Liberty's Logic

• Blizzard Allison Speaks Out

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  Blizzard Allison said in a brief interview today:
  
  Open your eyes, you proud and foolish creatures, who think you can change the entire climate in this massive, complex system. Your puny brains simply cannot wrap around the vast reality from which I come.
  
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:52pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Global Warming Fanatacism Heats Up

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  My latest post at Real Debate Wisconsin:
  Global Warming Fanatacism Heats Up [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Thanksgiving Miracles

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  This Thanksgiving, I want to take a break from my regular preoccupations to acknowledge the God-given gifts I often take for granted. Besides our dear families, and our Shining City upon the hill, we are blessed with many simple pleasures, such as the sense of taste (mmmm, pumpkin pie) [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:37pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• No "immune" defense = downfall of America

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  "If not the greatest evil, yet war is a great evil. Therefore, we should all like to remove it if we can. But every war leads to another war. The removal of war must therefore be attempted. We must increase by propaganda the number of Pacifists in each nation until" [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:44am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Tom Barrett gets name recognition "boost" from NRA

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  Those who are worried that Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett is only known in the Milwaukee area where he is mayor can relax - depending on their stance on Second Amendment rights, that is. Barrett, who just announced his 2010 candidacy, is written up for his anti-gun policies in [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:52pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Ayn Rand: a beacon for our time

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  This country is engaged in an eternal struggle between individualism and collectivism. The words of one of my favorite philosophers, Ayn Rand, shine a clarifying light on the differences between these two very different approaches, which lead to results as opposite as night and day. Here are quotes from Rand's' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• America, the Gullible

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  In honor of Veterans' Day, and in memory of the victims at Fort Hood last week:
  
  
  America, the Gullible
  (sung to melody, "America, the Beautiful")
  
  So hoodwinked by the leaders’ lies
  This country cannot see
  That terrorists are camouflaged,
  Protected by PC.
  America! America!
  Your doors' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:51pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• 100 Best Non-fiction Books of the Century

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  This book list, compiled by the National Review, gives some powerful books to curl up with in the coming winter nights. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Who's the Biggest Bully of All?

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  With all the anti-bullying focus in the schools, you would think people would be more aware of identifying bullies in their lives. There is bully afoot most people do not think of as such. Here is a list of the damage bullies do, with examples of how the current [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:42am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds - a Utopian Update

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  Some of us vaguely remember a little song about "ticky-tacky" in the 60's. Here are the words to that simple but scathing criticism of the traditional American way of life and upward mobility written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. There was also a "hippie" version in the 1980s' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:27am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Don't Say "God Bless America" Any More

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  In honor of All Saints Day (though I am not Catholic), here is one of my favorite quotes from the 2009 tea parties:Don't ever no more say God bless America, don't say that no more because we truly do not want God to bless us in the mess we're in.[...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:35am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Horrors: 2009 Politicians and Pundits Pictures

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  Earlier this year, I experimented with taking "artsy" pictures of famous political personalities on our very old tv, which added noise "texture." For some reason, the least flattering shots taken during televised events and interviews were the most evocative, lending themselves to a bit of Halloween imagination.
  
  
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:11pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Parody of "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds

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  1962 "Little Boxes" anti-conformity song parody posted at Real Debate Wisconsin. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:25am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Laugh or Die: an invitation

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  Are you tired of the absurdity of the radical extremist ideas coming from this nation's leaders, their outright destruction of the American way of life and what it means for our children's future, the bald lies and ruthless control over the information the people are allowed to hear about, the [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:19am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Bye

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  Why was I doing this blog? Because I had come off of doing a paid opinion column at the local newspaper, which lasted for a year, and got me in the rhythm of pushing things out. When the paper stopped paying its three opinion writers, none of us continued in [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:56pm EDT
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• AmeriCorps + 4-H = Poorer Kids

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  This month, I heard from our County 4-H program about "an incredible opportunity" for adults to work as paid AmeriCorps members. The two part-time positions would be responsible for "promoting to and integrating urban and underserved youth within the traditional community club programs" into urban 4-H Community Clubs. While [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• AmeriCorps + 4-H = Poorer Kids

  This month, I heard from our County 4-H program about "an incredible opportunity" for adults to work as paid AmeriCorps members. The two part-time positions would be responsible for "promoting to and integrating urban and underserved youth within the traditional community club programs."
  
  Earlier this year, I researched [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Why Would Anyone Listen to the U.S. Anymore?

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  It is time to add two plus two (if Americans still can do the simple math after years of fuzzy abstractions and calculator use in the public schools.) It is time to tally up what liberal leadership is doing to U.S. international standing and prosperity at home and show the [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Nice Try, Senator Feingold

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  Senator Russ Feingold should be commended for his recent letter to President Obama, calling for him to identify the roles of his numerous "czars" and "provide the judgment(s) of (his) legal advisors as to whether and how (the) positions are consistent with the Appointments Clause" in the Constitution. [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:54pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• 19th Civil War Weekend at Wade House LINK

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  Thanks for stopping by. I have added this post because I deleted the original post and re-entered it. But after four days, the Google search still does not find the newest URL of the post, so a subject search leads to a "post not found" page, which leads to the [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 3:52pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Untaxable Treasure

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  I discovered these nontaxable treasures last week under a pile of my papers. The handmade IOUs were secretly created by our daughter one Christmas - a perfect gift from a kid with no money, and worth much more than anything money could buy.
  
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 10:47am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• A Portrait of Obama in Every School?

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  Widely distributed portraits of national leaders are not just a foreign dictator thing. The U.S. of A. has one historical precedent, in particular, that could prove to be scary in the wrong hands.
  
  In 1920, a patriotic group called the American Defense Society, headquartered in New York [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:37pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• A Portrait of Obama in Every School?

  Widely distributed portraits of national leaders are not just a foreign dictator thing. The U.S. of A. has one historical precedent, in particular, that could prove to be scary in the wrong hands.
  
  In 1920, a patriotic group called the American Defense Society, headquartered in New York [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:37pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• 19th Civil War Weekend at Wade House: Sights and Sounds

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  This past Sunday, my husband, teens and I time-traveled back to the 1860s at the 19th Annual Civil War Weekend at the Wade House in Greenbush, Wisconsin. The Sheboygan Press reviewed the Saturday event, including photos. Sunday's event fell on a warm but' [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 5:28pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• 1919 America Resisted Socialism...

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  This three-part ad from a 1919 magazine caught my eye. It portrays support for the American way of life through a strong military, contrasting with the chaos of radical movements' attempts to disrupt the roots' [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 10:45am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• "You Brought It Upon Yourself, You Knucklehead"

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  This bystander's quote says it all, regarding the incident at the Milwaukee Tea Party yesterday. We did not get to the event, but this video does not show a violent mob, but a man, who appears to be trying to pick a fight. Notice, too, that the police only' [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 12:49pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Limerick for Pelosi: To a Mad Queen

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  My husband informed me this morning that limericks are lower than puns. I wrote this to prove him right.
  
  
  To a Mad Queen
  
  My message to Highness Pelosi,
  who rants the protests will explosi
  from a crazed peasant’s gall:
  tell your mirror on the wall
  none are [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Limerick for Pelosi: To a Mad Queen

  My husband informed me this morning that limericks are lower than puns. I wrote this to prove him right.
  
  
  To a Mad Queen
  
  My message to Highness Pelosi,
  who rants the protests will explosi
  from a crazed peasant’s gall:
  tell your mirror on the wall
  none are [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Leibham Fights Phone Tax Deception

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  Shame on Governor Doyle for trying to hide the evidence of his tax-greedy, irresponsible budget behind the good reputation of our police and fire departments. Starting this month, our active wireless, land-based or VOIP phone bills will show a "Police and Fire Protection Fee." Prepaid wireless telephone users will [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• The President NEVER Lies

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  (here is the proof) so don't even think it, much less say it in the U.S. House of Representatives. The same goes for sexual misconduct, hypocrisy, cowardice, intellectual dishonesty, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy - all protected presidential behavior in the Big House, where no' [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:10am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• The President NEVER Lies

  so don't even think it, much less say it in the U.S. House. The same goes for sexual misconduct, hypocrisy, cowardice, intellectual dishonesty, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy - all protected presidential behavior in the Big House, where no one can say a word about it.[...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:10am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Next March at Major Media Doorsteps!

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  Rush Limbaugh just called for the next protest to be in NYC at the corporate doorsteps of the major media who refused to cover the Washington D.C. march last week. This morning, I heard Vicki McKenna call the sock-puppet media "the enemy" because it is truly getting dangerous the [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:59pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• "Judicial Elections" Conference at Stevens Point: A Partisan Event?

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  "Misleading and deceptive advertising has marred recent judicial elections and challenged the perception of judicial impartiality and integrity," stated the flyer for a conference scheduled September 17 in Stevens Point titled, "Judicial Elections: Navigating the Collision Course." The symposium, sponsored by nonprofit community organization Justiceworks, Ltd., the Portage [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Next March: at Major Media doorsteps!

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  Rush Limbaugh just called for the next protest to be in NYC at the corporate doorsteps of the major media who refused to cover the Washington D.C. march last week. This morning, I heard Vicki McKenna call the sock-puppet media "the enemy" because it is truly getting dangerous the [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 11:03am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• "Judicial Elections" Conference at Stevens Point: A Partisan Event?

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  "Misleading and deceptive advertising has marred recent judicial elections and challenged the perception of judicial impartiality and integrity," stated the flyer for a conference scheduled September 17 in Stevens Point titled, "Judicial Elections: Navigating the Collision Course." The symposium, sponsored by nonprofit community organization Justiceworks, Ltd., the Portage [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:53pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Terrorism from Within: Bringing Capitalism to its Knees

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  Those who hate the American way of life attacked us eight years ago today. But others who also hate our American way of life, especially capitalism and its profit motive, despite the prosperity it has brought, continue to attack us from within, seeking to bring Wall Street to its knees. [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:53am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Phil Zimmermann Speech from Sheboygan Tea Party - On Tap

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  I had a request from Irate, Tireless Minority to share my recording of the entire speech Dr. Phil Zimmermann gave September 5 at the Sheboygan Tea Party. I did not find another complete video or audio recording of the UW-Madison resident physician's health care speech online, so am happy' [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• First Sheboygan Tea Party: "Rescuing Lady Liberty"

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  Fountain Park in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has a history of use by activists, from local Socialists (including my great-grandfather) and their opponents, soapboxing in the 1920s and '30s, to the anti-Iraq War protesters, who gathered weekly during the Bush presidency.
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 12:17pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Sheboygan's First Tea Party: "Rescuing Lady Liberty"

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  Fountain Park in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has a history of use by activists, from local Socialists (including my great-grandfather) and their opponents, soapboxing in the 1920s and '30s, to the anti-Iraq War protesters, who gathered weekly during the Bush presidency.
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 10:22pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Opt Out of Obama School Indoctrination

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  Norma at Collecting My Thoughts pointed out a couple days ago that Obama is less popular than Bush. Perhaps that is why he is suddenly trying to grow supporters among America's children. The President's School Address to Students Across America scheduled for September 8 comes complete with questions and [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:03am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• More Proof of Obama's Goal: Total Control

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  Blogger Bobby Eberle puts forth some smart thoughts on the President's latest move towards total control of the American people in his piece, What's next... Obama to control your inbox?
  
  Obama has no constitutional right to treat the American people's communications this way. This just does not bode [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:31am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Useful tips from the opposition - Netroots Nation

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  Tea parties are a good start for newbie conservative and moderate activists, along with linking up and working with organizations, such as Americans for Prosperity. But studying the opposition can also be helpful. And Netroots Nation - the premiere lefty online networking/training tool - can provide additional ideas [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 12:13am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Senator Feingold's Backing Off from Health Care Bill - No Comfort

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  I could hardly believe how Senator Russ Feingold seemed to flip-flip on Obamacare. "The thing (health care bill) right now is not going in the right direction," he said at a session in Iron County last week. My first response to his comments that there would likely be [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Rambling Nostalgia

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  Remember the days when these were desirable traits for the newspapers?
  
  
  
  And remember the times before Internet, Facebook and Twitter when a quaint ad like this was enough to sell a newspaper?
  
  I know just one person who could have seen [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Follow-up: Is the Government Visiting Our Blogs?

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  When I first discovered U.S. government office sites in my stats of visitors, I googled to see what it might "mean." Found pretty much nothing explaining it, so I started asking around online and elsewhere. Some possible answers came out, and I thank everyone who contributed their ideas at Real [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 10:38pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Is the U.S. Government a (secret) fan of YOUR blog?

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  I usually don’t check more than the overall numbers in my StatCounter. But recently, I started looking at my visitor paths, and stumbled upon a very important visitor: the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms.
  
  
  VISITOR ANALYSIS
  Referring Link http://wisopinion.com/
  Host Name
  IP Address 156.33.97.144 [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 10:09am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Petri’s Town Hall Meeting in Howards Grove: No “Unruly Mob”

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  About eighty chairs were initially set up – but 150 people soon packed the Howards Grove Community Center on August 7 to witness and participate in Wisconsin 6th district Representative Thomas Petri’s Town Hall Meeting. One hates to disappoint the left, [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 7:33am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Cannot Edit Blogger Posts, Need Help

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  As of this afternoon, I have no wysiwyg post editor tool bar, so I cannot add links, photos, itallics or anything. (Too bad, cause I've figured out how to include audio clips of recordings through Podbean, besides the pictures I like to post.) My compose mode is set to "yes."' [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 8:28pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Fond du Lac Tea Party 2: Beyond the Slogans

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  The second Fond du Lac Tea Party was another American classic. Like the first one nearly four months ago, this one sported a colorful array of people filling the oblong Veterans Park, punctuated by homemade signs with pointed messages aimed at the elected officials who [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 4:01pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Sgt. James Crowley Not the "Stupid" One

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  President Obama said Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley "acted stupidly" by arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct at his own home. But the sergeant, who, by the way, is a specialist on racial profiling, was simply trying to determine what was happening at the alleged break-in. Rather, [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Ostrich Power!

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  Forget the politicians' birdbrained ideas of building an expensive, inconvenient light rail system in Wisconsin, or throwing more federal taxpayer dollars into energy efficient crackerbox cars. It is time to consider an older mode of travel that had gone the way of the dodo, a humble, but nimble' [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Obama using international law to shoot down Second Amendment

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  I am commenting on information from the following article:
  "The OAS Treaty: Blueprint for Dismantling the Second Amendment"
  page 23, August 2009, America's 1st Freedom
  
  This current NRA magazine article illustrates how the Obama administration is tip-toeing towards extreme gun control for legal firearm owners in America. Those who' [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Joe McCarthy: too much of a good thing?

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  Beneath the so-called hysteria of the Joe McCarthy era in the late 1940s and early 1950s, actual communists were conspiring to violently overthrow the U.S. government, and actual communist spies, were selling State Department secrets to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had set off an atomic bomb and [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Will Kohl and Feingold Vote to Protect Pedophiles and Prosecute Pastors?

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  Wisconsinites will soon find out if Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold will stand with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in supporting special protection for pedophiles. S. 909 mirrors H.R. 1913, which passed along strict party lines, and allows hate crime prosecution related to about 547 recognized sexually deviant [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 10:15am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Returning Veterans Ripe for Radicalism - in 1919

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  We've all heard how the radical left in high positions is paranoid that today's returning military veterans may turn into right-wing extremist terrorists, despite extremely few, if any, examples of such behavior among that group. Nearly one-hundred years ago, America was likewise concerned that its returning veterans of [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2009, 9:58am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Manitowoc Open Carry Freedom March On Target

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  The First Open Carry Freedom March in Manitowoc started as a joke on the local radio. But after thinking it over, Gregg Wolf, owner of AAA Appliance, decided to follow through. He took the steps to plan a safe Independence Day event, making sure to check [...]
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:23am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• 4th of July Fireworks, 2009

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  These booming bursts of color and form followed a small town band concert with plenty of Sousa marches. Fireworks light does amazing things. Enjoy them while you still can.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:19am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light

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  what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming...Happy Independence Day! [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Associated Press rewrites health care article

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  Today, Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar overhauled his piece from yesterday, Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage to a more muted version of the article. The two versions of the Yahoo News piece are a study in journalistic slant. The second version made the following changes:
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Health Care Fascism

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  Senate Bill Fines People Refusing Health Coverage
  
  Rush had it right yesterday when he played Day-O as America's new national anthem. [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:33am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Obamacare Unhealthy for America

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  Nine minutes ago, the AP reported on President Obama hugging a cancer patient, who just happened to be a volunteer for his political operation, "at an emotional forum before a supportive audience," where he "vowed to bring greater efficiency and accessibility to the nation's health care system." This president' [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Still More Waubeka Flag Day Pictures

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  Okay, here is my last batch from June 14 at Waubeka's Flag Day program and parade. Honest.
  National Flag Day Foundation 2009 Essay Winners:
  Ozaukee High School Band, Fredonia:
  Wisconsin VFW members:
  Evolution Color Guard:
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  Posted: June 28, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• More Waubeka Flag Day Photos

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  These photos may look like a "small town" parade, but the 63rd observance of Flag Day's birthday in Waubeka, Wisconsin included nearly 100 groups in the parade and presentation, and visitors from several counties filling the observation tent and lining the streets.
  
  Veteran buddies shooting the breeze before program:[...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Flag Day Birthday in Waubeka

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  After years of childhood birthday cakes topped with toothpick flags, last week I finally made my pilgrimage to Waubeka, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the national holiday that often determined my June 14 birthday theme.
  
  Flag Day all started with a man from Waubeka named [...]
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  Posted: June 20, 2009, 7:39pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Sensenbrenner Right About "Cow Fart" Tax

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  Representative James Sensenbrenner is right to make a stink about the potential for a “cow fart” tax that would translate into higher costs for farmers and consumers. A recent Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article pooh-poohed the notion, saying that “cow tax fears come out of thin air.” But Sensenbrenner was making [...]
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  Posted: June 15, 2009, 11:36am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• What are you doing reading this on a nice day like today?

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  Hey, what are you doing inside on a nice day like today? Get outside and enjoy the summer sun before the ice age - that's bound to come if the sun doesn't kick up a few more sun spots - arrives.
  
  This is a "light blogging" notice. I have [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Next Obama Target: Big Pet

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  We Americans love our pets. 62% of our households keep 93.6 million cats, 77.5 million dogs, 182.9 million fish, and nearly 50 million other critters. In 2008, we spent $43.2 billion on our pets, with $45.4 billion estimated for 2009. But, we’ll have to see what happens to that [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2009, 10:55am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Banks Should Advertise Capitalism: Novel Idea from 1919

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  “Bank publicity should challenge ambition, should educate, inform, inspire, mold public thought. The plea “bank with us” should, in reasonable measure, give way to the inspiration to “produce more, save more; become a capitalist.”
  ---Harvey Alvaro Blodgett, America's king of thrift, early 20th Century
  
  [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2009, 10:43am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Ex-liberals Explain Everything

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  Committed liberals continue to celebrate defectors from the Republican Party, people like Senator Arlen Specter, or blogger Ariana Huffington. But, conservatives have plenty of converts, too, from everyday patriots, who surface on blogs and radio calls, to high profile activists most people know.
  
  Here is an eclectic collection of [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Ex-liberals Explain Everything

  Committed liberals continue to celebrate defectors from the Republican Party, people like Senator Arlen Specter, or blogger Ariana Huffington. But, conservatives have plenty of converts, too, from everyday patriots, who surface on blogs and radio calls, to high profile activists most people know.
  
  Here is an eclectic collection of [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• BWTWW Can Make Us Loopy

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  After 51 couch-potato car-riding weeks of sedentary bliss, it’s time go get off our butts for Bike and Walk To Work Week (BWTWW.) Why? you may ask. Because our employers - whom we greatly revere, honor and thank for our jobs in this stinking economy - our dear employers, [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2009, 10:01am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Wisconsin Aerospace Authority Launches Mission from Sheboygan

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  The “Brat Capitol of the World” is moving towards a new “out of this world” image. Spaceport Sheboygan – an actual rocket launch facility – has been in planning stages since 2006 legislation passed, creating the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority (WAA.). The bill, authored by Senator Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan) and [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2009, 8:39pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Fun Photos from May 15 "Rockets for Schools" Convention in Sheboygan

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  A colorful rocket-minded crowd at Blue Harbor Center, consisting of 60 student teams with about ten members each, plus assorted teachers, family members, and visitors. Someone said there were 600 chairs. If so, I'd estimate at least 650 people, since at times, the floor and aisles' [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• 1920 “Public Ownership” Editorial True Today

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  The current U.S. government’s grab to control multiple major American industries – banks, automobiles, energy and healthcare – is staggering in its scope and destructive potential. Of course, the socialist idea of the government stamping out capitalism is nothing new. Back in 1920, the newspaper media actually countered the socialist [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• "Wisconsin Right to Life" Has a Mission from the Heart

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  Strange how people who say they are for the powerless "little guy" can still be pro-abortion. The unborn human trumps the whole pack of "little guys" in vulnerability and helplessness. So, why don’t those bleeding hearts reject the cruel practice of abortion?
  
  Instead, they gave us a cold-hearted president [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2009, 10:42am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Obama’s “Law Day”: What Does It Mean?

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  Barack Obama has proclaimed May 1, 2009 as Law Day, U.S.A., amending President Eisenhower’s 1958 Law Day, which had been initiated to co-opt the biggest day on the socialist calendar. But Obama’s spin on the holiday ignores its original intent. Ironically, it calls attention to aspects of President Abraham [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2009, 5:37pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Evocative Quotes From Interesting Blogs

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  “America is supposed to be this place where, regardless of race, creed or color you have the same chance to get the job as the next guy. Yeah…….the next guy. Question: Is a man even being considered for the position Justice Souter is vacating?...Is this the moral high ground BO(the [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 10:15am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• May Day Should Be America’s “Loyalty Day” Again

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  May 1st is not simply a seasonal celebration of fresh English garlands or Egyptian fertility festivals. It has also been a political demonstration day for radicals, including communists, socialists, and anarchists at home and abroad for decades. The day has even been a major holiday, observed with rallies, speeches [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 7:06am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Wisconsin’s Pandemic Defense – 1918 and Today

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  “We are at a loss to diagnose the malady properly, and are uncertain as to the remedy. Scarcely two cases are alike. The only safe thing is to avoid contagion, and this is the duty of each person. If you get the influenza we are practically helpless,” said a Wisconsin [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 11:40am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Doyle’s Sleight-of-hand Budget Transfers Don’t Fool Us

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  It would be one thing if Governor Jim Doyle did his amateur night magic on his own personal finances, shifting the same ten-dollar bill from pocket to sleeve to cover his own shortfalls and debt. Though that would be sad, at least, the damage would be limited. But, up there [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 4:51pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Obama Wants to “Harness Patriotism”

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  “What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs,” President Obama just said about the new $5.7 billion national service bill he signed. The law balloons taxpayer-funded service programs to unheard-of levels.
  
  So, what exactly does it mean to “harness patriotism?” [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 2:31pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• They're Baaack: U.S. Census Workers Want YOU!

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  Yesterday, a car pulls up and parks on the street in front of our house. A middle-aged man walks up the driveway and rings the bell. Wearing a U.S. Census badge, he stands well back from the door as I answer, studying the small computer in his hand that [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Fond du Lac Tea Party: A Report From the Field

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  An estimated 600 to 1,000 people attended the Fond du Lac Tea Party on the evening of April 15 at Veterans Park in the city’s downtown. The late afternoon sun crisscrossed the crowd, throwing shadows. The group included families with kids of all ages to senior [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• “The Devil’s in the Details” of Doyle’s Budget

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  The red-hot numbers in Governor Doyle’s budget sound downright dangerous for the state, but some people do not seem to care. Perhaps the amount is too abstract for them to grasp, or maybe they are so intent on punishing those who create success and profit, they can’t see their [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Who's The King?

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  No one is King in the U.S., though not for lack of trying. Back in 1776, we threw off Great Britain’s King George III for his "repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States.” A couple centuries later, [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• A New Breed of "Ugly American"

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  Could there be a rogue operative like Karl Rowe in the U.S. State Department feeding the Obama administration stupid ideas about handling foreign affairs? Add up the instances of clueless behavior, and one has to wonder. Such an infiltrator might offer subversive etiquette tips like the following:
  
  The President [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2009, 9:49am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Midwest Communications Ad Examined

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  This week, I heard an unusual radio ad on WHBL (1330). The Midwest Communications spot bemoaned all the negative stories on the radio and TV. With pleasant guitar background music, the speaker continued, as follows:
  
  “…and what is it with the local paper? Maybe one or two local [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 8:15am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• The People's Tea

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  Here is the letter I sent today on my photocopied tea packet stationary to the President and my legislators:
  
  Tea is a healthy drink, packed with antioxidants that prevent "free-radical" damage. Therefore, I am adding my small tea packet to the sea of tea coming your way by April [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 11:57am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Just Say “No” to Government Drugs

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  Smooth-talking Uncle Sam is a pusher with a purpose: one nation, dependent. Big Government needs the majority of voters to be addicted to its handouts in order to hang on to power over the people. It has a good start on this with its massive welfare expansion, along with [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 11:54am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Computer Models Lead U.S. Astray

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  "Why are we once again placing our bets on the same school of econometric-model economists who gave us the stagflation of the 1970s, economists who are using the same sorts of computer models that led to disaster in 1998 with Long-Term Capital Management and in 2008 with the subprime meltdown?"
  [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• All Aboard for the AIG Anger Express

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  The AIG "anger train" is on the move, letting off steam in great bursts of hot air as it whines its way across America, picking up politicians of every stripe. It is no surprise to see Wisconsin House Democrats Tammy Baldwin, Steve Kagen, Ron Kind, Gwen Moore and Dave [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Verona Students Digest Stimulus Bill – for the Rest of Us

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  I gripe, you gripe, we all gripe about the massive, hastily passed stimulus bill. But, how many of us busy adults have taken the time to sit down and read the 407-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cover to cover? I don’t know of anyone, do you?
  
  Of course, [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• The Hill of Tara: "They paved paradise"

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  "When it was proposed in 2000 most people nationally had no idea what was happening. And I think everyone trusted the government not to pick a route that was so damaging."
  
  These are the words of Irish lawyer Vincent Salafia (Smithsonian, March, 2009.) Salafia has been fighting the [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 6:48am EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• More "Fun" Socialism Quotes

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  Here are a couple more quotes out of the Milwaukee Leader Socialist newspaper, this time from September 7, 1920, that shed light on current events:
  
  "The Socialists propose that everybody shall have as much private property as they really need. It does not promise luxury for anybody-but it promises" [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• Dissing CNN at the Gym, No Sweat!

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  I don't have much use for TV. The only place I catch CNN and other mainstream stations is at the gym as I sweat out the toxins. Now, there's an apt metaphor for how to handle what passes for news and entertainment.
  
  During one of my workouts, I witnessed [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
  by Soapbox Jill

• YOUR KIDS Can VOTE on Stimulus Projects - for Fun

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  Want to see your kids' eyes bug out? Just show 'em this Stimulus Watch list of what they might get to pay for when they are all grown up. Tell 'em their own kids will also get to pay for this stuff, too. Show them that big, fat number [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Einstein's Booboo

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  Taken from an article February 2, 1920 (London) in the Milwaukee Leader:
  
  "Prof. (Albert) Einstein, who believes that Mars and other planets are inhabited, added that if intelligent creatures on other planets tried to communicate with the earth he would expect them to use rays of light..."
  
  If [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 9:39am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• At the Core of AmeriCorps

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  Helping people is supposedly at the center of AmeriCorps and other national service programs. But, why should the taxpayers foot the bill for over four million paid “volunteers” every year?
  
  In Wisconsin twenty-two nonprofit agencies and universities were awarded $7.6 million federal dollars and about $5.3 million [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2009, 2:50pm EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• Listen

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  Listen closely. Wherever you go, you will hear the murmuring of people around you reacting to the government's new policies.
  
  You will hear guys at the gym - young muscled warriors, enlisted military men - chatting about getting out as soon as they can, not appreciating what the Commander-in-chief [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:29am EST
  by Soapbox Jill

• 1920s Wisconsin Socialists Explain Obama

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  President Obama ran and won on "change," but his vision for America is nothing new. In fact, his positions match many of the stances taken by the 1920s Socialists as expressed in their Wisconsin newspaper, The Milwaukee Leader.
  
  Here are some questions about the President's and top Democrats' agenda, [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2009, 8:45am EST
  by Soapbox Jill