Downsize the Liberals
Washington state is conservative, except for Seattle, which delivers the entire state’s electoral votes for the most left-wing plausible candidate every four years. The same is true of Oregon, except[...]
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Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Yes, Let’s Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming
Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in Science last week calling for more “Climate Change Conversations,” as the article was titled. Speaking on behalf of people[...]
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Education · Liberty · Politics
Education in the U.S. … and How to Improve It
I delivered the following remarks on February 23, 2013 at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Thank you for the introduction, thank you all for being[...]
Heartland Reacts to Wisconsin’s Refusal to Set Up Obamacare Insurance Exchange
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced Friday that his state will not set up an insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The decision brings the list[...]
Don’t Let the Frac Sand Debate Turn Into the Fracking Debate
Wisconsin may forever be known as “America’s Dairyland,” but a perhaps a secondary title could be “America’s Sandbox,” because Wisconsin is home to the finest and most economically valuable sand[...]
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Hearing Complaints, Wisconsin Senator Wants to Freeze Renewable Energy Standard
Next January, WI. State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) will introduce legislation to freeze Wisconsin’s renewable portfolio standard. Under current law, 10% of the state’s power must come from renewable sources[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Wisconsin Controls Spending and Taxes, Goes from Deficit to Surplus
Not that we expect the clowns and criminals who run state government in neighboring Illinois to care, but we do hope, for a moment at least, they cast their collective[...]
Polling Place Chaos: Part 2 – Milwaukee
A Wisconsin Tea Party group recently announced that it had found errors on more than a third of the same-day voter registration forms completed in Milwaukee County in the April 2011[...]
Time to Share that Voucher Love
The massive success of voucher program expansion by intrepid legislators this past year in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio has commentators in nearby states begging their own legislators to share the[...]
The Evils of Class Warfare
Just a few hours after my guest appearance last week on WSAU-AM and FM radio in Wausau to talk about the Wisconsin recall elections, my phone rang. The man calling[...]
Will Scott Walker Bring ‘Good-Paying’ Jobs to Wisconsin?
I’ve been carrying on conversations with family members in Wisconsin (yes, I’m a born-and-raised cheesehead) concerning Gov. Scott Walker’s budget reform measures. Most of my family agrees with what he[...]
Good-bye JoAnne Kloppenburg and Good Riddance
Scott Walker’s budget repair bill got a major boost yesterday when JoAnne Kloppenburg, a liberal attorney from Madison, conceded the state supreme court race to her conservative opponent, incumbent judge[...]
Weed, Fights, and Whine in Madison
In the aftermath of the union protests in Madison in February and March, some recent updates: * About 90 matters, mostly death threats against state officials, were referred to the[...]
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is No Scott Walker
A few weeks ago Connecticut passed a budget containing $2.6 billion in tax hikes on alcohol, tobacco, hotels, sales, and estates. At that time Governor Dannel Malloy “demanded” $2 billion[...]
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