JSOnline launches “Purple Wisconsin”

From the folks at JSOnline comes “Purple Wisconsin.” At Purple Wisconsin, a group of eight community bloggers will comment throughout the year on state and regional issues. The idea is to try to elevate the level of discussion about the most important issues of the day – especially at a…

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Michael Gableman

In case you haven’t heard, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman recieved free legal counsel from Michael Best & Friedrich in return for their services(which helped Mr. Gableman stay on the Supreme Court) he then voted their way in the numerous cases they tried in front of him. Mr. Gableman…

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NERD Fight!

Mitt was so adamant that he hates the immigrants as much or more than rick Perry that he had to run up on him. In Christian Schneider land, that was an attack and Mitten was lucky that Rick Perry didnt have the same have the same choke reflex that David…

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Wednesday Morning Links

I have been too busy to give each of these links their own post, so I thought I would share them together. All are brilliant and worthy of a full read, here are some quick highlights. 1. Columbia University Economist and Professor came out with his ideas, to get America…

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Audition Uncovered

For those of you not familiar with Christian Schneiders work, he has written some of the (unintentionally?) funniest stuff there is out of Wisconsin politics lately. Schneider came out with such gems as the well timed “alternate” story using “anonymous” sources that pointed out that Justice Bradley’s neck performed a…

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About that outside money!

Scott Walker can not get on TV or The hate radio triumverate enough to complain about outside money coming into WI. Now we know what he was talking about! It turns out the Justice David Prosser’s recount campaign was well funded with almost strictly outside money.  John Templeton Jr. of…

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I think Christian Schneider has a bit of a crush on Randy Hopper

Says Christian Schneider: [Randy Hopper’s] charm is infectious. He is a handsome, fit man of 45 with a chin like Buzz Lightyear’s, white hair, and fashionable, dark-rimmed glasses. In addition to his work as a romance writer for the National Review, Schneider is also a fellow at the “nonpartisan” think…

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Waukesha’s Republican County Clerk “finds” 7,500 more votes for David Prosser

UPDATE: Having watched the news conference where the “discovery” of these missing votes was announced, I can’t help but wonder why it took something in the neighborhood of 29 hours after these votes were “discovered” for Kathy Nickolaus to make the announcement regarding the votes. What’s more, how is it…

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But wait….I thought WPRI was supposed to be “nonpartisan”

For the past six months, I’ve been embedded with the Ron Johnson for Senate campaign… So says Christian Schneider on the WPRI blog, as he promotes a story he wrote about the 2010 U.S. Senate race between Johnson and Sen. Russ Feingold. According to its website, WPRI is a “nonpartisan,…

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