From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees. Sumi’s order will prevent Secretary of
Today, the U.S. may be launching airstrikes against Libya.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House on Thursday voted to end federal funding to National Public Radio. Republican supporters said it made good fiscal sense, and Democratic opponents called it an ideological attack that would deprive local stations of access to
From The Courier Post: John Willliamson, president of the union representing Camden’s police officers, said he and his members would be at the meeting whether they were invited or not. “We will be there,” he said. “Camden City needs Camden
From FoxNews-Detroit: Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November’s ballot. “It is not a partisan statement, and we
What do St. Patrick’s Day and government spending have in common? Well, until we had anything to say about it, not much. As our friend Seamus eagerly displays, years of overspending have left us drunk with debt. And just as
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
There’s a ton of unrest in the world and world markets are jittery. So, having just finished off the arduous task of filling out his NCAA brackets, who would begrudge the President a little R and R. From Forbes: President
While President Obama obsesses over his NCAA brackets, the world anxiously waits to see if Japan can avert a nuclear catastrophe.
From Politico: Meredith Shiner reports from the Hill that the House Rules committee will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday at 3 p.m. on H.R. 1076, the measure “to prohibit funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds
From The Denver Post: After spirited debate Monday, Denver’s City Council voted 10-3 to tentatively approve a 6.6 percent raise for the next sitting council and every other elected official — an increase to be delayed for half of their
Beware today, the Ides of March.
From the Associated Press: Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information.
This past weekend, a member of the Breitbart family reached an achievement we’d all like to acknowledge and applaud. Julia Pollak, wife of our very own Joel Pollak, graduated from U.S. Navy Boot Camp and was awarded the Navy Club
WikiLeaks has promised to being releasing today a swath of emails and other internal documents from Bank of America. Count us as very interested if this comes about.
From Politico: The first round is over. Republican Gov. Scott Walker delivered a crushing defeat to government employee unions in their fight over labor rights in Wisconsin. But the passage of a law stripping away collective bargaining rights for public-sector
Today is the twice-yearly ritual where the government screws with our clocks. I’ve lost track, are we “springing forward” to the real time or is this some pixie-dust time and we will ‘fall back’ to the real time later this
Unimaginable.
Just the thing to do in a recession. From Radio 620AM: That’s a nice business you got there. Pity if anything were to happen to it if, say, you didn’t toe the line and denounce Governor Walker like we’re asking
From Politico: The Republican’s top voice on tech and telecom issues says National Public Radio will suffer a “consequence” on Capitol Hill if “there’s this attitude inside the organization that would appear to be as partisan as what’s come out.”
From the Associated Press: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state’s public employees. Walker signed the bill to do so privately Friday morning. He planned an afternoon
Things aren’t looking good for NPR. And, we say that as big fans of NPR.
From Josiah Cantrall, BG’s man-on-the-scene in Madison: Capitol is in an uproar! A man sported a sign, “burn Walker”. Complete with a drawing of Gov. Walker withering in flames of fire. Protesters recognized me from my Fox News appearances. One
Project Veritas: On Tuesday, Project Veritas released Part 1 of its investigation of National Public Radio. The investigation, in which Project Veritas investigators posed as members of a fictional group founded by “members of the Muslim Brotherhood,” was widely reported
From the Associated Press: Wisconsin lawmakers voted Thursday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state’s public workers, ending a heated standoff over labor rights and delivering a key victory to Republicans who have targeted unions in efforts
From Badger 14 blog: According to a report on the Althouse blog this morning, it appears that Cory Mason, a Democrat member of the Assembly (or a member of his staff) is Wisconsin’s Benedict Arnold — the person who last
From BG’s man-on-the-scene, Josiah Cantrall: They secured the building, Assembly is in session. They moved to limit debate to two hours. Everything should be over by 4 pm. You saw the death threats correct? Alberta Darling and Glenn Grothman’s were
In today’s The Wall Street Journal: The unions say they are ready to accept concessions, yet their actions speak louder than words. Over the past three weeks, local unions across the state have pursued contracts without new pension or health-insurance
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Demonstrators were carried out of the Assembly by police Thursday as Gov. Scott Walker’s administration again closed and then reopened the building to the public. About 11:30 a.m., the statehouse was opened after police cleared the
From 620AM Radio in Wisconsin: Since the MSM appears intent on downplaying the growing intimidation and escalating threats of violence around the union power issue, I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was
A mob currently controls the Wisconsin capitol building. They are trying to prevent an elected legislature from convening. If the left will go this far to protect their own pampered status in one state, imagine what they’ll do when we
Last night, the Wisconsin Senate passed Gov. Walker’s plan to reform public sector unions. Today should be a roller-coaster. All patriots should prepare to rally to Walker.
From Big Government correspondent on the scene: We have almost completely lost control of the Capitol building. We now only control the 3rd and 4th floors. Teachers Unions are sending out robo calls and emails to all their members, asking
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats. All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly
From Heritage’s The Foundry: Today former Congressman Ernest Istook testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee about the $105 billion slush fund in advance appropriations liberals tucked inside Obamacare. The $105 billion bypasses the traditional yearly budgeting process
The Middle East is in flames, China will shortly rival our military power, trade deals needed to help our limping economy continue to lag, and the Washington Post reports the Administration is now engaged in a major diplomatic effort to
Today is Ash Wednesday:
WASHINGTON (AP) – A National Public Radio executive was captured on hidden camera calling the tea party movement racist and xenophobic and said NPR would be better off without federal funding, in an embarrassment likely to fuel the latest round
From Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on March 7, 2011, against Florida Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings on behalf of a female employee who was repeatedly subjected to “unwelcome sexual advances,” “unwelcome touching” and retaliation.
Today, in 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was founded. A few weeks ago, it was sold to the Germans. We’re fine with that, actually. We just think it is interesting. More Hope and Change.