Mayor Tom Barrettt has just launched his new campaign website and it shows promise that it will offer much more than the sound bites that his opponents are offering. This promises to be a difficult race where Barrett’s biggest challenge is to respond to the simple republican slogan “cut taxes”. Barrett has shown amazing fiscal [...]

I haven’t been around the doghouse for awhile (due to Real Life), so I thought I’d drop by to say that I’m alive, and to encourage you to look for my appearances as a returning Community Columnist at the Journal Sentinel. My first one, talking about corporate political donations, can be found here. If you [...]

Scott Walker announced that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will be headlining a fundraiser for him. If Walker was looking for someone who had his fiscal style he picked the wrong Guv. California’s Arnold Schwartzenegger would be a more appropriate match for Walker’s fiscal style. Schwartzenegger has borrowed heavily rather than raise taxes today. This [...]

It’s been about 35 years since George gave me that shovel. It was a great shovel. My neighbor at the the time was well into his 80′s. His health had started to fail him but I could tell he had always been an independent and hard-working kind of guy. He would fix things around his [...]

Russ Feingold is used to being called a maverick, but nothing can be more outrageous than syndicated Republican talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s comparison of him to the terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. Limbaugh said that Bin Laden’s recent comments “sounds like this could easily be [said by] Russ Feingold, the Senator from Wisconsin.” Limbaugh clearly [...]

They’re typically allies, but apparently the lovefest have come to an end for Republican activists Robert “Bob” Dohnal and J.J. Blonien. According to state records, Dohnal is hoping to cash in with a lawsuit against Blonien. Hat tip: Dan Bice Share