Tag: Citizens United
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Nothing wrong with big money in politics!
For all the good it does! We don’t know if too much money was spent on Tuesday’s WI Supreme Court race — but it was a lot. Karl Rove says Elon Musk and Republicans spent $53 million on Brad Schimel to the $45.2 million Democrats and their billionaires spent on Susan Crawford. She won anyway. …
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Dave Zweifel wants to defund Republicans
We are so skewed! Dave Zweifel is upset that some of us are bucking the teachers union. We knuckle-dragging deplorables want the public schools open for in-classroom education, they don’t. Or as Dave puts it, quoting radio blabber Thom Hartmann, “Running around maskless, assaulting their fellow citizens with potentially virus-laden breath.” (Cough, cough.) The Little…
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Yes, Virginia, they really DO want to take our guns away
Only the government can be trusted with guns and speech, our acquaintances say Almost as shocking as the call, in his New York Times op-ed, to eliminate the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the revelation that John Paul Stevens still draws breath. When the man left the Supreme Court eight years ago he…
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WI State Journal stands tall to defend its own free speech, falls short on everyone else’s
Much whining over a little name calling and some bias shaming After posting his Fake News Awards last week, President Trump is accelerating his war on the news media, the Blaska Policy Werkes has learned. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing pre-dawn raids on news organizations the Trump Administration regards as partisan. Those include the…
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Free speech for some but not all is no free speech at all!
Stately Blaska Manor is charging an admission fee: your subscription to the Wisconsin State Journal. For over 30 years now, visitors to the Dan Quayle Reading Room here at the Manor can peruse the Wisconsin State Journal alongside that other WSJ, the Wall Street Journal. The Madison WSJ features some good journalism. I’ve had nothing but…
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If money won elections, Jeb would be president
We’ve been making this point for years. Here, Ann of Althouse (she could use the traffic) asks: What will become of the “money in politics” issue after Hillary outspent Trump and, now in Georgia’s Sixth, the Democrat outspent the Republican winner? I could do worse than step aside for the Baroness Althouse: I see that,…