Brett Healy

This video explains how quickly we’ve reached the latest debt ceiling and why a debate is taking place right now regarding what to do next. [youtube ub89wCDezqY]

Even the most avid circus goers tire of the big top, apparently. Saturday, various labor and left wing organizations attempted to hold another massive protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol. [youtube UX_Q0a4pUyU] The lackluster May Day rallies in Milwaukee and

Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI 01) point by point rebuttal of President Barack Obama’s criticisms of the House GOP’s Path to Prosperity budget plan.

Did Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette lie to the Associated Press, the MacIver Institute, the public, or some combination of the three? On February 11, Wisconsin Scott Walker introduced his budget repair bill, which aimed to close a

Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute has won an award for their reporting of the labor unrest at the State Capitol. MacIver beat out international competition to win the Grand Prize in the ‘Lights Camera, Liberty’ contest, which was presented at The Atlas

The cast of characters at Milwaukee’s May Day events included radical marxists and socialists organizations, Richard Trumka the head of the AFL-CIO and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Their chief target: the man who defeated Barret five months ago, Wisconsin Governor

At issue, how to bring the federal budget into balance, reform Medicare and still provide a medical safety net to America’s seniors. Hovering over the topic: the 2012 election. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama obviously have dramatically

On Wednesday, Milwaukee County began recounting over 200 thousand votes cast in the Supreme Court race at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex in Franklin. The process started off shaky with Kloppenburg observers being allowed to enter the corral with the

The case of the fake sick notes continues to be shrouded in secrecy. The doctors who wrote fake sick notes to government workers who were hoping to have their protest-related by absences deemed medically excused may face disciplinary actions from

Wisconsin is home to the Circus World Museum (it is in Baraboo where the Ringling Bros. Circus was founded). Now it appears as if it will be home to yet another political circus that could drag into the summer months.

So, just how important is transparency to Judge Maryann Sumi in Wisconsin? Taxpayers trying to follow the curious case of the Madison teachers’ job action that closed down the district’s 48 schools for four days in February will get an

From using Nazi references to adorning the American Flag with political bumper stickers and using it as a poncho, the full extremism of the left was on display in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend. Rejecting any attempts at conveying a ‘New

As Madison Teachers union head John Matthews was asserting his members were legitimately sick at the start of the protests at the state capitol, new evidence suggests he was organizing a sick-out that shut down Madison Public Schools for four

A misdialed union voicemail message, emails obtained through an open records request and official court documents reveal new details about the Madison teachers’ work stoppage that closed the district’s public schools for four days. The Madison Metropolitan School District called

Could it really only be 100 days? Indeed, it has been just over three months since Republican Scott Walker took the oath of office as the Governor of Wisconsin. Now known across the country as the maverick who had the

With all wards reporting, the unofficial results indicate that Deputy Attorney General Joanne Kloppenburg leads Supreme Court Justice David Prosser by a margin of 204 votes, a margin so narrow the Associated Press declined to declare a winner in the

Three Dane County Democratic lawmakers want to charge a free market think tank more than $7,500 to comply with open record requests for correspondence regarding one legislative initiative. In a letter to several state lawmakers, dated March 24th, The MacIver

We just received this shocking email from the Wisconsin Department of Justice Spokesperson Bill Cosh. The DCI to which he refers is the Department of Justice’s Department of Criminal Investigation. Beginning on February 21, 2011 DCI was asked to investigate

Our MacIver News Service is digging into the costs associated with the recent rukus in Madison. For at least one public employee, the turmoil was quite profitable. State Capitol Police Overtime Pay Tops $200k for Month of Unrest One State

Just how radical have some Wisconsin Democrats become? Just how far into the morass of leftist rhetoric have they plunged? They’ve managed to impress of one of the leaders of the Communist Party USA. The heated rhetoric and aggressive attitude

In the wake of changes to government employee unions’ power in Wisconsin and elsewhere, The Communist Party USA is working in conjunction with national labor unions and other left wing political groups to organize protests in Madison, Wisconsin and across

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has filed a motion with the 4th District Court of Appeals, seeking an order staying Judge Maryann Sumi’s temporary restraining order blocking the publication of 2011 Wis. Act 10. “The publication of this Act will

The standoff in Wisconsin continues… Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen wasted no time Friday in announcing the Department of Justice will appeal a judge’s granting of a restraining order that prohibits the publication of the law enacting the Budget

It’s been years since Wisconsin’s welfare reforms under Gov. Tommy Thompson inspired Congress to pass the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Now, spurred to action by a looming $1 trillion federal budget deficit, a national debt of $14 trillion and

On Wednesday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker explained how the savings gained through the collective bargaining changes recently passed by the legislature will more than offset cuts in state aids to most school districts. That formula is altered, however, if school