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"A golfing coup for Wisconsin," or so the Journal Sentinel declares . Erin Hills , of Hartford, will host the PGA's 2017 U.S....

The states with the lowest proportion of college graduates are all red states. Coincidence?

Looks like the numero uno evil curmudgeon - Dick Cheney - has his imprint all over the BP disaster. Not only did he formerly run Halliburto...

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is going to use eminent domain to obtain non-blighted land and spend millions on an interchange ...

Sheldon Lubar seems to feel The Age of Austerity Lies Ahead . He claims, "The county is spending, and agreeing to spend, very much in e...

Local media, Republican legislators, and business blowhards are doing all they can to inflate the idea of onerous taxation possibly pushing...

Lest the media be able to rewrite the causes and dictate the outcomes of Greece's problems, I need to squash some misinformation and fal...

Obama is a Nazi-Commie Laura Bush is a Maoist

A lawmaker blocking a vote on raising the liability cap pertaining to oil companies?

John Torinus (conservative, business-shill of the Journal Sentinel and CEO of tax-avoiding Serigraph Inc.) is pushing his 'entrepreneu...

The Right, never missing an opportunity to take the low-road, is trying to give inertia to a "talking point" connecting a nanny st...

John Schmitt, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research , finds , "When state and local government employees are compared to priva...

The Journal Sentinel believes , "Some increase in the City of Milwaukee's water rate is warranted, but not this much." They c...

The meme - oft repeated by corporate hucksters with their hands out - about an improving "business climate" in conjuction with (th...

Time is not on anybody's side .

Milwaukee, City and County, was on the brink of insolvency, or so we were told. Budgets were cut. Programs were cut. Workers were cut and fu...

Of 19 area CEOs, 6 saw their compensation increase/decrease at a higher/lower percentage than their company's stock value . Gale Klapp...

An Update on State Budget Cuts Comparing Public & Private Sector Compensation Privatization During An Economic Downturn Public Debt and ...

Republican campaign committee orchestrated Wisconsin HCR repeal lawsuit

For Further Reading: Where Today's Large Deficits Come From

Citizens for Tax Justice has found President Obama Cut Taxes for 99% of Working Families in Wisconsin in 2009 .

Two excellent articles from the Journal Sentinel regarding public transportation subsidization: Road debate developed into a zoo You know t...

Ten Republican Lies For Tax Day The Gutting of State and Local Government The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science Urban Core Growing Faster...

Tax Facts (via Tom Schaller ): The U.S. ranks fifth lowest in tax revenues as a share of GDP among OECD countries; at 28 percent - 20 percen...

Dean Baker makes an excellent correction to the mainstream media storyline which claims Citigroup has paid back the government. And, that t...

The USA Today wants us to feel sorry for CEOs ( Many CEOs take a pay cut in 2009 ). They were paid a median salary of $1.01 million in 2009...

Explaining The Impact Of Ultra-Low Rates To Greenspan Government's Share Of Economy, 1950-2075 Has Social Security Begun Tapping Its Tru...

Douglas Kane has an excellent article clarifying the discussion on business climate, taxes, best places to live, job growth and quality of ...

Pat McIlerhan is - again - defending the poor suburbs against the big, bad city. When Milwaukee wants a fair price for its water, when cont...

The Journal Sentinel reports, Rail Opponents Rally Suburbs. Fine. We'll route rail around these communities. No charges, no more questi...

In Dodd We Trust

Jobs : 18 Million Jobs by 2012 How A New Jobless Era Will Transform America What Happened To The American Working Class? Who Broke America...

Anti-Globalization and the U.S. Middle Class Exports and American Prosperity How Should We Gauge Manufacturing Importance? Manufacturing Inn...

Employers Rapidly Shifting Health Care Costs To Workers Ryan's Response to Center's "Roadmap" Analysis Is Off Base The Rya...

Globalization is inevitable. You can't stop it. It's good for all. Get on board or be left behind. To stay viable you need additiona...

From Citizens For Tax Justice : "Rep. Paul Ryan's GOP Budget Plan would collect $2 trillion less over a decade and yet require the ...

"The force of globalization can't be stopped," declares John Torinus in his latest Journal Sentinel rant. This type of thinkin...

Pat is back attacking rail transportation. He finds buses to be a stellar alternative. McIlheran claims, "And taxpayers do not subsidiz...

In the past the Journal Sentinel has referred to the downsizing of America's manufacturing base as "the inevitable consequence of...

Why must the effort to pass health care "be genuinely bipartisan "? Barack Obama won the election. He has a mandate to do the many...

ACORN: America Punk'd O'Keefe and the Myth of the ACORN Pimp Health Care: Coburn-Ryan Health Bill Would Jeopardize Coverage For Many...

I've never been to Waterloo , and I'm sure its a quaint and beautiful town, but a high-speed rail line will not reduce property valu...

OK. So you're supposed to be a credible "think tank". Heck, even the Journal Sentinel , when citing your writing, always prefa...

Scott Walker's idea of governance seems to be simply getting rid of government. And, whatever is left of it, he wants those jobs to be l...

After Voting to Kill Recovery, 100 GOP Lawmakers Tout Its Success As Milwaukee's Economy Fails, How Can Public Schools Succeed? Budget D...

A truly horrible specimen of a person running for public office. The 'lower taxes lead to job creation' claim is baloney . And, don...

Edward Lump [what a fitting name], president and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, in a recent Journal Sentinel article, rants ...

More Journal Sentinel boosterism for Paul Ryan's nonsense . "We're not certain it leads to where Ryan says it does, but it at...

John Torinus, Journal Sentinel conservative business writer, loves to ramble on and on about entrepreneurship being a boon to the economy....

"The White House says 'Both programs [ Save America's Treasures and Preserve America ] lack rigorous performance metrics and e...

Privatize Social Security, voucher-ize Medicare, cut taxes, ... Sound familiar? The Republicans, and their latest rebranding posterboy - Pau...

James Rowen, at the Political Environment , has covered , in detail and with clarity, the expensive , sprawl-encouraging, Waukesha water div...

Dean Baker on: Defense Spending Government Spending Small Business Social Security & Medicare Underwater Mortgages

Why shouldn't we tax the sh@# out of such ill-gotten gains?

Paul Ryan is wrong again. And, as usual, the Journal Sentinel is spreading his drivel . Paul Krugman addressed and debunked these fiscal fa...

The sales tax used to help pay for Miller Park may be extended past it's 2014 sunset date to pay for Bradley Center replacement or reno...

Presidential remarks at the House Republican Conference.

The Journal Sentinel reports, Cabela's lures little retail growth . Our economic development paradigm - of subsidizing retail, convent...

Wise words from Jack Norman of the Institute for Wisconsin's Future .

John Torinus has penned another misguided and misinformed piece, Entrepreneurs, rather than government, will help create jobs , for the Jou...

In the latest issue of The American (The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute), Joel Kotkin - ever more so, a delusional apologist ...

President Obama's spending freeze idea is terrible . The economy is still in horrible shape. We should not be worried about inflation a...

During the Bush era, the number of persons living in poverty increased 15.4 percent.

Wisconsin taxes the rich less than it taxes the middle-class and the poor.

Poor Warren Buffet, he's upset that Obama wants to tax his ill-gotten gains. Consumer debt - pushed by are easy-money, predatory lendi...

Lest we forget, this is not Barack Obama's economy, he did not start two wars (although, sadly, he does continue them), he did not push ...

Crooks and Liars reports that Andy Stern, the head of SEIU, has warned Congress and the administration, if they falter with health care r...

Bush Backed Supreme Court Thinks Corporations Are People Too Campaign Finance Decision Worst Since Dred Scott Campaign Finance Reform Reflec...

Entering the Repossession Lane How American Awfulness Stacks Up How the Federal Reserve Earned Its Profits The Military-Industrial Complex i...

Stephen Colbert explains the media coverage of President Obama. More precisely, the biased conservative coverage. Jon Stewart gives perspec...