making serious charges against a…

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Are taxpayers being ripped off?

Is not yet available; stay tuned!

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Kill the wascals, kill the wascals 🎵

We will not be species shamed! News break! Blaska’s Experimental Work Farm (and Penal Colony) is being overrun by Eastern Chipmunks. The industrious rodents (about 8 inches long) are multiplying like Tucker’s conspiracy theories — eating our garden beans as they sprout. If past is prologue, the voracious critters will take a bite out of every tomato as it ripens. It’s their super power!…

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Dane County sides with the rock throwers

Joins Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against immigration enforcement! Dane County just confirmed that it is a sanctuary county. Dane County government is joining Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against immigration enforcement. The California governor is suing to overturn the President’s decision to federalize the National Guard in response to attacks on immigration officials in the Los Angeles area. Supv.…

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'Progressive city management has failed'

NY Times wants a mayor who can enforce the law and teach the kids! The tectonic plates of American politics are twitching more than usual these days. Realizing that anti-Trump didn’t work last November, Democrats and their political party are absorbing, however reluctantly, dribs and drab of common sense.  The national party recently defenestrated the insufferable David Hogg — America’s version…

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Madison's anti-Trump rally may well be ...

what Democracy looks like. Just returned from the “No Kings” march down State Street to the Capitol in Madison WI today. Found a (bum-proof) city bench outside the Overture performing arts center. The fellow across the street had a better idea, observing the festivities from the open window wall of a whisky bar. (Madison really is great that way.) After an hour the anti-Trump marchers were still…

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Wouldn't it be nice

An appreciation of Brian Wilson. What’s the big news today? The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the City of Madison is making it easier to subdivide large lots in the quest for greater housing density. (Stay tuned on that one!) The Wall Street Journal leads with efforts to roll back rules on power plant pollution. The on-line New York Times goes international with a jet crash killing 200…

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Another insurrection — this one not pardoned

Trump didn’t start this fire! It’s Pavlovian, or something. What is it about Democrats that make them want to fly warp speed into the fly paper with the resolve of jihadists boring into the World Trade Center? Do progressives promise their own virgins? Los Angeles is burning again — this time over President Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. Yeah, Trump is a one-man synonym for “excess” but…

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R.I.P. David Blaska (some day)

May God have mercy on this blog. Can’t explain it but as the Squire ages more funerals seem to populate his calendar. We take Yogi Berra’s guidance: if we don’t go to their funerals they won’t come to ours. Got us obsessing about Life’s Last Picture Show.  Impressed by the turnout at Dennis O’Loughlin’s visitation last week in DeForest WI. Police on motorcycles! Not one but three priests to…

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We don’t need this working-class hero crap

Quint: You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin’ money all your life.Hooper: Hey, I don’t need this… I don’t need this working-class hero crap! Remember the Farm & Labor Party? It was the predecessor to Progressive Dane — a political party to the Left of even Dane County WI Democrats. Like all such pretend protectors of the proletariat, Farm & Labor had no farmers nor any real laborers.…

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Democrats stick with losing formula

Doubling down on foolish! An illegal alien turns a flame thrower on Jews in Boulder CO who were seeking the release of prisoners held by Palestinian terrorists. The same day, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Hamas) and Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) attempted to pose for holy pictures with illegals held in Dodge County for I.C.E. Denied their Sen. Van Hollen moment, we don’t know if the two Democrats consoled…

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None dare call RoJo a RINO

Says his loyalty is to the nation’s future, not Donald Trump! Good news, Madison WI progressives. You can recharge your Teslas without being hectored by the Raging Grannies. Elon Musk has crossed swords with Donald Trump. Says his Big Beautiful (Budget Bill) is “a disgusting abomination.” Not a lot of nuance there. Bad News, MAGA cultists. Like Musk, Wisconsin’s most influential Republican has…

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A buyer's market for nonsense

What explains it? In our more cynical moments (roughly from 6:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.), we ascribe ulterior motives to Jake Tapper for co-authoring the book about the Democrat(ic) party’s cover-up of Joe Biden’s disabling senescence. (But it’s a great read!) Journalism heretic Bari Weiss pinned the tail on the donkey: “How did ordinary citizens see more than people with White House press…

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Vicki McKenna should know better

Joe Biden was senile. Donald Trump is crazy!   Not so mentally disturbed that he cannot do his job, unlike Old Joe. And much of Donald Trump’s performance is inspired. But the President just made another low-altitude flight over the cuckoo’s nest. Has anyone held tighter to a grudge? Indulged in more fantasies? Practiced such pointless retribution? (Canada?!) Not even Richard Nixon. Trump’s…

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Ben Wikler helped elect Donald Trump

Wisconsin’s Dem chairman ran interference for old Joe. One of the guilty pleasures of the Trump regime is the suffering it causes Democrats, dues-paying or otherwise. They’re paying for their perfidy in propping up old Joe Biden as the only Democrat — sentient or otherwise — who could beat Trump, that existential threat to all that is holy and decent. Their lamentations rival that of the Hebrew…

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Judge Berz laid down the law

Doesn’t make her Judge Dredd Dane County Circuit Judge Ellen Berz presided over the Khari Sanford trial a few years ago. That’s the kid who took the parents of his girlfriend out of their bed in their night clothes on a cold March night, drove them to the UW Arboretum in the same vehicle the parents had lent him, and shot each of them in the back of the head. Not exactly remorseful, Sanford…

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Madison's bad idea factory

Police monitor hard at work undermining public safety! The Judge Hannah Dugan school of law enforcement is waging redistributive justice here in progressive Madison WI. The Office of Independent Police Monitor, budgeted at $400,000 a year, will ferret out racist policing no matter how many shoot-em-ups plague our neighborhoods. (May 26. May 25. May 21. May 21. May 20.) In the last thrilling…