While they like to call themselves “progressives”, liberals sure are unwilling to let go of archaic public institutions.

Senate Joint Resolution 18 would add Wisconsin to an alarming and growing number of states calling for a constitutional convention to impose a federal balanced budget amendment.

“We’re not playing with people’s lives. We’re playing with people’s hair,” says Krissy Hudack, owner of Sky’s the Limit salon in Iron River, Wis.

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack need not look any further than some of the court’s own members’ actions as reasons for the court’s decline in public confidence.

The Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and Versiti/BloodCenter of Wisconsin competed for and earned about $400 million of research funding from the NIH alone in federal fiscal year 2016, and the proposed budget would eliminate about $100 million from Wisconsin research institutions in 2018.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on election meddling and wiretapping allegations.

Increasing military budgets and cutting the State Department is a huge mistake. This, from a 27-year retired Navy commander. Who would think a military man would want to see his budget cut?

A state that supports their veterans spends state money for programs for veterans and does not use money meant for the care and comfort in nursing homes for agency administration and rent.

Right now, the ex-prisoner re-entry process is a vicious cycle. It needs to be a navigable road.

Both federal and state governments have responded with grant programs to expand broadband but there are problems with assuring that residents actually receive the promised services.

Walker tries to spin excuses for why he’s failed to deliver on jobs pledge.

Never before has Senate leadership so openly and intentionally played political games with our highest court. The consequences are staggering.

To navigate the talking points and spin in the media, here are several takeaways for conservatives about the CBO analysis.

In navigating federal changes to America’s system for making sure people have access to health care that won’t land them in bankruptcy court, Walker has been downright prescient. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean paying for health care in the state he leads will get any easier.

Temptation grows for right-wingers to consciously uncouple from his supporters.

Are Muslim immigrants more likely to pose a serious threat to America than Irish immigrants were thought to in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th? Not if you asked the American nativists of those days. To them, the Irish then seemed as “other” as Muslims do to some Americans now.

Since the election of Trump, who attracted an outsized amount of support from people who didn’t go to college, this group has been a focus of curiosity. And what we’re finding is that there are major problems in the real America that those of us in “the bubble” don’t know much about.