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Blaska's Bring It!
with David Blaska
05/16/13Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evilNormally, I would have written “wrong” for “evil.” But it is the habit of our acquaintances on the Left to personalize the political. An old Alinsky strategem. Thus, is Scott Walker portrayed with little Hitler mustaches. It is why the self-righteous mobs subject the governor’s family to taunts on his front lawn in a residential neighborhood at midnight. I thought it might be instructive for the other side to try that on for size, for once. See how it fits. Posted at 07:16 AM | Permalink | Comments: 9 |
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05/09/13Is Paul Soglin that stupid?Or does he think we are? Hizzoner the mayor of this One Party City has plans to ferret out vendors who might not share his political world view – but don’t worry, he won’t reward friends and punish enemies. Mayor Paul wants to assemble a database of would-be city government vendors. No, not their services, prices, and contacts – their political proclivities. Posted at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments: 21 |
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05/07/13Toasting America’s backbone: How the greatest generation of my farm family helped till the soil for all of usShe washed, ironed, sewed, canned, and cooked. She milked cows and raised chickens, geese, and ducks. She planted, hoed, and stripped tobacco; shocked grain. She was pregnant a good part of the time, bore nine babies, and stayed up with them at night when they were sick. She had the older children bring the babies out to the field so she could nurse them. Posted at 11:49 AM | Permalink | Comments: 6 |
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05/06/13Silence of the rabbitsSpring has arrived at the Blaska Experimental Work Farm and Penal Colony. The first stalks of asparagus have emerged, the redbud tree is budding, and the first crop of rabbits is weaning. I should have known Young Mr. Bluster was onto something when he poised outside the chicken wire protecting the experimental show gardens. Mother Rabbit deposited her four progeny on the other side of the wire, into 2 inches of leaf mold, a perfect camouflage, right under a decorative tripod – the better to deter sweeping hawks. Posted at 07:38 AM | Permalink | Comments: 5 |
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04/30/13My letter of freedom to Sen. Mike EllisThe Madison School Board recently voted 7-0 to encourage the state Legislature to say no to school choice. The surprise would have been had they voted otherwise. I suspect Madison’s school board is like yours in Neenah and others throughout the state. Given their druthers, they’d just as soon have no competition. Makes management ever so much simpler. Posted at 12:28 PM | Permalink | Comments: 6 |
Raised on a farm near Sun Prairie, David Blaska is a recovering liberal who spent 18 years in daily newspapers, including 12 at The Capital Times in Madison as a reporter and editor. He served Gov. Tommy Thompson as acting press secretary in 1998 and is a veteran and survivor of 19 years in state government. He served 12 years on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. From December 2007 to November 2011 he wrote the consistently popular "
