Posted by
MadCityMan on August 25, 2010, at 1:55 pm
UW Madison and Marquette placed among the top 40 national Universities in a recent ranking by the Washington Monthly’s College Guide based on national rankings in 3 criteria ” Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)”. Madison ranked #23 and Marquette ranked #32. The UW did particularly well on Research with a number 9 rank, while Marquette scored a 2nd place finish on Service. UWM achieved an overall ranking of 250, out of the 258 national schools ranked. [...]
Posted by
Ed Heinzelman on August 24, 2010, at 9:14 pm
I started working on this blog about a week ago and then set it aside when Tim John posted that he was attending Drinking Liberally. I thought I’d talk to him a bit and add any new information before posting. Well he showed up but I got distracted by other conversations. Well after reading [...]
Posted by
Proud Progressive on August 23, 2010, at 5:18 pm
One of the many republicans in the 8th Cong district, running for the opportunity to lose to Dr. Steve Kagen, recently gave a speech to a kindergarten class and broke it down for everyone in the room to understand.
He elightened the room with one of the best descriptions ever. “The Constitution is a [...]
Posted by
Ed Heinzelman on August 17, 2010, at 5:30 pm
Every Sunday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel runs the feature: Congress Following the Vote. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the MJS runs a short explanation of the major legislation in Washington from the previous week with a short synopsis of the bill and the voting record of Wisconsin’s House and Senate delegations. [...]
Posted by
Proud Progressive on August 12, 2010, at 10:37 am
Recently MTV reality show star Sean Duffy held a $250 dollar a plat fundraiser with disgraced former speaker and 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
This week brings some interesting revelations regarding the person that Newt Gingrich is. An 8000 word essay detailing what Newt Gingrich is all about. . Newt has been to Iowa [...]
Posted by
Proud Progressive on August 8, 2010, at 11:51 pm
For months now I have been having fun pointing out the ridiculousness of the “tea” parties. From the fact that the original tea party was to protest a corporate tax cut, to the fact that Big Government millionaires Paul Ryan and Tommy Thompson have been headline speakers, to their beginning of funding and organizing [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on August 6, 2010, at 5:26 pm
Paul Krugman takes on the Golden Boy of the GOP – Paul Ryan – in today’s New York Times. You can read his column “The Flim Flam Man” here. I thought there were several points worth extracting from the editorial. “But no: as long as someone on the right claims to have bold new proposals, he’s hailed as an innovative thinker. And nobody checks his arithmetic. “Which brings me to the innovative thinker du jour: Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.” “But it’s the audacity of dopes. Mr. Ryan isn’t offering fresh food for thought; he’s serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce.” [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on August 3, 2010, at 11:18 am
Gallup has released their latest poll results tracking the most conservative and most liberal states. Based on their polling results, WI did not make it onto either list. The top 10 most conservative states were lead by Wyoming, Mississippi and Utah; while the top 10 most liberal states were led by DC, RI & CT. [...]
Posted by
Proud Progressive on August 2, 2010, at 9:51 am
Something is seriously wrong with our system. When we have very well paid government officials(the president makes $400,000 a year plus expenses, the governor of WI makes $136,000 yearly.) waiting until they get out of office so they can cash in. As Tommy Thompson so succinctly put it “”Everybody knows I was broke when [...]
Posted by
MadCityMan on July 20, 2010, at 12:19 pm
Coming Soon! Crazy Caravan of Corny Creepiness. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is taking their hate and kookiness on the road with their traveling circus stopping in 23 cities this summer. You can follow their progress at their Summer for Marriage website. Among the cities that are scheduled for a visit is our beautiful capital city – Madison. If you’d like to see them in action and hear what they have to say, you can observe the caravan in action when they arrive here on Tuesday, July 27th at 12:00 at the State Capital State Street entrance according to their website. [...]
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