Those of you who, like me, were saddened by the ludicrous conservative response to President Obama‘s anodyne “stay-in-school-and-study-hard” speech need to read this article from the St. Petersburg Times compiling some teenagers’ reactions to the speech: they’re quite heartening, and some are very funny. Those Elmbrook School District kids missed out. Comparisons have been made [...]

Today The New York Times takes a front-page look at the Butler-Gableman election fiasco, using it to highlight the contrast between the U.S.'s elected judges and the selection systems used by other countries. Comments to the article are already closed, but most of the 40 that have been posted are worth reading. The hazards of [...]

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is frosted over the continued paying of officers who have been found guilty in the trial over the beating of Frank Jude Jr. He should be upset. The City of Milwaukee is being forced to pay $474,970.24 in pay and fringe benefits for the three officers convicted even though they were [...]

Tommy Thompson has a lot of nerve to claim he is a pioneer of welfare reform. Yes, he was the Governor in Wisconsin at the time welfare reform was first talked about but it seems that very few people have their facts straight on this one. Welfare reform was not Tommy Thompson’s baby — it [...]

  The upcoming elections for the Congress, the governorships and state Legislatures are all about whether you stand with or against a rubberstamp Republican Party which has stood behind every misstep, every lie and every cover-up that the Bush Administration and the Republican congress have foisted upon the American public. Republican leadership has rubberstamped Bush policies across-the-board, [...]

Health care is the number one issue on the minds of Wisconsin voters as they prepare to head to the polls this fall, but they're not hearing enough about it from Gov. Jim Doyle and his Republican challenger, Congressman Mark Green, according to the results of a poll released this week by One Wisconsin Now [...]