http://www.thedailypage.com/daily Daily content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:50:44 CST Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:43:18 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27502 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27502 That bothersome old Communist Clarence Kailin is finally being stuffed into the ground. Dead, you know. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:45:14 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27464 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27464 Stopped by the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission hearing Tuesday night at the Verona Senior Center to testify against the so-called Dane County Waterbody Classification Project. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:06 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27451 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27451 To the ramparts! Prepare the boiling oil! Even Ruben Mamoulian has been released from the dungeon for active duty. Stately Blaska Manor, historic and gracious seat of the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm, is in the gun sights of the collectivists. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:35:19 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27442 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27442 It is over for the Democrats in Wisconsin. The report card is in on the Jim E. Doyle-Mark Pocan-Mark Miller state budget. The Pew Center for the States, as disinterested party as you can find, puts Wisconsin among the 10 states whose government is in the worst budgetary shape. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:03:17 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27410 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27410 My hands are bloodied and bruised for I have been engaged in a pitched battle here at the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm with my arch-enemy. No, not Bicycle Boy. Something far more sinister (if possible) and fecund: <i>Rhamnus cathartica</i>. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27396 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27396 Even my wife was appalled. Friday morning I used the publicly subsidized airwaves to good purpose. I called for Gov. Jim E. Doyle to mobilize the National Guard and deploy it in Milwaukee's public schools. Joy Cardin, the gracious host of Wisconsin Public Radio's Week in Review program commented, "We'll just leave that one alone" and moved on. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:56:27 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27378 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27378 Leave aside estimates that only 5,500 passengers will ride the Dane County commuter train. Forget that each trip will need to be subsidized to the tune of $40+. Never mind that the train doesn't really go anywhere that buses can't already take you and more cheaply. It's the dishonest way it was done. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:59:45 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27367 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27367 We now have a president who is purely the product of the government sector. As blissfully ignorant of how to create wealth as any Progressive Dane collectivist. That divide is showing up as Obama socializes the American economy while Europe steps back from the enervating socialist experiment. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:24:54 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27337 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27337 What a difference a year makes in American politics! As Tommy G. Thompson would say, "Isn't it great to be a Republican!" And you know what, kids? It really is! You should try it some time. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:07 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27327 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27327 In my last blog, I opined that Barbara Lawton owes her supporters and her political party an honest reason for her <i>volte face."</i> Absent that, "speculation is bound to continue" for her sudden decision last week to quit the race for governor. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:38 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27270 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27270 Is anyone ever just "rascible?" Today we serve up an extra portion of that Blaska's Blog ir-rascal-ability that you have come to know and love. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:10:09 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27259 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27259 If the Havens Center will put AlfonZo Rachel on the faculty -- hell, I'll join its master's program! Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:05:13 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27245 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27245 They're calling themselves "Cave Men and Women." They are the opponents of the proposed $250 million Dane County Regional Transit Authority. Like any self-respecting refuseniks in this day and age of the tax tea parties, they have their own T-shirts. But they were there first. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:57:24 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27241 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27241 Perhaps the last sober thing Jeff Wood ever did was to leave the Republican party after the Legislature broke camp last session. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:16:04 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27206 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27206 I'm talking to the same people who went into high dudgeon for making Nixon's enemies list and wore that honor like an Oxford don's chevrons. I'm talking to people who get fainting spells when the local library puts Tropic of Cancer on the restricted shelf. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:50:53 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27200 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27200 Great interview with Andrew Breitbart in Saturday's Wall Street Journal. Who? Andrew Breitbart. He's the guy who disseminated (but did not create) the videotaped sting operation that revealed Acorn to be an immoral, ends justify the means organization. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27191 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27191 Missouri native Rush Limbaugh joins a syndicate seeking to purchase the woeful St. Louis Rams pro football team and you'd think the Klan was burning a cross on the south lawn of the White House. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:20 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27188 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27188 An economics professor from Georgia Tech once told an annual National Counties Association convention in Washington D.C. that a president dealing with the economy is like the rodeo bull rider: lurching and sprawling for 10 seconds before he is thrown off and trampled then applauded for his wonderful job of riding the bull. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:16:20 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27151 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27151 I hear that Pope Benedict XVI is already declaring Barack Obama a saint. No, the guy is not even Catholic but the Pope hopes he will become one. (Pa-DUMM!) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:42:47 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27136 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27136 You know autumn is here by the vibrant colors and high temperatures in the 40s. Expecting a killing frost any evening now. The current cold, wet spell heralds what I grew up on the farm knowing as Indian Summer but in Madison these days we call Indigenous Peoples' Summer. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:15:14 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27091 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27091 The last place I expected to see some good common sense is in an Isthmus movie review. But Marjorie Baumgarten, an unfamiliar byline to me, holds Michael Moore's latest picture show, <i>Capitalism: A Love Story,</i> in the contempt it has so richly earned. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:08:47 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27031 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27031 We've been reading about the proposed Edgewater Hotel expansion fueled by $16 million in tax incremental financing that the mayor and the biz community are advocating. And what kind of extra jobs would the hotel expansion provide? Largely, table busing jobs and parlor maids. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:41:57 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27024 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27024 In my never-ending search for Truth, Justice and the American Way I have stumbled -- like Jeff Wood doing a sobriety test -- on an odious web site called "Screw Liberals." Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:45:21 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26973 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26973 Why was the mainstream news media so slow to pick up on Obama's energy czar, ACORN corruption, and the tea parties? The Washington Post's ombudsman concedes that the Post (and MSM in general) don't really do a good job of covering conservatives. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:48:42 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26952 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26952 There are two kinds of politicians. Those who run to <i>be</i> somebody and those who run to <i>do</i> something. I opined, on a recent Wisconsin Public Radio <i>Week in Review</i> program, that Jim E. Doyle was one of the former. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:09:13 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26924 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26924 At the risk of causing fainting spells among my liberal friends, three cheers for "the adult son" of Peter and Mei Chin who dispatched an intruder inside their home in Fitchburg's Seminole Hills Tuesday. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:39:25 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26847 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26847 We are having the most delightful weather -- like sauvignon blanc, so clear and refreshing -- and I have been out enjoying it. The weather and the white wine. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:08:46 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26790 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26790 Brenda Konkel was burrowed face down into her laptop computer at Falk elementary school on August 26 for the "Neighborhoods Restoring Safety" meeting when I approached. Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:09:20 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26782 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26782 I ate two grilled hamburgers, heard some good rap music (not gangsta) and talked to some nice people. I stayed clear of the dunk tank, for which I was nominated by more than one attendee. As Bob Uecker might say, “Ah these fans! They love me." Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:56:23 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26774 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26774 In 18 years as a working daily newspaperman I learned that conflict makes news. I've spent the 19 years since unlearning that trite journalistic trope.