538 Ways to Live, Work & Play Like a Liberal

Justin Krebs, the author of 538 Ways to Live, Work & Play Like a Liberal, will be coming to Milwaukee to promote his new book: Come meet Justin Krebs, the co-founder of the Living Liberally network and Drinking Liberally happy hours, and author of the new book “538 Ways to Live, Work & Play Like [...]

Ron Johnson forgets one of the Great Lakes,distorts Sen. Feingold’s record

In his most recent ad, an ad the Associated Press has labeled “misleading,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson makes the claim that Senator Russ Feingold actually supports oil drilling in the Great Lakes because in 2005 Sen. Feingold voted against an energy bill widely speculated to have been largely written by energy companies, a [...]

Here is why I never confuse republicans with conservatives….

In sum, there are zero historical examples of conservatives mobilizing to make the deficit smaller. What is true is that most conservatives oppose increases in non-military spending when those increases are proposed by Democratic presidents.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/conservatives-dont-care-about-the-deficit-4/

best wishes for a speedy recovery….

I am wishing best wishes for a speedy recovery to the Dark Lord Dick Cheney….I hope his taxpayer funded heart surgery went very well and he can get back out on the trail fighting to make sure noone else gets the same benefit of great care and life that he has gotten…..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/38252377#38252377

Proof positive that extending unemployment benefits might actually be a good idea

Take a close look at this chart:

Notice anything significant?

As noted by Daniel Indiviglio of The Atlantic: “That giant gap consists of Americans who are unemployed, and couldn’t get a job even if they wanted to. This emphasizes the need for Congress to extend unemployment benefits. It’s pretty clear that millions of Americans [...]

Ron Johnson’s greatest BP hits

Watch for yourself:

Something tells me it’s gonna be a long campaign for Ron Johnson.

Ron Johnson is really concerned about tourism in Wyoming!

Have you seen Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson’s new tourism policy page on his website?

If you didn’t see it earlier today, chances are you’ll never see it again, because Johnson’s team of crack campaign staffers removed it, probably because it made a lot of references to Wyoming, which isn’t really in Wisconsin:

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Ernest Pagels, Jr. goes national

Last week I highlighted the train wreck that is the candidacy of Ernest Pagels, Jr., and this week Pagels has garnered some national publicity, thanks to Matt Bors: