Day: December 20, 2011

Wisconsin Watch has published an interactive map (map may take awhile to load) that shows the location of donors supporting Governor Walker. The map does a nice job of visualizing the significant number and dollar value of out-of-state donations that have flown into the Walker camp from big donors in Texas, Illinois, CA and elsewhere around the country. Their report shows that nearly half of donors where zip code data was available or that were over $10 were from outside the state.

Is this seriously the headline you want to go with, WISN? “Walker Reveals Concerns About GAB, Cost Of Recall” What’s next? “Study reveals Water is Wet!” or “Blue Sky Persists Despite GOP Assertions to the Contrary!”  How is this news?  How is this anything other than a great big “Duh!”…

When you don’t like something, just spit at it.  That’ll get your point across!

Its not like he has anything else to do, and he was recently named the “most influential” politician. So influential in fact that he was able to rig the “politifact lie of the year” award. Not only did Paul Ryan(R – Wall St.)get them to pick the one he wanted,…

State Senator Scott Fitzgerald, held a listening session recently and Lori Compas showed up to face him and call him out on his fundraising letters that are blatantly untrue. Bravo once more to Lori Compas! I am getting ready to start the Lori Compas for Governor campaign. Scott Fitzgerald never…

In a remarkable piece of scholarship, two historians estimate the income inequality in 2nd century Rome and find that our society is a little bit more unequal that Rome at the height of the empire.

Are truly teachers, firefighters, police officers, public workers! John Walsh Speaks up! Thank you!

It is getting hard to keep up with our "Republican Thug" series, So I will start combining a few stories in each post. Here are the latest: 1. We will start out in California, California libertarian and Tea Party darling Jules Manson is caught calling for the assassination of President…

Yesterday I wrote about the dangerous provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, provisions that would expressly empower the President — with regard to anyone who “substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners”…