Ed Show analysis: HOW the Thompson/Ryan/GOP plan would "do away with Medicaid...
Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Tommy Thompson is having his very own "47%" moment these past few days. Much like the April video of Mitt Romney that surfaced just recently, the May video of Thompson...
View ArticleTommy Thompson (WI-Sen) and PolitiFact's 2011 Lie of the Year: "Do Away w/...
Does anyone remember PolitiFact's 2011 Lie of the Year?Back last December when they ignored the input from their readers and chose instead to christen the following as the Lie of the Year:2011 Lie of...
View ArticleWI-Sen Tommy Thompson's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week o' Video
There have been two videos already this week that should be devastating to the struggling Senate campaign of former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson. And it's only Tuesday!Did everyone see the Bill...
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Obama Rally in Madison: Forward! (Photo Diary)
It's been several years since A FIB in Cheddarland and I grabbed a day to spend together just the two of us, no kids. What better date than an outing to see President Barack Obama speak in Madison,...
View ArticlePPP Polls Voter Fraud Expectations in OH, FL, NC: Lousy Question, Troubling...
This afternoon PPP released some troubling results of weekend polling in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania on the subject of voter fraud.The question was:Do you think Democrats will engage in voter fraud...
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Medicaid in WI: "Disability Is Not Going Away" (Video)
The candidates are making their closing argument as Election Day comes upon us. My own closing argument starts with Paul Krugman, and culminates in a video.In his Oct. 28 NY Times column, Medicaid on...
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Medicaid, Wisconsin & the Ryan Plan: "Scared Spitless"
The candidates are making their closing argument as Election Day comes upon us. My own closing argument starts with Paul Krugman, and culminates in a video.In his Oct. 28 NY Times column, Medicaid on...
View ArticleStop Special Needs Vouchers in Wisconsin!
If there's one thing we've learned in Wisconsin since February 2011, and in Michigan just this month, it's that what gets passed in the statehouse after the election can be devastatingly different than...
View ArticleAutism & Empathy: I Hope Folks Didn't Think It Was Snark
In his rec-listed diary Callous and Despicable on Monday, Horace Boothroyd III made us aware of the appalling "Second Amendment!" heckling when Neil Heslin, father of one of the Sandy Hook murder...
View ArticleWPRI Surveys Private Schools, Concludes "Wisconsin is Failing to Help...
The conservative think-tank Wisconsin Public Research Institute (WPRI) has issued a report on the failings of education in Wisconsin, just days before Governor Walker is slated to release his 2013/2015...
View ArticleFlagrant Hypocrisy: Down the Memory Hole with Scott Walker
Why, oh why, can Wisconsin not hold Scott Walker to account for flagrant, outrageous hypocrisy between his pre-governor press statements and his actions as governor?I'm going to source these three...
View ArticleWI Ultrasound Bill "Author": Abortions Were THE Thing to Do in the '60s (VIDEO)
By now you've probably seen Wisconsin state senator Mike Ellis totally lose it and break the gavel-stand while bellowing from behind his sungalsses at Democratic senators to sit down -- so the Senate...
View ArticleScott Walker Loves Recalls! (2010 Video Evidence)
This isn't new. But it still makes my blood boil and I figured I'd share it once more, apropos of nothing but flagrant Republican hypocrisy (that the Democrats utterly FAILED to use in the 2012...
View ArticleMilwaukee "New Hustler Academy" Voucher School Closes in the Dead of Night...
On Jan. 9, Gail Hicks testified before the Urban Education Committee of the Wisconsin Assembly and called out Milwaukee's "New Hustler Academies" -- the nickname she and her colleagues have bestowed...
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George Carlin Quote Bastardized on Facebook by Heartland Institute (Updated)
April 28 update: Heartland Institute APOLOGIZED, and took down the offending meme! Details here: Heartland Institute Backpedals on George Carlin Bastardized Quote-Meme!= = = = = = = = = = = =George...
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Follow-Up: Heartland Institute Backpedals on George Carlin Bastardized...
Daily Kos is a powerful forum. Through the magic of this site, even an occasional diarist can initiate something that leads to an actual change: in this example, the Heartland Institute, a...
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Wisconsin "Militia" Promises Armed Intimidation of Recall Signers at the...
THIS is how things are in Wisconsin. A Facebook group calling themselves the "Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia" (update: page has since disappeared and now it's back!) is threatening armed intimidation...
View ArticleWisconsin: They Don't Want Us to Know What They Stand For
I saw it again today in a front page article in the Wisconsin State Journal:State paid $139 million to schools terminated from voucher program since 2004The galloping privatization of K-12 education in...
View ArticleEbola screening, at a podiatry clinic near you?
Yesterday I discovered first-hand that all of the clinics in our local Midwestern university-based clinic system are having their receptionists ask everybody at check-in:-- Have you traveled overseas...
View ArticleVIDEO: Profitship Charters and God's Li'l Voucher School
Little Timmy, a kindergartener in the animated video below, is a lot like most of us here in America: we LIKE our public schools!But the profitmakers look at our children, and what they see are dollar...
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