Tommy Thompson Just Trashed All The Good Will He Earned As Interim UW President.

And for me, as a UWM student, I really appreciated the work that former WI Governor Tommy Thompson did to protect the student body during the COVID pandemic and protect the University in general from the reckless nut cases in control of the Wisconsin Legislature. But this news report blows…

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What A Bunch Of Self-Serving Assholes In The US Senate

I have only listened to a bit over two hours of the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. But I have heard at least two Senators ask a question to how she might rule if violation of laws that they had authored and gotten passed would come to the Supreme…

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We Do Redistricting All Wrong!

And no, this post isn’t a rant against gerrymandering or other bias in district distribution. This is more an observation on how ass backwards the system seems to be. This all comes from a newspaper article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stating that the City of Milwaukee had to wait…

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Eleven Months Into The Pandemic, Andrea Palm, is still only the secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

And it’s not like she isn’t qualified or hasn’t been on the job that long…because she was after all, nominated by Governor Tony Evers in January 2019. But the do nothing Republican legislature (which hasn’t met since April of 2020), simply out of spite against the governor, hasn’t confirmed her…

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How Would You Select Biden’s Cabinet? Go Easy or Go Big?

The president-elect is somewhat between a rock and a hard place with his selections for cabinet positions and other West Wing roles. On the one hand he faces a very hostile White House that has been stonewalling co-operation on the transition, then a restive progressive wing in his own party…

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Both Republican and Democratic States Take Offense to the Seditious Texas Election Lawsuit.

Unsurprising the states being sued at the US Supreme Court over their election practices are pushing back at Texas for bringing the suit. But a number of Republicans are finding fault as well. Despite the 17 Republican states who have signed onto the Texas suit, there are states who don’t…

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Time To End Catch All Omnibus Bills? Sen. Mike Lee Is Seeing The Light.

I haven’t gone back to look for it, but I think I published an article a few years back suggesting that Congress and the various state legislatures pull back a bit and keep bills clean and lean. A spending bill should be a spending bill…a defense bill should be a…

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And The Lucky Recount Winners Are? Milwaukee And Dane Counties!

This makes little to no sense…yes the biggest number of Biden votes came from Milwaukee and Dane counties…but yes…they are Democratic strong holds and always go Democratic. The Trump campaign needs to flip 11,000 votes to possibly negate Biden’s lead of nearly 21,000 votes. I don’t think that’s likely to…

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So, who is your favorite for Biden’s running mate?

I have changed my mind a number of times…as I stated in a comment recently, I think Senator Tammy Duckworth.

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Was The Republican Party Founded By A Socialist Wannabe?

From a reading that was suggested by an online class I am taking. It’s from The Revolution Begins Here Milwaukee and the History of Socialism” by Associate Professor Aims McGuinness, UWM Department of History : …the first Wisconsinites to call themselves socialists were English-speaking men and women who were born in…

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