Starving the government makes as much sense as starving your body

You’ve no doubt heard Grover Norquist’s signature quote, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” While many conservative politicians may not live and breathe Norquist’s philosophy, that philosophy…

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Why can’t Terrence Wall tell the truth?

I’d like to know why Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall has an aversion for telling the truth. In the first TV ad of his burgeoning U.S. Senate campaign, Wall demonstrated he’s perfectly content slinging mud and telling lies in order to further his own ambitions, as his TV ad…

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Send your open records requests for Rep. Leah Vukmir to Brian Fraley of the MacIver Institute

Several weeks ago, blogger Cory Liebmann of the Eye On Wisconsin blog submitted an open records request to State Rep. Leah Vukmir’s office, and as I write this, Liebmann still has not received a response to his request. However, while Liebmann hasn’t received a response from Rep. Vukmir’s office to…

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