 Blaska's Blog explains the stimulusDavid Blaska on Friday 03/12/2010 1:23 pm, (2) Comments, (1) LikeHere we are a year after the $787 million and one out of every 10 Americans are out of work. Many more are discouraged workers, meaning they’ve quit looking. Even Dane County's unemployment rate is twice normal. No wonder tax revenues are down. So, what is the response of our liberal/progressive friends? More government stimulus! More government spending! Only they call it a "jobs" bill. >More  Blaska's Blog flunks the school for LeftistsDavid Blaska on Wednesday 03/10/2010 4:45 pm, (2) Comments, (1) LikeMiss Emily Mills, fearless sifter and winnower that she is, is aghast that a respected University of Wisconsin political scientist would oversee public opinion polling for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute -- a "partisan" organization. Unclean! Unclean! >More
 Blaska's Blog conjures a new enemy: private insurance!David Blaska on Tuesday 03/09/2010 3:07 pm, (3) Comments, (1) LikeOne would think portraying insurance companies as inglorious basterds would be a tough sell in a place like metro Madison, WI, home to American Family, National Guardian Life, CUNA, General Casualty, and others. But that is what our current President is trying to do to breathe life into his moribund ObamaCare. >More Blaska's Blog turns up the heat on City HallDavid Blaska on Monday 03/08/2010 11:45 am, (14) Comments, (2) LikesThe squire of Stately Blaska Manor, clad in a black velour smoking jacket, entered the Karl Rove Study of the Stately Manor, now hushed for the midnight hour. There he encountered Ruben Mamoulian, his bibulous manservant, in his customary state of dishabille, face-down in a bowl of punch. >More Blaska's Blog confirms Dane County RTA vote won't be bindingDavid Blaska on Friday 03/05/2010 1:30 pm, (9) Comments, (2) LikesThe Wisconsin State Journal got it wrong. "RTA board agrees to binding referendum," reads today's headline. Except the resolution passed by the RTA at its first meeting late Thursday afternoon is not binding. >More Blaska's Blog says let education compete for businessDavid Blaska on Monday 03/01/2010 12:40 pm, (38) Comments, (5) LikesGovernment-run, union-controlled education is as antiquated in 21st Century America as a mimeograph machine and as outdated as the New Deal. The entire history of this great country is choice -- except in the all-important field of education, wherein one size shall fit all. >More Blaska's Blog knows why liberals distrust the peopleDavid Blaska on Thursday 02/25/2010 1:31 pm, (35) Comments, (2) LikesThe State Assembly on Tuesday did the right thing, of course, in upholding the people’s right to control their natural resources. I predicted it would. But it was a damnably closer thing than it should have been. A majority of the Assembly voted, 58 to 38, to override the veto. But 64 votes were needed. >More Blaska's Blog asks who's driving the ($150K) bus?David Blaska on Monday 02/22/2010 1:36 pm, (6) Comments, (1) LikeMy old boss Dave Zweifel, is one of the genuinely nice guys. Dave is nonplussed at the understandable outrage over a Madison Metro bus driver earning over $150,000 a year, what with overtime and a Teamsters Union labor contract. Others earned almost as much. >More Blaska's Blog thanks Paul Ryan for thinking about tomorrowDavid Blaska on Monday 02/15/2010 5:46 pm, (9) Comments, (2) LikesMaybe because Paul Ryan is a young man (age 40) and because he is a serious man. Perhaps that is why he is proposing a far-reaching plan that gets at some of this great country's systemic ills rather than temporary quick cures that don't work. >More Blaska's Blog would abolish the minimum wageDavid Blaska on Wednesday 02/10/2010 10:01 am, (28) Comments, (1) LikeBig Government advocate Bill Lueders prays the liberal rosary for that Hallelujah moment when the Democrats in the Legislature raise the minimum wage to $7.60 from the current $7.25 an hour "along with automatic adjustments." Because, gosh darn it, that’s what Democrats do. They look out for the little fella. They create economic prosperity through the holy sacrament of the party-line roll call vote. >More Blaska's Blog supports parental responsibility ordinancesDavid Blaska on Sunday 02/07/2010 2:18 pm, (7) Comments, (1) LikeAre parents responsible for their children? In practice, no, as many of those who live here on the Southwest side can attest. >More Blaska's Blog is pro-choice -- for the babyDavid Blaska on Monday 02/01/2010 2:16 pm, (11) Comments, (1) LikeAs you know, the mission of the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm is to plumb the depths of the liberal mind in all its exotic wonders and publish the findings for a grateful nation. Compassion compels me to help the less fortunate. We can cure liberalism if only we commit the resources! (If a man can land on the moon ...) A grant application is pending before the National Institutes of Health. And the Bradley Foundation. >More Blaska's Blog: Our president would rather fightDavid Blaska on Thursday 01/28/2010 2:43 pm, (4) Comments, (1) LikeI thought Barack Obama gave one of his better speeches Wednesday night for his first State of the Union. It was more colloquial than the ponderous lectures he has given recently. Hovering over the words flashing by on his TelePrompTer, however, had to have been the spectral image of Scott Brown and an outline of the state of Massachusetts. But Obama did not chart a new direction, he repackaged. >More Blaska's Blog fights liberal deficit attention disorderDavid Blaska on Tuesday 01/26/2010 1:47 pm, (10) Comments, (1) LikeWhich Democrats will be happy Thursday morning? The Ron Kind/Evan Bayh Democrats or the Dave Obey/Ed Garvey Democrats? Depends on what the President says in his State of the Nation speech tomorrow night. >More Blaska's Blog announces his candidacy for public officeDavid Blaska on Monday 01/25/2010 12:41 pm, (1) Comment, (2) LikesThe squire of Stately Blaska Manor has thrown his name in the ring. Yes, I have informed Hizzoner the Mayor that I have deigned to take my rightful place on the Equal Opportunities Commission. I have chosen that body as the one most in need of my unusual common sense. The application form asks if I am a minority. I am indeed a minority. I am a Madison conservative, aka the party of Hell No! >More Blaska's Blog says 'we're all journalists now'David Blaska on Friday 01/22/2010 2:50 pm, (14) CommentsDay 2 of Freedom on the March. Jim Pugh of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce now has the same free speech rights as John Nichols of Mi>The Nation/The Capital Times. >More Blaska's Blog celebrates freedom of speech for allDavid Blaska on Thursday 01/21/2010 4:28 pm, (2) LikesFirst Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Now this most wonderful news: The Supreme Court of the land has gouged out the shriveled heart of the mistaken McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" once and for all. Truly, freedom is on the march! >More Blaska's Blog wonders if Russ Feingold is in troubleDavid Blaska on Wednesday 01/20/2010 12:21 pm, (10) Comments, (2) LikesI am gobsmacked by Republican Scott Brown’s victory Tuesday in Massachusetts. Euphoric, optimistic and completely jazzed. There’s hope and change for you! >More Blaska's Blog takes on the Takings ClauseDavid Blaska on Monday 01/18/2010 2:35 pm, (20) Comments, (3) LikesThis is the kind of thing that has been fueling tea party anger across the nation. Maybe now some of my Madison liberal friends will begin to understand the fear and loathing many of us have for an all-knowing, ever more-intrusive, metastasizing Big Government. >More Blaska's Blog: Colonize Haiti so it can become MauritiusDavid Blaska on Friday 01/15/2010 2:45 pm, (20) Comments, (4) LikesIf Haiti can be rescued, that rescue will require much more than Type O blood, powdered milk, and bulldozers. It will require a top to bottom structuring (not "re-structuring") of the entire society. >More
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David Blaska was elected six times to the Dane County Board, worked for Tommy Thompson, wrote for The Capital Times, used to be
a Democrat, is married to the Lovely Lisa, is proud of Number One Son, grew up in a large family on a working farm in rural Sun Prairie,
remembers some of the '60s, thinks Jimi Hendrix and Wm F. Buckley should be on postage stamps (separately, if possible), raises asparagus
in his garden, swims upstream like a heretical flagellate among the collectivist majority, cherishes the tactile pleasure of words printed
on paper but yet doth he blog the chronic electronic phonic. Vicki calls me "irascible" but it's a good kind of irascible. Like they say,
he means well.
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