An editorial, “Without mercy” in today’s SF Chronicle states, “GOV. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger once characterized his conflicted feelings about the death penalty as a duel between his ‘Austrian brain and the American brain.’ He recalled that capital punishment was an ‘absolute…
What if there was a place you could go to talk about the religious right, whenever you had a question and needed an answer? What if there was a place you could increase your knowledge, hone your skills and network…
Senator Hillary Clinton is being challenged for her US Senate Seat by Jonathon Tasini. This will be a campaign worth watching. “Our goal is to raise $3 million. Not to run television ads full of poll-driven political spin,” says Johnathan.…
Texan Kinky Friedman, author of “Texas Hold ‘Em,” is running for governor. Given the successes of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Kinkster figures he could be a governor, too; since governors don’t do any “heavy lifting,” he could do…
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Thanks to Christopher Wren of Madison who sends the following: “I more than suspect already that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong – that he feels…
Madison’s own Michael Feldman opened today’s Whad’ Ya Know with, “What Clinton did to an intern, Bush is doing to an entire nation!” On Thursday, November 17, Congressman John Murtha held a press conference on US policy in Iraq. He…
Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Frist wants to get to the bottom of something. He’s so worked up he’s calling for joint congressional hearings on the scale of the 9/11 Commission. “A string of prisons in Eastern Europe in which suspects…
An October 2005 survey commissioned by the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute found that “only 6 percent of Wisconsin citizens believe their elected officials represent the interests of their constituents on important issues. Most (47%) believe their local officials represent their…
“According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions” – Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense CBS News, January 2002 But the transactions that can be tracked are even more disturbing, especially when they lead to insider trading benefits.…
“After a year of failed negotiations aimed at averting litigation, Wisconsin’s state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Tuesday that she would sue the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District for dumping about 1.5 billion gallons of untreated storm water and sanitary waste…