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Recent Commentaries:
 June 28, 2010 |
Is the Term "American Consumerism" Redundant? |
George Lightbourn |
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| June 21, 2010 |
Cutting to a Broader Truth |
Mike Nichols |
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| June 15, 2010 |
It's All About the Dues |
Jo Egelhoff |
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| June 10, 2010 |
Sometimes a Government Grant Application is Just Another Government Grant Application |
Annette Talis |
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| June 7, 2010 |
The 2010 WPRI Yearbook (Or, why WPRI roolz and your think tank droolz.) |
Christian Schneider |
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| June 3, 2010 |
Wisconsin - Whistling Past the Graveyard |
George Lightbourn |
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| May 24, 2010 |
Spencer Black Should Give His Angels Their Due |
Mike Nichols |
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| May 18, 2010 |
Need More Union Members? Legislate Them |
Jo Egelhoff |
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| May 13, 2010 |
Education Reform in Wisconsin Cannot Penetrate a Thick Padding of Insulation |
George Lightbourn |
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| May 10, 2010 |
A Bold Step For a New Conservative Generation |
Jake Curtis |
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| April 27, 2010 |
How Eric Davis Can Save America |
Christian Schneider |
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| April 20, 2010 |
The Bad Teacher Protection Racket - How State Law Keeps Us From Knowing Who Can Teach Our Kids |
Mike Nichols |
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| April 19, 2010 |
Are Wisconsin Republicans Being Rolled? |
Jo Egelhoff |
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| April 12, 2010 |
There's Joy in Giving - Or At Least a Job |
Mike Nichols |
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| April 7, 2010 |
School Choice Deserves the Red Carpet Treatment |
Christian Schneider |
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| April 1, 2010 |
An Open Letter to Marty Beil |
George Lightbourn |
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| March 30, 2010 |
Wisconsin: The Repeal Deal |
Christian Schneider |
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| March 25, 2010 |
Some Free Advice for Felons |
Mike Nichols |
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| March 15, 2010 |
Double Checking Facts - A Lost Art |
Sunny Schubert |
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| March 4, 2010 |
WPRI Pension Study Hits a Nerve |
George Lightbourn |
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| March 1, 2010 |
Why Congress is Wigging Out |
Christian Schneider |
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| February 23, 2010 |
We're In Rare Air - Or So You'd Think |
Mike Nichols |
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| February 16, 2010 |
Are All "Special Interests" Created Equal? |
Christian Schneider |
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| February 9, 2010 |
Government Doing What Government Does - The Case of Food Stamps in Wisconsin |
David Dodenhoff, Ph.D. |
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| February 4, 2010 |
The Key to Ensuring Public Safety - Prioritization |
Jake Curtis |
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| February 1, 2010 |
Revenge of the Nerd - Why Paul Ryan can be our Next President |
Christian Schneider |
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| January 28, 2010 |
Who Was John Galt? Fittingly, a Wisconsinite. |
Mike Nichols |
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| January 26, 2010 |
Beware of Government's Death Ray |
Sunny Schubert |
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| January 21, 2010 |
America - The World's Most Charitable Nation |
George Lightbourn |
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| January 14, 2010 |
The Best Government Comes in Small Packages |
Deb Jordahl |
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| January 12, 2010 |
Trust: The New Wedge Issue? |
Charles J. Sykes |
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| January 11, 2010 |
Broken Windows, Broken Government |
George Lightbourn |
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| January 4, 2010 |
Rhetoric on Steroids: When Political Posturing Gets to be Too Much, We Should Look at Ourselves in the Mirror |
Christian Schneider |
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| December 22, 2009 |
Federal Pool Laws Go Off the Deep End |
Sunny Schubert |
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| December 14, 2009 |
Newest Judge Has Little Faith in Justice |
Mike Nichols |
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| December 8, 2009 |
Value: The New Reality for Government |
George Lightbourn |
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| November 30, 2009 |
Down With Sobriety Checkpoints |
David Dodenhoff, Ph.D. |
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| November 24, 2009 |
Wisconsin Has Gone Stale |
George Lightbourn |
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| November 16, 2009 |
Judges Might Want to Revise Opinion on Campaign Finance |
Mike Nichols |
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| November 9, 2009 |
You Paid for This: In Dire Economic Times, Wisconsin Lawmakers Spend Millions to Improve their Public Image |
Christian Schneider |
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| November 3, 2009 |
Barrett Needs to Choose Between MPS and the Governor's Mansion |
George Lightbourn |
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| October 26, 2009 |
Wisconsin's Own W |
George Lightbourn |
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| October 19, 2009 |
How to Court an Independent Voter |
Mike Nichols |
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| October 14, 2009 |
Jim Doyle - Want to Get Away? |
Charles J. Sykes |
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| September 28, 2009 |
Wisconsin's Own "Public Option" |
Christian Schneider |
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| September 25, 2009 |
Wanted - Wisconsin Strongman |
George Lightbourn |
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| September 21, 2009 |
Dear Mr. Axelrod: |
Deb Jordahl |
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| September 17, 2009 |
Exactly Why Do We Elect the State Treasurer, Anyway? |
Mike Nichols |
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| September 14, 2009 |
Welfare in Wisconsin: Still Not a Bad Deal |
David Dodenhoff, Ph.D. |
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| September 10, 2009 |
Why We Should Be Queasy About a State Takeover of MPS |
George Lightbourn |
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| September 8, 2009 |
OPK, OPM - Other People's Kids, Other People's Money |
Charles J. Sykes |
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| August 27, 2009 |
Tom Barrett Perfects the Art of the Sharp-Edged Watermelon |
Mike Nichols |
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| August 24, 2009 |
Mercury Marine - Where Was Our Governor? |
George Lightbourn |
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| August 17, 2009 |
Governor Doyle's Successors: Who Got the Gravy? |
Christian Schneider |
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| August 12, 2009 |
For Much of Government, Elections Don't Really Matter |
George Lightbourn |
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| August 5, 2009 |
Does Pedro Colon Drink? |
Mike Nichols |
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| July 30, 2009 |
The Power of the Pen - and Why Property Taxes Might Not Be So Bad |
Christian Schneider |
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| July 28, 2009 |
Tony Evers' Moment of Truth |
George Lightbourn |
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| July 20, 2009 |
State Limits on Virtual Schools Prompt Outcry |
James Wigderson |
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| July 16, 2009 |
What Were We Talking About, Again? |
Sunny Schubert |
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| July 9, 2009 |
This Will Raise the Hair on the Back of Your Neck |
George Lightbourn |
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| July 2, 2009 |
We Tried This Before, and it Didn't Work |
Dale Kooyenga |
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| June 29, 2009 |
America's Newest Pastime - Blissful Ignorance |
Christian Schneider |
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| June 25, 2009 |
America’s New Economic Model: All the Style and Power of a Yugo |
George Lightbourn |
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| June 22, 2009 |
The Wisconsin Budget Process: a Newcomer’s Story |
Nathaniel Inglis Steinfeld |
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| June 18, 2009 |
What is Doyle's "Middle Class?" |
Steven Pigeon |
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| June 15, 2009 |
McCallum's Last Laugh |
Christian Schneider |
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| June 11, 2009 |
Separating Wisconsin Democrats From Obama |
George Lightbourn |
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| June 4, 2009 |
Just What Are They Thinking? |
Charles J. Sykes |
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| June 1, 2009 |
Government's Billion Dollar Word |
Christian Schneider |
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| May 28, 2009 |
Pedro Colón made some startling accusations this week. |
Mike Nichols |
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| May 21, 2009 |
Meet the Have Nots: John and Elizabeth Edwards |
Annette Talis |
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| May 14, 2009 |
Naivete and the State Budget |
George Lightbourn |
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| May 11, 2009 |
Milwaukee's Poor Performance |
Ben Artz |
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| May 4, 2009 |
Cross Your Fingers and Hope For the Worst? |
Christian Schneider |
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| April 30, 2009 |
America's Original Environmentalist: Aunt Edna Marie |
George Lightbourn |
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| April 27, 2009 |
Democrats and Pension Perks |
Mike Nichols |
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| April 23, 2009 |
Doyle Guts a HOG |
Charles J. Sykes |
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| April 20, 2009 |
The Power of "Hello" |
Christian Schneider |
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| April 16, 2009 |
The Puzzling Politics of School Choice |
George Lightbourn |
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| April 9, 2009 |
Please Hold Your Applause Until the End |
Deb Jordahl |
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| April 6, 2009 |
Governor on a Wire: Jim Doyle's Balancing Act |
Christian Schneider |
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| April 2, 2009 |
Wisconsin's Transformational Governor |
George Lightbourn |
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| March 30, 2009 |
Wisconsin Dream House |
Steven Pigeon |
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| March 23, 2009 |
Observing the Law of Rule |
Christian Schneider |
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| March 18, 2009 |
As Newspapers Decline, New Voices Rise |
Marc Eisen |
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| March 16, 2009 |
That Damned Smiley Face |
George Lightbourn |
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| March 11, 2009 |
Has Government Forgotten About Our Future? |
Ben Artz |
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| March 5, 2009 |
Thanks a Lot, Governor Doyle |
Deb Jordahl |
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| March 2, 2009 |
Fighting for the Soul of the Hispanic Community |
Aaron Rodriguez |
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| February 26, 2009 |
I Know, I Know - If You Want a Friend, Get a Dog |
George Lightbourn |
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| February 23, 2009 |
An Apology From the Distant Past |
Christian Schneider |
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| February 19, 2009 |
"Buy American" Will Bury America |
Ben Artz |
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| February 12, 2009 |
No Manufacturers Needed |
Deb Jordahl |
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| February 9, 2009 |
The Forgotten Cheesehead |
Christian Schneider |
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| February 5, 2009 |
Obama Moves from "Yes We Can" to "No End in Sight" |
Steven Pigeon |
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| February 3, 2009 |
Stimulus and Politics 101 |
George Lightbourn |
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| January 29, 2009 |
Turning Green Into Gold |
Deb Jordahl |
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| January 26, 2009 |
God Bless Scott Walker, But... |
David Dodenhoff, Ph.D. |
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| January 12, 2009 |
Spend Less Taxpayer Money, Get Healthier |
Christian Schneider |
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| January 8, 2009 |
Wisconsin's Pet Goat: School Finance Reform |
Annette Talis |
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