I believe it is peace in our time!

The above quote is from British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on September 30, 1938 after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of the Czechoslovakian area known as the Sudetenland. We know how well that went. But in case you have forgotten: And just to keep it real, this past…

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The Fetterman Dress Code Vs. Jim Jordan

Senator John Fetterman (D – PA) has stirred up a hornet’s next in the US Senate for his unconventional dress…so much so that the Senate dress code was repealed and later reinstated all while the US Government is about to shut down due to a lack of a budget. Just…

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Irony: A State With A Bong Recreation Park Hasn’t Legalized Recreational Use Of Marijuana.

Yes, I realize that the Bong Recreation Park is named after Wisconsin resident Richard Bong, who was a fighter pilot ace and hero in World War II. And no I am not belittling him in any way…but sometimes the humor suggests itself. But over the past year or so there…

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Some Thoughts On The GOP Reticence to Defend Ukraine.

I have already taken a position on this on Blogging Blue: 1938 Sudetenland : 1939 Poland :: 2022 Ukraine : 2023 Poland. But given some of the comments at the GOP debate this past week, I guess I need to do it again. A friend of mine recently visited the…

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Milwaukee Buck Brook Lopez To Make $24 Million Per Year, But Robin Vos Thinks He Needs A Tax Cut.

With a Democrat in the governor’s seat and Republicans in charge of both the state assembly and senate, and given the current national political environment, it is inevitable that there would be a fight around taxes in the biennial budget discussion. Coming off the current fiscal period that saw a…

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The Debt Ceiling Debacle Should Never Have Happened And Joe Biden Didn’t Really Earn This Victory Lap

No, I am not talking about the things that the left is complaining that Joe Biden gave away. No, I am not talking about the fact that after insisting that there would be no discussions or negotiations…that the White House negotiated with McCarthy and the GOP in the House. I…

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Wisconsin US Rep. Bryan Steil Is An Enemy Of Safe And Fair Elections On Top Of Being A Tone Deaf Hypocrite.

First off, I apologize but this article is behind a pay wall at JSOnline, the website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil’s committee tasked with election oversight hires an ex-Trump campaign aide tied to the fake elector scheme. I will try to make sure I have…

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Wisconsin: Can We Finally Put The Stolen Election Mythology To Bed?

I won’t rehash all of the nonsense around the 2020 Presidential election in Wisconsin, other than to say, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth and legal wrangling, there was never any evidence of any wrongdoing in Wisconsin. But of course, legends die hard. And that brings us to the…

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Reprise: Rep. Gwen Moore Needs To Retire

Since I am on most of the state and local Democratic mailings lists, it should come as no surprise that this past week I got an invite to a ‘birthday party’ fundraiser for US Representative Gwen Moore. I have addressed this issue before, in November of 2020 in fact, when…

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WTF? Wisconsin Secretary of State La Follette Resigns

I am not going to re-write this article but I will admit that this comes as something more than just a surprise: Wisconsin’s longtime Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette abruptly resigned on Friday, saying he was leaving three months into his 11th consecutive term “to focus on my…

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