
Bruce Murphy: How much did Musk pay per vote?
The billionaire spent $25 million on Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Let’s consider his investment return.
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The billionaire spent $25 million on Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Let’s consider his investment return.
When government gets too big, the people in government think themselves all powerful. They begin to think that the private sector exists solely to serve them, to provide tax revenue to them.
When the president makes laws and policies that only Congress is allowed to make; this is not our America.
There is not much public pushback against the accelerated attack on press freedoms.
Instead of making the rubble bounce, we wish Brad Schimel’s advisers had taken a different tack.
Wisconsin’s long history of local control and wake boat regulations
I urge us to reconsider the idea that “a lack of scientific evidence” is indeed “evidence.” Instead, let us acknowledge current scientific knowledge may not reflect current realities for some of us and that such knowledge or lack thereof can and does change.
Recalling lessons from former presidents on the right and the left — Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, said Thursday, “Blanket tariffs sound patriotic but are not. They drive inflation up and innovation down.”
A cheesehead gets showered with gratitude for Wisconsin’s rejection of Elon Musk.
If the West Bend protest Saturday against the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk is any measure of the nation-wide protest at noon Saturday, the collection of similar protests across the country amounts to a monumental display of frustration and anger by a large swath of American voters.
A legal analysis of United States v. Wong Kim Ark
As the world economy crashes because of the grudges and whims of one very dumb and very unstable man, it’s time to ask ourselves if we’ve invested too much power in the presidency. The answer is yes, we have.
Humanities councils across the country were slammed last week when millions of dollars in previously awarded federal grants intended for arts and cultural groups were canceled by the Trump administration.
President Trump is to be commended for seeking peace in Ukraine, but success will depend on adopting disciplined, nonpublic traditional diplomacy that, so far, he has rejected.
Other states have different models of doing what we just spent many months and piles of money slogging our way to achieve. If it works in a wide swath of states, why not here?
Voting is important. However, protest is needed to push politicians to act.
Not a single currently eligible Wisconsin Medicaid enrollee is at risk of losing coverage under the current budget proposal. And nationwide, no children, elderly, or disabled enrollees are at risk either.
Today, it’s the fear of institutional or personal financial ruin at the hands of a vengeful government that uses federal funds like a lawbreaker uses blackmail.
Balancing the impact of Trump’s DEI policies on Black college campuses.
Trump’s executive order eliminating DEI jeopardizes those social and educational gains made in the past four decades.
The billionaire spent $25 million on Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Let’s consider his investment return.
When government gets too big, the people in government think themselves all powerful. They begin to think that the private sector exists solely to serve them, to provide tax revenue to them.
When the president makes laws and policies that only Congress is allowed to make; this is not our America.
There is not much public pushback against the accelerated attack on press freedoms.
Instead of making the rubble bounce, we wish Brad Schimel’s advisers had taken a different tack.
Wisconsin’s long history of local control and wake boat regulations
I urge us to reconsider the idea that “a lack of scientific evidence” is indeed “evidence.” Instead, let us acknowledge current scientific knowledge may not reflect current realities for some of us and that such knowledge or lack thereof can and does change.
Recalling lessons from former presidents on the right and the left — Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, said Thursday, “Blanket tariffs sound patriotic but are not. They drive inflation up and innovation down.”
A cheesehead gets showered with gratitude for Wisconsin’s rejection of Elon Musk.
If the West Bend protest Saturday against the policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk is any measure of the nation-wide protest at noon Saturday, the collection of similar protests across the country amounts to a monumental display of frustration and anger by a large swath of American voters.
A legal analysis of United States v. Wong Kim Ark
As the world economy crashes because of the grudges and whims of one very dumb and very unstable man, it’s time to ask ourselves if we’ve invested too much power in the presidency. The answer is yes, we have.
Humanities councils across the country were slammed last week when millions of dollars in previously awarded federal grants intended for arts and cultural groups were canceled by the Trump administration.
President Trump is to be commended for seeking peace in Ukraine, but success will depend on adopting disciplined, nonpublic traditional diplomacy that, so far, he has rejected.
Other states have different models of doing what we just spent many months and piles of money slogging our way to achieve. If it works in a wide swath of states, why not here?
Voting is important. However, protest is needed to push politicians to act.
Not a single currently eligible Wisconsin Medicaid enrollee is at risk of losing coverage under the current budget proposal. And nationwide, no children, elderly, or disabled enrollees are at risk either.
Today, it’s the fear of institutional or personal financial ruin at the hands of a vengeful government that uses federal funds like a lawbreaker uses blackmail.
Balancing the impact of Trump’s DEI policies on Black college campuses.
Trump’s executive order eliminating DEI jeopardizes those social and educational gains made in the past four decades.