http://www.thedailypage.com/daily Daily content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:44 CST Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:23:46 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28464 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28464 Here 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. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:21 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28426 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28426 Miss 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! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:18 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28411 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28411 One 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. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:45:56 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28403 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28403 The 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. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:30:40 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28389 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28389 The <i>Wisconsin State Journal</i> 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. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:40:14 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28337 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28337 Government-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. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:31:26 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28311 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28311 The 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. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:36:40 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28279 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28279 My 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. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:46:29 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28216 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28216 Maybe 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. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:07 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28144 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28144 Big 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. Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:18:40 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28129 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28129 Are parents responsible for their children? In practice, no, as many of those who live here on the Southwest side can attest. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:09 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28079 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28079 As 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. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:43:53 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28062 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28062 I 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. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:47:21 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28027 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28027 Which 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. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:41:34 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28019 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28019 The 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! Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:50:27 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28007 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28007 Day 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</i>/<i>The Capital Times</i>. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:28:25 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28004 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28004 First 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! Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:21:24 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27968 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27968 I am gobsmacked by Republican Scott Brown's victory Tuesday in Massachusetts. Euphoric, optimistic and completely jazzed. There's hope and change for you! Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:35:41 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27954 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27954 This 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. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:45:22 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27944 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27944 If 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. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:10:08 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27907 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27907 Health care, bailouts, and stimulus spending have taken center stage in the Left's crusade to make government the ultimate arbiter of the marketplace. But no legislation is more insidious than the Cap and Trade bills in Washington and now, Wisconsin. Using man's supposed ability to alter the climate at will, it would regulate all commerce -- even local building codes. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:30 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27890 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27890 Are we still critical of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker for eschewing federal bailout money? Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:39:01 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27879 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27879 Let's talk County Board. Dane County voters are starting to get the picture about why county government matters. Let me count the ways. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:44:29 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27856 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27856 The State of Wisconsin released from prison the first of some 3,000 Wisconsin inmates Tuesday. It's part of Gov. Jim E. Doyle's penny wise, dollar foolish governance. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:00:48 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27843 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27843 Isn't profiling what the FBI does to catch serial killers? Isn't that what Clarice Starling was doing when she interviewed Dr. Hannibal Lecter? Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:45:56 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27826 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27826 We can't catch the "underwear bomber." But we can catch a Guantanamo Base full of terrorists whom The Current Occupant now wants to repatriate to Illinois. (You think Door County is crowded in the summer now!) Or try in New York superior court. (Only if Jack McCoy is prosecuting.) Or return to Yemen. (One in seven “graduates” of Gitmo have returned to jihadism.) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:16:45 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27822 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27822 Can't watch television without some upcoming program being ballyhooed as a television "event." Nor any sales, whether for automobiles or bath towels, being heralded as a sales "event." Now prepare yourself for the Blaska's End of the Year Blog Event! Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:56:29 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27779 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27779 It is at this season of giving that one thinks of the less fortunate. That is why the good burghers of Shorewood Hills are much in my thoughts today. For those hills are alive with the sounds of angst and dread. For you see, low-income housing is threatening the land of the tenured progressive. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:31:23 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27746 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27746 Hope you are having a very merry Christmas! Even if it is the only time all year, do stop in for a church service. It rounds out all the tinsel and glitter. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:39:50 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27714 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27714 My sometime debating partner Ed Garvey frets that failing to enact health insurance reform "would ... let thousands of people not covered by health insurance die."