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As if we needed more evidence that the Democrats’ move to the left is going to destroy their chances in the mid-terms, we got more of it this morning. The biggest message came in New Jersey where Gov. Phil Murphy was expected to cruise to victory. Last week, NPR touted Murphy as a Bernie SandersContinue reading “A Hard Night for the Hard Left”

A maple tree along the Lakeshore Path, UW Madison.

Sen. Joe Manchin has succeeded in getting on even my nerves. I have defended Manchin for his recalcitrance on getting on board with Pres. Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. While I like Biden’s plan, my point has been that the whole thing would have been DOA if Manchin didn’t win a state that wentContinue reading “Manchin’s Gotta Get With the Program”

The pedestrian bridge over Campus Drive this afternoon.

A 2018 study for the nonprofit group More in Common found that about 86% of Americans are not bat-shit crazy. To quote the study, The Hidden Tribes of America: A majority of Americans, whom we’ve called the “Exhausted Majority,” are fed up by America’s polarization. They know we have more in common than that whichContinue reading “Eighty Percent of Us Aren’t Nuts”

On Hillington Green.

Good Sunday morning and happy Halloween. Denny Burke’s Sunday jazz selection is Swanee River Boogie performed by pianist Albert Ammons. Today we’re going to turn over the YSDA podium to Michael Mandelbaum. He is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a memberContinue reading “The Merits of Merit”

For me this is the most wonderful time of the year.  This is the build-up to the Wisconsin gun deer season, which runs from the Saturday before Thanksgiving to the end of the Thanksgiving weekend.  And, in fact, bow hunting is already in progress. Most late afternoons when I’m at our place in the NorthContinue reading “Leopold Gives Way to Nugent”

Tom Nelson is a long-shot to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. So was Russ Feingold back in 1992. Nelson is running for Feingold’s old seat, which has been sullied (that’s a kind word) by Ron Johnson. There are something like a dozen people running for the nomination, but right now there are fourContinue reading “Is Nelson ’22 Like Feingold ’92?”

At the University of California the phrase “melting pot” has been banned. It’s said to be culturally insensitive. But we’re nothing here at YSDA if not culturally insensitive. Mix up the cheeses, put ’em on the stove, turn up the heat and get ready for some tasty fondue. It’s time to make cultural assimilation popularContinue reading “We Need More Melting Pot”