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DOJ gag order on his employees shows the impact of ending civil service protections.

Rather than under-regulation, problems in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program likely result from too many regulations being forced on private schools.

Shocking allegations about the Supreme Court nominee’s past must be reviewed–along with evidence that he has repeatedly lied to the Senate.

There has been a stunning disclosure by Great Lakes water expert author Peter Annin; the Wisconsin DNR during the Doyle years administratively gave Pleasant Prairie permission to boost its development-friendly Lake Michigan diversion water – – a plan which already been approved relatively quietly during the Thompson years.

For years we have heard that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, but recent actions in both Wisconsin and America at large shows this to be a farce.

On the Daily Standard Podcast, Sykes talks with Weekly Standard chief elections analyst David Byler about the GOP’s chances of retaining the Senate this fall.

Thompson, former Republican governor, regrets increase in incarceration, could team with Democratic reformers.

The work of elected or appointed officials need not be at odds with reporters. But when they are at odds, the needs of the citizens to be aware of how their government operates must always prevail.

What is needed is a new willingness to think big, go bold, and see things through. To show the largeness of spirit that this moment requires.

All signs point to voters across America, including Wisconsin, voting for change in November.

As a number of prominent conservative organizations in Wisconsin have pointed out, the bailout of a paper mill company like Kimberly-Clark, a legacy industry with an uncertain future, will just lead to more hands being stretched out to the taxpayers whenever an employer is in trouble. Why this company and not another one?

There comes a time when the taxpayers have to say enough is enough to corporate greed. This is one of them.

Walker’s effort to maneuver a $100 million taxpayer subsidy to the profitable, hardly-a-fledgling-start up Kimberly-Clark Corp. has nothing to do with helping workers in Wisconsin.

In 2005 Leah Vukmir, Sheila Harsdorf and Robin Vos backed a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain to transfer a privately-owned property to a corporation. But now they are silent on Foxconn’s land grab in Mount Pleasant.

Wisconsin’s “justice system” has become more of a “vengeance system” than a justice system in recent decades.

The WisOpinion Insiders give their take on former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s prison reform ideas. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Could people be growing tired of the cultural wars and instead just want political leaders who focus on better schools, roads, health care and jobs, more than some minuscule tax cut?

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who once presided over the largest expansion of Wisconsin’s prison system, said one of the biggest regrets of his political career was his role in building so many prisons in Wisconsin and getting “caught up in the hysteria of lockin’ ‘em up.”

Attorney General Schimel is a judicial branch lap dog. He takes his direction from the judiciary rather than the citizens of Wisconsin who elected him.

Schimel and Walker support changes in Affordable Care Act most voters oppose. Why?

DOJ gag order on his employees shows the impact of ending civil service protections.

Rather than under-regulation, problems in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program likely result from too many regulations being forced on private schools.

Shocking allegations about the Supreme Court nominee’s past must be reviewed–along with evidence that he has repeatedly lied to the Senate.

There has been a stunning disclosure by Great Lakes water expert author Peter Annin; the Wisconsin DNR during the Doyle years administratively gave Pleasant Prairie permission to boost its development-friendly Lake Michigan diversion water – – a plan which already been approved relatively quietly during the Thompson years.

For years we have heard that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, but recent actions in both Wisconsin and America at large shows this to be a farce.

On the Daily Standard Podcast, Sykes talks with Weekly Standard chief elections analyst David Byler about the GOP’s chances of retaining the Senate this fall.

Thompson, former Republican governor, regrets increase in incarceration, could team with Democratic reformers.

The work of elected or appointed officials need not be at odds with reporters. But when they are at odds, the needs of the citizens to be aware of how their government operates must always prevail.

What is needed is a new willingness to think big, go bold, and see things through. To show the largeness of spirit that this moment requires.

All signs point to voters across America, including Wisconsin, voting for change in November.

As a number of prominent conservative organizations in Wisconsin have pointed out, the bailout of a paper mill company like Kimberly-Clark, a legacy industry with an uncertain future, will just lead to more hands being stretched out to the taxpayers whenever an employer is in trouble. Why this company and not another one?

There comes a time when the taxpayers have to say enough is enough to corporate greed. This is one of them.

Walker’s effort to maneuver a $100 million taxpayer subsidy to the profitable, hardly-a-fledgling-start up Kimberly-Clark Corp. has nothing to do with helping workers in Wisconsin.

In 2005 Leah Vukmir, Sheila Harsdorf and Robin Vos backed a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain to transfer a privately-owned property to a corporation. But now they are silent on Foxconn’s land grab in Mount Pleasant.

Wisconsin’s “justice system” has become more of a “vengeance system” than a justice system in recent decades.

The WisOpinion Insiders give their take on former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s prison reform ideas. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Could people be growing tired of the cultural wars and instead just want political leaders who focus on better schools, roads, health care and jobs, more than some minuscule tax cut?

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who once presided over the largest expansion of Wisconsin’s prison system, said one of the biggest regrets of his political career was his role in building so many prisons in Wisconsin and getting “caught up in the hysteria of lockin’ ‘em up.”

Attorney General Schimel is a judicial branch lap dog. He takes his direction from the judiciary rather than the citizens of Wisconsin who elected him.

Schimel and Walker support changes in Affordable Care Act most voters oppose. Why?