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Whatever happens now it’ll be too late for Terry McAuliff. McAuliff is in an unexpected dead heat to reclaim the Virginia governorship in a state that Joe Biden won by 10 points a year ago. He blames at least some of his woes on DC Democrats’ endless dithering on infrastructure, social safety net and climateContinue reading “It’s Too Late for McAuliff”

Over and over again this Madison school board sends a clear message to parents who have raised well-behaved students: we don’t care about you. Instead, the board and the school administration are laser focussed on kids who are disrupting classes and harming the educations of the majority of good kids who just want to learn.Continue reading “Madison School Board Needs Changes”

One graphic pretty much says it all.

Amid all the horrible language of the woke left, probably the most damaging single phrase is “looks like me.” You hear and read it often, especially on left leaning sites, like NPR, the New York Times and PBS. What the speaker usually means is simply that he or she likes to see people in positionsContinue reading “The Trouble With “Looks Like Me””

Good Sunday morning. My friend Denny Burke’s Sunday morning jazz selection this week is “Time After Time” by Miles Davis. A few blogs ago, I tried to make sense of the move at James Madison Memorial High School to change the school’s name because Madison owned slaves. Here’s a far more eloquent discussion on theContinue reading “The Contradictions of Thomas Jefferson”

One of our favorite columnists here at YSDA is Sara Elizabeth Cupp. She’s a Never Trump Republican who takes a right-center point of view, which is more conservative then our left-center take on most things, but that just gives her more credibility when she points out the hypocricies of the hard-right. She did that beautifullyContinue reading “So, Who’s Really “Pro-Life”?”

Removing police from Madison’s public high schools never made any sense. It was destined for disaster. Today’s news brings evidence that the disaster is upon us. On Wednesday afternoon about 100 people brought an altercation that began inside East High School onto a street that borders the school. Ten Madison cops and a supervisor hadContinue reading “Get Cops Back in Schools”

I’m a silent sports guy. I ride a bike, I kayak, I hike, I fly fish, I hunt. And I cross country ski. A lot. It’s probably my favorite sport. So, you would think that I’d be with those fighting a snowmobile trail in Blue Mound State Park, my favorite place to ski anywhere. Well,Continue reading “We Should All Get Along at Blue Mound”

Conservatives are generally more happy than liberals because they are at once more accepting of things as they are and yet more willing to take personal responsibility for their own fate. But are those traits exclusive to conservatives? That pretty well sums up the research paper, “Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why?” by Barry R.Continue reading “The Happy Liberal”

White liberals with college degrees care more about race and have a more dim view of race relations than African Americans. What’s going on here? In his influential 2019 piece in Vox, Matthew Yglesias wrote: “In the past five years, white liberals have moved so far to the left on questions of race and racismContinue reading “Why Are White Liberals So Obsessed With Race?”