Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Conservatives are sure to be whipped into a frenzy by this:

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

The Nobel Committee lauded the [...]

Tell Me Again About the need for Conceal and Carry

LEBANON, Pa — A suburban mother who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter’s soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.

A car parked in the driveway bore [...]

Terrence Wall: don’t vote for the best candidate, just vote Republican!

From the latest “Up Against the Wall” comes an attempt by Terrence Wall to rationalize why voters should choose a Republican in the 2010 U.S. Senate race*:

The alternative is for the U.S. to continue this phenomenon of alternating back and forth every other election between one party in control and then the other. What [...]

Walker: pay raises for me & mine, pay cuts for you & yours

If you’ve been paying attention to goings-on in Milwaukee County, you’ve no doubt heard Scott Walker’s plan for county workers to take a 3% across-the-board pay cut, in addition to a 5% employee pension contribution, higher health care premiums and a dozen furlough days for 2010 as a part of Milwaukee County’s 2010 budget. Under [...]

Payday loan legislation dealt setbacks

A legislative effort to place restrictions on payday loans was dealt a setback earlier this week, as Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan, a Democrat from Janesville, assigned the bill to a committee of lawmakers skeptical of the effort. While the bill is far from dead (43 of 99 Assembly members have signed onto the bill), it [...]