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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 21, 2011
From this morning's Wall Street Journal:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 20, 2011
Other nominees are welcome, but we start off with these two contestants:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 20, 2011
Michael Barone breaks it down.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 15, 2011
My former colleague John Jagler emails me: "After being reminded repeatedly by the Sergeant at Arms Office about the rule against displaying political signs in the State Capitol windows, democrats are refusing to take them down. The signs used to be orange union signs. Much like the unions' efforts to stop our legislation here, the orange has all but faded away. They were ugly and disgraceful in this beautiful building before they started to fade and wrinkle. Now they truly are a blemish on this building."
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 15, 2011
Hey, it's OPM (Other People's Money.) But with their usual indifference to fiscal reality, Milwaukee pols move to ignore warnings from (1) the city's top fiscal watchdog, and (2) local utilities who warn that building the Downtown streetcar will cost tens of millions of previously unreported infrastructure costs., ... i.e. the cost of modifying, moving, tearing out steam, gas, electrical, telecommunications lines currently under the streets or running the overhead wires and in ground power for the rail system.... over and above the reported $64.6 million price tag. The Barrett Streetcar runs up Broadway Avenue, which is a main artery in the city’s downtown steam network and it the single hub for all telecommunications switching for the state – phones, cable, fiber optic, etc. It will take years and tens of millions of dollars to adapt the underground infrastructure. (We Energies alone might to spend more than $40 million). This is not the first time, of course, that city leaders rushed ahead with a massive boondoggle. Here is one blast from the past (and you might recognize the author):
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 15, 2011
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:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 15, 2011
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.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 14, 2011
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.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 14, 2011
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?
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 14, 2011
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.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 13, 2011
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:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 13, 2011
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.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 13, 2011
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:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 13, 2011
Arthur Brooks asks if it's not simply the decent thing to avoid taking other people's money.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 12, 2011
Paul Ryan appeared on CBS this morning to talk about debt, entitlements, taxes and unelected bureaucrats.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 12, 2011
Of course they will. That's what da union DOES.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 12, 2011
Congressman Paul Ryan pushes back against the left's campaign for massive new tax hikes.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 12, 2011
Even AP notes that the Obama recovery is one of the slowest in history. Maybe that's not a coincidence.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 11, 2011
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.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Jul. 11, 2011
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.
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