Tag: Leah Vukmir
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Paul Ryan’s goodbye spells trouble
A decent man steps aside in the tradition of a citizen legislator The Paul Nehlen wing of the Republican party should be happy. To this noisy group of never-satisfieds, Paul Ryan was the problem, not the answer. Their reward could very well be U.S. Rep. Randy “The Iron Stache” Bryce. Say hello to ObamaCare on steroids, make-work…
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Korea, Tonga and the Enlightenment
Friday’s opening of the Winter Olympics in Korea was a triumph of the western Enlightenment The Korean word for the United States translates into “Beautiful Country.” That’s nice. Korea has video game addiction treatment centers. (Do they have kick the can on late summer evenings?) The parade of nations is a great geography lesson. That…
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Bruce Murphy is at it again: defending the speech police
Milwaukee’s Bruce Murphy has committed some solid journalism. He broke the Milwaukee County pension scandal that helped elect reformer Scott Walker as county exec and, ultimately, governor of Wisconsin. Good liberal that he is, Bruce has been doing penance ever since. Bruce takes the side of unelected government commissars empowered to determine who can say…
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Please help a liberal; raise their taxes
Not one Democrat voted for lower taxes or employee bonuses! The indentured servants at the Stately Manor gathered in front of the Philco to watch democracy in action Tuesday and Wednesday. First the House of Reps and then the U.S. Senate debating the epochal tax bill. They were tuned to C-Span — straight-on coverage with no…
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Attorney General Schimel must resign over that footnote on page 39
Receives coveted honor from Progressive mouthpiece The Nobel Peace Prize? Barack Obama got one roughly a week before he was sworn into office, if memory serves. The Pulitzer Prize? Walter Duranty of the New York Times won it for covering up Stalin’s forced starvation of millions in the Ukraine. Art Carney the best actor Oscar…
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Arrest Eric O’Keefe for blowing GAB’s cover, the Left demands
Our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances are in high dudgeon over A.G. Brad Schimel’s unmasking of the star chamber suppression of political speech in Wisconsin, particularly by the Government Accountability Board (GAB). (His report here.) Our acquaintances are baying for the hides of those who protested their treatment at the hands of the speech police, blinding klieg lights…