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Found on Facebook…

If you’ll read the comment thread following Sikora’s original status update, you’ll see that he defends his original statement multiple times, so it seems pretty clear that Penny Sikora doesn’t place much value on the life of the family dog or cat.

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Boy, attorney Michael Maistelman sure is keeping busy these days…
Milwaukee County Supervisor Johnny L. Thomas – the frontrunner in the race for city comptroller – was charged Thursday with accepting a bribe in exchange for promoting a company for a county contract.

Prosecutors charged Thomas with two felony counts, one for accepting [...]

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Philip Pilkington, in an piece taking issue with the tepid review of the future of capitalism in The Financial Times, remarks:

WWII gave politicians and policymakers the gall to unbalance the budget sufficiently to restore the economy. It also gave them the space to rejig the taxation system in a way that made it [...]

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In a brief filed on Tuesday in the Fourth Circuit, the Republican National Committee argues that the federal ban on corporate donations is unconstitutional in large part because it applies across the board to all corporations.

As noted by Ian Millhiser of Think Progress, if a court did accept the RNC’s argument, it [...]

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[This post was co-authored by Lisa Mux and Phil Scarr.  All spelling or grammatical errors belong exclusively to Phil]

We watched agape as Americans for Prosperity held an “It’s Working Wisconsin Town Hall” meeting at the Waukesha Expo center.  And as an added bonus, Lisa got a big hug from Mark Block… It was a [...]

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According to Steve Schultze of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic has a “burning desire” to advance to the chairmanship of the Milwaukee County Board, but I think “all-consuming” is the more appropriate term to describe Dimitrijevic’s desire to be County Board Chair.

After all, Sup. Dimitrijevic made it abundantly clear to [...]

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Why am I not surprised President Obama signed this into law?
President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

Under the new law signed by President Obama, any suspect who is a member of [...]

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Several weeks ago there was an article on the website of The Hispanic Conservative about candidate for County Supervisor Penny Sikora and the endorsement he received from County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic. Some of the points were touched on in a No Quarter piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by their staff writer Daniel [...]

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Sneak attack? Really?!?

On December 7, 2011 By

“One-Year Anniversary of Scott Walker’s Sneak Attack on Wisconsin” screams the headline of a press release issued today by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW).

Today’s press release is just one of many issued by the folks at the DPW every day, but given that today marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese sneak [...]

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#OccupyOverpass

On November 18, 2011 By

Activists from Occupy Milwaukee shut down a bridge over I-43 yesterday for two hours in a symbolic gesture to bring attention to income inequality and the fragile state of our national infrastructure.

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