Day: May 13, 2009

I’ve written a little bit about my thoughts on gun control, and more specifically, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s advisory memorandum that opined that the open carrying of firearms by citizens in Wisconsin is in fact perfectly legal, as long as those pistol-packing individuals don’t bark at a passerby…

For weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been making the rounds on television to defend the Bush administration’s torture program, and during his media blitz, Cheney has been citing two CIA memos as proof that torture works as a method of obtaining intelligence. However, during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee…

The Wisconsin State Senate has voted to approve a statewide indoor smoking ban by a 25-8 margin. The proposed ban will now go to the State Assembly for consideration, and if the bill is approved by the Assembly without any alterations, it will head to the Governor’s desk for his…

Have you heard of the Wisconsin Prosperity Network? Perhaps you have, just under their real name: the Republican Party of Wisconsin. As the Wisconsin State Journal reported, the Wisconsin Prosperity Network would create a plethora of right-wing organizations presumably hell-bent on getting back Republican majorities in the Wisconsin legislature, as…

Hubert Hoffman is throwing a picnic to celebrate the joys of carrying firearms in public, and he’s inviting all his friends: Hubert Hoffman says he’s a law abiding citizen of Onalaska and he says he’s following the law when he wears his loaded pistol while he mows his lawn. “It…

I’ve spent a little time here on Blogging Blue talking about waterboarding, and I’ve made it clear I believe waterboarding is torture. I’ve read the argument that waterboarding can’t be torture since it’s used to train American military forces in SERE training, and I’ve also read the argument that waterboarding…