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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s fourth TV ad of her reelection bid features a woman who praises the Madison Dem’s efforts to combat fentanyl.
The Ethical Life podcast hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss the four tenets of ethical protests and why such principles are important.
UWM must act now.
The bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson described as an attempt “to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses,” was met with fierce criticism from leading Democrats in Congress.
It’s time to crack down on reckless driving.
Cooke’s successful small-donor fundraising allowed her to hire an experienced campaign manager and set up an impressive campaign website, with thoughtful issue positions and creative social media with thousands of views. No wonder that unions, local small businesses and national organizations have endorsed Cooke.
Hovde claims excessive spending by Baldwin and Biden are responsible for our increasing national debt. In fact, it is the tax cuts of Trump and George W. Bush that have added the greatest to our debt.
Thirty-two states in the country right now allow teachers or school administration to conceal carry. South Dakota started the trend in 2013! Eleven years ago. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is not one of the states that allow teachers to defend their classrooms.
WPR restructures in the face of declining audiences, shifting media habits.
A measles outbreak is another problem that we don’t need, and one that can be eliminated if people would just get vaccinated.
UW-Madison engineers have developed a method for improving the body’s uptake of certain gene therapies through controlled electrical stimulation. In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, electrical engineering researchers found that delivering harmless pulses of electricity to
UW President Jay Rothman says the protest encampments at Madison and Milwaukee “will ultimately be gone” but declined to give a specific timeline or course of action as talks are expected to continue this week between protesters and UW-Madison officials.
H.R. 3269 represents a crucial step towards enhancing law enforcement safety and community protection by facilitating the adoption of advanced less-than-lethal technologies.
Arrest them. Remove them. Expel them. What we see happening on college campuses across the country is not about free speech.
The White House said Biden will talk about his “Investing in America agenda” and then participate in a campaign event.
Protesters like to claim they are “speaking truth to power.” That’s both noble and heroic. It is also rare, because speaking the truth requires knowing the truth. And knowledge is gained not by joining the crowd chanting slogans but by taking time to talk and to listen, questioning, debating, reading, and reflecting. It is a slow, arduous and ultimately rewarding process. It is called education.
To judge by media coverage — especially prominent due to the strong visuals of tent encampments and tensions between protesters and officials — one might infer that Gaza is foremost among political concerns this spring.
Former Beloit Daily News Editor Bill Barth sees echoes of the Vietnam War protest movement in today’s campus protests over the Isreal-Gaza war.
The “outside agitator” meme is invoked to absolve — or, at least, mitigate — your tribe of accountability. That’s a cop out.
Blogger Gregory Humphrey chides Columbia University for blocking press access to protests. He also criticizes protesters’ demands journalists get protesters’ permission to photograph them.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s fourth TV ad of her reelection bid features a woman who praises the Madison Dem’s efforts to combat fentanyl.
The Ethical Life podcast hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss the four tenets of ethical protests and why such principles are important.
UWM must act now.
The bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson described as an attempt “to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses,” was met with fierce criticism from leading Democrats in Congress.
It’s time to crack down on reckless driving.
Cooke’s successful small-donor fundraising allowed her to hire an experienced campaign manager and set up an impressive campaign website, with thoughtful issue positions and creative social media with thousands of views. No wonder that unions, local small businesses and national organizations have endorsed Cooke.
Hovde claims excessive spending by Baldwin and Biden are responsible for our increasing national debt. In fact, it is the tax cuts of Trump and George W. Bush that have added the greatest to our debt.
Thirty-two states in the country right now allow teachers or school administration to conceal carry. South Dakota started the trend in 2013! Eleven years ago. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is not one of the states that allow teachers to defend their classrooms.
WPR restructures in the face of declining audiences, shifting media habits.
A measles outbreak is another problem that we don’t need, and one that can be eliminated if people would just get vaccinated.
UW-Madison engineers have developed a method for improving the body’s uptake of certain gene therapies through controlled electrical stimulation. In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, electrical engineering researchers found that delivering harmless pulses of electricity to liver cells caused them to absorb 40 times as much
UW President Jay Rothman says the protest encampments at Madison and Milwaukee “will ultimately be gone” but declined to give a specific timeline or course of action as talks are expected to continue this week between protesters and UW-Madison officials.
H.R. 3269 represents a crucial step towards enhancing law enforcement safety and community protection by facilitating the adoption of advanced less-than-lethal technologies.
Arrest them. Remove them. Expel them. What we see happening on college campuses across the country is not about free speech.
The White House said Biden will talk about his “Investing in America agenda” and then participate in a campaign event.
Protesters like to claim they are “speaking truth to power.” That’s both noble and heroic. It is also rare, because speaking the truth requires knowing the truth. And knowledge is gained not by joining the crowd chanting slogans but by taking time to talk and to listen, questioning, debating, reading, and reflecting. It is a slow, arduous and ultimately rewarding process. It is called education.
To judge by media coverage — especially prominent due to the strong visuals of tent encampments and tensions between protesters and officials — one might infer that Gaza is foremost among political concerns this spring.
Former Beloit Daily News Editor Bill Barth sees echoes of the Vietnam War protest movement in today’s campus protests over the Isreal-Gaza war.
The “outside agitator” meme is invoked to absolve — or, at least, mitigate — your tribe of accountability. That’s a cop out.
Blogger Gregory Humphrey chides Columbia University for blocking press access to protests. He also criticizes protesters’ demands journalists get protesters’ permission to photograph them.