state budgets

The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public employee unions to be eliminated – per Mr. Walker’s bill – but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultzs’s chief of staff Todd Allbaugh. “Dale is committed to find a [...]

As we all learned from Glenn Beck, the pro-democracy protests in the Middle East are hopping from country to country and establishing chalk-based caliphates across the world. Wisconsin is right next to Minnesota, the home of Muslim Keith Ellison, so obviously it’s happening there now too. Masses of protestors have been out on the streets [...]

The total number of people executed by states and the federal government fell by 12 percent this year, according to a new study on America’s lack of balls. It’s now at the lowest level since 1976, when the Supreme Court decided it was legal once again for governments to do their favorite thing: Killing their [...]

It sounds scary when it’s written like this: “Gov. Pat Quinn today called for a 33 percent increase in the state income tax rate to raise money for education and ease deep cuts he’s proposed in his new budget plan.” Less scary when it’s written like this: “Quinn wants to increase the personal income tax [...]


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