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Scott Walker - He Hates Women

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:34:00 GMT

Hey, Tea Party-ites! He's your tool!LinkScott Walker Quietly Signs Anti-Abortion Measures, Repeals Equal Pay Act, Ahead of Easter WeekendText Size + -By Ashley Portero: Subscribe to Ashley's RSS feedApril 9, 2012 5:32 PM EDTWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did nothing to refute the idea that Republicans are waging a "war on women" late last week when he quietly signed three controversial bills that limit access to abortion services and sex education and repealed the stat...
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Scott Walker's Paranoia

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:26:00 GMT

LinkIt’s been pretty obvious that the database holding signatures of those who signed the Walker recall petition are becoming more about McCarthyistic techniques to make it a black list proving that the signatory is not a sucker for Walker. What never gets mentioned is that if one didn’t sign the Walker recall petition that they are siding with Walker. Simply stated, if you didn’t sign the recall petition, you are a Walker supporter if you use the same “logi...
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Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Middle Class

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 02:53:00 GMT

If the state workers of Wisconsin are not to blame for the economic debacle, why are they being asked to fix it? You don't get a real clue of the impact of this until you speak to someone in the educational system in Wisconsin. If you did, and had any iota of critical thought, you'd be horrified at what Scott Walker is trying to do.LinkClose to 200,000 working Wisconsinites have been given the following option by Gov. Scott Walker: If you want to keep your job, give...
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Walker's budget all but kills public financing for Supreme Court races

Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:53:00 GMT

LinkAre you interested about how the state's new campaign funding law for Supreme Court will work?Take a good look, because the spring election is probably the last time you'll see it.Both candidates for the April Supreme Court contest, incumbent David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg, are participating in public financing, which means they have agreed to limit fundraising to get public funds. But in the future, if a provision to dry up the funding source in Gov. Scot...
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Paul Krugman on Shock Doctrine

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:13:00 GMT

LinkHere’s a thought: maybe Madison, Wis., isn’t Cairo after all. Maybe it’s Baghdad — specifically, Baghdad in 2003, when the Bush administration put Iraq under the rule of officials chosen for loyalty and political reliability rather than experience and competence.As many readers may recall, the results were spectacular — in a bad way. Instead of focusing on the urgent problems of a shattered economy and society, which would soon descend into a murderous...
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