Monthly Archives: November 2010

Short Takes By Ken VanDoren

“It should be your care, and mine, to  elevate the minds of our children and exalt  their courage; to accelerate and animate  their industry and activity; to excite in  them an habitual contempt of meanness,  abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity,  and an ambition to excel in every capacity,  faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their …

What happened November 2nd

By Keith Best Yes, it was an election day. But not a run of the mill average election day. I can sum it up in three words but I’ll get to that later. Wisconsin went from a blue state to a red state overnight. Scott Walker won and will become our next governor, a solid…

Defund the Left

By Ken Van Doren During the recent campaign season, two incidents in particular caught my eye. First, a friend pointed out that there was an ad from Planned Parenthood on Craig’s List, advertising for help. The new employee was to do door-todoor canvassing in support of “women’s and progressive” issues. Recall that Planned Parenthood has…

Maxine poses a good question….

Let me get this straight . . . . We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee…

WE Energies Request for a 6.9% Rate Increase

WE Energies is asking for a 6.9%  increase after already being allowed to  charge a monthly fuel surcharge (check  your bill). If you go to the PSC’S website  www.psc.wi.gov and enter docket #6630-  FR-102 and do a little research you will  find that WE is projecting a $29 million  increase in fuel cost for 2010.…

Intellectual Leadership for the Tea Party Movement

  By Jeff Judson People of all political stripes realize a new political movement is sweeping the country. Often called the Tea Party movement, it is made up of people nursing hangovers from the lack of fiscal leadership when Republicans were in charge of Congress and the White House, joined by many more people who…