Yet another great job creation idea from a Republican legislator here in Wisconsin

Republican State Rep. Steve Nass has a great idea on how to create jobs and improve Wisconsin’s economy: undo the state law enacted by Democrats to eliminate Indian and other race-based team names and logos in Wisconsin public schools: Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has drafted legislation to repeal the law, which allows any school district [...]

Numbers make the world go ’round

Hello, folks!  I just want to introduce myself – my name is Jeffrey and I was invited by Zach to do some occasional writing here.  I am a Milwaukee native, a sociologist, and am currently working with recent start-up Community Action Now on some critical social problems, so you can expect to see a little [...]

If State Workers Are So Overpaid, Why Can’t Scott Walker Lure Anyone From The Private Sector Into His Cabinet?

If you listen to Scott Walker or his Republican friends, you’d think that rank and file state employees are entirely to blame for the state’s budget mess.

Never mind that the most recent round of employee contracts that failed had significant concessions — steeper concessions than contracts under Republicans, according to one assembly member — $100 [...]

Mexico is America’s next Afghanistan?!?

This is just crazy… With the exception of, perhaps, Texas governor Rick Perry, no public official wants to publicly admit an obvious fact: The United States of America will likely be forced to invade Mexico. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. The question then becomes: What to do with Mexico [...]

The John Boehner crying montage

Here’s your incoming Speaker of the House of Representatives, in all his blubbering glory: Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

If Nancy Pelosi or some other liberal elected official cried in public as much as John Boehner, conservatives would undoubtedly have a field day, but curiously I haven’t read anything from the usual suspects about John [...]

Public employees aren’t to blame, despite what Republican want us to believe

I’ve written extensively about the rhetoric we’ve heard from both Governor-elect Scott Walker and labor leaders like Marty Beil, the Executive Director of AFSCME, regarding Walker’s belief that state employees need to make deep concessions in pay and benefits in order to help balance the state’s structural budget deficit, but as Dave Zweifel of the [...]