The GOP Presidential Debate, Part One

Tonight like millions (I can’t hardly type that with a straight face) of others, I will be watching the GOP debate, at home, with my bottle of Jagermeister close by and Matt Taibbi’s column, “The Official GOP Debate Drinking Game Rules” in Rolling Stone which details the trite phrases that…

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana

The South Carolina legislature is currently discussing the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from their Capitol grounds. To me, the fact that it is even a question over 150 years after the Civil War ended is astonishing. In the most basic sense, the Civil War was fought because the…

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Too little, too late

Today, because of the racially motivated massacre at the Charleston church, Governor Nikki Haley finally called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds. It took her almost an entire week to do something besides call for the death penalty for the shooter. She stood with Lindsay…

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It is really a shame that the name “Insane Clown Posse” is already taken….

Or I could use it to describe the 2016 GOP Presidential hopefuls. With Scott Walker starting an “exploratory committee” (so he can continue his unlimited fund raising, I guess) for President, I think that they will finally have filled the tiny car with the big key on top of it….

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Stop the world—I want to get off

I apologize for neglecting my blogging blue duties of late, but I have been distracted by local politics in my community. The April election brought us a candidate with a new perspective, grounded in the reality of a background in state and local government along with budget analysis, who really…

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Every Voter, Every Election, Every Time!

Supermarket Legends, an ad hoc volunteer group of people from Milwaukee and the surrounding suburbs, has its roots in the Walker Recall. The group does voter registration at locally owned supermarkets such as Lena’s and El Rey as well as other high-traffic areas and events in Milwaukee. Supermarket Legends folks…

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Yet another lie Republicans have told me

One day this week, while sitting in my office listening to the radio (in a concrete building with walls so thick that I can only get WKLH) I was assaulted with a foul pack of lies masquerading as an issue ad from Vote Yes For Democracy. I thought my head…

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“And we’re just the guys to do it.”

When I heard that the Republican leadership of the WI Legislature was going to call a Special Session to push Right to Work through (despite all the other real problems we have), I was pissed. When it passed the Senate and this morning, the Assembly and was headed to Governor…

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At the heart of income inequality….is Goodwill

Did you know that Goodwill is one of Milwaukee’s fastest growing retailers? The metro Milwaukee area supports 15 stores and there are two more set to open soon. Goodwill of SE WI has increased revenues 90% since 2009 to $127 million in 2014. They have numbers that any retail establishment…

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Who says life doesn’t imitate art?

In that time of day when the sun isn’t quite up so it isn’t actually day, yet it isn’t exactly night–a pretty magical time I think, I realized that Scott Walker running for President is a lot like that Frank Sinatra movie, “The Manchurian Candidate”, a political thriller directed by…

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