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  • Closed for the Season, or at least until the media frenzy results in my being traded to a larger venue with more lucrative marketing possibilities

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    As noted over at Badger Blog Alliance, LanceBurri.blogspot.com is shutting down for the forseeable future. The reason: I was coming to dread having to come up with something to write over here. It wasn't something I really wanted to do anymore, which led to me - at least, I think' [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 3:56pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • There’s nothing government can’t do.

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    It’s the first salvo of the year from the Wisconsin State Senate and its encouraged Democrat majority. Not likely the last. Three bills, introduced on Thursday: increase the state’s minimum wage and index it to inflation; mandate that bankruptcy-headed businesses pay their employees before paying other debts; and mandate health [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 7:07pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • How Obama could please both the far Right and far Left at the same time, and why he won't.

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    New column over at FoxPolitics.net. An excerpt:That won’t please the far – or even the middle – Right, either. Vastly greater government spending; government debt to support that spending; government interference in private business; increased government influence over private business. These are not good things. It doesn't please the Left,' [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 7:04am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Wish List 2009

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    Aught-Seven ended "neither with a bang, nor with a whimper, but rather…a bang waiting to happen…Powder’s dry, and it’ll go off soon." Or so I wrote at the time.If 2007 ended with unresolved tension, 2008 ends…well, like a long exhale. So far, 2009 feels like a day-old balloon: still floating, [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2009, 6:11pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Yes, I know, I misspelled Kennedy's name

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    Writing over at FoxPolitics.net about political dynasties and why they're bad...and why they're not so bad, I spelled Caroline Kennedy's name wrong.The upside is, I can almost guarantee that this is the biggest mistake I'll make for the remainder of the year.Here's an excerpt:We have an aversion to generational politics' [...]
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    Posted: December 31, 2008, 8:29am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Turns out they picked the initials "J.C." for a reason

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    From today's column over at FoxPolitics.net:Imagine for a moment that before your child was born – before your child was even conceived – you knew he was coming. Somebody told you. His name; who he would be; things he would do; and that his birth is of absolute importance to' [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 6:53am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Rose for Supe

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    New column up over at FoxPolitics.net (like I post columns anywhere else these days). This time, it's about the upcoming race for Superintendent of Public Schools.I've found, since sending this in, that there are at least two other potential candidates for the seat whom I did not mention*. Sorry about [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 7:54am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • What if Mumbai happened here?

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    That's the topic of my latest column over at Foxpolitics.net. Here's an excerpt:I guess we should be asking – not what if it happened here, but why hasn't it happened here? Why haven't we had suicide bombers in Houston? Car bombs in San Diego? Roadside ambushes, homemade mortars? It's not' [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2008, 6:55am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • What do we do about the deer herd?

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    According to the anecdotes, hunters are seeing fewer deer this year. Which is a little odd, if the DNR's 1.7 million-head count is accurate.That's the topic of my column over at FoxPolitics today. An excerpt:It’s becoming a pattern: every year, I go hunting. I fire one shot. I bring home [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 6:46am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Will there be an Obama Derangement Syndrome?

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    Remember when President Bush pushed that expensive new prescription drug program through Congress? Sure you do. It came straight out of the liberal playbook: people had a need, and government was going to fill that need no matter how much taxpayer money it took. The first cost estimates were $400 [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 7:19pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • It's as if Governor Doyle wants a ginormous deficit!

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    From today's column over at FoxPolitics.net:Governor Doyle is calculating the “deficit” as if the agency requests are a done deal. As if state agencies will get everything they want, simply by having asked for it.They won’t, or they shouldn’t. If Governor Doyle simply says “no budget increases,” then boom. Over' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 7:48am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Gotta go…gotta date with a tree stand…

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    …and hopefully with at least one deer. This is the year Son #1 gets one.But before I go, I’m going to get this off my chest.On Monday, I wrote a column for FoxPolitics.net called: "Be Honest, Campaign Finance Reform limits free speech." An excerpt:Campaign Finance Reformers say that stricter limits [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 7:43pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?

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    Old and busted: speculation about Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential run. New hotness: speculation about Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential run.Well, no, that's not actually in the news. Pundit-like, though, I warp whatever the news is into what I want the news to be.The story:There's a lot of buzz in DC about [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 6:25pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • He may be a lot of things, but Jim Doyle is no lame duck

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    Jo Egelhoff of FoxPolitics.net has graciously agreed to let me continue writing once a week over there, which means I'll be excerpting what I write over there over here once a week. This week, I'm taking a look at the speculation over Governor Jim Doyle's possible move to a D.C.' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 7:17am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • They said Obama would bring Hope, and they were right!

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    Got Hope?Maybe not: there isn't a lot of doe-eyed hopefulness to be found among conservatives and Republicans these days. And why not, I ask? Why not?Two days after Election Day, and I find myself absolutely full of hope. I'm serious. Having spent much of my time during the election ridiculing [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 5:48pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Finally!

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    I'm busy, so instead of excerpting this column I wrote for FoxPolitics.net, I'm re-posting the whole thing here. That means you don't have to click over to read the whole thing, but you should click over anyway, just for the round-ups of news and opinion. It's good.Onward.Wow, November already. Where [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 7:00am EST
    by Lance Burri

  • A Republican civil war?

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    Is a Republican civil war on the horizon? Well, yes, if we get thumped in this election, or even if we just lose it. Duh. We always do that.Anyway, that's what I wrote about over at FoxPolitics.net today. An excerpt:After the Slaughter of 2006, we had very little time for' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 8:39pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • I just voted, and guess what I didn't have to do?

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    I voted today. Just after lunchtime. It was easy.Too easy. Gave me ideas. A plan.I'll come back to that.Voting early required several very simple steps: go to the clerk's office; fill out a form, requesting an absentee ballot; give them my name and address, and sign both the form and [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2008, 5:24pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Am I being pessimistic?

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    I don't feel pessimistic, but everything I write seems pessimistic to me. Take, for example, this colummn over at FoxPolitics.net. I'm just sounding a warning about what will (might?) happen if Democrats gain complete control over the federal and state governments.I'll skip to the scariest part:...even that isn’t the worst' [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 7:34am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Democrats Rising: Time to "Go John Galt?"

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    First things first: let’s not be whiny little liberals.You know who I'm talking about: those Hollywood lefties who so righteously claimed they’d move to Canada, should that Son of a Bush win a first, then a second term.He did, they didn’t. Because that would be stupid. Still, they promised. You' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 9:56pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • So easy to be fraudulent

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    My latest column at FoxPolitics.net is about how you should and should not attempt to register to vote in Wisconsin, especially if you're filling out fraudulent registration forms.An excerpt:I downloaded a voter registration form today. Went to the official website, clicked a link, opened a new window, and hit “print.”A' [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 7:25am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • With the campaign slipping away, McCain should tell his story

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    Twenty-seven days to Election Day, and things are looking down.National polls have Obama up over John McCain. State-by-state polls – and with them, the Electoral College – are shifting Obamaward. Opinion on Tuesday’s debate… well, there is some disagreement in the Right-leaning punditsphere, but whether McCain won it by a [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 5:00pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Shut up and hand over your wallet!

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    New column at FoxPolitics today: at least one liberal pundit is responding to BadgerCare Plus being $25 million overbudget by...not caring.An excerpt:Dave Zweifel makes me wish I was a salesman. Or an auto mechanic, maybe.Why? Because Zweifel, editor of the Capital Times, doesn’t mind when things cost a lot more [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 7:56am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • When in doubt, write about football.

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    The news is full of all kinds of important stuff these days. The presidential election, and the vice presidential debate last night. The housing bubble that turned into a banking bubble that turned into a $700 billion government bailout, the failure-then-passage of which has the stock market swinging more wildly [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 6:11pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Bugs Bunny lives down this street. I saw his name on a registered voter list.

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    She was just padding her stats, really. Just scrambling to meet a quota. You know how it is: when push comes to shove, fudging a few things doesn't seem so bad. Except that when I say “fudging,” I mean “making up.” A paid registration worker for a liberal "progressive" grassroots' [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 8:54pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • At the risk of sounding like a defeatist...

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    ...today's FoxPolitics.net colunm is titled "It's Obama's Race to Lose." An excerpt: "The smart liberals are worried. The dumb ones think they've won." - popular quote in the right-leaning blogosphere, source unknown.Two years ago, we thought Republicans would be fine. We thought Mark Green would win the Governor’s office. We thought Republicans [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 7:00am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Why I won't mind if Obama wins

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    Election season’s in full swing. I can tell, because I’ve got that good ol' partisan feeling going on. The feeling that my side is right, and their side is wrong. That their criticisms are simply twisted by partisan bitterness, while ours are dead on. Even if we have to do some [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 7:30pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Is he crazy? Or is he just a genius?

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    Perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader - the Progressive progressives love to hate - likes to say that there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. You want to see some difference? Read this op-ed by Assembly candidate Nathan Russell. The subject: health care. The nutshell: don’t believe the guys who say they’ll give [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 6:38pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Abortion rates down, Planned Parenthood cites lack of funds

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    TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Abortions in the United States fell 33 percent between 1974 and 2004, but sizeable differences among racial and economic groups continue to exist as to who gets an abortion, a new report says. While the number of abortions among teens has also dropped dramatically, down [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 8:39pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • An Average Guy, Wrestling with Complicated Things

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    My new column is up over at FoxPolitics. In it, I wonder how a guy of average intelligence and education is supposed to know why our current financial unpleasantness is happening: When it comes to finance, I'm an average guy. I understand average things. These average things do not include the [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 9:44pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • An Average Guy, Wrestling with Complicated Things

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    My new column is up over at FoxPolitics. In it, I wonder how a guy of average intelligence and education is supposed to know why our current financial unpleasantness is happening: When it comes to finance, I'm an average guy. I understand average things. These average things do not include the [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 7:20am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Democrats are Funny

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    I’m easily entertained. Life, in general and in detail, amuses me. Especially when Democrats start complaining about election law. The latest: federal and state law both require that mailed-in voter registration forms be checked. That they be verified, somehow. That the person on the form be an actual, legal voter. Wisconsin’s Government [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 7:38pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • What the World Demands!

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    New column up over at FoxPolitics: the world demands Barack Obama! …the world wants the U.S. to elect Barack Obama. If they could vote (that is, if they could all find their way into Milwaukee on Election Day) they’d elect Obama quickly, surely, and overwhelmingly. I know this, because Guardian columnist [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2008, 7:32am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • When the Private Sector Fails, it means we Need More Government. When the Government Fails, it means...Nothing.

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    You’re hungry. Why are you hungry? Heck, I don’t know. Maybe you forgot your lunch. Maybe somebody stole it. Maybe your buddy skipped out on his turn to buy. Maybe the government soup line ran out of bread. Your fault; somebody else’s fault; nobody’s fault. I dunno. Does it matter? To [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2008, 7:25am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Responsible Governance through Irresponsibility

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    My newest column is up over at FoxPolitics: in it, I explain why choosing a relatively inexperienced governor to run for vice president is, in fact, the responsible thing to do. An excerpt: Choosing Sarah Palin for Veep never thrilled me. I know: conservatives wanted her, and demographic politics recommended her. Still, [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2008, 6:50am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Blogging the Republican National Convention

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    I'm in St. Paul, and I'll be blogging the Republican National Convention all day, every day, Monday through Thursday over at Badger Blog Alliance. Also, new column up over at FoxPolitics.net: my report on the anti-war protest I watched here yesterday. A bite: See, there were the anti-war protesters, and then there [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 9:07am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Three Hundred Forty-One Votes!

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    Editor's note: Lance Burri is freakishly busy preparing for the Republican National Convention, for a family event over the weekend in Racine, and for his lovely wife's birthday (Happy birthday Mari Jo!). Thus, today we publish from the Best of Lance Burri Collection. Regular posting will continue at Badger Blog Alliance, [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 7:32pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • It's All About the Gravitas

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    I’ve got presidential politics on the brain these days, so naturally my column at FoxPolitics is about why Obama picked Joe Biden. I say he’s just following a winning formula: It may not quite be gravitas. It doesn’t feel like gravitas – although, admittedly, I’m biased. But picking the older, vastly [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 7:13am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • In the Face of Uncertainty, Obama Chooses...

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    Something was bothering me about the Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum. You know: the one-at-a-time forum in California last Saturday in which John McCain did so much better than Barack Obama that Democrats and lefties are sure McCain must have cheated? (Side note: if that’s not a forecast of what'll happen if [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 7:23pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Social Security in the Liberal Mind

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    There's a little game I like to play: take a liberal position, assume that it's based on fact, and logic, and reasoned consideration, and then try to understand it. Try to see their side. I rarely play this game. The mental gymnastics required are…well, let's just call them extensive. Exhausting. They leave [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2008, 9:04pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Government Health Care: Not the Holy Grail

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    New column up over at FoxPolitics.net. Here's a blurb: The government health plan refused to cover her treatments. They ran the numbers: the cost, the potential benefit, the woman’s life. They decided it wasn’t worth paying for, and instead offered to pay for doctor-assisted suicide. That’s the juicy, tabloid-y part of [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2008, 7:00am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Free Market Won't "Fix" Health Care

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    Editor's note: Lance Burri has been abducted by his wife and children, who are holding him in an unknown location and demanding a "vacation" in return for his release. Until such time as Lance has made good on their demands, we will continue to publish from the Best of Lance [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 9:11pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Leaving the Communist Paradise

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    Editor's note: Lance Burri has been abducted by his wife and children, who are holding him in an unknown location and demanding a "vacation" in return for his release. Until such time as Lance has made good on their demands, we will continue to publish from the Best of Lance [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2008, 9:08pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Shoot a Deer, Save the World!

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    Editor's note: Lance Burri has been abducted by his wife and children, who are holding him in an unknown location and demanding a "vacation" in return for his release. Until such time as Lance has made good on their demands, we will continue to publish from the Best of Lance [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2008, 9:02pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Boiling the frog

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    New column up over at FoxPolitics.net. Sort of a response to a letter to the editor in my local newspaper (not online, unfortunately) - an interesting and well-written letter, despite its Kucinich-like moonbattery. She's worried about the heat turning up a little more, and a little more, and a little more, [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2008, 7:31am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Obama das Grosse

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    Barack Obama went to Europe. Perhaps you heard? And, boy, they just love him there. At least, that’s what I heard. And read. And saw. It's all over the news. A very successful trip, in part because of the Obama campaign’s own machinations. For example: that blue flyer, printed in German because [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2008, 9:24pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • New Column

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    Over at FoxPolitics.net, my latest column: this one about what Europeans think about our presidential choice, and whether we should care. A blurb: With all due respect to Europe’s long history and their literature and architecture and to the fact that the seedlings of modern liberal democracy took root there well before [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 6:51am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Hit Jobs on the Tavern League

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    My goodness, but the state’s editorial boards are having the vapors over the Tavern League of Wisconsin lately. Over the course of a few days this week, the Tavern League was the subject of several negative stories in at least three papers, including this editorial in the Appleton Post Crescent: It [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2008, 8:14pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Give me Liberty, or give me...more random testing for my own good!

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    My latest is up over at FoxPolitics.net. I take a random drug testing program in DePere and turn it into the Great Commie Invasion. It wasn't even really that hard. Go have a look. [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2008, 8:16pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Just what they asked for: more campaign spending!

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    The usual suspects ought to be pleased. They won’t be for long. They never are. But for the time being…maybe they can spend one pleasant weekend; a day, maybe two, enjoying the summer, taking a swim, popping a couple cold ones. One weekend spent without concern over our general societal decay. [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2008, 9:30pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Epic, but selective, outrage

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    My latest is up at FoxPolitics.net: the whole story about Epic's "boycott" of WMC and its supporters has bothered me for a while, and I finally figured out why. An excerpt: If I ran…oh, say a paper products business: I might find it amusing to make Epic a really good offer, only [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2008, 8:09am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Governor Barbara Lawton?

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    My latest is up over at FoxPolitics.net: Personally, I'd very much enjoy a Lawton candidacy. Heck, I’ll even campaign for her. No, not because her relative inexperience and Garveyesque liberalism will make her an easy mark. No, not because we might get to see Democrat operatives Hillaryize another female candidate. We [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 7:27am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • McCain's Pick

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    Who’s he gonna pick? Who should he pick? Who, as a Veep candidate, gives John McCain the best chance to win? Conventional election wisdom says: first you secure your political base, then you go for the middle. For McCain this would seem to mean: tell conservatives you’re sorry and want them back, [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 9:05pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • I am shocked - shocked...

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    ...to find that a government-run health care program is going overbudget! That's the gist of my new column, up at FoxPolitics. A blurb: Let this be the last time we are surprised by something like this. That is, if any of us were surprised in the first place. Doesn’t this always happen? [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 10:56am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • FFRF: Devout in Victimhood

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    The Freedom From Religion Foundation – the Wisconsin-based anti-faith organization – is back, and they’re mad. Why? Because the State Assembly sets time aside for a prayer at the start of each session. The Freedom From Religion Foundation said its review of 16 prayers led by legislators in the past year found [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2008, 7:29pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Democrats: Fighting the Last War

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    My newest column is up over at FoxPolitics. I'm just curious: not that there's no reason for Democrats to be optimistic, but so very optimistic? ...why shouldn't Democrats be encouraged? The Great Republican Slaughter of 2006 is still a fresh and heady memory. The war and President Bush remain highly unpopular. [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 8:09am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Didn't see this coming

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    Want to know how to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. Replace “God” with “Mother Nature,” if them’s your druthers. Very early Monday morning, hundreds of people were working hard at the dam that makes Lake Delton Lake Delton. Filling and placing sandbags, hoping they could protect the dam and, thus, [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 7:10pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The Blame Game in Janesville

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    My latest column is up over at FoxPolitics. An excerpt: They want higher gas taxes. They want more expensive gasoline. They want SUVs off the road. Thus, they want the Janesville plant to stop making SUVs. Not in so many words, maybe. But that’s the logical end to the environmentalist – [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 7:05am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • How to impress a Democrat in four years or less

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    Remember Darrell Bevell? Oh, come on, sure you do. Tall. Athletic. A little nerdy. He played quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers in 1993, when they won the Rose Bowl. Ah. Now you remember. He graduated in 1995, and spent the next few years bouncing from one college coaching job to [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 7:32pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The most lethal third-party candidate...ever

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    New column up over at FoxPolitics. Read it here. And for a brief overview of the comedy of error (that's not a typo - it was one error) that led to its eventual posting, click here. A small sampling: In a two-party race, both candidates are going to get…oh, let’s call it [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 8:40pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Careful What You Wish For (Historical Version)

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    They grow up so fast. One day, they’re just enormous expanses of unmapped land. The next, they’re states, and a hundred and sixty years old. Wednesday, May 28, was the tenth anniversary of Wisconsin’s Sesquicentennial. The Badger State, Dairy State, home of Titletown and land of LaFollette is 160 years and [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2008, 10:49pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Indiana Jones and the Overactive Imagination

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    My latest column is up over at FoxPolitics.net. I saw the new Indiana Jones over the weekend, and you just know I had to write about it: That's Indiana Jones. The jacket, the whip, the unshaven weather-beaten face and lopsided grin. The snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? The [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2008, 7:25am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Democrats stick their heads in the sand

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    Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin’s rising Republican star and conservative barbarian-at-the-gate, has a Big Idea. An ambitious, far-reaching, multi-point plan to deal with impending and interlocked crises in health care and entitlement spending. A plan to save us from ruinous taxes or debt. To rescue staple benefits from certain collapse. A plan [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The Irresistible Force vs. the Immovable Object

    My latest column is up over at FoxPolitics.net. A tiny sampling: The irresistible force vs. the immovable object. Both can’t exist at the same time. It’s a logical impossibility: if the force really is irresistible, it can knock down anything, so there can’t be such a thing as an immovable object. And [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 7:02am EDT
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  • Sauk County, Wisconsin: Volunteer Opportunities Available in Fall, 2008

    One we're not sure of; one we might lose; one we’d like back; and one we ought to keep. Sauk County, November of '08. Heading into a big election year with a lot at stake, we – conservatives, Republicans – are walking a tightrope, and we know it. Governor Doyle is entrenched; [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2008, 6:57pm EDT
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  • This Time It's Bologna

    My latest column is up over at FoxPolitics.net. An excerpt: Look, a bologna sandwich is just a bologna sandwich. I can’t stand it. Wouldn't pay for it. Won’t eat it. But if I’m ever stranded on a desert island, one bologna sandwich will be worth a lot. Restrict supply enough, and anything [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2008, 6:52am EDT
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  • Cheese on the Ticket, Part V

    My newest column is up at FoxPolitics. Here's a taste: Instead of choosing to back Obama – or Clinton, for that matter – and possibly ending up on the losing side, Feingold says he's happy either way: he just wants the nomination over and done with, before the bare-knuckle process hurts [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2008, 7:07am EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Supremes Vote, Dems Whine on Photo I.D.

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    Indiana has a law that we don't. In Indiana, before you can cast a vote, you have to prove who you are with a photo I.D. This is embarrassing. We've fallen behind Indiana. Indiana's law achieved rock-like solidity this week, because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is, indeed, constitutional. The [...]
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    Posted: May 02, 2008, 7:44pm EDT
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  • Presidential Cat and Mouse

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    How to explain the Democrats' presidential primary? Easy. Tom and Jerry. No, not the drink (although that might help). I mean the old Hanna Barbera cartoon. The cat and mouse. There’s one old scene in particular that I remember: Tom chasing Jerry through the house, smacking him repeatedly with a long metal [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2008, 8:08pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • It Just Isn't Fair!

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    Let’s say you’ve got a friend who, for whatever reason, likes to buy you lunch once a week. Nothing fancy: just a sandwich and soda at a local diner. One day you also order a dessert. Then you start ordering a bowl of soup to go with your sandwich. Your friend says [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 8:12pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Should they stay or should they go?

    So. You want to run for office. Or maybe not. But maybe so. You might run…it kinda depends. Better make up your mind. Soon. All around the state – all around the country, in fact – a whole lot of people are working on exactly that decision: whether or not to take the [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2008, 8:33pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • High taxes? Blame the Badgers.

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    Happy tax day! Don’t you wish it were Election Day, too? Today has special meaning for us in Wisconsin. It's a day to reflect on decades among the elite. It’s not easy to stay in the top ten highest-taxed states as long as we have. This is well-documented already, but I’ll document [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2008, 8:02pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Christians and Homosexuality

    The Baraboo News Republic: hotbed of social and religious controversy. You wouldn't think that, maybe, but it's true. We'll have a few quiet weeks, and then…bam! A letter to the editor, condemning…something. Homosexuality and those who support it. Christians who want to tell everybody else how to live. It started up [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2008, 4:14pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Absolut-ly Silly

    Number of comments: 7
    What’s Aztlan got to do with a little girl wearing a necktie? Timing, outrage, and bad judgment. And this column. That, plus neither story means very much, either in the grand scheme or the humble one. And I’d guess that one of them – the one drawing greater outrage – means [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2008, 8:44pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Teenagers, corruption, Hobbes (the philosopher, not the tiger), and Star Wars

    Number of comments: 2
    What do you say to a teenager who asks if you're endorsing a Hobbesian view of humanity? I found out today. You say: um…huh? For crying out loud. My daughter, a high school sophomore, came to the Capitol with her American Government class today. About forty teenagers and their teacher. They had [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2008, 7:20pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • So what do we do about it?

    Number of comments: 1
    So we’re all pretty sick of this Supreme Court election. Am I right? Sick of the negative ads. The gutter politics. The mutually assured destruction of reputation and trust. Me, too. And I’m worried about the effect this all may have on our courts: if the Court simply becomes one more partisan [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2008, 7:52pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Partisanship and the Wisconsin Supreme Court

    Number of comments: 4
    We’ve all got our ways of making up our minds. Horoscopes. Gut feelings. Snippets overheard at the water cooler. Long, tedious hours of research. And finding out what others think. If we’ve agreed with someone in the past, or disagreed with them in the past; if they share or oppose our general [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2008, 7:58pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Why I'll Vote for Gableman

    Number of comments: 6
    There’s an election next week. No, really. One week from today. Kinda snuck up on us. Spring elections do that. Still, you'd think it would have made more noise. There’s a lot on the ballot. A mayoral race here in Baraboo, to start. A constitutional amendment to eliminate the Governor's "Frankenstein Veto." [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 8:43pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The Moment You Know

    Number of comments: 4
    At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2008, 8:42pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • St. Patrick's Day

    Number of comments: 2
    If you go far enough back in my family tree, third branch from the top, I think – no the little bitty one to the left, there…it's small: careful you don't break it…if you get all the way up to there, you'll find the MacNaughton (or possibly MacNachtan) clan. A [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2008, 6:19pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The Do-Nothing, Do-Everything Legislature

    Number of comments: 2
    Everybody’s mad at the Wisconsin State Legislature today. They’re mad because the Legislature adjourned with “so much work left to be done.” Well no kidding. They didn't do anything. No concealed carry. No Taxpayer Bill of Rights. No statewide school choice. No elimination of all taxes on business. Oh, right. That's not [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2008, 9:25pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • The Once and Future Budget Deficit

    Number of comments: 1
    Very few things are certain in life: there's death, taxes, and the Wisconsin state budget going into deficit about once every two or three biennia. That's now. We found out in February: the state budget is in deficit by about $650 million. Governor Doyle's first volley of fixes included $100 million [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 8:48pm EDT
    by Lance Burri

  • Democrats Crash on Photo I.D.

    Let’s start by making an assumption: elected officials are smart people, who have reasons for the things they do. Both intelligence and design. Seems a bit of a stretch, in this case but let’s just go with it for now. Why, then, did two Democrat Senators crash a Republican press conference on [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2008, 8:13pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Life After Favre

    Number of comments: 14
    Nineteen ninety-two was a big year. My daughter was born ? my oldest child. That?s not why it was a big year, of course: I only mention it for context. She was 134 days old ? four months, thirteen days ? on September 13 of that year. A button, she was. [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 8:23pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Would you vote Democrat, and why?

    Number of comments: 5
    What would it take for me to vote Democrat this year? Ha. Trick question. I already did, in the presidential primary. First time since 1988, although I might have voted Clinton in ?92 if I?d registered in time. That was in California. Yup, liberal California. You had to register in advance ? [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 7:56pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • It's a bird...it's a plane...it's a Superdelegate!

    Tammy Baldwin: independent maverick. Oh, no, wait. I mean Tammy Baldwin: turning a deaf ear to her constituents. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin: Superdelegate! You?ve heard of those, of course: mythical beings with supernatural powers, allowing them to nominate any candidate for President, whether or not the wider Democrat electorate agrees. Well, Baldwin is one, [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 8:43pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • When the Watchdog Makes Things Worse

    Number of comments: 1
    It was a nasty election. It spent lots of money. It threw lots of mud. It was Ziegler vs. Clifford: last year?s election for Wisconsin Supreme Court. The conservative candidate won so, naturally, Something Had To Be Done! Okay, not really. But close, I think. Special interests ? meaning groups of private citizens [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2008, 9:00pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • The Evolution of Victimology

    Number of comments: 1
    Which of these is not like the other?A law banning the obese from eating in restaurants; Mandating that insurance companies pay for autism services, mental health services, chiropractor services, etc.; The federal government bailing out people who live in flood plains, hurricane coasts, southern California, etc. Forbidding insurance companies from considering [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2008, 9:44pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Old and Busted Trumps New Hotness

    Number of comments: 2
    The shiny new toy vs. the old and boring toy. The former is new, thus exciting. The latter is old, but known. And its at least lasted long enough to become old and known. You wonder: can the new toy do the same? I hope Wisconsins Democrats are asking themselves that question. [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 8:30pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • If the Government Is Paying, That Means It's Free

    Number of comments: 13
    Earlier today, an Assembly committee held a hearing on Assembly Bill 47 a tax credit for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). In case you dont already know, HSAs are high-deductible health insurance plans commonly known as catastrophic plans. Theyre called that because the policy holder you or me [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 9:36pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • What then? The government isn't the answer

    Number of comments: 2
    Note: the following is a column published in today's Tomah Journal, in response to editor Steve Rundio's column of January 21. Steve is a native Barabooian whose brother and family lived right next door to mine for a little while. I appreciate him letting me respond. His editorial was a sorta-response to [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 9:11pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • A Few Random Thoughts

    The U.S. Senate passed a slightly bigger version of the economic stimulus "rebate" bill yesterday - the bill to send almost everybody in America some free money, because that's the kind of country we are! The bill passed after a brief argument over whether they should spend even more than [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 8:37pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • A Seasonal Post-Mortem

    Number of comments: 2
    Its not as if we didnt know it was coming, but that doesnt make it any easier. Beginnings are exciting. Possibilities stretch out in infinite directions. Anything is possible, or so we believe. Over time, some avenues close, while others loom larger. Possibilities are fewer. Still, theres always the next step, the [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 7:42pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • And the Award for Most Astounding Twist in a Presidential Race Goes To

    Number of comments: 4
    You know what this primary season needs? A car chase. A race against time. Some kind of Manchurian Candidate subplot, with the good guy (a minor campaign staffer) racing madly to file something or deliver something or get away to warn the eventual winners campaign. Maybe a fistfight. An explosion or two. [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2008, 8:23pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • When a Rebate Isn't a Rebate

    I got a rebate in the mail the other day. Ten bucks. Back before hunting season, I bought a few boxes of ammunition on special, sent in the paperwork, and the little postcard check finally came. Thats a rebate. First you pay the money, then you get some back. Or its [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2008, 8:32pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • The State of the State Is...Well...

    Governor Jim Doyle gave his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, and as such speeches go, this one was um Addresses like these like the Presidents State of the Union are supposed to be big. Important. Indicative of the CEOs intentions for the coming year. Of course, this year, [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2008, 8:58pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • The Left's Fear of Investment

    Number of comments: 1
    Yes, lets invest in the stock market. What could go wrong? Thats the question a Milwaukee-area blogger asks about this story: A plan to borrow money and invest the proceeds as a way of managing Milwaukee County's pension debt - an idea once rejected by voters and reviled by critics as [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 9:11pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • Minnesota: the liberal dreamland

    Number of comments: 2
    It isnt often that one political side gets to really prove that theyre right. To have the unmitigated proof. The smoking gun. To really rub it in the other sides face: were right, and youre wrong. Dont look now, Wisconsin liberals, but Minnesota may be giving you a chance to do [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2008, 8:45pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • You Don't Always Get What You Want, Even When You Do

    Big doings around the country these days. Important doings. Doings that will last at least another few weeks. Into February. Maybe longer. Who are you cheering for? More importantly, who do you want moving on to the Big Show? Are you hoping for a specific opponent? Somebody you think your top [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 9:01pm EST
    by Lance Burri

  • The Minimum Wage: Lifting Families out of Poverty since 1919!

    Number of comments: 1
    If we raise the minimum wage, people will no longer live in poverty. Until the feds change the definition of living in poverty, at least. The Democrat-controlled Wisconsin State Senate is all set to raise the minimum wage again its been a little over a year since the last increase [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2008, 9:15pm EST
    by Lance Burri
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