Andrew Breitbart Is Dead

A Musical Tribute… Sort of…

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Planning for the imminent Apocalypse

We keep hearing that we’re headed for our doom.  The debt and deficit will turn us into the Weimar Republic any day now!  The zombies are coming!  We’re all gonna die!!!! Only gold can save us.  Well gold and apparently Costco…

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South Carolina Snipe Hunt Ends in Complete Failure

And by “snipe hunt” I mean search for fraudulent voters.  There weren’t any.  There never were any.  There never are any.  Voter ID is a fraud perpetrated on the voters by a party that can’t expand it’s membership because they hate all the groups that are growing.  The only way…

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The Good Old Days

  Economist Brad DeLong gets all misty… You know, I went to Washington in 1993 to work for what we called Lloyd Bentsen’s Treasury as part of the sane technocratic bipartisan center. And it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required…

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Republican Thugs – John Sullivan Edition

Oklahoma republican representative John Sullivan is a huge supporter of Paul Ryan (R- Wall St.). So much so that he is willing to do whatever it takes to pass the Paul Ryan Budget. You know the one that ends Medicare as we know it. The budget that no democrat in…

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Rich Meeusen: Long on Words, Short on Clues!

H/T Milwaukee Business Journal's Rich Rovito On Badger Meter Inc. Chairman Rich Meeusen. Meeusen took part in a three person panel discussion he offered up a few cases of foot-in-mouth disease: “In a city like Milwaukee, one of the major products we produce are high school dropouts,” he said. After…

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Pandering to the Idiocracy

Rick Santorum wants you to be dumb.  He wants you to be poor.  And he wants you to be ignorant.  You’ll be easier to control that way.   The Theocracy he’ll establish needs you that way. Santorum has talked about higher education, and its alleged influence on young minds, over…

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Paul Ryan Has Always Led The Ministry of Truth [UPDATED]

In which your humble writer gets punked…

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MacIver Outs Themselves!

The MacIver Institute bills itself as the “Free Market Voice For Wisconsin” As a matter of fact they are so proud of this they have it plastered on their website next to a picture of Dick Van Patten. The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based think…

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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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