Weekly Review - September 30, 2025

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Articles In This Issue

No Country For Old White Men

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - September 25, 2025

Kamala Harris is getting grief for revealing in her book, Nothing Comes to Mind 107 Days, why she passed on Pete Buttigieg as her running mate. A ticket of a black woman and a gay man might be a bridge too far for this racist, misogynist, homophobic country.

The poor dear is getting it from both sides now, Judy Collins. The commanding heights of the Democrat(ic) party hisses this black female woman is not sufficiently DEI. The few remaining blue dogs counter: Too Woke! The rest of us are cackling about chickens coming home to roost. Joe Biden, after all, chose Lady Kamala precisely because of gender and melanin. Said so himself. Even with Trump as an opponent, voters quailed on electing an affirmative action hire.

Almost a year later, Atlantic magazine frets that “Party leaders know they need to moderate on cultural issues to win back working-class voters — so why don’t they?”

Blame White Man . . .

Class Action Lawsuit Filed in Aftermath of Madison Discarding Nearly 200 Ballots

TrueNorthNews - September 24, 2025

Ten months after 193 ballots were discarded, a class action lawsuit has been filed seeking $34 million in damages to remedy a situation that has made headlines and called the integrity of Wisconsin elections into question.

The lawsuit, which lists the City of Madison, its clerk’s office, Deputy City Clerk Jim Verbick and former Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl as defendants, threatens to add to the controversy after the city’s clerk resigned earlier this year in connection with the matter.

The lawsuit was brought by Progressive firm law Forward, with the organization saying that consequences must derive from denying citizens their right to vote.

It’s Proven That Breathing Is Good For You

A.F. Branco, Creators Syndicate - September 27, 2025