Mitch Daniels on State Employee HSAS Fortunately, Washington is only a teensy part of America, and once you get out of the Beltway things make more sense. Take, for instance, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. He wrote a wonderful article in The Wall Street Journal about Indiana’s experience in providing HSAs to state employees. Unlike the…
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Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty
A Slip of the Tongue by Timothy Dake Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty This last week has produced a wealth of progressive, socialist, liberal, verbal fodder that simply cannot be ignored. These linguistic missteps show how much the American public has been misled and also how much we have been asleep during the most recent elections.…
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Online Voter Registration is an Invitation for Voter Fraud
by Judi Pool Sheboygan Liberty Coalition I took a vacation day off on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 to go to Madison with the hopes of convincing the Senate Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs and the Assembly Committee on Elections and Campaign Reform to vote against four bills that were being pushed through quickly…
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Global Warming Alarmists Recruiting Churches
TO: Senate Select Committee on Clean Energy FROM: Peter Bakken, Coordinator for Public Policy Wisconsin Council of Churches RE: Clean Energy Jobs Act (SB 450 and AB 649) DATE: February 11, 2010 My name is Peter Bakken. I’m the Public Policy Coordinator for the Wisconsin Council of Churches, an association of thirteen Protestant and Christian …
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One Nation Under God-Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863 At the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Lincoln delivers a two minute speech. Immediately following the speech he calls it a “flat failure.” The speech is known today as the Gettysburg Address. There are actually five (or more) versions of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. This is the version that…
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The Hidden Deficit
Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates the incoming 2011 state legislature will grapple a $2.3 billion budget deficit. Compounding the deficit is dropping state revenues as employers continue shuttering their doors and laying off workers. According to the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) from February 2009 to February 2010, approximately 100,000 jobs have been lost…