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WCC Hosting Congressional Candidate Forum in NE Wisconsin

On Saturday, July 9th, the WI Conservative Coalition, WCC, will host a forum for the 6th & 8th Congressional candidates at Freedom Project Education. The meeting will start promptly at 10 AM and conclude at 12:00 PM. Freedom Project Education is located at 750 N. Hickory Farm Lane, Appleton, WI 54914. Coffee, water, soda and…

Climate debate dominated by ‘duckspeakers’

Time to relearn the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-FourIn Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a new language was created by the government to control the thinking patterns of the populace. Officially labeled ‘Newspeak’, it was the first language that, when fully adopted, was meant to limit the range of human thought.…

On MPS, Adults Turn in Homework Late

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele speaking at the press conference unveiling the plan for the museum to acquire O’Donnell Park. In the saga that is the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program (OSPP), the adults in the room have turned in their homework late. On May 24, MPS held a closed-door Special Board Meeting to discuss…

Banning Muslims

It’s amazing how politics can simultaneously lay bare both the weakness of the human mind and man’s second-strongest human drive – rationalization. In the face of growing terrorist threats and the evidence of radical Muslims imbedding themselves in the growing flood of over 4 million Syrian refugees seeking asylum across the globe, American liberals have…

How the West got healthy and prosperous

Vital ingredients included the scientific method and fossil fuels – truths we forget at our peril Several years ago, physician, statistician, sword swallower and vibrant lecturer Hans Rosling produced a fascinating 4-minute video that presented 120,000 data points and showcased how mostly western nations became healthy and prosperous in just 200 years – after countless…

Graduates face a big challenge

As they don caps and gowns, endure commencement speeches and take their diplomas, many high school and college graduates face bleak prospects in an economy that grew a dismal 0.5% the first quarter. he United States added a meager 160,000 new non-farm jobs in April, a paltry 4,000 of them in manufacturing. First quarter 2016…