CHANNELING NIXON: Scott Walker's anti-civil policing, secrecy, and...
Madison's Capital Times newspaper ran a disturbing online dispatch over the weekend suggesting just how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has handled some of those in the crowds demonstrating against his...
View ArticleRe Scott Walker: Freedom's just another word for nothing right to work
On Monday Gov. Scott Walker signed into law the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature's so-called "right to work" bill. From an astute English major's standpoint, something interesting happened...
View ArticleScott Walker's "Red State Dawn"
A week or two ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was campaigning for president in Iowa and said his top priority would be to combat terrorism, lest the terrorists "wash up on our shores" --...
View ArticleExceptionalism, the GOP's Decepticons and the party's latest scheme to invoke...
The Politifact feature that appears in a number of US newspapers tries to rate the relative truthfulness of statements by public figures, including key politicians. As with other local efforts, the...
View ArticleConfronted with his awful record, Scott Walker blames non-existent Democrats
Trolling for support from neighboring Republicans, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this week made another of his interminable presidential campaign stops (he hasn't yet formally declared, but for months...
View ArticleDAMAGED BRAND: Self-described "bold" Republican presidential candidate evades...
This book title is inoperative. On Scott Walker's official if technically proto-presidential campaign web site (he hasn't yet officially declared, although he's running like crazy and raising millions...
View ArticleCOAL FOLDEROL: Supreme Court's ruling on EPA mercury rules is either a huge...
This morning's headlines provided an excellent example of how interest groups and news media tend to impart spin on even the clearest set of facts. The latest spinning comes in the wake of the U.S....
View ArticleFUZZY JOURNALISM: Crowd counts appear to befuddle Milwaukee’s daily, except...
Estimating the size of crowds at public campaign events has become big business in politics. Candidates strive to surround themselves with the biggest possible crowds, while opponents strive to...
View ArticleThe Scott Walker "we"; or, overdrawn at the memory bank
The thing about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is that less is more. If you're a national voter, his run for the presidency is a new thing and so, mostly, is he. He's a fresh face, and at first his...
View ArticleWisconsin Supreme Court shuts down multi-county probe of Scott Walker...
Arguably an overreach, this ruling came as no surprise to legal and political observers, given that the Wisconsin Supreme Court majority consists of conservatives who benefited from the same kind of...
View ArticleGOP demagogue pops off, goes after non-partisan elections board after Wis...
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) is flexing his inner demagogue. Now that the state Supreme Court's conservative majority has killed the John Doe investigation looking into...
View ArticleRepublican brinkmanship on Iran, and a Kennan-style containment policy against
Brinkmanship. That's the term originally coined by United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the Eisenhower administration and the height of the US-USSR "cold war" in the 1950s. It was...
View ArticleWis Supreme Court Injustice David Prosser absolves self in recusal refusal
Time to revisit "Alice in Wonderland," Wisconsin Edition. Here's the latest act of twisted judicial logic from a real piece of work. Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser just issued a written...
View ArticleClerical error: Kim Davis short course
"I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do." -- Czar Nicholas ITries to rule Kentucky marriage law: county clerk Kim Davis, two centuries later
View ArticleIn Wisconsin GOP bizarro world: secrecy, law-breaking fixed by gutting...
Wisconsin Republicans may not be scientists or believe much in logic or science, but they're working overtime to make the quantum-physics hypothesis of parallel universes a functional reality. Because...
View ArticleRunning for Milwaukee DA? Then be forthright and tell us which party is...
In the past decade’s general Republican takeover of once-purple Wisconsin, the Grand Old Opry Party has used many methods and techniques to maximize its shortcomings, for instance, badly gerrymandering...
View ArticleIN WISCONSIN: Is that a gun in your pocket, Assemblyman, or are you just...
Amid all the strange, right-wing snark and snort going on in Wisconsin politics these days, the Republican Party's growing, conspiratorially flavored guns/knives/concealment fetish is the most...
View ArticleLATEST WIS GOP MOVE: THE PLAY'S THE THING TO UNCOVER THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
I emailed the following message today to Wisconsin GOP state senators whom I list below. These are senators reportedly on the fence over whether to vote in an extraordinary (that's an official term,...
View ArticleWalker Incorporated copyrights State Of Wisconsin "public" documents
Another chapter in the continuing serial on how the Republican Party is taking private this thing we call the USA.Many of you may have missed the fact that, in his brief, disastrous run for the GOP...
View ArticleLET'S SPILL ON WISCONSIN'S APPROACH TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND RAIL ACCIDENTS
It's been decades since the last one, so now is the time for Wisconsin's governor to appoint another commission to review the state's procedures for handling hazardous chemical spills and other...
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