Dan O'Donnell

Dan O'Donnell

Common Sense Central is edited by WISN's Dan O'Donnell. Dan provides unique conservative commentary and analysis of stories that the mainstream media...Full Bio

Why the Iran War was Necessary

The Democrat Primary Circus Has Its Clown

On Monday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Minocqua Brewing Company owner KIrk Bangstad announces a run for governor and Dan knows why the Democrats are pretending he doesn't exist: Because he IS their voter base and they are embarrassed of how psychotic that base has become. Plus, an interview with a pair of talented fantasy writers from Greenfield who just released a new novella with conservative themes.

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May Day Protesters Trade Education for Communism

On Friday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Dan covers the student walkouts and reminds Wisconsin just how poorly the school districts taking part in the socialist marches have performed. Plus, the latest on the Minocqua Brewing Company saga and fun Friday segments Talk errrrrr Text Radio Roulette and How Bizarre.

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Did the Minocqua Brewing Company Guy Just Commit a Federal Crime?

On Thursday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," a potential first—a serious federal crime potentially committed live on the radio! Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad publicly posts a Secret Service agent's phone number and tells his followers to call it. Did he just commit a federal felony? Find out on a wild edition of the show!

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A Landmark Supreme Court Case Heats up the Redistricting Wars

On Wednesday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," the Supreme Court rules that race-based congressional districts are unconstitutional, and the left predictably freaks out. But as Dan explains, this decision is well in line with what liberals have always professed to want: Racial equality. Plus, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth absolutely bodies congressional Dems during an Iran hearing and federal charges are filed against an unhinged lib family who assaulted a conservative journalist.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is Humiliated Again

On Tuesday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," a second circuit court panel appointed by the State Supreme Court tells the Court that it is powerless to overturn Wisconsin's congressional map. As Dan explains, this is yet another humiliation for a Court that has already been overturned by the US Supreme Court twice.

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The Left's Assassination Culture

On Monday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," yet another attempted assassination of President Trump highlights the dangerous, unhinged rhetoric that is increasingly mainstream in left-wing politics and media.

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4/24/26 - Matt Kittle fills in for DOD

WTF SPLC, Find Out What It Means To Me:. In September, the Capital Research Center published a report titled, The Southern Poverty Law Center is Biased — and Extraordinarily Wealthy. The r SPLC is “perhaps most notorious for its ‘hate map,’ which not only neglects to track extremist groups on the left, but also lumps mainstream conservative and religious organizations right alongside some of the most reprehensible neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the country,” the report states. Now we’re learning just how far this actual hate group has gone to “Get Whitey,” according to a new federal indictment charging the center with defrauding donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, joins us now for some insight on the SPLC / The Poor Hospital Lie: Paragon Health Institute’s new report, The Big Hospital Racket: How Government Policy Fuels the Health Care Cost Crisis” should open a lot of eyes about a a $1.6 trillion-per-year hospital system that rewards consolidation, punishes efficiency, and financially crushes patients—all while the industry claims it's barely surviving. John Graham, visiting Fellow at Paragon and author of the report, joins us now / The left going all-in on Rebecca Cooke

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The Case for Optimism

On Thursday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Dan explains why a Republican victory in Wisconsin this November isn't as far-fetched as some doomsayers would have you believe. Plus, why the war on data centers is light on facts and heavy on scare tactics.

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Sara Rodriguez Steps Behind the Curtain

On Wednesday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Wisconsin's lieutenant governor garners intense criticism for promising to craft the next state budget "behind the curtain" if she's elected governor. As Dan explains, that's a perfect encapsulation of Democrat politics today.

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