
Dave Zweifel: Trump pollutes the ‘swamp’ with pardons for his pals
The U.S. Justice Department used to recommend pardons to the president until Donald Trump came along. Now, he just gives them to old pals, even if they’re still in prison.
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The U.S. Justice Department used to recommend pardons to the president until Donald Trump came along. Now, he just gives them to old pals, even if they’re still in prison.

But it can get you American Samoa.

A competitive Biden vs. Sanders contest moving forward means that Democrats in Wisconsin will vote in droves in the April 7th Wisconsin presidential primary. And that should mean a heavy turnout for Jill Karofsky, the more progressive candidate running against Daniel Kelly.

Justice Dan Kelly seems to side with those out to destroy the “administrative state.”

The internal debates are not without merit. But if Democrats’ priority is truly to defeat Donald Trump, it will take more than a strong candidate or a focused turnout strategy. It will take unity, and it will also take individual effort.

The former vice president is surging, but the Vermont senator is still waging a political revolution.

While his opponent hopes to bring her focus on social justice to the state Supreme Court, Justice Dan Kelly wishes to ‘assiduously patrol the borders between the branches.’

In a rare moment of total honesty, Karofsky admitted and promised that she will be a social justice Justice.

What good is it to have a “public hearing” when the public doesn’t hear about it in time to participate?

“Ironclad” contract may allow company to count seasonal employees for tax credits.

I had the incredible opportunity to participate in a study tour throughout Germany to learn more about the country’s apprenticeship program. Germany has been a world leader in vocational training for hundreds of years, and Wisconsin’s own apprenticeship program is largely based on Germany’s dual model.

Report shows thousands of students arrive at college woefully unprepared.

As Wisconsin’s population ages, supporting long-term care is becoming even more critical.

In 2012, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson published “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.” By making complex economic arguments easy to understand, the authors describe how far-left policies have ruined nations.

The issues that Yang sought to make central to the 2020 competition — as part of a mix that must also include climate change, war and peace, economic inequality and racial injustice — will not go away. Why? Because whether the remaining Democrats are up for the discussion or not, the robots are still coming for your job.

Skyrocketing rise since 2015 in new report raises question: why?

Twice in the Democratic governor’s first 14 months in office, Republicans put an income tax cut on the governor’s desk that he vetoed.

With one coronavirus case in Wisconsin and inadequately funded public health, Wisconsin needs more federal funds. It’s going to get worse. Wisconsin shouldn’t pay the price for Trump’s lack of candor and competence.

A new study confirms just how disastrous the environmental/wealth redistribution plan would be for Wisconsin.

Many world leaders and climate change experts were disappointed with the results of last December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, but one longtime local activist who was among the 27,000 who attended came away with hope for the future.

The U.S. Justice Department used to recommend pardons to the president until Donald Trump came along. Now, he just gives them to old pals, even if they’re still in prison.

But it can get you American Samoa.

A competitive Biden vs. Sanders contest moving forward means that Democrats in Wisconsin will vote in droves in the April 7th Wisconsin presidential primary. And that should mean a heavy turnout for Jill Karofsky, the more progressive candidate running against Daniel Kelly.

Justice Dan Kelly seems to side with those out to destroy the “administrative state.”

The internal debates are not without merit. But if Democrats’ priority is truly to defeat Donald Trump, it will take more than a strong candidate or a focused turnout strategy. It will take unity, and it will also take individual effort.

The former vice president is surging, but the Vermont senator is still waging a political revolution.

While his opponent hopes to bring her focus on social justice to the state Supreme Court, Justice Dan Kelly wishes to ‘assiduously patrol the borders between the branches.’

In a rare moment of total honesty, Karofsky admitted and promised that she will be a social justice Justice.

What good is it to have a “public hearing” when the public doesn’t hear about it in time to participate?

“Ironclad” contract may allow company to count seasonal employees for tax credits.

I had the incredible opportunity to participate in a study tour throughout Germany to learn more about the country’s apprenticeship program. Germany has been a world leader in vocational training for hundreds of years, and Wisconsin’s own apprenticeship program is largely based on Germany’s dual model.

Report shows thousands of students arrive at college woefully unprepared.

As Wisconsin’s population ages, supporting long-term care is becoming even more critical.

In 2012, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson published “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.” By making complex economic arguments easy to understand, the authors describe how far-left policies have ruined nations.

The issues that Yang sought to make central to the 2020 competition — as part of a mix that must also include climate change, war and peace, economic inequality and racial injustice — will not go away. Why? Because whether the remaining Democrats are up for the discussion or not, the robots are still coming for your job.

Skyrocketing rise since 2015 in new report raises question: why?

Twice in the Democratic governor’s first 14 months in office, Republicans put an income tax cut on the governor’s desk that he vetoed.

With one coronavirus case in Wisconsin and inadequately funded public health, Wisconsin needs more federal funds. It’s going to get worse. Wisconsin shouldn’t pay the price for Trump’s lack of candor and competence.

A new study confirms just how disastrous the environmental/wealth redistribution plan would be for Wisconsin.

Many world leaders and climate change experts were disappointed with the results of last December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, but one longtime local activist who was among the 27,000 who attended came away with hope for the future.