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When election results come flowing in this evening there will be a lot to keep an eye on, even if the results seem foreordained. To put it in the simplest terms this is the abortion election. If Democrats are right, they’ll run the table. If they miscalculated, there will be some surprises. Protasiewicz’s margin. I’dContinue reading “What to Watch For Tonight”

Tomorrow’s election is filled with likely outcomes. If you live in Madison, the one vote that really counts is for school board and the clear choice is Badri Lankella. I would be shocked if Janet Protasiewicz and Satya Rhodes-Conway didn’t win their races for Supreme Court and Madison Mayor, respectively, and by comfortable margins. IContinue reading “Lankella For School Board”

I try not to dwell on the past. I resist introspection, having spent much of my early life doing way too much of that. But I’ll make an exception this morning to recall that 20 years ago I woke up to find that I had been elected Mayor of Madison the night before. It hadContinue reading “The Joy of Politics”

It’s only the top half of the first inning of the Trump indictment game, but his challengers for the GOP nomination have taken the early lead. The coming indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was a fastball right down the middle for Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley. DeSantis said it was, “theContinue reading “A Gift to Trump Challengers”

Almost all of the political oxygen in this April’s election has been taken up by the Supreme Court race, But, as the campaigns enter their final weekend, there are other contests to keep an eye on, most notably races for mayor in Green Bay and Racine. Here in Madison we have yet another mayoral raceContinue reading “Watch G.B. and Racine”

It’s Opening Day. The first day of the rest of our 162-game season. I love baseball. I probably watch or listen to 75% of the Brewers’ games, most from the opening pitch to the final out. My favorite way to enjoy the games is on my screened porch on Duck Lake while working on aContinue reading “Play Ball”

Tirein Steinbach wrote this: “Free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion are means to an end, and one that I think many people can actually agree on: to live in a country with liberty and justice for all its people”. I could not disagree more strenuously. Free speech is not merely the means to anContinue reading “Free Speech is an End in Itself”

Thank God for the Waukesha school district! They’re saving America from the vicious onslaught of rainbows. A radical first-grade teacher in Waukesha had programmed Rainbowland by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton as part of the kids’ spring show. Then district administrators, led by courageous Superintendent James Sebert, got wind of the rainbows and shut themContinue reading “We Must Ban Rainbows”

Partisan politics has produced Supreme Court candidates who lack the character, temperament and intellect for the job. It’s time to appoint these positions. Our state high court has been spiraling down for years. A few years ago one justice was accused of attempting to strangle another. Last year former Justice Michael Gableman disgraced himself andContinue reading “Appoint Supreme Court Justices”

Emmanuel Macron has been an excellent leader of France. To quote the New York Times, “Economic reforms during his presidency have led to a sharp drop in unemployment. Job creation and foreign investment have surged. The French tech sector has grown exponentially.” They say the French work to live while Americans live to work. IContinue reading “Anybody Feel Sorry For The French?”