The stuff that was the matter with Kansas in 2004, when Thomas Frank published What's the Matter with Kansas?, a trenchant analysis of the lunacy of American politics, is still the matter with it, only now it’s the matter with 32 out of 50 other states as well. Citizens in ever greater numbers have abandoned... Continue Reading →
Bending Over Backwards for Bad Company: Wisconsin Republicans Celebrate the Foxconn Deal
In 2010, there were eight suicides at Foxconn’s plant in Shenzhen, China, where the company makes electronic products for Dell, Apple, and HP. Two more workers injured themselves seriously in suicide attempts at plant, where most employees were housed in on-site dormitories and worked 16-hour shifts. Due to an international outcry and changes demanded by... Continue Reading →
Deregulation and Wisconsin’s Disappearing Lakes
It was a long-standing Wisconsin tradition. Every Friday afternoon during the summer, families packed up their cars, jammed the kids into the backseat, and left their southeastern Wisconsin homes behind, heading out of the city to private cottages and small fishing resorts to spend time on blue, spring-fed Wisconsin lakes. This tradition was enabled by... Continue Reading →
Freedom Fighters: Our Wisconsin Republicans Trample on Worker Rights
On March 21st, Wisconsin State Senator Leah Vukmir (R-5th District) held a “listening session” at the Brookfield Safety Building to get voter feedback on Governor Scott Walker’s latest budget. The session was held in a large auditorium. Town hall meetings have been crowded lately, and “woke” citizens are showing up, not just for meetings with... Continue Reading →
Outrage Conquers America
All over liberal social media, you see the same questions being asked. Now that the Republicans are taking their healthcare away, will white working class voters turn against Trump? Will they realize what a mistake they made voting for him? The Republican Party is set to revoke the healthcare of 24 million Americans by replacing... Continue Reading →
Many Lies and One Important Fact: Congressman Sensenbrenner Town Hall
"Elections have consequences." Jim Sensenbrenner (R-5th CD), Pewaukee Public Library, Saturday, February 11, 2017 Anyone who expected Jim Sensenbrenner to be intimidated by the substantial turn-out at his Town Hall meetings last Saturday was in for a disappointment. Sensenbrenner is nothing like those other Republican congressmen who actually ran away from their angry constituents. He's... Continue Reading →
Open Letter to Paul Ryan: Trump is All Your Fault . . . yours and all the other Republicans
During his first week in office, Donald Trump regaled the annual prayer breakfast in Washington D.C. with the suggestion that the gathered worthies pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger because of his poor ratings on The Apprentice. Trump claimed that when he starred on this tasteless “reality” program, his ratings had been through the roof, much higher than... Continue Reading →
Why I Marched
One thing is certain, I did not march so the likes of Jeff Sessions could become the head law enforcement officer of our country, or climate change liar Scott Pruitt head of the EPA, or a fool like Betsy DeVos secretary of education. I marched because, throughout his candidacy and from the very moment of... Continue Reading →
