Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

This week we’re going to do something a little different for the Quote and Quiz. Instead of providing you with a quote and questions related to it, we’re going to ask you to speculate on what was being said at one moment in time. Here’s the moment: Only one question this week. What might haveContinue reading “The Q&Q For 5/3/25”

This week, just because everybody else left of center is taking the opportunity to pile on Trump after 100 days, we here at YSDA, given our contrary nature, have decided to scour the record to find things we actually agree with him on. Make no mistake, we think this guy is a disaster. But weContinue reading “Local Public Media Will Pay the Price For the Sins of NPR”

Every commentator who is left of center is taking the opportunity of Trump’s first 100 days to blast the bejesus out of him. I agree with all of it. Donald Trump is an awful human being who is doing an awful job as president. I take a back seat to nobody in my contempt forContinue reading “DPI Still Doesn’t Get It”

The convicted felon Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in office have been a train wreck. He inherited a healthy economy and drove it into a brick wall. He destroyed generations of American leadership in the free world. He claimed powers for himself (not really for his office, but more for himself personally) that areContinue reading “Trump’s Right on Student Debt”

Donald Trump has now been crushed in two major elections this month, both essentially referendums on his leadership so far. Earlier this April, the liberals not only won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race that was supposed to be close, but they won it by 10 points. And last night, Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Mark CarneyContinue reading “O, Canada!”

I think Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was probably wrong to help a defendant flee ICE. But the Trump Administration’s reaction was much worse. The story as reported so far is that Dugan was presiding at a hearing involving a man, apparently in the country illegally and charged with domestic violence, when she learned that ICEContinue reading “Arresting Judges”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other then the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, who said at a recent border security conference in Phoenix that the agency needs: “To get better at treating this like a business” and suggested the nation’s deportation system could function “like Amazon, trying toContinue reading “The Q&Q For 4/26/25”

As Popes go, I liked this one. His ideas were rooted in the 19th Century, which is about a millennium ahead of his recent predecessors. But what passes for progressive in the Catholic Church, well, isn’t anyplace else. He had good things to say about women and gay people, but they’re still second class citizensContinue reading “The Pope’s Place in the World”

When Vince Lombardi was coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers, he sat at a card table with a cardboard name plate and when the Packers’ number came up he picked Donnie Anderson. Those were the days when men were men. Now, the draft has become like an awards show. It’s… let meContinue reading “NFL Should’ve Paid For Its Own Party”

April 23, 2025 Dear Mr. Speaker: The genius of or our system of government is that it doesn’t rely on the goodness of human nature. Quite the opposite. It assumes people will be self-serving. But sometimes the stars align and what’s in one party’s self-interests is also good for democracy in the long run. SuchContinue reading “My Letter to Robin Vos”