A Lot of Ironic Irony is Ironically Ironic

Friends of Scott Walker are involved in credit card fraud?  CapitalOne thinks so.

When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had flagged an earlier purchase as potentially fraudulent. The problem? A $5 donation [...]

Venture Capitalist Nick Hanauer @TEDTalks on Income Inequality, Jobs and Taxes

Venture Capitalist Nick Hanauer explains the economic ecosystem and how income inequality is hurting our economy in this presentation at TED. Here’s an excerpt from the video… [...]

New Video – You’re Fired about Scott Walker by rapper Jasiri X

New video from Progressive Rapper Jasiri X – You’re Fired Scott Walker! [...]

Martin Bashir Interviews Koch Industries General Counsel Mark Holden

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir interviews Koch Industry’s General Counsel Mark Holden about the Koch Brothers and their political activities. Among the questions he’s asked is one about the fake Charles Koch call to Governor Walker and what Scott Walker expected to have to give the Koch brothers. The questions about Walker start at 6:17, well worth listening to. [...]

Newt Gingrich Channels Peter Riegert

Boon: “A vicious mother, isn’t he.”

Otter: “He can’t do that to our pledges!”

Boon: “Yeah!  Only we can do that to our pledges!”

When Gingrich accused Romney and Bain of taking over companies and downsizing them at the expense of workers, he was widely condemned by fellow Republicans and eventually backed off.

This week [...]

Does Republican State Senate candidate Pam Stevens have a history of financial troubles?

This is interesting… On paper, Pam Stevens looks like a brilliant choice: an African American Republican and Kenosha Unified School Board member.

It took about four minutes to discover a major problem in Ms. Stevens past that she’s going to have to explain if she is serious about competing against Wirch.

Turns out that Stevens [...]

Understanding The Push For Voter ID Laws in America

It’s not hard to work out.  Seriously…

White Americans have officially passed a major … milestone as they now represent less than half of all births in the United States.

You’ve got to strip them of their rights before they know what it is they’re missing.  It’s easier that way.

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Wisconsin Loses Another 6,200 Jobs in April

Yes, it sure is working.  Carry on, citizens, nothing to see here.

At a time when government jobs statistics are under scrutiny as never before, preliminary data released Thursday showed that Wisconsin lost an estimated 6,200 private-sector jobs in April.

April showed the second consecutive month of private-sector job losses in the state, according to [...]

I’m Sure This Will Turn Out Well

Because who needs all that pesky data clogging up our faith-based ideological decision making process?  Governor Walker has shown us the way!

On May 9 the House voted to kill the American Community Survey, which collects data on some 3 million households each year and is the largest survey next to the decennial census. [...]

On The Mendacity of the Polling; -or- Egg Counting for Conservatives [UPDATED]

One, two, three, four, five… Wow! Look at all those chickens!

When it rains, it pours… All over Tom Barrett.  The most recent Marquette University Poll showing that Governor Walker has passed Tom Barrett in the race for Governor is all the rage among the Walkerbots on Twitter and the squawkers on the radio.  But, like [...]