Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

Well, you could have seen that coming a mile away. As soon as Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox “News” showman Tucker Carlson exclusive access to January 6th footage you knew that Tucker would tuck into that and show film of people walking. People walk. Assassins walk to their sniper’s nests. Mass shooters walk into schools.Continue reading “Mostly Peaceful”

The Republican Party in general, and Ron DeSantis in particular, is building its whole image around their opposition to woke. That’s pathetic. It’s pathetic because, while woke certainly has a dangerous and corrosive element to it (which I’ll get to), it doesn’t stack up well against the serious challenges and opportunities facing our nation. TheContinue reading “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Woke”

We have three goals here at YSDA. Be honest. We never write anything we don’t believe, at least at the moment in which it is being written. We never take a provocative position just to generate readership. Be clear. We’re not much on subtlety around here. We don’t like obfuscation. We don’t like to implyContinue reading “A Word On Language”

I’m feeling especially snarky this morning (I know, this is a high bar) so I thought I’d just pop off about a few random things. Making lawyers look bad. Two liberal lawyers have filed a 100-page complaint with the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation charging former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman with, “a shambolic, dishonest,Continue reading “A Few Damn Things”

Unable to buy his kid a U.S. Senate seat from Wisconsin, New York hedge fund operator Marc Lasry has decided to pull up stakes and sell his share in the Milwaukee Bucks. Lasry and his partners bought the Bucks from Herb Kohl in 2014 for $550 million. After the taxpayers helped pay for a newContinue reading “Lasry Cashes Out”

Forgiving student loans, as proposed by Pres. Biden, would cost taxpayers about $420 billion. A graduate with a four-year degree earns, on average, $1.4 million more over her career than someone with a high school diploma. Meanwhile, helping the poorest American families with $500 a month would cost one-tenth as much. The other day theContinue reading “Student Loans vs. Guaranteed Income”

What is it with Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Public Service Commission? Evers has, for the most part, made solid appointments to run state agencies, but he has messed up now in all three of his appointments to the PSC. He started out in his first weeks in office with the worst appointment ofContinue reading “Evers Messes Up Another PSC Appointment”

I am a defender of the United States Senate. There are those, mostly on the hard-left, who would abolish it if they could. They see it as undemocratic (it is) and an institution standing in the way of the big changes they want (it’s that too). A senator from South Dakota (population 900,000) has asContinue reading “Don’t Let RoJo Block Pocan”

It’s time for the Badgers to part ways with men’s basketball coach Greg Gard. And it’s not just because his team, for the second time in three weeks, collapsed in overtime of a game they badly needed. The Badgers lost another heartbreaker yesterday, this time to Michigan. The Wolverines’ big man (and big mouth) HunterContinue reading “Over Time to Move on From Gard”

The more we learn about Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to give away $290 million of the state surplus (otherwise known as taxpayers’ money) to the Milwaukee Brewers the worse it gets. This week Bruce Murphy of Urban Milwaukee wrote a stunning and stinging analysis of how Evers arrived at that $290 million figure. It’s prettyContinue reading “Brewers Inflated Stadium Costs”