Pat Korten - RIP and Thank You So Much!

Pat Korten died the other day.

Pat Korten, Washington Journalist -
 Founder of the Badger Herald 

He was one of the most influential men in the history of the University of Wisconsin - a terribly influential man in the history of the US Conservative movement - and an extremely influential man in my life.

Pat Korten founded the Badger Herald alternative conservative student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin.

This happened in 1969 - when the ridiculous Democrat LBJ's war in Vietnam was raging, when campuses nationwide were torn apart and when left-wing terrorists had blown up a building on the UW-Madison campus, murdering an innocent math researcher in the process.

The campus student newspaper, that had been in business since 1848 - The Daily Cardinal - had been hijacked, by a gaggle of left-wing nutcases - who were essentially Maoist in orientation.

Pat Korten - a UW sophomore at the time decided - "We've had enough!"

With just a vision and a stalwart philosophic guidepost, Pat went forward.

With several UW fellows, he began publishing a conservative editorial sheet entitled, "Insight and Outlook."

That went on for a year, and then, the boys decided that their efforts would be more effective, if they sandwiched their conservative commentary between campus news and sports and fine arts coverage.

The Badger Herald was born.

It was not an easy matter.

The UW was still seething with neo-fascist left-wing rage (much as it is today). And Pat Korten and the early conservative writers on the Badger Herald staff, had to install metal cyclone fencing onto the back window of the Badger Herald offices at 618 State Street in Madison. Left-wing fascists had threatened to fire-bomb the Badger Herald offices in retaliation for their conservative writings.

So much for the "Progressives" respect for free speech and freedom of the press.

Pat Korten, and his fellow conservative Badger Herald writers, brought sleeping bags into the Herald editorial offices - and announced to the Leftists and to the Madison Police, that they would be sleeping there at night - and a fire-bombing by the Left-wing fascists would be tantamount to murder.

They held off the leftists.

As years went on, Pat Korten's brainchild went on - and held on - and by the 1980s, became the dominant student newspaper on the UW campus.

In recent years the Badger Herald has been hijacked by multiculturalist - left-wing nut cases and is barely a shadow of what it once was.

Pat Korten - the founder of the Badger Herald. went on to become  a top-notch radio journalist at the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC., WTOP,  a press secretary for innumerable members of the US Congress, a founder and manager of a major conservative radio network and a renowned spokesman for the National Catholic, Knights of Columbus.

He was one of the finest men that I have ever known

And just as Thomas Jefferson eschewed all of his various titles to put on his gravestone, the simple:

THOMAS JEFFERSON
Founder of the University of Virginia

I think it would be wonderful and fitting if were proclaimed on Pat Korten's gravestone, the simple:

PATRICK KORTEN
Founder of the Badger Herald

God bless you and keep you, Pat!

UW Obamaite Chancellor Rebecca Blank Defies Wisconsin Free Speech Law

Rebecca Blank is a long-time, left-wing, political hack who somehow squirmed her way into becoming Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin.

Left-Wing Political Hack - "Granny" Rebecca Blank

The elected members of the Wisconsin State Legislature, this past June, enacted a law ordering her to ensure constitutionally guaranteed free speech on that massive public institution.

They told her she had to take severe action - including expulsion - toward the mostly left-wing, sometimes Antifa, students, who had been violently disrupting the mostly conservative campus speakers, with whom those extreme multiculturalist leftists disagreed.

Last week Rebecca Blank effectively told the Wisconsin State peoples' Assembly to "Go to hell."

Rebecca Blank, in a recent interview with the left-wing, BADGER HERALD student newspaper (it was originally an intellectually-oriented conservative campus newspaper, backed by William F. Buckley, Jr. since hijacked by leftist neo-Marxists) grudgingly said she would enforce the State Legislature's Free Speech requirements at major gatherings.

Granny

But Blank, a die-hard left-wing Democrat, who had major political hack jobs in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations said:

“What is allowed on Bascom Hill is not allowed in your dorm room. You have a right to protect your living room from someone coming in and spewing hate at you,” Blank said. “So, we tend to have much tighter restrictions on what can happen inside dormitories, for instance, than we do on what happens on Bascom Hill.”

So this, excruciatingly homely, 62 year old left-wing Clinton and Obama political hack, is now telling students at the 58,000 population Big-10, federally-subsidized, land grant university - that while she can't shut up conservative speakers on major campus venues - you'd better shut up in your dorm rooms and dorm cafeterias if you dare to say something that makes leftists feel "uncomfortable."

And she's doing it in direct violation of the spirit of the admonition given her by the peoples' representatives of Wisconsin - the very people who are paying her fat 6 figure salary.

And this neo-Leninist, Rebecca Blank, apparently has no concern for the University of Wisconsin logo and motto - "Numen Lumen" (in the name of light) and "The fearless process of winnowing and sifting for truth."

What an academic and political hack fraud, this Rebecca Blank! The free thought required of American institutions of higher learning means nothing to this academic yahoo.

It really is something for the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate to consider. They can restrict taxpayer funding to Ms. Blank's lefty enclave.

And so can, and should, President Trump.