CLIMATEGATE!!!

Remember ClimateGate? The horrors of climate scientists ‘fudging” data to help prove their point? It proved beyond any doubt that global warming is not man made! That we have NOT had the warmest temperatures on record. That we have NOT had more extreme weather events lately! yes Case closed. just…

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Wisconsin’s loss of high speed rail funds not “political retribution”

So let’s just recap a few facts regarding the proposed high speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison, a project that has now been de-funded by the federal government: Wisconsin receives $810 million in funding from federal government to fund high speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison. Gov. Jim…

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Send your open records requests for Rep. Leah Vukmir to Brian Fraley of the MacIver Institute

Several weeks ago, blogger Cory Liebmann of the Eye On Wisconsin blog submitted an open records request to State Rep. Leah Vukmir’s office, and as I write this, Liebmann still has not received a response to his request. However, while Liebmann hasn’t received a response from Rep. Vukmir’s office to…

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MacIver hires “investigative journalist”

Earlier today, the MacIver Institute announced the hiring of Bill Osmulski as that organization’s first investigative journalist. Someone ought to tell the folks at MacIver that Osmulski coming aboard is old news.

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MacIver’s new research “bulldog”

My guess on who’ll be the MacIver Institute’s new “research bulldog?” Bill Osmulski of WKOW-TV in Madison.

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Who’s MacIver’s new bulldog?

Tony Galli of the Inside Scoop blog is reporting the conservative Wisconsin think tank MacIver Institute, with its ties to former republican assembly speaker Scott Jensen, has found a researching bulldog from the journalistic ranks to research data and other information to support the Institute’s policy stands. Apparently, the individual…

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Brett in Hiding?

You Recall last Week Zach Posted about The Racist Tweet From Fred Dooley, The Failed Aldermanic Candidate Blogger from Racine. Well…..Today Fred’s Racism hit The Big Time when Dan Bice Updates it in The No Quarter Column in The Journal Sentinel. Not a whole lot of new things to report…

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The Wisconsin Prosperity Network

Have you heard of the Wisconsin Prosperity Network? Perhaps you have, just under their real name: the Republican Party of Wisconsin. As the Wisconsin State Journal reported, the Wisconsin Prosperity Network would create a plethora of right-wing organizations presumably hell-bent on getting back Republican majorities in the Wisconsin legislature, as…

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Scott Jensen’s ties to MacIver Institute

Last week, Cory Liebmann from Eye on Wisconsin wrote about the launch of the MacIver Institute, a new right-wing organization, and Cory also made mention of former Republican Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen’s ties to MacIver. Cory noted Bruce Murphy from Milwaukee Magazine had been reporting for weeks that Jensen was…

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