
Jimmy Anderson: Redistricting reform won’t save us
Unless the court is prepared to eliminate partisan redistricting, it is not equipped to create the strict standards necessary to avoid endless litigation.
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Unless the court is prepared to eliminate partisan redistricting, it is not equipped to create the strict standards necessary to avoid endless litigation.
If you really wanted to make Americans safer you would ban semi-automatic weapons and forget about the bump stocks, which of course would be useless if they had nothing to modify.
Living in a free society rooted in individual liberty and the rule of law is not for the frail or fragile. There are considerable personal and societal human costs, but the alternative is despotism, the human costs of which history has demonstrated to be substantially more severe.
Conservative commentator and Townhall.com News Editor Katie Pavlich was able to speak about the right to carry guns on college campuses without interruption Tuesday night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One of Trump’s most attractive features to his followers is that he’s a “straight talker” who doesn’t care who he offends. But he’s unmasked himself as one of the most thin-skinned, overly-sensitive politicians America has ever seen.
While Dane County and other local governments are encouraging biking, the state government is going in the opposite direction.
Ryan will go only so far as the NRA allows, which, at this point, is toward a constrained discussion of regulating “bump stock” devices, which modify rifles so that they can fire bullets as rapidly as machine guns. Beyond that tangential response, the speaker is determined to change the topic.
The Milwaukee building’s design is to keep their clients away from the pro-life sidewalk counselors and protesters, according to the top abortionist at the site, Kathy King. Spending $8 million just to avoid protesters is not evidence that Planned Parenthood is hurting for cash.
The court system was whittled down to a twig that can be easily bent to accommodate the needs of Foxconn Technology Group.
There was a time when environmental protection was a shared ethic amongst Democrats and Republicans.
Sure, some people will gnash their teeth if their special perks are tampered with. But from a broader tax policy standpoint, this is the right thing to do, and if presented correctly, the smart thing to do from a political standpoint.
Actually his fire fighter cuts will probably have no impact on safety.
Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
Madison columnist Emily Mills and gun rights advocate Nik Clark, the founder of Wisconsin Carry, share two perspectives about what the U.S. should do, if anything, about guns.
Schimel-Pruitt are a solid chamber of commerce tag team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections.
Quantifying partisan makeup through a single formula is like trying to judge a baseball team simply through analytics and statistics.
Pushing project back decades, adding billions in costs, hurting metro area.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, deliver their state budget winners and losers in this week’s “Two Minute Take,” brought to you by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
In the world of Scott Walker, politics, not the public’s long-term interest, always comes first.
The case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.
Unless the court is prepared to eliminate partisan redistricting, it is not equipped to create the strict standards necessary to avoid endless litigation.
If you really wanted to make Americans safer you would ban semi-automatic weapons and forget about the bump stocks, which of course would be useless if they had nothing to modify.
Living in a free society rooted in individual liberty and the rule of law is not for the frail or fragile. There are considerable personal and societal human costs, but the alternative is despotism, the human costs of which history has demonstrated to be substantially more severe.
Conservative commentator and Townhall.com News Editor Katie Pavlich was able to speak about the right to carry guns on college campuses without interruption Tuesday night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One of Trump’s most attractive features to his followers is that he’s a “straight talker” who doesn’t care who he offends. But he’s unmasked himself as one of the most thin-skinned, overly-sensitive politicians America has ever seen.
While Dane County and other local governments are encouraging biking, the state government is going in the opposite direction.
Ryan will go only so far as the NRA allows, which, at this point, is toward a constrained discussion of regulating “bump stock” devices, which modify rifles so that they can fire bullets as rapidly as machine guns. Beyond that tangential response, the speaker is determined to change the topic.
The Milwaukee building’s design is to keep their clients away from the pro-life sidewalk counselors and protesters, according to the top abortionist at the site, Kathy King. Spending $8 million just to avoid protesters is not evidence that Planned Parenthood is hurting for cash.
The court system was whittled down to a twig that can be easily bent to accommodate the needs of Foxconn Technology Group.
There was a time when environmental protection was a shared ethic amongst Democrats and Republicans.
Sure, some people will gnash their teeth if their special perks are tampered with. But from a broader tax policy standpoint, this is the right thing to do, and if presented correctly, the smart thing to do from a political standpoint.
Actually his fire fighter cuts will probably have no impact on safety.
Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
Madison columnist Emily Mills and gun rights advocate Nik Clark, the founder of Wisconsin Carry, share two perspectives about what the U.S. should do, if anything, about guns.
Schimel-Pruitt are a solid chamber of commerce tag team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections.
Quantifying partisan makeup through a single formula is like trying to judge a baseball team simply through analytics and statistics.
Pushing project back decades, adding billions in costs, hurting metro area.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, deliver their state budget winners and losers in this week’s “Two Minute Take,” brought to you by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
In the world of Scott Walker, politics, not the public’s long-term interest, always comes first.
The case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.