Government for the Super Rich

Depressing… From United Re:Public

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I’m a Level 6 Chaotic Good Fighter

When Dungeons & Dragons alignments meet great movie characters.

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Red State Safety Net

The Red States rely heavily on the social safety net, too.

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One Conservative’s Struggle with Math

In this case, it’s my old buddy Cindy Kilkenny!  Math, alas, is not her strong suit.

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Dragging The Nation to the Right

Interesting graph from VoteView showing the GOP lurching to the right over the years and dragging the Democrats with them.  Interesting to note that the Nazi Socialist Marxist Kenyan Non-President Obama-nation is about as “liberal” as Truman and LBJ (in other words, not so much…) Our findings here echo those…

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America Approves of Obama’s Proposals

Do you think Walker will see numbers like this? I seriously doubt it.

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Another Measure Points to Improving National Economy: Trucking

Good news for the US economy on the trucking front (not so much for Wisconsin, though): The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index jumped 6.8% in December after rising 0.3% in November 2011.  The latest gain put the SA index at 124.5 (2000=100) in December,…

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The Bush Doctrine or The Obama Doctrine

Which is better?  You decide.

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That Naughty Bean!

One of my all-time favorite scenes from Blackadder takes place in Mrs. Miggins Coffee Shop (aka The Literary Salon) circa 1780. (Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron are at a table. Shelley sits up holding a handkerchief; Byron stands very erect, staring straight ahead at nothing; Coleridge appears dead. As Shelley begins…

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Tommy Thompson: The Mad Hatter of Hart Park’s “Celebrate Walker” Rally

by Lisa Mux & Phil Scarr If the Americans for Prosperity event we attended in Waukesha a few weeks back was a motivational rally, the pro-Walker gathering in Wauwatosa Saturday afternoon was feeding time in the hyena paddock. It was less Tony Robbins and more Tony Soprano. The modest crowd…

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