My wife (who no doubt will berate me for blogging about this, since it didn’t actually happen to me) had an interesting activism experience yesterday.  She was leaving a store with our kids in tow starting the walk back home when across the...
Topics: Politics is Local

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Charlie Sykes, a Milwaukee conservative talk-show host and blogger, gets it all wrong again.As is often the case when I read Sykes, he starts with a premise that I can at least respect; in this case one that I heartily agree with, in fact:“In case..
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Former President Jimmy Carter weasels out of his previous comments regarding the Bush Administration:“This administration’s foreign policy, compared to President Nixon’s, was much worse,” Carter said on NBC. “I wasn’t..
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Almost two-thirds of those polled said … actions in Iraq showed … was “stubborn and unwilling to admit mistakes”. (From here)Who might that be in reference to?  Of course it’s a reference to George W. Bush, but it sounds like...
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This:The message from the Clinton campaign, particularly its chairman, Terry McAuliffe, has been blunt, the strategist said, “that you’re with us or against us. This isn’t one of those races that you can max out (in contributions) to...
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