The Small Business & Entrepreneurial Council has ranked Wisconsin #30 in its 14th annual ranking of states using its Small Business Survivability Index (SBSI) that ranks every state in the union on a wide range of characteristics that should be positives for entrepreneurs.
[...] Wispolitics.com had a copy of the press release from Public Policy Polling (PPP), on a recent poll of the WI Governor’s race. The poll conducted 11/20 – 22 with 767 poll respondents, found the following results:
Tom Barrett vs. Tommy Thompson 46 – 41 Tom [...]MyDD has some good news from Public Policy Polling on the Russ Feingold election front. In a series of projected match ups with candidates including Tommy Thompson, Terrence Wall and Dave Westlake, Russ leads the way.
45% of all respondents and 25% of Republicans [...]
To follow-up on Zach’s earlier post on this topic.
What’s the matter with RI?
First we had the governor vetoing a law giving gay partners burial rights, as Zach reference, we now have the Catholic Bishop denying communion [...]
Outrageous!
I thought I’d heard it all when it comes to right wing hatred for gays and lesbians, but this one takes the cake.
According to the Huffington Post, GOP Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri has vetoed a law that would have allowed domestic partners [...]
Paul Ryan’s 2 minutes during “debate” on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) exposes his right wing ideology. He’d rather that people die because they don’t have or can’t afford insurance then to force companies to provide this insurance and to allow the government to help subsidize this [...]
Scott Walker just doesn’t get it. He says he wants to be bold on benefits, yet he is weak and meek.
In playing to his base by threatening to veto domestic partnership benefits for Milwaukee County employees, he’s positioning himself against economic development, against fairness in the workplace and against creating [...]
Just like on television’s Fantasy Island when Herve Villechaize as Tatoo rang the belltower bell to announce the arival of “Ze Plane, Ze Plane”, the GOP is rushing out their fantasy health care plan and its a doozy.
Yup.
Guess What?
Their plan doesn’t address pre-existing conditions, so if you’ve had health problems [...]
Forbes recently released a list of what it calls America’s Safest Cities. Kudos to Milwauke and to Doyle, Barrett, Flynn, Clark and yes even Walker, for winning the #2 spot among the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the country. The rankings are based on an aggregation [...]
He sounds good, he looks good; but is what he’s saying really best for our country and for his District?
Ryan Votes
In other Representative Ryan news, he joined ten other representatives in the minority in voting aginst the funding for the Coast Guard (HR 3619, Yes – 385; No [...]
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Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, calls it like it is about Tim Phillips, President of Americans for Prosperity “a parasite who gets fat on American fears.”
[...]Ryan, the man who championed privatizing Medicare admits to GOP failure on health care.
In a candid discussion on CNBC with Barney Frank, Paul Ryan R-WI admits that the GOP failed in taking on health care during their long period of power. The statement reflects their lack of attention to this [...]
Last year Bush had this to say about the Olympic bid “This country supports your bid strongly.” This year we saw the anti-Americanism and anti-Obama hatred from the right, as clearly encapsulated in this discussion yesterday with Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press.
P.S. Mark my words – Rachel Maddow is [...]
Look east…west…central…into the business world…into religion…into entertainment …or most importantly into our own hearts, to realize how wrong J.B. and J.A. are when it comes to condemning the loving relationships of same sex couples. These relationships, whether under the limited benefits implied by the legalization of domestic partnerships or with [...]
Do you think President Obama has taken on more than he can handle?
Poppycock.
Two reports support the need for change on two issues – one the much discussed implications of lack of health insurance and the other the need to eliminate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The first report is the peer [...]
Do you think President Obama has taken on more than he can handle?
Poppycock.
Two reports support the need for change on two issues – one the much discussed implications of lack of health insurance and the other the need to eliminate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The first report is the peer [...]
NIMBY – Not in My Back Yard seems to be the name of the game with respect to Madison re-development initiatives from the Edgewater Hotel (see the Badger Herald article),to the potential Mifflin street re-development to “high” speed rail or [...]
An interesting ad attacking Meg Whitman of eBay fame for her abysmal voting record. It would be interesting to do the same analysis with politicos and business people in Wisconsin that are seeking or considering going after higher office like Neuman, Walker or T. Wall.
Update: I forgot to mention that [...]
Curious about the stimulus money and where it is being spent?
In a move towards even greater transparency, the Federal Government has launched the novel GIS (geographic information system) mapping & database website Recovery.gov that allows you to look at the funds being spent at the state level all [...]
I was curious to see some of the results of the recently released U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey on the status of various economic factors in the U.S. The data provides an interesting look at U.S. trends along with comparative data for each [...]
I’ve been pondering the implications of recent events in the Senate that lead me to believe that there is a need for a couple of new laws. The first law deals with the replacement of Senators following a vacancy. Given the hi-jinks that took place in New York and Illinois [...]
Following up on Tom Barrett’s heroics near the State Fair Grounds in West Allis, we have yet another example of heroism in action, when the husband of a customer at Guardian Credit Union in West Allis jumps a robber and is joined by his wife who kicks the robber.
There [...]
I was intrigued to read an article on Politico “For GOP, revenge is tweet“,that talked about the greater number of Republicans who were tweeting vs. Democrats. According to the article, the Congressional Research Service found that over two weeklong periods in July and August, Republicans [...]
At the recent Family Research Council Values Voter Summit, Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OK), Chief of Staff, Michael Schwartz, was expounding at a session titled “The New Masculinity” on the connection between pornography and being gay. According to Think Progress, he had this to say “all [...]
With no apologies to Bill Maher for borrowing his term, “religulous”, there seems to be a direct correlation between religion and teenage pregnancy rates and not in the way that you might expect. The states with the highest level of teenage pregnancy are also those that are the most religious [...]
Rupert Murdoch should be proud of the fair and balanced “news” product that Roger Ailes, his henchman has created in America’s most humorous and ludicrous channel – Fox News. All this in exchange for his “measly” salary of ~$24 million according to Business [...]
The votes are counted – Joe “You Lie” Wilson has been reprimanded by the Congress for his outburst during the President’s health care speech. In a movement led by the House Majority Whip from South Carolina James Clyburn, Wilson was given some of what he deserves, when the Congress voted [...]
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division recently released statistics on crime and law enforcement for 2008. The reports offer a fascinating snapshot of crime and law enforcement variations by state.
You can download both sets of the complete United States statistics from the FBI website. The complete crime data is [...]
Using 3 simple questions, Nicholas Beaudrot has put together a nice infographic explaining the proposed health care reform plans. However it doesn’t answer how the death panels are going to deal with poor old granny, funny how they don’t address gramps.
[...]Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan, not a pair you’d think would agree on much, but they almost did.
When asked about attacks on Obama in a recent Esquire interview , Clinton called out the Republicans saying “they’re in la-la land.” Meanwhile, Ryan, in today’s The Wall [...]
What’s the matter with South Carolina?
Following up on my earlier comment on a post here at Blogging Blue, I’m fascinated and repulsed by the continued hijinks of the South Carolina right wing, GOP. Joining the long list of troubled and troubling right wing extremists, hypocrites and downright nasty politicians is [...]
In yet another example of right wing family values gone amuck – married CA GOP State Representative Michael Duvall is caught on an open mic bragging about his kinky sexual exploits with two female lobbbyists that represent industries he deals with. He has a 100% rating from family values endorsing [...]
Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight has a fascinating analysis of support for the public option in each congressional district. Here’s an extract of the key points to his analysis
“Six polls reveal a strong relationship between the public option and support for [...]Max Blumenthal has released his new book “Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party”. The 416 page book published by Nation Books, is available for purchase from his former employer Buzzflash (for $28.50 including shipping) or at other book sellers.
Here’s what Buzzflash [...]
In yet another red state/blue state divide, The New York Times has another fascinating article by Robert Pear with a supporting infographic that measures the cost and quality of Medicare. The data from the Dartmouth Atlas of [...]
I came across a couple of interesting infographics that readers might enjoy.
The first, from the Great American Beer Fest 2009, does a nice job of showing the states with the largest numbers of breweries and also the award winning beers at this year’s event. You can access the map [...]
Continuing my review of health care statistics, I’ve found some interesting data that looks at overall prescription drug expenditures and medication utilization by state. Forbes magazine reports that last year we spent $291.5 billion on drugs and that on a per capita medication usage rate (see “[...]
For political junkies and for Dem political candidates for Governor, take a look at this great video from the Palmetto State’s Democrat Dwight Drake for Governor attacking sad sack Governor Sanford with the “500 Days of Sanford”, a spoof on the recently released movie “500 Days of Summer.”
For political junkies and for Dem political candidates for Governor, take a look at this great video from the Palmetto State’s Democrat Dwight Drake for Governor attacking sad sack Governor Sanford with the “500 Days of Sanford”, a spoof on the recently released movie “500 Days of Summer.”
I’m new to the cadre of bloggers here on Blogging Blue. I’m looking forward to contributing my perspectives and insights to the conversation.
In this first blog posting, I’d like to share some insights and research reports that support the need for health care reform.
There are several new and interesting reports [...]
