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• Reform Starts With a Wrecking Ball

  Interesting.
  
  “America’s most-famous superior urban schools are virtually always new starts rather than schools that were previously underperforming. Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start-ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high-performing high-poverty urban schools...
  
  Seems as though the best way to get [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:40am EST
  

• DA Chisholm Is Absolutely Right

  Interesting interview with Milwaukee County DA Chisholm on the issue of handguns. The unmentioned name, by the way, is James Doyle, Ideologue/Idiot.
  
  Chisholm: I want to make concealed carry a felony offense. In order to do that you would have to create some form of a permitting system [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:10am EST
  

• ObamaSavior---AND Military Genius

  This guy is careening out of control.
  
  “After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done, it is my intention to finish the job,” Obama said at a news conference...
  
  This [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:53am EST
  

• Red Cross Exec: "Yup, They Are Death Panels"

  Technically, Bernardine Healy, MD, is an EX-Red Cross official...
  
  The bill takes all sorts of choices out of patients' and doctors' hands. Even mammograms and prostate-specific antigen tests would be similarly restricted by the government for millions of people, and they actually serve as better examples of what happens [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:45am EST
  

• Silly Season in WI Legislature: SB174

  The silly season commences. Here are a few names for you to note:
  
  Senators Coggs and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Young, A. Williams, Turner, Berceau, Grigsby, Colon, Richards, Kessler, Sinicki and Pasch.
  
  That's the masthead from SB174. The bill, if passed as written, will ban sales of [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:28am EST
  

• Test

  Dah deedle dah dum
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:34am EST
  

• Sen. Conrad (D-ND) Flips You Off

  Well, it's the season for birds, right?
  
  Since Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Nov. 13 that five suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried in a civilian court in New York City instead of a military tribunal, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

• The Papal/SSPX Conversations and Patrick Kennedy

  Weigel really gets this right.
  
  The issues to be engaged in these conversations do not involve liturgy; the pope has addressed the legitimate pastoral needs of SSPX clergy and SSPX-affiliated laity by his decree allowing the unrestricted use of the 1962 Roman Missal. The real questions have to [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  

• "Paste" Died...Went Mozilla Firefox

  To hell with IE8.
  
  Took Firefox this morning. Some typeface-stuff to get used to, but on a tip, downloaded Adblock Plus.
  
  No more grape-jelly stains all over McIlheran's blog!!
  
  And "paste" works! [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• Stupak-ification of the Left

  Heh.
  
  Only a few months ago, the Left was telling us unqualifiedly that ObamaCare would NOT have any effects on private health insurance.
  
  You can look at our BayView Banjo guy's blog for evidence...
  
  Anyhoo....
  
  "The treatment exclusions required under the Stupak-Pitts Amendment will have" [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  

• The Liars at East Anglia

  Headless does public service.
  
  ...this computer program adds up to 2.6 degrees Celsius to temperatures starting in the 1970's and continuing until 2000 to give the appearance of GLOBAL WARMING! That's over 4 degrees Fahrenheit, and is a huge "fudge factor" (their word, not mine) made to show [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:10am EST
  

• Flynn, Barrett Resignation Call?

  Channel 4 News reports that "Milwaukee TEA Party" has called for the resignations of Ed Flynn and Tom Barrett.
  
  Apparently, these folks think Flynn should resign over a morals issue.
  
  I don't know who "Milwaukee TEA Party" consists of, and frankly, I don't care what Ed Flynn does [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:54am EST
  

• Doyle the Vengeful Dictator

  Democrats don't like Doyle, either, which is the thrust of this article from WI (HT Sykes).
  
  This vignette, significant in itself, tells you all about Doyle's modus operandi: pure "punish your enemies." Pigheaded, stupid, and to Hell with the public interest.
  
  Take, for example, WMC's questionable' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:49am EST
  

• So Kennedy Should "Represent His District," Eh?

  There's a lot of High Dudgeon emanating from the Lefty Hive about how Rep. Kennedy should "represent the wishes of his District" regarding abortion.
  
  Yah, well.
  
  S'pose that the US Congress will "represent the wishes of the people" on ObamaCare now that only 38 percent of the' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• Dave Obey: Aborto-Facilitating Historical Ignoramus

  Kinda nice for Ed to provide us with a clear picture of Dave Obey's ultra-Left "mind."
  
  Strange. Obey tells us that the cost of Afghanistan is SO onerous that the country will 'run out of money,' while his pet Porkulus is NOT onerous?
  
  Hmmmmm.
  
  Then Obey [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:05am EST
  

• Landrieu: Out of My Price Range

  Now that it is decided exactly what Sen. Mary Landrieu IS.........
  
  .....it's clear that her price ($300 million) is a bit high for me.
  
  My question: does Reid really expect he'll get 'full value' for his our money?' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:47am EST
  

• MS Update Blows Off "Paste"?

  Hey.
  
  
  Downloaded an MS IE8 update over the weekend, and "paste" went away.
  
  Still investigating.
  
  UPDATE: Remove the MS update, "paste" works fine again.
  
  UPDATE TWO: 60 minutes pass, "paste" dies again. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:42am EST
  

• Spendulus, Indeed

  OK, so who said this:
  
  "The kind of budget shortfalls we are looking at in the future dwarfs anything we've ever seen. There are two ways to close the fiscal gap--cut spending or increase revenues. ....the level of taxation required to meet projected spending needs is far higher'" [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:16am EST
  

• The Manhattan Declaration

  We mentioned this on Friday.
  
  150 Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical religious leaders signed a manifesto which committs them to civil disobedience if laws force them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage, or interfere with religious freedom.
  
  This is large. The list includes Abp. Dolan, Abp. Wuerl, Chuck [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:16am EST
  

• The Attack From the Left: "Shut Up. You're Mean!"

  The passive-aggressive game is on, and Patrick Kennedy is a fine example.
  
  Kennedy told CNS News that 'he can't understand how the Catholic Church can be against the biggest social-justice issue of all time' when referring to the USCC's strenuous objection to forcing taxpayers to fund abortions. Kennedy' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

• The USCC's Second Letter, Distributed!!

  The Catholic parish in central Brookfield distributed the USCC's second letter on Obama/Aborto-Care this weekend.
  
  Happy to see it. Let's hope the parishioners take the Bishops' suggestions seriously.' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:20pm EST
  

• No More ObamaCare Prison Terms! (Aren't You Happy?)

  Ace discovered that PelosiPrison is not present in the Senate version of BigAbortion/BigLabor/BigSwamp money-for-you bill. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:59am EST
  

• SNL: Hilarious Obama Skit

  Oh, yah.
  
  Obama's time is over. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:46am EST
  

• Prayer for the President Is Good!

  New bumper sticker:
  
  "Pray for Obama: Ps. 109:8"
  
  See Grim's place for the rest of the story. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• The Other McCain: Shocker: Progressive Catholic 'charity' supports anti-Catholic agenda

  [dad29.blogspot.com] [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:49pm EST
  

• Round One to the Eagle Scouts

  The dipwad count:
  
  Nick Balzano has stepped down as head of the local Service Employees International Union. Balzano was roundly criticized for crying foul over a Boy Scout's effort to clear a walking path in a park in Allentown. He said the project was taking work away from [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:28pm EST
  

• This Is What Is Called Dumb

  JS today:
  
  Rex M. Ballinger was wounded when a rifle being unloaded by Daniel Z. Kassees, 36, of Dousman, discharged, the Sheriff's Department said.
  
  Kassees was unloading the gun next to his pickup truck on private property about 8:15 a.m. in Glen Haven Township. The shot went [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:04pm EST
  

• Be an Illegal for FREE Healthcare: Reid

  In what should come as an unpleasant surprise to the US Bishops' immigration-pleaders, ObamaCare/Senate version has a nasty provision.
  
  Under Leader Reid’s amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:45pm EST
  

• ObamaCare: Friend of BigBiz

  Wonder why big businesses are not adamantly opposed to ObamaCare?
  
  Because it will enormously burden, or eliminate, small businesses.
  
  ...2,074 pages are just the beginning. It is fair to say there will several times that number of pages of regulations delineating who must do what, when and [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  

• The USCC's ACORN Problem, Milwaukee and Chicago Ties

  History counts. It also helps to understand ACORN-ism's methods, one of which is to operate under different names. Confusion is good, to ACORN-ites, and confusing Catholic Charities with the Campaign for Human Development is just fine. Except that they are VERY different organizations with a somewhat-common history.
  
  ************************
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

• Delicate Story-Writing

  Here's a delicate way to put it.
  
  Milwaukee-area Muslim Religious Director Zulfiqar Ali Shah was not allowed to partake in a trip to Israel which would have been paid for largely by Milwaukee-area Jewish donors. As a result, the Muslims have quit the Interfaith Council.
  
  (We'll' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:33am EST
  

• The Zoo Interchange: It's Still Doyle (and Barrett's) Potential Manslaughter

  No matter how Tommy Barrett's flack tries to spin this article, here's what counts:
  
  Republicans in control of the Legislature in 2005 sought to move the Zoo Interchange project ahead by putting $38 million for engineering into the 2005-'07 budget, but Doyle vetoed all but $3 million. He' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:04am EST
  

• Kohl, Feingold to Ruin HSA, HRA Plans

  Since these plans work well, the Democrats Kohl and Feingold will ruin them. By no co-incidence, they will also smash the knuckles of middle-income, diligent, consumers of healthcare.
  
  Thanks, you two twerps!!
  
  'Flex' accounts let employees set aside some portion of their pre-tax pay for out-of-pocket costs [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:36am EST
  

• Tax Money, Hush Money, All the Same in DC

  Yah, well. It's only tax money.
  
  A congressional investigation of the volunteer organization AmeriCorps contains charges that D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee handled "damage control" after allegations of sexual misconduct against her now fiance, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and a prominent ally of President [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:19am EST
  

• Ban the Gun, Not the Terrorist

  The usual idiocy.
  
  More than two dozen anti-gun violence groups have asked President Barack Obaman to ban further importation of the type of handgun used in the Fort Hood massacre.
  
  In a Thursday letter to the president, the group takes aim at the FN Herstal [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:17pm EST
  

• Doyle Kills the Racetrack

  Belling reports that Doyle killed off the Milwaukee Mile, through apparently bad-faith bargaining by his State Fair Board. The report states that the Board chaircritter changed a critical term of the agreement unilaterally......
  
  That Board includes a woman named Wickhem-House, named as a "superlawyer" who practices at Foley & [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  

• Abp. Dolan Steps It Up a Notch!

  Wow.
  
  Here's the link to a declaration recently formulated and signed by 148 luminaries, including Abp. Tim Dolan of NYC.
  
  ...We, as Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians, have gathered, beginning in New York on September 28, 2009, to make the following declaration, which we sign as individuals, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:50am EST
  

• More Climate "Science" Lies?

  Hot stuff, yet to be verified...but really, really damning if it's real.
  
  
  
  The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• Pure Corruption in PelosiCare/ObamaCare Bill

  Besides all the usual stuff, there's more.
  
  The House resolution establishes a scenario that would effectively exclude non-union employers from eligibility to work on program-funded contracts. It also requires participating health care providers to pay wages and benefits that have been collectively bargained or that union-friendly appointees determine [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:22am EST
  

• NYT Circulation Office Raid? Mob-Union Problem

  Most of you noted that the circulation offices of the NYT (and other papers) were raided.
  
  Wanna know why?
  
  Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:19am EST
  

• Timmy-Boy Gets All Pissy

  Geithner evades, sidesteps, and Blames Bush!
  
  UPDATE:
  
  Lots more at PowerLine, but another Congresscritter is doing the questioning.
  
  Secretary Geithner, you were referencing in your answer to an earlier question about when the financial catastrophe started in September, October of last year, if I understood [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:52am EST
  

• Another FINE Job by Your Government

  Your Government at work.
  
  The decade-old battle to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes might be over.
  
  New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:05am EST
  

• Book Title for Paulson

  Best line of the day, from Mark Hemingway:
  
  It seems that former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson has a new book coming out. It's supposed to be an inside account of the collapse of the global banking system. [However], the book might run into some legal trouble, as I [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST
  

• Zoo Interchange Bridges Falling Down, so Spend Money on KRM!

  Talk about potted plant IQs...
  
  The regional transit authority charged with overseeing the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail project will get back on track with a meeting on Monday.
  
  The reformed nine-member RTA board will meet on Monday morning to discuss its budget, future plans for the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:55am EST
  

• Is Reaganomics Enough?

  Ryan and Hensarling's essay in today's WSJ has a few interesting facts.
  
  Exhibit A is the economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama in February. Even among previous stimulus efforts, the 2009 stimulus stands out for its ineffective targeting and sheer size. With interest, it [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:39am EST
  

• Is It Getting Dark in Here?

  No, it's just your "energy-saving" lightbulb.
  
  Energy-efficient light bulbs lose on average 22% of their brightness over their lifetime, a study has found.
  
  In some cases they emit just 60% as much light as traditional models which are being phased out of shops, it says.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:13am EST
  

• No Money, Honey: Wisconsin Sinking

  No wonder Jim Doyle is running away from his office. He's like the 8-year-old kid who knows he'll get caught after busting the picture-window at the neighbor's house.
  
  Here's the Wisconsin tax-revenue picture through October.
  
  Individual Income: OFF 5.7% Y-T-D, 09/10
  
  General Sales Tax:' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:56am EST
  

• ObamaCare, Senate: Neutron Rx

  It's a neutron bomb aimed directly at the country.
  
  Taxpayer-funded abortions.
  
  Medicare funding cuts.
  
  30 million remain un-insured (20 million citizens or legal immigrants).
  
  States get socked with Medicaid bills.
  
  $980 Bn Federal spending.
  
  It'll kill anything it gets close to, including health-insurance' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:41am EST
  

• Harry Wants to Push It? That Would Be VERY Foolish

  Reid seems to think that he can Rahma-Jahma the Abortion Enablement act through by Saturday night.
  
  That would be very foolish, Harry. The poll-numbers on that are WAY against you now, and Russ Feingold, "Mr. Civil Liberties" hasn't weighed in to pull the aborto-language out. You don't want [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  

• Games of Unrest for Obama

  Don't know much about this online game stuff, but this is interesting.' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  

• Where's the Wisconsin "Stimulus" Money?

  Rich Zipperer would like to know where the Wisconsin "stimulus" money's being spent.
  
  News accounts the last several weeks by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and others have drawn attention to multiple errors and exaggerations in the reports released by the White House of the number of jobs supposedly created [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  

• Think Hoffman Lost NY-23? Think Again

  Breaking:
  
  The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.
  
  Cathleen Rogers, [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• Hypothetical, Of Course: Manslaughter Charges for Doyle?

  Hmmmmm.
  
  State transportation officials moved Thursday to replace three bridges in the Zoo Interchange by June, through a unique emergency construction effort that would limit full road closures on the spans to three weekends.
  
  The deteriorating bridges carry traffic northbound on I-894/45 through the interchange and serve [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:16pm EST
  

• Reid's ObamaCare Tax Hits

  Oh, yah....there are tax increases.
  
  40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500 (individuals) / $23,000 (families). Amounts are indexed for inflation by CPI-U + 1% – begins in 2013 – $149 B tax increase
  
  (It will be a very close call for most Wisconsin public-employee [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:35am EST
  

• "I Do Solemnly Swear.......To Be a Photo-Op"???

  That wasn't part of the oath I took on entry to the Armed Services.
  
  Now it is!
  
  Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:27am EST
  

• Want to Reduce Your Muni Budget? Fuggedaboutit

  The Unions absolutely, positively, OWN Jim Doyle and the Leggie-slime majority.
  
  Starting in 2010, a city or village that wants to operate its police or fire departments more efficiently and save tax dollars will first need permission from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.
  
  I know it sounds [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:02am EST
  

• Holder, the DamnFool

  Holder can't help himself if he opens his mouth.
  
  HERB KOHL (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) woke up and asked a question. Holder's response is a jaw-dropper of the first water. Actually, it's a fire-able offense.
  
  KOHL: "....taking into account that you never know what happens when you walk into a'" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:42am EST
  

• Another Royal, Another Bow

  
  Think it can't happen? Think again. HT: Moonbattery' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:31am EST
  

• Palin Derangement

  This captures it, I think.
  
  Why is she [Palin] so popular in the heartland?
  
  Because she is us. A good-hearted ambitious American doing her best to offer her best. If they -- and who are they, exactly? -- hate her so much, then it has to be the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:40am EST
  

• Palin Derangement

  This captures it, I think.
  
  Why is she [Palin] so popular in the heartland?
  
  Because she is us. A good-hearted ambitious American doing her best to offer her best. If they -- and who are they, exactly? -- hate her so much, then it has to be the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:40am EST
  

• Who's Eric Holder Trying to Fool?

  Our current Attorney General, like his boss Obama, are doing their damndest to make lawyers look really, really, bad.
  
  Successfully, we should add.
  
  The Bozo-Lawyers want us to believe that:
  
  A non-US citizen
  Who committed war crimes
  As a non-State actor
  Who was captured on foreign soil
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:23am EST
  

• Who's Eric Holder Trying to Fool?

  Our current Attorney General, like his boss Obama, are doing their damndest to make lawyers look really, really, bad.
  
  Successfully, we should add.
  
  The Bozo-Lawyers want us to believe that:
  
  A non-US citizen
  Who committed war crimes
  As a non-State actor
  Who was captured on foreign soil
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:23am EST
  

• Good News, for a Change

  Here's a happy thought for Waukesha County voters.
  
  State Rep. Mark Gundrum (R-New Berlin) said Friday that he is running for Waukesha County circuit judge and will challenge incumbent Judge Richard Congdon in the April 10 election.
  
  Why?
  
  Congdon was appointed to the bench in January [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:07am EST
  

• Good News, for a Change

  Here's a happy thought for Waukesha County voters.
  
  State Rep. Mark Gundrum (R-New Berlin) said Friday that he is running for Waukesha County circuit judge and will challenge incumbent Judge Richard Congdon in the April 10 election.
  
  Why?
  
  Congdon was appointed to the bench in January [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:07am EST
  

• Pedro Colon's Handwriting Problems

  Maybe it was a really, really, cold day or something, eh?
  
  From the State D of J memorandum (P. 4 in the PDF here):
  
  "Mr. Colon's signature on two of these certifications appears markedly different from [his] signature on the other two pages. Handwriting analysis [State Crime" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:31am EST
  

• Hey, Tommy! Here's Another "Just One Name"

  Tommy Barrett's going to be really convincing when he goes out-State and talks about the wonderful things he's doing with the City of Milwaukee's governance.
  
  Including the City's Election Commission, of course.
  
  Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that on November 18, 2009, attorneys for the Wisconsin [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:24am EST
  

• A Test for "Mr. Civil Liberties," Russ Feingold

  The Senate ObamaCare bill oozed out from under the rock yesterday, and included tax-supported abortions.
  
  This is an opportunity for our "Mr. Civil Liberties"--Russ Feingold--to demonstrate that he's actually honest. For what "civil libertarian" could possibly force all taxpayers to pay for what most people believe is murder [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:10am EST
  

• Welcome to OUR World

  White-by-exclaustration?
  
  The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
  
  “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
  [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:44pm EST
  

• Oh, Yeah. But It's Just Cord Blood

  Sorry, folks, it's not news because it's not ESCR.
  
  The Levines were in luck: Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, a professor of pediatrics and pathology at Duke University, was conducting a study where children with cerebral palsy were injected with their own cord blood cells. On May 28, 2008, at [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

• Delphi Plant Goes Down Soon

  Another unique-to-Milwaukee building goes away.
  
  The [Oak Creek] Common Council on Tuesday approved an agreement that requires the remainder of the former Delphi Automotive Systems plant to be demolished by Oct. 31
  
  Somebody--Gurda would be best, of course--should do an article on the Delphi (Delco) plant.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  

• A MILLION Degrees, or Something

  That's the ticket.
  
  Drill a really deep hole, down to where AlGore says 'it's a million degrees.' (Insert a really really really tough drill-bit that AlGore personally invented which won't melt, or something.)
  
  Then you bring the million degree stuff up and make steam. Push the steam through' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  

• Who Needs Waterboarding? We Have Obama!

  Mass-murderer-worshipers, tax-cheats, ethically-challenged, "world-gummint"-admirers, bozo-science idolaters, and anti-child/anti-life bigots.
  
  Those are just Obama's nominees and appointments--not to mention the A.G. who would destroy the Federal criminal justice system. Or his nonchalant attitude about 40,000 US troops he's left twisting in the Afghan wind.
  
  Every day, a new and [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  

• Doyle's Political Bombing Run Starves People

  Smooth move, Jimbo.
  
  Thousands of poor people in Wisconsin have waited months for food stamp benefits because of a backlog of applications at a state processing center.
  
  The Hunger Task Force of Wisconsin estimated that the federal FoodShare benefits left undelivered totaled more than $11.7 million from [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:55am EST
  

• Deprive US Citizens to Punish Mexican Gangs!

  Yah, that's the ticket. (Another damnfool lawyer/member of the Party-In-Government speaks). Fuggedabout all that "shall not be infringed" foolishness...
  
  The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:07am EST
  

• Deprive US Citizens to Punish Mexican Gangs!

  Yah, that's the ticket. (Another damnfool lawyer/member of the Party-In-Government speaks). Fuggedabout all that "shall not be infringed" foolishness...
  
  The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:07am EST
  

• Cancer Screens and Politics? Oh, My!

  Gee.
  
  What a difference six months — and a health-care overhaul proposal — can make! Just six months ago, the U.S Preventive Services Task Force, which works within the Department of Health and Human Services as a “best practice” panel on prevention, sounded a warning signal over a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

• These Questions Are Above Holder's Paygrade

  PJB:
  
  Are we at war—or not?
  
  For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:31am EST
  

• A Little 'Counter-Intuitive' Economics on PRC

  Interesting.
  
  ...While some fret about liquidity-driven inflation, Justin Lin, World Bank chief economist, said the greater danger is that record levels of idle plant almost everywhere will feed a downward spiral of job cuts and corporate busts. "I'm more worried about deflation," he said
  
  By holding the' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:05am EST
  

• The 2A Explained

  Think that the Second Amendment is dated?
  
  Then watch the Commies work over a cameraman in Fort Lauderdale.
  
  HT: PowerLine [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:52am EST
  

• Is Our President a Complete Tool?

  Bowing to a foreign Emperor is nothing compared to this idiocy.
  
  "Japan serves as an example to the world that true peace and power can be achieved by taking this path. For decades, Japan has enjoyed the benefits of peaceful nuclear energy, while rejecting nuclear arms development -- and" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:42am EST
  

• What's Going On With Elections?

  Barone--a very astute observer:
  
  Sometimes a poll result slaps you in the face. That was the case for me when I saw Public Policy Polling’s results in the 2nd congressional district of Arkansas. PPP has the incumbent, Democrat Vic Snyder, leading three unknown Republicans (two-thirds to three-quarters [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:26am EST
  

• Twin Targets: NYC and Bush

  Holder maintains that Obama "knew nothing" about Holder's decision to prosecute non-citizen murdering terrorists (non-State enemy combatants) in NYC.
  
  Right.
  
  The actual target of Holder's utterly insane decision: GWBush, whose Administration will be 'found guilty' of all sorts of 'violations' of 'human' rights (assuming that the non-State murderers/terrorists [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:01am EST
  

• By the Way, Bp. Listecki...A Little Housecleaning Is In Order

  Welcome to Milwaukee!
  
  Now there's this little problem you can address...
  
  Seems that our local Campaign for Human Development has a rather strange bedfellow, given that we're Catholic.
  
  Voces de la Frontera – Wisconsin - $50,000
  
  Promoted homosexual campaign “Gayneighbor.org” for ally group Equality Wisconsin' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:08am EST
  

• Guess What: Banks' Christmas Bonus Was On You!

  These are the people who Know What's Best. Remember that as they work to take over all of healthcare and the planetary climate.
  
  Officials managing the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc. bungled the first rescue and may have overpaid other banks to wind [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:44am EST
  

• Bishops Assert Moral Imperative in Healthcare

  Unnnnhhhhh....
  
  Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the conference president, said that the prelates must ensure that "issues that are moral questions before they become political remain moral questions when they become political." Roman Catholic prelates believe that "everyone should be cared for and that no one should be deliberately" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:26am EST
  

• So ObamaCare IS a Tax?

  Sen. Merkley (D-OR) tells us that the authority to force purchase of health-insurance lies in Article 1, Section 8:
  
  "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:16am EST
  

• Will EPA Write "Cap-N-Tax"?

  It's clear that Obama doesn't have the votes for Cap-n-Tax in the Senate, or he would not have hinted that it's off the table late last week.
  
  Perhaps that's because Browner's gang will simply regulate us to the Promised Land instead.
  
  ...In an obvious administrative overreach, EPA' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:53am EST
  

• Stimulus in Simulated Districts. Right.

  Joe Biden may have thought this up...
  
  Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:27pm EST
  

• FACT-Based Polls: ObamaCare Sinks

  Surprise, surprise, Gomer!
  
  When poll questions were framed broadly, the answers seemed to indicate ample support for Obama’s goals. When required trade-offs were brought into the equation, opinions shifted — sometimes dramatically…
  
  “These trade-offs really matter,” says Robert Blendon, a professor at the Harvard School of Public [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:10pm EST
  

• An Album NOT To Buy

  One graf tells it all:
  
  So there you have it: Gregorian chant meets Hollywood meets the Standard Tandoori, with the enthusiastic participation of the Roman authorities. The Catholic Church may have abolished the Inquisition, but it still knows the meaning of torture.
  
  To find out which album [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  

• Newman on Form

  Acute observations which are applied to liturgical stuff.
  
  ...There is no such thing as abstract religion. When persons attempt to worship in this (what they call) more spiritual manner, they end, in fact, in not worshipping at all. This frequently happens. Every one may know it from his [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:34pm EST
  

• Wiggy Did NOT Write This

  We all know that Wiggy is not a fan of the object of this critique:
  
  2009’s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:11am EST
  

• Volunteer? Then SEIU Will "Look Into" You.

  What a jackass.
  
  In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.
  
  ...Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:52am EST
  

• Drat! Manhattan and LA To Remain Above Sea Level

  Oh, well.
  
  ...if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Talk to an RN About ObamaCare

  Spent a bit of time with an RN over the weekend. Didn't know the person, setting was neutral (it wasn't a BitterClingers party.....)
  
  That RN absolutely despises the ObamaCare/Pelosi plan and isn't real thrilled with the Baucus plot, either.
  
  Major point that he made: there will be a' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Fact-Checking the AP's Palin-Assassin Squad

  When one fact-checks AP's Palin-Bashing Department, AP comes up short.
  
  Again and again. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:57am EST
  

• Interior Department Shuts Down Border Security

  Your Gummint's typical modus operandi.
  
  In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants.
  
  Documents' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:24am EST
  

• PRC Simply Cut Obama's Feed

  What an idea!
  
  The town hall meeting was one of the few unscripted moments on the president's trip. It was supposed to be carried live on Chinese state television but at the last moment, the Chinese government changed its mind and only local stations in Shanghai, and [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:07am EST
  

• Boz-Obama

  
  HT: Winning McCain [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:39pm EST
  

• Jackass-in-Chief

  This creature Obama is the flyweight in a world of heavyweights.
  
  Commenting on Obama's obsequious bow to the Emperor of Japan, Powerline:
  
  Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:58am EST