Natural Selection in Politics
One of the Wisconsin state senators who is in the process of being recalled made a rather unfortunate error that won’t help his chances of staying in the state senate: A recalled Republican Wisconsin...
View ArticleBreaking The Law Is A Poor Way To Make Laws
Unsurprising, given the manner in which the law was enacted: Wisconsin Union Law Struck Down By County Circuit Judge A Wisconsin judge has struck down a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining...
View ArticleIs Dave Prosser Gonna Have To Choke A Bitch?
According to Greta Van Susteren, “yes.” Over the weekend, the Wisconsin State Journal reported that Justice David Prosser “grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her...
View ArticleMore voter suppression
And if the earlier story about Maine didn’t chill you, check out what’s going on in Wisconsin: The Wisconsin legislature is finalizing a bill to close ten Department of Motor Vehicle centers located in...
View ArticleSoon Illegals Are Going To Try To Get In Our Jails!
I’m working through a Mother Jones piece on a prison to write about later, but the topic of prison labor came up. As with restoring voting rights and improving prison conditions, getting rid of prison...
View ArticleDead Man Walkering?
One million signatures for recalling the Governor in a state with only about five and a half million people total sure seems like a lot. I’m not saying that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is...
View ArticleWhat Voting Fraud Looks like
We’ve written time and again about the Republican party’s campaign to make sure that constituencies that support the Democratic party can’t vote in 2012, under the guise of tackling a non-existent...
View ArticleCome to Trenton, Mr. Romney (Updated)
Mitt Romney discussing Obama’s call for aid to state governments: “He wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers,” Romney said in Iowa. “He says we need more firemen, more...
View ArticleHe probably thinks union cards are a hassle to keep in your wallet
Scott Walker transparently goes after same-day registration in the wake of large numbers of same-day registered Obama voters. His reasoning was that it was too much work for poll workers: Walker said...
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