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This one is not about a football play. It’s about legislative Republicans discovering a novel way of getting around both a Democratic Governor and a liberal Supreme Court. The strategy is to take legislation that would be vetoed by Gov. Tony Evers or struck down by the Court and putting in a constitutional amendment overContinue reading “I’m Okay With the End Around”

Saturday morning’s vote by the majority of the UW Board of Regents to reject a grand compromise worked out by their own system president says everything we need to know about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party right now. The Regents met again in closed session yesterday and another meeting is scheduled for today duringContinue reading “Regents Point to What’s Amiss With Democrats”

I am a strong advocate of free speech. Others define freedom as the ability to own any kind of gun they want or to do whatever they want with their land. My definition of freedom is the freedom to write whatever I want as long as I’m not committing libel. I flatter myself that, inContinue reading “Free Speech and Hypocrisy”

A very busy week last week. At the top of the list were two stories out of academia. Didn’t see that coming. On Friday UW System President Jay Rothman and Speaker Robin Vos announced a deal that would free up UW System employee pay increases, release $32 million that Vos had held back from theContinue reading “Monday Catch Up: Regents Destroy the UW”

This week’s quote comes to us from defrocked Congressman George Santos who said, “Look, they can boot me out of Congress but they can’t take away my good humor or my larger-than-life personality nor my good faith and the absolute pride I have for everything I’ve done.” A) Ripping off donors to a charity forContinue reading “The Q&Q For 12/8/23”

Had I visited Mauthausen, the Nazi concentration camp near Linz, Austria, a decade ago I would have thought it was a totally alien place. From another century. From another political system. From another culture. Out of somebody else’s history. As if plopped down on earth from some other world. But when I visited it withContinue reading “Could It Happen Here?”

It’s not this complicated. Just let the free market work to pay college athletes what they deserve. But nope. Instead of doing the obvious and simple thing, NCAA Commissioner Charlie Baker is proposing the Rube Goldberg Memorial Plan to Compensate College Players. It’s a complicated mess that is unnecessary, unfair, designed to short change theContinue reading “Another NCAA Scam”

An alarming spurt of reasonable opinions has broken out among the Legislature’s Republican leadership. I expect they’ll get over it soon enough, but let’s acknowledge it before it melts away. Just within the last day or so Senate Majority Devin LeMahieu has taken two positions that make sense. He has joined Speaker Robin Vos inContinue reading “Reason Breaks Out In Legislature”

A lot to catch up on this week. Let’s get started. If at first you don’t succeed, bid again. Dane County Exec Joe Parisi suggested last week that the county go out for new bids on its jail project, after only receiving one bid — that was $27 million over budget — in the previousContinue reading “Monday Catch Up: The Deer Win”

After a week away, welcome back to the Quote & Quiz. This week’s quote comes from none other than Cardinal Raymond Burke who said: “The sheep depend on the courage of the shepherds who must protect them from the poison of confusion, error and division.” A) His long running opposition to blasphemies like the designatedContinue reading “The Q&Q for 12/1/23”