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02/06/13Dane County human services chief: Homeless winter camp ‘is not safe’Lynn Green, the hardworking administrator of Dane County’s Human Services Department, tells your faithful bloggeur that Brenda Konkel’s winter camping at Token Creek County Park is unsafe. She says those “Occupy Madison” campers have made their own misery by refusing to play by the rules. Further, they disproportionately drain existing resources from other needy people. Posted at 10:04 AM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
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02/05/13Please stop ‘helping’ the homeless occupiersThe Squire is not without a heart but neither did he furlough his brain. (Nor does he imbibe deer antler spray.) Your blogger has given a spare thought to the miseries of the squalid squatters of Occupy Madison. The heart wishes to speak first. Go ahead, heart. Last week’s torrential downpour flooded their squalid campsite. Then they were snowed under and frozen solid. It’s cold out there, pilgrims! So, we do have pity; we say a little prayer. Posted at 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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02/04/13Sticks and Stones ... Confessions of a Madison conservativeWhen you’re a conservative in Madison, Wis., you get called a lot of names. When you’re losing the debate, shouting “right-winger” is like hitting the delete button. Problem solved. “Fascist,” “blowhard,” and “insufferable eff-ing ****” are just some of the epithets that have been hurled my way. And those came from my former colleagues at the Isthmus! Posted at 05:57 AM | Permalink | Comments: 4 |
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01/31/13Madison city officials discriminate against pro-life social services ... so much for ‘pro-choice’You are a young woman, pregnant, afraid, and alone. Powerful forces in the society at large and in Madison in particular encourage you to terminate your pregnancy. Powerful forces, like the Madison Common Council. Posted at 07:29 AM | Permalink | Comments: 7 |
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01/28/13Let’s teach our children about firearmsNew York City intellectual Pauline Kael was said to have remarked that she knew of no one who served in the all-volunteer military or any of their families. That is the insular and oh-so-cultured mindset that frames the Sunday New York Times (get ready for snotty quotation marks) “exposé,” “Selling a new generation on guns.” Posted at 09:54 AM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
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 "
