Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

People without college degrees die about eight years sooner than people with four-year degrees. Women with only a high school diploma or less are about five times as likely to have children out of wedlock as women with a college degree. People with only high school diplomas or less are much more likely to say they have no closeContinue reading “Trump’s Agenda of Hate”

Last week I wrote about how the Democrats need a new team of prominent pols who represent the party. I think I was right, but I also think I was dreaming. The problem is that you can’t just designate party spokespeople and tell the press not to quote the others. And the thing about beingContinue reading “Dems’ Angst Is a Waste of Time”

This week’s quote comes to us from Hagan Scotten, the lead attorney in the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams. In his resignation letter he wrote: “Any federal prosecutor would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials. If no lawyerContinue reading “The Q&Q For 2/15/25”

The Democrats need a new team of frontline spokesDems. Chuck Schumer drones on as he reads from printed texts while peering over his reading glasses. He comes off like a bookkeeper questioning your travel reimbursements. Elizabeth Warren wags her finger in her shrill, school marm scolds. (I know. I’m not supposed to refer to aContinue reading “A New Dem A-Team”

We’re going to inaugurate a new occasional feature here at YSDA: Today’s Impeachable Offense, wherein we make the case that something the convicted felon Donald Trump did would be impeachable if the rule of law still applied. We’ll make no pretense about keeping up with this as it’d take volumes just to get up toContinue reading “Today’s Impeachable Offense”

Next to the million-plus people it killed, the greatest long-term harm from the pandemic was the education deficit. Kids lost months of school and most of them haven’t caught up. That’s a national problem but it’s worse here. According to a just released report, in Wisconsin, students are half a grade level behind where theyContinue reading “MMSD’s Bad Trip”

Liberals hated the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Now those things are among the last lines of defense against an authoritarian state. Donald Trump had a plan: flood the zone. He made so many moves on so many fronts in so little time that he tripped all the circuits of outrage. In what we usedContinue reading “In Praise of Joe Manchin”

The hard-left is just nuts. There’s ample evidence of that, but here’s the latest. There’s a debate on the hard-left about DEI. That’s a little bit surprising, since you’d think they’d all be outraged at Trump’s efforts to dismantle it in government and discourage it everywhere else. But it turns out that some leftists actuallyContinue reading “DEI: The Opiate of the Masses”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than the departing Democratic National Committee chairman, Jaime Harrison, who, at a DNC meeting a week ago, labored to explain the party’s gender-parity provisions: “Our rules specify that when we have a gender nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male norContinue reading “The Q&Q For 2/8/25”

It’s been a tough year for Wisconsin and the year just got started. First, in January the Packers fizzled out in the playoffs, coming up short on sky high expectations at the beginning of the season. Then, last weekend. Wisconsin’s own Ben Wikler, the favorite going in, lost a vote of the Democratic National CommitteeContinue reading “Dems Aren’t Done”