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  • What? No Health Insurance? No Pension? UPDATED

    No collective bargaining? No bennies are at all? Who are these enemies of the working man? Apparently this has since been removed, but, this is what passes for "progressive" grass roots activism in Wisconsin these days:

  • And This Has What To Do With the Real World?

    Fond du Lac adopts a trendy new grading system, under which "participation in the classroom, attendance and behavior will not be considered by teachers when giving grades. Extra credit will be eliminated. Homework will be counted as practice and students who cheat will be allowed to take a different test." Note especially the life lesson in allowing kids who "cheated" a second chance.

  • Dirty Tricks? Look For Da Union Label

    You'll recall the JS deep-breathing about the bogus charge that Wisconsin Right to Life was engaging in voter suppression by offering supporters absentee ballots? Media Trackers comes up with an actual dirty trick, courtesy of the AFL-CIO.

  • Here's the Deal, Mike....

    Here's the deal, Mikey: the GOP will pay for the primaries if you (1) pay for the damage to the capitol, (2) pay for the $5 million-plus security expenses for your tantrum, (3) p[ay for the Kloppenburg recount, (reimburse taxpayers for the salaries and bennies of the 14 fleebaggers while they were out of state, (4) pay for the six recalls of GOP senators. Sound reasonable?

  • TV Report: Walker Budget Fix... is Working

    Dogs lying down with cats. TV6 investigates the absolute devastation of state schools caused by the Walker budget and finds... that with only a single exception (guess which one) school districts are actually better off.

  • GE Boss Explodes the Hypocrisy Meter

    Where do you start with a tool like Jeffrey Immelt? How about by pointing out that this poster child for corporate cronyism paid no corporate tax on $5 billion in profits... and has cut 36,000 jobs since the dawn of the Age of Obama. Now he's lecturing businesses that they shold stop complaining about government. How convenient. From Jammiewearingfool:

  • Scaring Granny

    Call it the Audacity of Demagoguery. The president threatens to withhold Social Security checks, thus coming down from the mountaintop of "centrism,' to play the oldest and most cynical card of the left: scaring Granny. Obama knows perfectly well that the government would be able to issue the checks even if the debt ceiling isn't raised, but hopes to raise political pressure on the GOP by frightening millions of senior citizens who are reliant on the checks, and in so doing, exposes the ugly side of the welfare state: make millions of Americans dependent on government and then hold them hostage when it is in your political interest.

  • WEAC: $24 Million in Dues... Just $18.85K in Scholarships

    Interesting analysis of the teachers union's money machine... which helps explain why the union bosses were so adamant in fighting the walker reforms. Richard Moore reports:

  • Other People's Money

    Arthur Brooks asks if it's not simply the decent thing to avoid taking other people's money.

  • Ryan on Entitlement Reform

    Paul Ryan appeared on CBS this morning to talk about debt, entitlements, taxes and unelected bureaucrats.

  • Teachers Union to Defend Teachers in Cheating Scandal

    Of course they will. That's what da union DOES.

  • Paul Ryan's Memo

    Congressman Paul Ryan pushes back against the left's campaign for massive new tax hikes.

  • Defying History

    Even AP notes that the Obama recovery is one of the slowest in history. Maybe that's not a coincidence.

  • Senator Ron Johnson at 9:07 a.m. Tuesday

    Senator Johnson has already made more waves that Herb Kohl made in 24 years... he will join me for two full segments Tuesday to talk about the ongoing battle over the debt and the deficit. We'll talk about how Washington really works.

  • Using the kids....

    From the Darling campaign: "The latest smear launched by We Are Wisconsin, a union backed front group, appears to star the daughter of WEAC’s Executive Director Dan Burkhalter. Burkhalter, who has a $242,000 a year compensation plan, lives with his family in Middleton, roughly 90 miles away from Alberta Darling’s Senate District.

  • It's Working

    Despite predictions of the apocalypse, the Walker budget actually seems to be working. In contrast, let's look at other states. The guv's office points out:

  • Paul Ryan at 9:07

    As the Democrats double down on massive tax increases, Congressman Paul Ryan joins me at 9:07 am.

  • Obama vs. Obama

    Via the Weekly Standard: Not long ago, Obama warned that raising taxes in a struggling economy is "the last thing you want to do."

  • No Budget deal? Blame Obama

    President Obama pushed for more than $2 trillion in tax increases and Republicans said, flatly,: no. James Pethokoukis breaks down the broken down debt ceiling talks.

  • Ron Johnson's One Man Protest

    Good piece in National Review online on Senator Ron Johnson's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," debut. As I read it, it occurred to me that with his willingness to shake up the status quo, Johnson is turning out to be the maverick that Russ Feingold only pretended to be.

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