The U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in our state provides us with an interesting forum for right-wing political discussion. Tommy Thompson, Mark Neumann, Jeff Fitzgerald and Eric Hovde each offer unique positives as well as specific negatives that have to be assessed and weight by each of us in coming to our decision of…
Monthly Archives: July 2012
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Is Welfare Spending Futile?
That’s the question that is raised by this chart, plotting federal welfare spending against the poverty rate. When President Johnson announced the War on Poverty, he said his intention was to abolish poverty in America. That hasn’t happened, of course. And I doubt that any liberal today would proclaim such a goal. Today, welfare spending…
David Craig
Fighting ObamaCare Will Create Wisconsin Jobs
By State Representative David Craig Now that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ObamaCare) has been rendered, states will begin anew to examine how or if they should implement the unpopular law (a recent New York Times/CNN poll found that only 24% of Americans wanted the…
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel Discovers New Giant Off-Shore Oil and Gas Field
Another off-shore oil and gas find buries even deeper the old joke that Moses took the wrong turn. Stepping into the Red Sea a good sign? By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Made in Israel? An Israel energy company announced in June it has discovered an off-shore energy field that may even surpass previous finds in terms…
Caroline Glick, Voice of Jerusalem
Obama’s spectacular failure
By Caroline Glick Two weeks ago, in an unofficial inauguration ceremony at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi took off his mask of moderation. Before a crowd of scores of thousands, Mursi pledged to work for the release from US federal prison of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. According to The New…
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Obamacare ruling- Jedi Knight mind trick or what?
Letter to the Editor: Begin forwarded message: In a real sense, the Supreme Court did not let Obama off the hook by striking down the law. Now he will have to defend it during the election. Remember what this law does. It requires everyone to spend upwards of 7 percent of their income on health…