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When I started writing in support of Judge J. Michele Childs for the Supreme Court I didn’t realize that she would be opposed by the hard-left in the Democratic Party. So, that was a happy surprise. Now there’s reason to support her all the more. Last week the Washington Post reported on the growing unrestContinue reading “Biden’s Sister Souljah Moment”

Good Sunday morning. Today we’re going to hear from our old friend, New York Times columnist John McWhorter. In this post from last month, in light of the most recent legal challenge before the Supreme Court, McWhorter makes the case for keeping affirmative action, but retooling it to focus on addressing economic disadvantages instead ofContinue reading “Refocussing Affirmative Action”

Today we’re going to hear from Jessica Bennett, an opinion writer for the New York Times. Bennett’s piece, headlined If Everything is ‘Trauma,’ Is Anything? appeared on February 4th. One of our enduring themes here at YSDA is that we’ve become a culture of whiners. Instead of encouraging the positive human trait of cheerfully turningContinue reading “Suck It Up, People”

This has been a good week for Pres. Joe Biden. There are indications that he may have concluded that he’s done enough to placate the hard-left in his party and now he’s going to move back to the center. This week Biden dusted off a fight against cancer that he started as Vice President, madeContinue reading “Biden Moves Center”

Senate candidate Alex Lasry just dumped another $2 million into his own campaign. When a guy can treat that kind of cash like kindling, well, I guess his kids will still be able to eat, but you start to wonder what the point is. I’m at a loss to understand what Lasry’s theory of theContinue reading “Why Does Lasry Continue?”

The other day a close friend who is an occasional YSDA reader and a certified Madison liberal offered this pithy, sarcastic analysis of our work: “Yeah, liberals are dumb. We get it, already.” That got me to thinking. Well, no, I don’t think my fellow liberals are dumb, exactly. I think too many of themContinue reading “Liberals Are Not Dumb”

When liberals talk about diversity what they mean is diversity of race and gender. Well, they don’t actually mean quite that either. For example, the Madison school board has been touted by liberals as the most diverse in history, yet six of the seven members are women and there are no white men on theContinue reading “Judge Childs For Supreme Court”

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.  That’s how Madisonians might feel if they wake up one morning and discover that their morning daily newspaper has been bought up and hollowed out by a “vulture capital” group.  Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in LeeContinue reading “Let’s Not Have to Mourn Our Morning Paper”

Good Sunday morning. Today we’re going to hear from Christopher Caldwell. Caldwell is a contributing editor at The Claremont Review of Books. He is the author of “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West” and “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.” This piece appeared on January 25th in the NewContinue reading “Dems See an America Most Americans Don’t Recognize”

I’ve got guests and we’re out there on the cross country ski trails of the U.P., and so I’m not sitting around in my nice warm chair writing blogs. What I’m saying is that it’ll be a cut-and-paste weekend. Today we’re going to hear from Larry Diamond. He is a senior fellow at the HooverContinue reading “Electoral Count Act is the Thing Now”