What Do Anwar al-Awlaki and Steve nASS Have In Common?

A definite hatred of satirical cartoonists: Anwar al-Awlaki A Seattle cartoonist who drew a satirical cartoon suggesting an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” — an idea she later disavowed — reportedly has been placed on a hit list by a terror leader linked to the failed Times Square car bombing. Yemeni-American…

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From The Desk of Stephan nASS (part 3)

I have spent the last couple days chronicling Steve "Joe McCarthy" nASS attempts to jail a cartoonist for daring to make fun of him. I wanted one more post on this and hopefully the next time we hear about this will be in Steve nASS’s concession speech on election night…

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From The Desk Of Stephan nASS(part 2)

Madison Cartoonist Mike Konopacki is at it again: Local cartoonist Mike Konopacki isn’t intimidated by the criminal complaint Assemblyman Steve Nass (R-La Grange) filed against him Friday. Under investigation for using Nass’s letterhead in a gag press release, Konopacki’s done it again. This time Konopacki takes aim at Nass’s chief…

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From the Desk of Stephan nASS

Or from the desk of Joseph McCarthy i can not keep them straight these days! We have written recently of the ill advised attack on the UW School for Workers, by Representative Steve Nass (and/or) his spokesperson Mike Mikalsen. They censored a little art show that was being planned by…

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Wisconsin Uprising – The (previously censored)Art Show!

Recently, Steve Nass and his spokesman got wind that the UW School for workers was putting on an art show. They then went into their extreme partisan frenzy and went there, and after some threats of pulling funding, made them cancel the show. The University of Wisconsin’s School for Workers…

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Irrefutable Proof

Why we need to go to a part time legislature. Let me take a step back quick and set this up. I recently came across tthis article about why the religious right does not like public schools. Right-wing fundamentalists such as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum hate public schools, which…

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Show me what democracy looks like

PLEASE!!! In the Village of Cottage Grove, we found out recently, that we have a royal family and no one is allowed in and no one can be voted out. As I wrote yesterday the Village Board was getting ready to appoint registered (secret) lobbyist Paula Severson to fill out…

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Collective Bargaining Comes With A Cost:

Appointed (for 19 months of a 24 month term) Village of Cottage Grove Mike Mikalsen, was recently on the Mitch Henck radio show (1310AM) and said this “Every aspect of collective bargaining has a cost”. Forgetting the fact that the republicans in the Senate would disagree with him, I actually…

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textbook anti-intellectualism part 2.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov As promised Part 2 regarding the Steve Nass agenda. and this quote from mike…

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textbook anti-intellectualism part 1

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It appears to me that Dr. King was ahead of his…

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