
Dave Cieslewicz: The unforgiving hard-left
Madison Ald. Gary Halverson resigned last night. He probably made the right decision for his family, but the whole awful episode says worse things about the hard-left than it does about Halverson.
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Madison Ald. Gary Halverson resigned last night. He probably made the right decision for his family, but the whole awful episode says worse things about the hard-left than it does about Halverson.

This recent circular firing squad on Wisconsin elections, State Elections Boards and election officials must stop! These attacks undermine the fundamental values of our democracy and weaken confidence in the integrity of our elections.

Less than two years after the five most heavily Democratic cities in Wisconsin accepted millions of dollars in grant money from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to facilitate a takeover of election administration by liberal partisans, one of those cities is back at it.

On Tuesday, when Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban, Johnson was similarly cagey. He wouldn’t say whether he would support the bill, instead declaring that abortion should be decided by “we the people” in each of the 50 states.

As the pandemic struck in March 2020, the Evers administration issued a statewide stay-at-home order that closed schools, public places and so-called “non-essential” businesses.

Domestic violence & the judicial silencing of women.

Illinois experiment is risky, but Wisconsin is also struggling.

Study finds it’s down 65% in Wisconsin and 59% nationally since 1993, driven by government aid.

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We have learned the hard way that directly confronting an extremist on either side of the political spectrum only serves to harden positions.

Our political system was born of great compromise. The nation must grow by casting off old and new systems designed to support minority control.

It feels like the deck is stacked against us. But we don’t want handouts, we just want a fair shot.

A majority of likely voters (55.6%) say they are less likely to vote for candidates who support Biden’s $500 billion edict to cancel college debt, according to the poll from Convention of States Action.

Raskin, who will be in Madison Friday evening to participate in the Cap Times Idea Fest on the University of Wisconsin campus, was, before his 2016 election to the House, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and one of the nation’s most distinguished commentators on the Constitution as a tool for checking and balancing errant executives.

The progressive consensus is that we must follow the progressive consensus

Wisconsin’s governor’s election, the attorney general’s election and U.S. Senate election will all have a major impact on a Wisconsin woman’s right to reproductive choice.

Create a nonprofit conservancy to revive and restore the domes and Mitchell Park.

Johnson’s number one priority has been to expand tax breaks for wealthy owners of pass-through businesses. Nothing, including Social Security and Medicare, gets in his way.

Brands anyone who dares to disagree with him a threat to democracy

Having clean, drinkable water should be a right for all.

Madison Ald. Gary Halverson resigned last night. He probably made the right decision for his family, but the whole awful episode says worse things about the hard-left than it does about Halverson.

This recent circular firing squad on Wisconsin elections, State Elections Boards and election officials must stop! These attacks undermine the fundamental values of our democracy and weaken confidence in the integrity of our elections.

Less than two years after the five most heavily Democratic cities in Wisconsin accepted millions of dollars in grant money from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to facilitate a takeover of election administration by liberal partisans, one of those cities is back at it.

On Tuesday, when Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban, Johnson was similarly cagey. He wouldn’t say whether he would support the bill, instead declaring that abortion should be decided by “we the people” in each of the 50 states.

As the pandemic struck in March 2020, the Evers administration issued a statewide stay-at-home order that closed schools, public places and so-called “non-essential” businesses.

Domestic violence & the judicial silencing of women.

Illinois experiment is risky, but Wisconsin is also struggling.

Study finds it’s down 65% in Wisconsin and 59% nationally since 1993, driven by government aid.

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We have learned the hard way that directly confronting an extremist on either side of the political spectrum only serves to harden positions.

Our political system was born of great compromise. The nation must grow by casting off old and new systems designed to support minority control.

It feels like the deck is stacked against us. But we don’t want handouts, we just want a fair shot.

A majority of likely voters (55.6%) say they are less likely to vote for candidates who support Biden’s $500 billion edict to cancel college debt, according to the poll from Convention of States Action.

Raskin, who will be in Madison Friday evening to participate in the Cap Times Idea Fest on the University of Wisconsin campus, was, before his 2016 election to the House, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and one of the nation’s most distinguished commentators on the Constitution as a tool for checking and balancing errant executives.

The progressive consensus is that we must follow the progressive consensus

Wisconsin’s governor’s election, the attorney general’s election and U.S. Senate election will all have a major impact on a Wisconsin woman’s right to reproductive choice.

Create a nonprofit conservancy to revive and restore the domes and Mitchell Park.

Johnson’s number one priority has been to expand tax breaks for wealthy owners of pass-through businesses. Nothing, including Social Security and Medicare, gets in his way.

Brands anyone who dares to disagree with him a threat to democracy

Having clean, drinkable water should be a right for all.