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27
August
2008

Hillary Clinton Nominates Obama With Class

Senator Hillary Clinton just made a motion to nominate Senator Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States by acclamation.
And thus it ends — within a minute of her motion, Senator Obama became the nominee.
Amid smiles, cheers and admiration, today was not only the day that Obama became the nominee, today was [...]

17
August
2008

Carnival of Inanity

Today’s Journal Sentinel’s “Crossroads” section is a virtual festival of fallacious thinking, misunderstanding of reality, and just plain wrong-headedness.
Reader Advisory Committee Member Kelly Kasum Ressel, for instance, criticizes those meddling local bureaucrats who mandate that pool owners put up proper fencing to keep children out. She complains that this places the responsibility on the pool [...]

13
August
2008

Eliminate County Government

Milwaukee businessman Sheldon Lubar believes that county government should be eliminated.
He’s right.
But he doesn’t go far enough. Counties should be eliminated all together.
The additional governmental level of counties is unnecessary and the role of County government could be divvied up between state and city government.
I say this as someone who has served as a [...]

7
August
2008

It Was Bound To Happen - Just Like Republicans Have Always Done, They Fabricate Stories to Make Democrats Look Bad.

Right after Senator Obama returned from his trip to Afghanistan, a lie written by a soldier in Afghanistan was circulating around the blogs. The soldier, CPT Jeffrey S. Porter, Battle Captain, TF Wasatch, claimed that Senator Obama “got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle…As the Soldiers where lined up to [...]

31
July
2008

Is the Public Buying Fraudulent Republican Claims that Increasing Oil Drilling is a Quick Fix to Reduce the Price of Oil?

July 30 2008 Bush Claims that releasing strategic oil reserves “would take time” yet claims that reversing the bans on offshore oil drilling would have affect on pricing. What? Releasing oil that we already have would take more time than drilling for oil that hasn’t yet been found?
Republicans also claim that speculators [...]

29
July
2008

Conservatives backed by Tom Reynolds ( R ) Running as Democrats in AD Primary Races

Follow up on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on Conservatives running as Democrats.
You can find the original story at this link:
http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/tags/Elections/default.aspx
Madison - Leaders of Wisconsin’s political parties usually stay out of primary election fights, since they know they have to be on speaking terms with whoever wins the party’s nomination and goes on to the [...]

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