Day: January 19, 2012

This is the webcam at the Government Accountability Board Office where they are reviewing recall petitions.  So far nobody has jumped up and down to show a signature of Mickey Mouse to a friend, though the woman with the dyed black hair was making eyes at Kevin Kennedy about 9:00…

H/T Jud @Uppity Wisconsin On the day it was announced Wisconsin lost 3900 private sector jobs in the month of December: Wisconsin lost private-sector jobs for the sixth consecutive month in December, the same period in which the nation added jobs. According to data released Thursday by the state Department…

Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses. Or did he? Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses. Or did he? We’ll never know. Results from eight precincts are missing. And Iowa GOP officials are saying that those results will never be recovered or certified. What I want to know is, where was…

The voters of Wisconsin dropped a bomb…

A powerful message…

ABC News has a coup today, with two stories sure to impact the Presidential elections, featuring damaging stories about both GOP frontrunners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.  Delicious!  Let’s start with Mitt: Mitt Romney and the Cayman Islands Sure, Jeff just wrote about Mitt Romney’s taxation and earning issues, which…

Marxist writers are often vitriolic and prone to hyperbole when discussing their favorite subject: Capitalism.  Slavoj Žižek is not one of those guys.  He is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and researcher at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London.  In the latest issue of The London Review of Books he…

This is from last nights Colbert Report. While the whole thing is great, especially Romney’s incoherent rant about releasing his tax returns, but one thing really stood out to me. Mitt when stumbling around what he pays in taxes, he points out that it “is probably closer to 15%(must be…

Ron Paul is famous for bemoaning (“be-whining?”) the control the Federal Reserve has over the economy and has committed to ending the Federal Reserve if he’s elected President.  Of course he will never be elected President.  Overt racists haven’t held the Presidency since Wilson (although Nixon was certainly a closet…

Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk is “technically” the first to enter the race to replace Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin(Tim Cullen is supposedly also running). Here is her introduction to the race. I really like Kathleen Falk and think she would do a great job. If you took…