edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
David Dodenhoff, Ph.D, took a look at the shocking growth of food stamps in Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, specifically the 50% growth between 2002 and 2008. The takeaway (emphasis in the original):
That, unfortunately, is the way government tends to work. When elected officials act, they typically [...]
Matt Lewis remembers that voting record matters, which tends to be bad news for one Paul Ryan -
Though he talks like Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, some of Ryan’s most high-profile votes seem closer to Keynes than to Adam Smith. For example, in the span of about a year, [...]
Today is February 9, 2010, the 40th day of the year. On this day in 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
* WP: Feds admit wrongly tracking Wis. abortion groups
The MacIver Institute’s Brian Fraley suggests that the fallout over the relationship between Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan and a lobbyist for payday loan businesses could have negative effects for the readers of Marketplace:
That some of the more liberal members of the Assembly caucus have been concerned with Sheridan’s [...]
The MacIver Institute’s Brian Fraley suggests that the fallout over the relationship between Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan and a lobbyist for payday loan businesses could have negative effects for the readers of Marketplace:
That some of the more liberal members of the Assembly caucus have been concerned with Sheridan’s [...]
Last month, two inmates being held at Stanley Correctional Institution walked out the front gates of the institution to freedom. While that’s not necessarily newsworthy, what is worth mentioning is the fact that neither inmate was eligible to be released; they used forged release paperwork to gain their release. According [...]
It’s a snowy day in Whitewater, with a predicted snowfall of three to seven inches during the day today, another one to three this evening, and a high temperature in the mid twenties.
It’s fitting that on a day with interesting weather, there’s a Wisconsin anniversary about the weather. The Wisconsin [...]
FirstTrust Advisors’ Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein on whether or not the past recession demonstrates the need to reregulate the financial industry:
The banking crisis of the early 1980s — also largely created by easy Fed policy — had more loan losses than existed at the beginning of the [...]
FirstTrust Advisors’ Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein on whether or not the past recession demonstrates the need to reregulate the financial industry:
The banking crisis of the early 1980s — also largely created by easy Fed policy — had more loan losses than existed at the beginning of the [...]
Shoebox is right (see previous post). The President and congressional leaders have proposed a draconian takeover of the healthcare system. So if they back off just a bit, Republicans might be comfortable. Just like going from a goal of 20% sales growth to 10%. So, how do the Republicans avoid [...]
After over two decades of work with large wireless companies, you can bet that I’ve been exposed to nearly every main stream theory or philosophy on change management that has existed. Do this, don’t do that. Encourage these people, use a stick on those people etc. etc. While I don’t [...]
As yet more proof of how insurance companies really really care about their customers, the LA Times is reporting Anthem Blue Cross is hiking rates by as much as 39% on many of its individual policyholders: In a letter to the company’s president, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius voiced [...]
I’ll admit it – I love the Superbowl as much for the commercials as for the game itself, and Sunday’s Superbowl ads didn’t disappoint, at least in my opinion. Personally, my favorite of all the ads was the Careerbuilder.com “Casual Fridays” ad, but I’d like to know what you thought. [...]
“Sunday will be anything but super for abortion-loving liberals”
So says conservative bomb-thrower Kevin Fischer, who’s clearly a subscriber to the notion that all liberals think exactly alike on every issue, allowing for all liberal to be lumped together in sweeping generalizations.
However, as grumps of The Happy Circumstance notes in a [...]
A really nice, non-technical synopsis of President Obama’s budget proposal is available from the National Priorities Project, which also offers a Wisconsin perspective. Obama has proposed freezing discretionary funding, which translates into a $74.8 million, 0r 51%, cut in the state’s Community Development Block Grant allocation for FY11. [...]
JIMMY FALLON: Did everbody watch the Super Bowl? Great game. Everybody's happy for New Orleans. In fact, FEMA announced plans to congratulate them in about two weeks. [...] 
Brett Favre is probably making a fortune doing all these ads that incorporate his legendary indecisiveness.
Scott Walker, in another fine example of putting his political aspirations before the common good of Milwaukee County, has started pandemonium among the municipal leaders within the county:
“You’d better be prepared not to have the (paramedic funding) from the county,” Oak Creek Mayor Richard Bolender warned fellow mayors and [...]
july 4th carrie underwood [...] 
It's just been too weird to have all of these Democrats in bed with bankers when it's the Republicans over the years who've really kept them warm at night. Somewhere in his lovely home around Green Bay, given all the crap the state left gave him about representing Peshtigo while having a second home in Sun Prairie, former Assembly Speaker John Gard and the rest of his family must be laughing their tail off about this.
A spokesperson for state [...]
Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, wants to restrict the popular service, known as CCAP, to only records of people who have been convicted of crimes, not those that [...]
California's largest for-profit health insurer is moving to dramatically raise rates for [...]
A soldier waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she was unable to recite her alphabet.
Joshua Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
Oh, no. Another quality Democrat candidate off the ballot down in our neighbor to the south.
So sorry to see this former pawn broker and prostitute-abuser take himself out of the race for Illinois lieutenant governor, as he had the capacity to become the second most embarrassing political gift to America [...]
"Treating this like a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risk," [...]
There will be plenty of push-back against Sarah Palin from all quarters. Especially after her display this past weekend at the Teabaggers Convention. Today the blow-back came from the daughter of Senator John McCain. [...] Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war to enter Congress and one of the House’s most powerful lawmakers, died Monday afternoon at Virginia Hospital Center after complications from gallbladder surgery. Murtha was 77.
Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam [...]
Hudson School District officials wear eye protection to match the ear plugs they have worn for years…
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but they didn't show...Late last week, Prof. Rob Vischer from the Univ. of St. Thomas School of Law posted his forthcoming essay on the application of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life” to honors conferred by Catholic law schools. The Georgetown Journal of Law [...]
Speaker Sheridan is becoming a one man tabloid.
Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan is not living in the district he represents but plans to return as soon as possible, a spokeswoman said Friday.
The change in addresses is the result of a pending divorce between Sheridan and his [...]
He served his country honorably as a member of the United States Marine Corps.One of these days, maybe we'll understand why Wisconsin Rapids Democrat Marlin Schneider wants to force you and I to pay for access for CCAP. Until that day happens, "Snarlin" Marlin entertains us with astroturf campaigns like this.
Thanks, you old deranged coot, who both hates the press and hates' [...]
24 commences in 4 hours and 48 minutes.
Camp Victory, former Al Faw palace or Iraqi resort, where Scocos spent his "combat" tour in 2008-09. [...] Camp Victory, former Al Faw palace or Iraqi resort, where Scocos spent his "combat" tour in 2008-09. [...] 
But then again, that's not really new is it?
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