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This is a guest post by SleepinJeezus.  It regards the IRS “Scandal”. It is troubling if in fact the Obama Administration targeted these outfits on a purely political basis. But I also know these astroturf groups have raised plenty of red flags on their own that would indicate an audit is justified – indeed, that...
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This is a guest post by Grant Petty. Unlike cars, TV sets, washing machines, and cell phones, guns rarely wear out, break, get lost or become obsolete. A typical handgun can easily fire tens of thousands of rounds with no decline in usability or lethality. The vast majority of privately held guns, owned for...
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This featured post comes from a great blog – Jake’s Economic TA Funhouse. You might think it’s time to celebrate given the fact that notoriously neglectful Medicaid-sponge Logisticare is leaving the dairy state. Sorry, but the story isn’t quite so cheery. In this post Jake explains that Wisconsin’s DHS is vowing to stay on...
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The following comes to us from Heather DuBois Bourenane and the blog Monologues of Dissent: In recent weeks, Scott Walker has been bragging left and right that education will be his “laser focus” for the next biennial budget (having stripped his promise of creating 500,000 jobs from his website and moved on to new...
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This is an excerpt from a recent post at the blog Wisconsin Soap Box called “Wednesday Evening Quarterbacking… The Election”. This portion is republished here with the permission of the blogger. The reader should note that Jessica King is not conceding to Gudex until the final canvass of votes is completed. It’s expected that...
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With pleasure I am giving the great Wisconsin blog Caffeinated Politics and Deke Rivers a bit of additional exposure here. I really enjoy his regular prognostications both because the guy knows his politics and he knows how to write. In this post, he predicts the outcomes of the Presidential race plus U.S. Senate races...
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Kristina Sesek is in Wisconsin giving what Root River Siren calls “incorrect, illegal and just creepy poll observation tips” to poll observers on behalf of the Romney campaign. R.R.Siren sat in on a session and obtained Sesek’s training materials which tell the trainees to: *Misrepresent themselves by saying they are “concerned citizens”, not Republicans...
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This post’s Featured Wisconsin Blogger is Scott Wittkopf of Badger Democracy “Badger Democracy has obtained a letter from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Milwaukee Office (HUD) dated May 17, 2012 to Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Mike Huebsch. HUD was not just critical of DOA/State oversight of the new Wisconsin Economic...
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This post’s Featured Wisconsin Blogger is AnnieJo of DailyKos When Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy “Friend of Ted Nugent” Thompson spoke to a Tea Party group in Oconomowoc, WI back in May he said, that he would “do away” with Medicaid and Medicare. Did he really say that? Yes. Here’s just a bit more context:...
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This is a story by WIVoices.org about one area threatened by the Wisconsin frac sand rush. Glenwood City, WI small business owner, Jim Laskin, owns The Café on the main street in town. He serves a homemade meal with organic coffee along with information and updates to people about the newest developments with mining...
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From Lisa Mux over at Blogging Blue: In less than four days, more than 10,000 people have signed my petition calling on Tommy Thompson to denounce personal attacks in politics. Wisconsinites from all over the state have expressed outrage, not only over the homophobic email Thompson’s aide sent to the media, but over the...
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Dominique Paul Noth wrote a scathing critique of the MJS article “Group helped force out anti-abortion Democratic incumbents” written by Jason Stein and Alison Bauter: What a cockeyed piece of political reporting in Journal Sentinel August 16, a combination of lazy wordsmithing and outright shilling to the evangelist and right-wing extremes. From headline to...
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From Griper Blade: “Let that sink in; less than half of all adults have even heard of the controversy surrounding voter ID laws. That is beyond awful. That’s journalistic malpractice on an epic scale. You can’t even blame the media’s weak he said/she said approach to reporting, because the American public doesn’t even know...
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By Louis Weisberg of Wisconsin Gazette State Reps. JoCasta Zamarripa and Sandy Pasch, along with their supporters, charge that their Democratic primary opponents’ views are more in line with Republicans than with mainstream Democrats. Laura Manriquez, who hopes to unseat Zamarripa in the 8th Assembly District, calls herself a “lifetime Democrat.” But she has...
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This is a post by AnnieJo at Daily Kos: The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have renewed Wisconsin’s Family Care program, which provides support for elders and people with disabilities to live in their communities rather than nursing homes. In the process, they once again took the Walker administration to the...
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By Mark E. Andersen A few weeks ago Wisconsin Senate Candidate Eric Hovde shot off his mouth about how the press should stop covering the poor and pay more attention to the deficit. Real class this guy is. Of course, what do you expect from a guy who is being mentored by Ron “Businesses...
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It’s always a pleasure for me to see Scott Walker’s half-truths properly and publicly rebuked and so I thank the blogger Democurmudgeon. He caught Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley correcting Scott Walker on Face the Nation over what exactly that Obamacare “tax” is. He also caught Walker telling a new lie about non-existent “research” on...
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As I battled a hangover and tried to make sense of what happened Tuesday night, I started to worry less about Governor Deadeyes and more about what really might be happening here. I argued about this time last year that if the Dems were going to come for the king, they’d best not miss....
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Back in January, I wrote an essay entitled “Contempt, thy name is Fitzgerald.”  That piece was, in large part, born from the reservoir of moral outrage and disbelief that pooled in my psyche after watching the events … Please continue to Badger Blue, Times Two to read more of this piece by Brian Austin.
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On April 12th, Capital Times published the opinion piece “Seth Kleinschmidt: `Marriage’ must be more inclusive” Kleinschmidt wrote in support of a new definition of marriage which includes gay couples: “When you hear that someone wants to get married, try thinking, “Hmmm, those two people must be serious about each other. Great for them.”...
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