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While it’s far from a sure thing, I am feeling increasingly confident that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will eke out a victory in November. Here’s why.  Let me deal with the headwinds first. It’s a mid-term election and mid-terms can be brutal for the party that controls the White House. Evers’ Democrats are likely toContinue reading “Bet on Evers”

God help me, I listen to public radio and read the New York Times. People talk and write in those places in ways that normal human beings just don’t. What’s worse is that the gap between how liberal elites talk (or at least the language they accept) and how average Americans speak is growing andContinue reading “Language Lessons”

After two melees outside of East High School last fall, after a student was beaten outside of West, after another student showed up at La Follette with a loaded handgun and had to be wrestled to the ground by Madison police, after another La Follette student with special needs was beaten so badly that heContinue reading “Madison School Board is Out to Lunch”

If you’re looking for a Democrat you might try a graveyard. No, they’re not in residence there yet. That will come in the fall. But you can hear them whistling as they walk past. The case in point today is education. Republicans have introduced a flurry of bills designed to make a political point. InContinue reading “‘Don’t Say Gay’ Doesn’t Say That”

It’s pretty much all over now. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has spoken and it has locked in another decade of Republican rule — unless Democrats figure out how to win again in rural and small town Wisconsin.  Last week Justice Brian Hagedorn joined the court’s three liberals in selecting Gov. Tony Evers’ redistricting maps overContinue reading “The Party of Dane County Will Lose”

Let me stipulate that this is not the most important issue facing the world right now. That would be what’s going on in Ukraine, but you have a thousand options for commentary on that, and I don’t have anything fresh to say after my earlier post on the subject. This is a humanitarian disaster broughtContinue reading “Fans Are Shut Out Again”

I believe that human-caused global climate change is the most serious existential threat to the human race short of nuclear war. It’s a catastrophe. So why do I want liberals to stop saying that it is? Because talking about climate change like we have been is not working. How many times over the last couple ofContinue reading “A Softer Sell on Climate Change”

Would I kill some wolves to keep Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Washington? You bet I would. Last week, Baldwin joined crazy conservative Sen. Ron Johnson and two Republican senators from Wyoming in introducing a bill that would delist the gray wolf and turn management of the species back to the states. This has raised howlsContinue reading “Baldwin Keeps the Wolves At Bay”

In his State of the Union speech earlier this week Pres. Joe Biden tacked to the center. In doing so, he gave his party some slim hope for the fall. I especially liked three things the president said and one set of things he didn’t say. First, he clearly and forcefully rejected the “defund theContinue reading “Biden Takes the Right Tack”

It’s getting pretty hard to write about Michael Gableman. How many times can a guy use words like idiot, fool, incompetent and bungler, in a post? How many times can a reader stand to see “investigation” in quotes? How many references can one make to clowns and circuses before he gets a cease and desistContinue reading “Please Make It Stop”