Labor unions and leftist activists are expected to once again descend upon the Captiol in Madison, WI on Tuesday. They plan to protest Governor Scott Walker’s first 2-year budget proposal, which seeks to cap entitlement programs and make cuts in education while expanding school voucher programs, in an attempt to close a $3 [...]
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Latest Protests Bring an ‘Epic’ Wisconsin Donor Back Into the Spotlight
Posted: June 17, 2011 in 2012 Budget, Big Labor, Health Care, Healthcare, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party, TechnologyTags: AFL-CIO, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, Fidel Castro, governor, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, health care reform, health information technology, judith faulkner, Kaiser Permanente, Kloppenburg, Madison, Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, paul soglin, Prosser, protest, scott walker, tammy baldwin, Wisconsin
Will Money & Power in Wisconsin Politics Influence Health Care Policy?
Posted: May 23, 2011 in Budget, Congress, Health Care, Health Care, Labor Unions, Legal, Obama, Policy, Politics, Regulation, State PoliticsTags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Cedars Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Congressman Paul Ryan, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, evidence based medicine, Governor Scott Walker, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, JoAnne Kloppenburg, judith faulkner, judy faulkner, Justice David Prosser, Kaiser Permanente, koch, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Russ Feingold, Sen. Herb Kohl, single payer health care, stimulus, tammy baldwin, tommy thompson, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, wisconsin senate
by Liberty Chick If you want to take a pulse on the political vibe in this country, one need only look at Wisconsin. The state has become the barometer for judging not just the public’s appetite for political battle, but the competitive landscape as well. The spotlight on anything that has six degrees of separation [...]
Tolerant Left Wishes Death on Governor Scott Walker
Posted: February 20, 2011 in Free Speech, Labor Unions, Legal, News, Protest, State Politics, Tea PartyTags: budget, civil discourse, death threats, Free Speech, governor, hate speech, inflamed rhetoric, labor union, new tone, protest, public employees, scott walker, teachers, Tweets, twitter, vitriol, Wisconsin
You may remember President Obama’s recent call for civil discourse this past January. Well, it appears that the Left is still very much struggling with the #newtone online. Unless, of course, you consider a persistent stream of steady death threats against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a display of etiquette straight from the Emily Post Etipedia [...]
Academia-Gate: As Big Labor and Media Push ‘Researchprop’ on Our Kids, Who’s Really Paying the Cost? (Part 1)
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Education, Labor UnionsTags: academia, ACORN, Big Labor, Bill Gates, Brandeis, budget, CNN, colleges, Cry Wolf, David Himmelstein, Deborah Thorne, Education, Eileen Appelbaum, elizabeth warren, Harvard, ideology, indoctrination, intellectual honesty, Joel Rogers, labor unions, mary kay henry, narrative, Occidental College, Ohio University, Peter Dreier, professors, propaganda, public funding, public policy, research, RFP, Rutgers, scholarship, schools, SEIU, Steffie Woolhandler, taxes, teachers, tuition, universities, University of San Diego, Warren Buffett, Wisconsin
[original post 6/9/2010] Yesterday’s story on the “Cry Wolf” project has exposed a dangerous pretense that has been prevalent, yet well disguised, for some time in our institutions of higher learning. It’s an important post. A small committee of professors and academic professionals, normally held in high regard, have blatantly betrayed the trust of the [...]
Union Bosses Target 86-Yr Old Volunteer Crossing Guard
Posted: December 21, 2010 in AFSCME, Labor Unions, NewsTags: AFSCME, American Federation of State, and Municipal Employees, County, crossing guard, eagle scout, grievance, labor union, Riverview Elementary, school, volunteer, wausau, Wisconsin
[original post 2/11/2010] First, they came for the Babysitter. Then, they came for the Eagle Scout. Now, they’ve come for the Crossing Guard. Warren Eschenbach, an 86-year-old a retired Wausau Water Works employee volunteers his time as a crossing guard at the Riverview Elementary School in Wausau, Wisconsin. After the Wausau School District built an [...]
