Day: September 19, 2013

We’ve been inundated with talking points from the Tea Party and the Republican Party on how the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is a train wreck. We’ve seen the uproarious political cartoons from the right that let us know that the ACA, aka Obamacare, is a train wreck. Well here’s…

In between voting the 41st time and the 42nd time to repeal or defund Obamacare, the Republicans have reopened their investigation into Benghazi! They are irate that four Americans lost their lives in a terrorist attack in what is essentially a lawless area of a foreign country still in the…

Now we have probably all read articles about saving Social Security by raising the minimum retirement age again and raising the age where one earns their maximum benefit. Of course it could simply be saved by eliminating the salary cap…but I think I discussed that elsewhere on Blogging Blue. But…

I pride myself as a Milwaukeean. I take even more pride as a Wisconsinite. But I take shame in my government. And, albeit, I am a subscriber, I take shame in my state’s largest media outlet in Journal Communications and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Tonight was the last straw for…

  Sid Vicious was kind of unhinged and bizarre.                   Sid Dithers was king of unhinged and bizarre.   But the Koch-Head, Acid Trip, Astro-turfing Aristocracy front grouping as “Generation Opportunity” really takes the bizarre and unhinged to new and unseen heights….

  Just keepin’ the sun shining here. Lee Drutman from the Sunlight Foundation recently shed light on the post-Citizens United campaign contributions of the elite class that has both consumed our democratic system and dominated our cultural-political discourse. It doesn’t hurt to review the foundation’s research. The findings are stunning: In…

From Blues Around the World Liner Notes: A member of the nomadic Tuareg tribe who inhabit the western Sahara Desert region, Amar Sundy was raised in France but returned to the desert mountains of Algeria in his late teens to explore his cultural roots. The Tuaregs are known as “the…

Yesterday Oak Creek Alderman Ken Gehl announced he’s running for the State Assembly in the 21st Assembly district, a seat that was vacated by Mark “I love strip mining” Honadel, who left for a job in the private sector (presumably working directly for or lobbying on behalf of mining companies)….

This is good news, but what took so long? Thousands of Milwaukee County documents and emails seized in a John Doe investigation remain sealed seven months after the inquiry ended, and should be returned to the county so the public can gain access to them, according to a legal filing…