edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to change Washington, D.C., but as president, Obama hasn’t changed one Washington tradition: giving prized ambassadorships to big political donors:
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have [...]
Today is the 100th anniversary of the public unveiling of the University of Wisconsin’s “On, Wisconsin,” acclaimed as one of the top three college fight songs in the country. (The others are Michigan’s “The Victors” and the “Notre Dame Victory March.”) As an alumnus and, more importantly, UW [...]
Because this moment needs to be savored.
[...] Though Victory Creek subdivision can be seen from the Pleasant View Elementary playground, there is no way to walk from here to there - yet.
Last night's Trail Committee meeting was fruitful. While our focus remains on improving accessibility to Pleasant View Elementary School through the Safe [...]
Cool.
Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.
I hope those [...]
State GOP chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's visit to Madison is meant to be a distraction from Republican victories in Tuesday's elections.
Priebus said the defeat of New Jersey Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine and the victory of Republican Bob McDonnell in an [...]
Watch as conservative nutjob Doug Hoffman, running for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 23rd Congressional district, folds like a lawn chair while talking to Glenn Beck:
While I’d ordinarily root for a Democrat to win over a far right fringe conservative like Doug Hoffman, I’m inclined [...]
Wow!
Scozzafava Quits In NY23 — The Underground Conservative.
The RINO candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Dede Scozzafava, has dropped out of the race and thrown her support to conservative Doug Hoffman.
That’s following the National Republican Congressional Committee, the folks who tried to shove this crap sandwich down the [...]
WWNY-TV is reporting that Dede Scozzafava is about to announce that she will release her supporters to Doug Hoffman.
The anticipated announcement is apparently as a result of this poll just released by Siena University. The latest poll shows Hoffman and Owens in a statistical tie and shows Scozzafava [...]
