“Lazy Sunday” live

Watch as Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell perform “Lazy Sunday” live on Late Night Jimmy Fallon:

The more the merrier!

As The Chief notes, the announcement earlier today by Tommy Thompson that he won’t seek the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Russ Feingold could mean that both State Senator Ted Kanavas of Brookfield and businessman Ron Johnson of Oshkosh may jump into the race for Sen. Feingold’s seat.

Personally, I’d love to see [...]

Thompson makes news in two ways today

Well, that settles that.

Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson won’t be running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Russ Feingold, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier today that his family didn’t want him to make one more statewide run. While Thompson’s announcement is news all by itself, his appearance at today’s “Tea [...]

200,000 hits….thank you all!

Sometime earlier this week, this blog passed the 200,000 hits mark.

Since I first started this blog back in July of 2007, there have been just a shade over 2,200 posts and almost 9,100 comments, and I’d like to thank each and every one of you who read this blog for visiting and contributing [...]

Teachers are underpaid

The school budget meetings have taken up the headlines lately, and they probably will for some time to come.  As we saw during the days leading up to the election, this issue is not just affecting us, but almost every community in the surrounding area.   While there is no one solution, there is one topic [...]

The official Tea Party flag

Feingold a favorite Democrat of conservatives?

According to a recent piece in Newsweek, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is one of a few Democrats who have won praise – or at least grudging respect – from conservatives despite a less than bipartisan political atmosphere in the nation. Here’s what Newsweek had to say about Sen. Feingold: Current Job: Senator from Wisconsin

Fawning [...]

Here’s some straight talk on the second amendment

In a recent video he posted lamenting the erosion of our second amendment rights, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake noted that gun owners, children who want to learn to shoot guns, and gun dealers have been demonized, and Westlake goes on to say gun dealers and outdoor sportsmen “are some of the most responsible [...]

Dave Westlake lets Tommy Thompson have it

While some conservatives in Wisconsin are positively giddy at the prospect of former governor Tommy Thompson speaking at an anti-tax rally today in Madison, at least one conservative, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake, isn’t exactly thrilled at the thought of Thompson hijacking today’s rally in order to make an announcement about his rumored U.S. [...]