S.O.S. Tommy Thompson!
David BlaskaAn open letter to the former governor: Hey boss, we need you again. More Wisconsin Republicans than you can know are turning their lonely eyes to you. We need that…
We’re headed for another January 6
When Trump leads us to yet another defeat! Donald Trump may very well win the Republican nomination in Milwaukee this July but he cannot beat Joe Biden in November. Hellz…
Awaiting that midnight knock on the door
Tell my story to the world! “I didn’t get a harrumph out of that guy,” Governor Lepetomane complained, pointing off camera in Blazing Saddles. We get party discipline, but it…
We’re desperate for a win
Lowering expectations to the vanishing point! The world’s greatest democracy seems doomed to endure an entire year of Groundhog Days by nominating super-annuated, increasingly disreputable, and possibly criminal presidential candidates.…
Slip sliding away
Are we living in an A&E reality show? The b&w Philco here at the Stately Manor flickers with a cable TV series out of Canada showing tow truckers pulling big…
‘It is racist to attack affirmative action’
UW Law School mandates DEI ‘re-orientation’! You come here thinking like lawyers and you will leave with a head full of mush.’ — What professor Kingsfield might say today. Never…
New jail may leave penguins in the cold
Public safety or pool tables for teenagers? Does this make more sense than anything you’ve heard from an elected official since Dan Quayle said a mind is a terrible thing to…
Splitting Madison into atoms for Democrat(ic) control!
Guaranteed to satisfy no one! Wisconsin Democrats can pose for a PowerPoint’s worth of holy pictures all they want but Elbridge Gerry never mandered so voraciously. The faceless bureaucrats at…
The trail went cold in Iowa
But can Trump win Wisconsin? Iowa is next door and just as cold but they don’t have the Packers. Another difference: Iowa is now politically more red than the nose…
I read the news today, oh boy!
about an unlucky team that did not make the grade! But there were signs …. Blaska’s Bottom Line: We thought Jimmy Johnson was going to have a heart attack! Didn’t…