Republicans in Washington have a health care reform plan. Really, they do!
The only problem with the GOP’s health care reform plan? it won’t actually do much to fix the current system (emphasis mine):
By 2019, CBO and JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly people without health insurance would be reduced [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but on Thursday the Legislature approved a bill that would strip authority of future governors to appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources. The bill gives the authority to appoint the secretary of the DNR to the seven-member Natural Resources Board. [...]
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Posted in Cartoons Tagged: Barack Obama, Elections [...] Is it hyperbolic to say that I'm sitting here at the intersection of New Media and Old Art? The cool marble heights of the Overture Center lobby seem an unusual place for a social media invasion.
But the bloggers have invaded Madison Opera's opening night performance of Carmen. Writers from' [...]
PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in [...]
From a press release from Supervisor Dimitrijevic:
BUDGET AMENDMENT PROVIDES FULL-TIME SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR
Position needed to save tax dollars and oversee County’s environmental and recycling efforts
Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic is introducing a Budget Amendment at the Finance & Audit Committee meeting this afternoon to create a Sustainability [...]
My State Senator, Lena (I’m an attorney, you know) Taylor was called to testify before a secret John Doe hearing. She refused to testify, invoking her 5th Amendment right against self incrimination. Since she is not the target of this investigation, prosecutors granted her immunity from prosecution in this case [...]
A hungry traveler stops at a monastery and is taken to the kitchen. He finds a brother frying chips. “Are you a friar?” he asks. “No. I’m the chip monk,” he replies. [...] Here’s a fun, if meaningless, exercise for a Friday evening if you happen to be sitting at home reading blogs. What is your favorite opening line from a novel? Is it the famous “Call me Ishmael”? How about “It was the best of times, it was the worst of [...]
A lot of noise has been made in recent weeks about President Barack Obama's $5 billion Great Lakes restoration plan, but nobody in the federal government right now is willing to spend a penny so necessary maintenance can be done on the Asian carp barrier built to keep the jumbo jumping fish from spilling [...]
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, State Sen. Lena Taylor testified today in a secret John Doe proceeding at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. During a previous appearance at the John Doe proceeding, Sen. Taylor refused to answer questions, citing her right against self-incrimination, however she testified today under a [...]
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A deal to resolve the political crisis in Honduras is “dead”, ousted President Manuel Zelaya has said.
He was speaking after interim leader Roberto Micheletti said he was forming a “unity government” without Mr Zelaya’s representatives.
Mr Micheletti acted as a deadline passed for putting a power-sharing agreement [...]
The bill about to be voted on in the House will no longer allow insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions. It will provide affordable options for individuals to purchase quality health coverage.
Americans deserve affordable, quality coverage that will not be taken away from us, even when [...]
Vets' Day has new meaning this year for Wisconsin’s newest veterans in Iraq
I've been hiding a terrible secret. Though I've spent nearly my whole life immersed in the world of live theatre and film, a true thespian geek having acting in and seen countless plays, musicals, shorts, experimental pieces, and more--I have never, in my truly ancient now [...] 
Ya see we got these charts and graphs……..
Whoooops….. He slightly misunderestimated here…..
H/T: Brandon on FB via Boots and Sabers
[...]From the brilliance that is Charles Krauthammer.
The Myth of ‘08, DemolishedWASHINGTON — Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important [...]
HURLEY — Even as the accident happened Ken Challis had his children in mind — he fell 30 feet but didn’t drop the chainsaw.
“I couldn’t drop it,” Ken said. “I didn’t know where it would fall.” Full Story
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Memo from Legislative Fiscal BureauThough Victory Creek subdivision can be seen from the Pleasant View Elementary playground, there is no way to walk from here to there - yet.
Last night's Trail Committee meeting was fruitful. While our focus remains on improving accessibility to Pleasant View Elementary School through the Safe [...]
I find this criticism to be laughable.
But Palin appears to be doing her best to keep a low profile on this trip: no press will be allowed into the Milwaukee auditorium where she will speak and those who have paid the $30 admittance fee [...]
Last year, just over a month from her pending birth, my daughter wore her first Halloween costume. Or, rather, my wife wore it. Still the effect entirely depended on Carrie’s distended abdomen, so we’ll credit Brynn with the Halloween assist. We were [...]

