Operation FREE coming to Wisconsin

Earlier this week, I wrote that Operation FREE was coming to Milwaukee, and I have an update regarding the events that will be held here in Wisconsin.

Date Location Time Venue 16-Oct La Crosse, WI 1:00 – 2:30 Public Library – TENTATIVE Press Conference 16-Oct Madison, WI 5:00 – 6:00 State Capital of Vets Hall-TENTATIVE [...]

Steele Finally Figures out his Place !

HATTIP to The Kossacks

Kohl’s to close distribution center, conservative ignores real reason why

Yesterday the Journal Sentinel reported the Kohl’s Corporation announced it’s closing its Menomonee Falls distribution center, effective January 2010.

Always eager to demonize Democrats as anti-business, Patrick Dorwin of Badger Blogger noted, “With Wisconsin’s business climate, this shouldn’t be a surprise, but it still is.” Bruce Redenz, another of the Badger Blogger contributors, added his [...]

In Brief: Sensenbrenner gets a challenger, Tauscher back with Pack

Menomonee Falls small business owner Todd Kolosso announced his candidacy earlier this week to unseat Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Country Club) in Wisconsin’s fifth Congressional district. While I’ll obviously be rooting for Kolosso, I don’t know that his odds of unseating Rep. Sensenbrenner are that great, given the makeup of the fifth district. Scot Ross [...]

GOP’s new web site roundly mocked

Q. When is a website not a web site?

A. When Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele says it’s not a website!

Appearing on Fox yesterday afternoon to talk about the Republican National Committee’s newly relaunched website, which had come under a healthy amount of criticism and mocking while only working sporadically throughout the day, [...]

And he’s a fan of astroturfing!

There’s been a lot of talk that the recent “Tea Party” movement, for all its talk of being a “grassroots movement,” is nothing more than an astroturf movement, in that the movement itself was conceived, created and/or funded by corporations, industry trade associations, political interests or public relations firms.

As I’ve been reading about [...]