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Nothing illustrates just how far gone the Democratic Party is, how out of touch they are with average citizens, and how little interest they have in winning elections, then this week’s votes on bail reform in the Wisconsin Legislature.
What would it take for all American children to have Artifact-quality early childhood education?
Five conservative groups pushing this. Its impact is astonishingly regressive.
When conservatives swept into power during the Republican Revolution of 2010, they vowed to get Wisconsin’s sorry fiscal house back in order and bring much-needed relief to overburdened taxpayers.
Its time out for working in pockets—we must remove ourselves from our comfort zones to enact change.
It is better to let your enemy retreat so that you do not have to fight him on the battlefield. In diplomacy, it is also a good technique to let your enemy, and yourself, save face.
It was a mistake of the first order to announce to Putin that no real hard ‘red line’ existed in Ukraine.
A plan to defend Taiwan within the decade.
There are some fishy things about the resume of Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican from Kewaskum who has announced a campaign for governor.
It’s time for sensible people in Dane County — which, I am convinced are the vast majority of people here — to wrest control of public safety issues from our paralyzed public officials.
A group of Republican legislators wants to have the state subsidize the training of new truck drivers, ostensibly to help fill what is nationally estimated to be a shortage of 80,000 drivers.
Canada-U.S. relations remain quietly strong despite media focus on current disruptions.
Three months to the day after a felon out on just $1,000 bail killed six people and injured dozens of others at the Waukesha Christmas Parade, his campaign is doubling down on a position that isn’t just politically toxic; it is literally deadly.
As liberal Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes doubles down on his support for eliminating cash bail, one Republican lawmaker working to stop the revolving-door criminal justice system says radical Democrats like Barnes just don’t get it.
Low turnout for critically important decisions harmful for communities.
One-time nobody now a candidate for governor and top demagogue in state Republican Party.
When faced with the choice of whether to identify a candidate as a liar or a fool, the generous course is to give the contender the benefit of the doubt and assume that they mean what they say. In other words, if a politician says something that is quantifiably dumb, the polite response is to assume that they must be, well, dumb.
The state’s election audit, a raft of new voting restrictions pushed forward by Republican leaders of the Legislature, the nation’s only special counsel investigation into the 2020 election and the move led by State Rep. and GOP gubernatorial candidate Timothy Ramthun to decertify the state’s electoral votes, taken together, put Wisconsin in a class by itself.
Why is Madison more progressive than, say, Wausau? The answer: Class warfare. Not rich versus the poor nor even capitalists versus workers, as the Marxists would have it. The divide demarcates people who work with their minds versus those who work with their hands, NY Times columnist Ross Douthat postulates.
Much of the Democratic Party is now made up of extremely liberal, affluent and well-educated urbanites. They’re super woke and pro-union, but when woke and solidarity run head-on into the education of their offspring, education is going to leave their other values in pieces on the side of the road.
Nothing illustrates just how far gone the Democratic Party is, how out of touch they are with average citizens, and how little interest they have in winning elections, then this week’s votes on bail reform in the Wisconsin Legislature.
What would it take for all American children to have Artifact-quality early childhood education?
Five conservative groups pushing this. Its impact is astonishingly regressive.
When conservatives swept into power during the Republican Revolution of 2010, they vowed to get Wisconsin’s sorry fiscal house back in order and bring much-needed relief to overburdened taxpayers.
Its time out for working in pockets—we must remove ourselves from our comfort zones to enact change.
It is better to let your enemy retreat so that you do not have to fight him on the battlefield. In diplomacy, it is also a good technique to let your enemy, and yourself, save face.
It was a mistake of the first order to announce to Putin that no real hard ‘red line’ existed in Ukraine.
A plan to defend Taiwan within the decade.
There are some fishy things about the resume of Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican from Kewaskum who has announced a campaign for governor.
It’s time for sensible people in Dane County — which, I am convinced are the vast majority of people here — to wrest control of public safety issues from our paralyzed public officials.
A group of Republican legislators wants to have the state subsidize the training of new truck drivers, ostensibly to help fill what is nationally estimated to be a shortage of 80,000 drivers.
Canada-U.S. relations remain quietly strong despite media focus on current disruptions.
Three months to the day after a felon out on just $1,000 bail killed six people and injured dozens of others at the Waukesha Christmas Parade, his campaign is doubling down on a position that isn’t just politically toxic; it is literally deadly.
As liberal Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes doubles down on his support for eliminating cash bail, one Republican lawmaker working to stop the revolving-door criminal justice system says radical Democrats like Barnes just don’t get it.
Low turnout for critically important decisions harmful for communities.
One-time nobody now a candidate for governor and top demagogue in state Republican Party.
When faced with the choice of whether to identify a candidate as a liar or a fool, the generous course is to give the contender the benefit of the doubt and assume that they mean what they say. In other words, if a politician says something that is quantifiably dumb, the polite response is to assume that they must be, well, dumb.
The state’s election audit, a raft of new voting restrictions pushed forward by Republican leaders of the Legislature, the nation’s only special counsel investigation into the 2020 election and the move led by State Rep. and GOP gubernatorial candidate Timothy Ramthun to decertify the state’s electoral votes, taken together, put Wisconsin in a class by itself.
Why is Madison more progressive than, say, Wausau? The answer: Class warfare. Not rich versus the poor nor even capitalists versus workers, as the Marxists would have it. The divide demarcates people who work with their minds versus those who work with their hands, NY Times columnist Ross Douthat postulates.
Much of the Democratic Party is now made up of extremely liberal, affluent and well-educated urbanites. They’re super woke and pro-union, but when woke and solidarity run head-on into the education of their offspring, education is going to leave their other values in pieces on the side of the road.
