Category: Abortion
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Is Dane County ready for stoned progressivism?
Someone who won’t blow smoke up our …? If she were a Republican, John Nichols would call her a career politician. Melissa Agard served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors from 2010 to 2014, won election to the state Assembly in 2012, and to the state Senate in 2020. Now the ambitious lady is…
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It’s payback time on Wisconsin’s high court
Do elections have consequences? At some point, America will politicize its school crossing guards, subject them to multi-million dollar campaigns, social media vituperation, and grand juries. Our legal system is more politicized than the days of “Impeach Earl Warren” 60 years ago. Today, Democrats in Congress are baying for the heads of Justices Clarence Thomas…
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Pennies for taxpayers
To pay for Democrats’ war on success! Democrats keep bailing out Republicans. They derided the Republican legislature’s tax cut package as a Billionaire giveaway. Not enough redistribution. It’s what they do: play class warfare. When Evers vetoed the tax cuts for the rich, Vos went ballistic. … Why was Vos so angry? Because Evers refused to…
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The problem with Republicans …
… is its dues-paying members! Pogo, the philosophizing opossum in Walt Kelly’s classic comic strip, famously said, “We have met the problem and he is us.” In the same vein, the problem with our political parties today is its dues-paying members — always a tiny fraction of the voting public. That reality slapped us full…
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Republicans inch toward the middle
They’d like to win statewide again! Good to get out of town Saturday 06-17-23. Drove from Madison to La Crosse for the Wisconsin Republican Convention. Beautiful city of 55,000 amidst the bluffs guarding the Mississippi River. Convention center nestles against a late 19th Century downtown full of boutiques, boîtes, ice creameries, and eateries — quaint…
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Republicans need to quit preaching to the choir
It’s gonna be a hot one this week! Temps approaching 90° F. Pray for rain! Campaigning for Tim Michels last autumn, Blaska was entrusted with maybe a dozen yard signs and a list of willing recipients. To his distress, the addresses stretched from Hilldale Mall 20 miles west to the village of Black Earth WI. …