Category: Big Government

Both the Democratic and Republican parties of Wisconsin are trying to give an extra boost to their get out the vote efforts for the non-partisan spring election by adding advisory referenda to the ballot. This spring in particular because there is going to be a very nasty race for the…

and no, I haven’t vetted this. The one thing I’ve taken away from the MAGA crowd is, facts ain’t worth shit. And it confirms my world view, so it must be fact! [sarcasm]

I didn’t pay as much attention to the individual state assembly and state senate races at the mid-terms as I had in the past. I concentrated on my local races and the statewide races. But I don’t remember the Flat Tax being a mid-term election issue with anyone other than…

I was just going to let the Speaker of the House circus play itself out without comment. But this is just stupid. Instead of actually winning over his colleagues who were opponents to his candidacy for Speaker, newly elected Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy simply traded away his last…

So yesterday as all of you know, the 118th Congress got underway in Washington…well sort of. But the Senate did get started and members were sworn in yesterday, including the embarrassment from Wisconsin and insurrectionist, Ron Johnson. So of course Rojo wanted to celebrate the event and posted this tweet…

Not a bad idea at all…but I hope he requires his entire caucus to attend in person…and maybe take turns reading it aloud. And maybe he can request a few annotated versions for Reps Boebert, Taylor Greene, and Gaetz from the Library of Congress. I wonder if a graphic novel…

There’s been a bit of a brouhaha in Wisconsin this past week over military absentee ballots. A Milwaukee Deputy Election Commissioner applied for military absentee ballots under false names and had them sent to State Representative Janel Brandtjen who chairs the Committee of Campaigns and Elections in the Wisconsin Assembly….

First off: Social Security and Medicare receipts and expenses are not part of the federal budget. They do not contribute to the federal deficit. They are collected from employers and employees as part of the payroll process and deposited in separate accounts that are not part of the federal general…

Most of the talk in the media around the White House files removed from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI center on the content of those files. And that’s to be expected because the content indeed puts the security of the nation at risk. But the FBI, Department of Justice, and the…