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9.6.2008 Fighting Bob Fest

Mike McCabe says,” Wisconsin’s unique history is comfort food for those disgusted and disheartened by current political conditions. People much poorer than us and much less educated than us faced conditions at least as bad and turned those dark days…

Purple Redux

Rededicated to bringing forth news and views from outside the great dome… The Red Ponchos in Bolivia are made up of armed and militant Quechua Indians who support President Evo Morales. Today the nation’s richest and largest state, Santa Cruz,…

On the Invasion of Tibet

We Americans are notoriously short-sighted. Perhaps it should come as no surprise when you consider that our collective viewpoint is that of a nation less than 250 years old. When I hear news reporters continually refer to China’s invasion of…

John Gard – wants to limit stem cell my 13-year old daughter Isabel, Type 1 diabetic since age 9… and for every other person who may be negatively impacted by the possible election of another right-wing hypocrite: a person…

Peg’s speech…

Highlights from Peg Lautenschlager’s speech in LaCrosse this weekend include her mentioning that Wisconsin’s “Internet Crimes Against Children unit is the very best, making more arrests of Internet predators than any other state in the nation.” She earns highest marks…

The Battle for Water…

It’s not just Bechtel in Bolivia. The efforts to privatize everything from the media, to historic landmarks, prisons, schools, public lands and even the voting system that controls our democracy has made significant gains in the “business” of providing municipal…

Home for Christmas…

“I just remind everybody,” Feingold said in New Hampshire this weekend, “Democrats were in the majority in the United States Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and we passed the USA Patriot Act. It’s not enough to be…