Category: Big Government

I have only listened to a bit over two hours of the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. But I have heard at least two Senators ask a question to how she might rule if violation of laws that they had authored and gotten passed would come to the Supreme…

A number of sources have stated that as the Federal Reserve Bank raises their rates, consumer lending rates will increase. That makes sense for mortgages and auto loans and such that have followed the Fed Rates down…but they also state that credit card rates will also go up with the…

A week or so ago, Senator Lindsey Graham (R SC) suggested that someone in the ruling elite of Russia should assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the time something in the back of my mind triggered a response that said, is this a violation of the Geneva Convention? Well, I…

Wisconsin doesn’t need a full time legislature! Despite being in the worst pandemic in a century and the resulting economic fall out, in 2020, the Wisconsin State Legislature didn’t meet for months on end and took insignificant actions to solve the problems the state and the nation faced…other than suing…

Remember the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board? Most of you probably do and we’ve written about it a number of times over the years. But the GAB was a non-partisan board of nine retired judges who were tasked with the oversight of government ethics, elections, and campaign finance in Wisconsin. So…

This video was sent out to students of UW Milwaukee on Wednesday July 28, 2021. It runs all of 34 seconds and talks about the scholarship incentives for students when their campus reaches a 70% vaccination rate. Not part of the video, but as published in other media, UW System…

Yes, I realize that on the face of it the basic filibuster isn’t unconstitutional…but I am using it in its generic sense just as the media and politicians do. It should be changed a bit…if the pompous buffoons like Sen. Lindsay Graham or Sen. Ted Cruz want to bloviate on…

Well, none so far…and I imagine it’s unlikely that there will be one. But after spending nine months or more patting themselves on the back for their rapid response and lockdown of travel from China (which was ineffective due to the way it was implemented), the Trump regime response to…

and question, where did they get this done? Apparently not in the Senate. So were they in Washington? Or were they home? And why weren’t they in the Senate working on the COVID-19 relief bill or the continuation package?

Most of my life I have had employer provided health insurance except for the period when I was self-employed and bought my own on the open market. But that was over 40 years ago and it was actually rather affordable. But as we watched the pandemic ravage our country and…