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Video: WI Public Union Member Slams 'Socialist' Michael Moore

Something electrifying happened in my home state of Wisconsin Saturday afternoon, and not just Governor Sarah Palin’s grand-slam of a speech, which, contrary to Politico’s phony spin, was perfectly aimed at the smoldering and growing pile of Barack Obama’s failures.

Right Network's 'Whaddya Know, Joe?' Off to Promising Start

One of the pitfalls of conservative media is “me too!”-ism, the idea that taking a successful mainstream concept and blatantly injecting conservative proselytizing into it is a winning strategy. Thankfully, the new cable channel RightNetwork strives to create original content

The Lean Green Obamachine

Energy crisis. Obesity crisis. Climate crisis. Unemployment crisis. The solution came to me in a rerun. What do high gas prices, global warming, high youth employment, and child obesity have in common? The lack of a government solution. I’ve found

Shock: New York Times Praises Unions Once Again

From Accuracy in Media‘s Allie Duzett: As Accuracy in Media has documented, The New York Times has a strong history of defending unions and union bosses. An article published on April 12, 2011, followed this Times tradition by glorifying union

Feminists' Equal Pay Charade

Today is Equal Pay Day, so named by the National Committee for Pay Equity, which represents feminist groups like NOW and the National Council of Women’s Organizations. According to Marxist-feminist logic, women have to work through April 12 before they

SEIU Mob Arrested After Charging Troopers in Washington

There’s seriously nothing more you can say about unions given everything that happened in Wisconsin and Ohio- that speaks for itself, and volumes at that. Now, in Washington, a mob of SEIU protesters were arrested for bringing their thuggish demeanor

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's First 100 Days

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

Public's Right to Know Critical for Truth in Wisconsin

The public has a right to know who or what is influencing its government. Open Records and Freedom of Information laws are critical to ensuring a transparent and accountable government. Taxpayers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being

An Adult Conversation about the Budget

To listen to the debates on the deficit and the debt, one would think that wealth emanates from the government. Underlying every argument is the notion that government cuts imply pain and pose a drastic threat to our economy. But

A School Choice Triple Crown

Let’s understand why school choice is important. As in the free marketplace, competition creates better schools, public as well as private, better teachers, and thus reforms education- unlike pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into public schools to get

Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Ends in Virtual Tie

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

Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee

In the year that has passed since the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, the liberal elites have waged a war against the First Amendment. Liberal politicians including President Barack Obama and Senator Harry Reid, liberal media corporations like

Wisconsin Supreme Court: A Referendum that Wasn't

Big labor attempted to turn yesterday’s election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court into a referendum on Governor Scott Walker’s budget policies, but, like much else in Wisconsin politics these days, the results remain unclear. This state court