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Blaska's Bring It!
with David Blaska
03/24/14If Bo Ryan were coaching the weather, it would be springThe little extra spring in our steps this Monday of an interminable winter came out of Milwaukee Saturday night when the Badger basketball team avenged the last Rose Bowl with an 85 to 77 victory over the Nike (Oregon) Ducks. At halftime, down by 12 points, this cold-weather fan but remote-control jinx was ready to switch to Netflix for a Pawn Stars marathon. But Bo Ryan did something at halftime that got his players to control Oregon, the kind of quick and sneaky team that used to eat our lunch. Posted at 07:14 AM | Permalink | Comments: 5 |
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03/21/14Republicans love cancer?For two weeks, Democrats and their news media allies tried to portray Republicans as villains opposed to affordable oral cancer chemotherapy. RightWisconsin quoted one state legislator to say that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had “moved beyond advocacy journalism to outright lobbying.” Posted at 10:21 AM | Permalink | Comments: 20 |
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03/19/14Socialism is dead; so is Tony Benn of BritainThey are burying Tony Benn. Had to; dead, y’know. By all accounts, Anthony Wedgewood Benn, age 88, was that British specialty: the well-born eccentric, aspiring to commonality rather than greatness. As the longest-serving Labour member of Parliament, he was Britain’s Fred Risser — only more so. Posted at 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments: 12 |
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03/17/14Dane County’s Rick Raemisch does solitary confinement in a Colorado prisonI’ve known Rick Raemisch for a good 30 years — not intimately, but as a friendly acquaintance and colleague. First met when he was prosecuting drug cases as an assistant U.S. attorney in Madison when I covered the federal courts for The Capital Times, then as sheriff of Dane County when I served on the County Board. Later, of course, he became Jim Doyle’s second secretary of corrections. Ironically, he was replaced by another former Dane County sheriff, Gary Hamblin, when Scott Walker was sworn in. Posted at 09:24 AM | Permalink | Comments: 7 |
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03/13/14Paul Ryan tarred for not repeating the same old, same oldOur progressive acquaintances are in a dither over fighting words uttered by Congressman Paul Ryan. Now, courts have long held that certain speech could be considered “fighting words” deserving of judicial notice as to time, place, and context. Ryan’s fighting words amounted to a diagnosis that government giveaway programs are causing — not curing — poverty. Posted at 08:57 AM | Permalink | Comments: 12 |
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 "
