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The UN climate change summit in Copenhagen is still in its early days and Barack Obama has yet to show up, but we know one thing for sure: the US and the EU and the "developing countries", including our credit country, China, are far apart when it comes to negotiating carbon emissions standards. Here on the home front, Al Gore has decided to say this about "hide the decline": "These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus ...

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Tis the season for us to renew our disgust over the "de-Christmasing" of Christmas. Every year it seems more things morf into "holiday" celebrations, "holiday" trees and "holiday" lights. A lot of times, political correctness eclipses our focus on the real point of December 25 or it at least blocks our view a little. Not for some, though. Cheers to the people who know that "holiday" means "holy day" and that Christmas is why we have "holiday" trees to begin with. And cheers to the people who ...

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It's Thanksgiving. Therefore, I will give thanks for a number of things personal and political. It was either that, or, complain about Wisconsin's "Black Friday" deals stinking in relation to our neighboring states' because of our minimum markup law.

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We pay 22% more for health insurance, Pew ranks us 9th worst fiscal mess in the US, half of minority men in Milwaukee are jobless. School district levies are going up an average of 7.16% statewide and less than 70% of MPS kids graduate from High School. We just got word our energy costs will rise 4%...and then more the following year, and that's without the horrors any Cap & Trade-type legislation would bring. Wisconsin isn't really rolling out the red carpet when it comes to attracting ...

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With normal people everywhere creeped out at the idea that ACORN, probably the nation's most infamous "community organiztion", ever had a hand in "helping" at any election ever, here is a program to note. Milwaukee has an "Adopt-a-Voting Site" program to let community organizations take over the staffing of polling places. www.milwaukee.gov WI statute says the 2 major political parties can submit lists of people they would like to staff them, but the deadline for those submissions is looming ...

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How is it that Walmart- or any other retailer for that matter--can offer a turkey for 86 cents a pound in Wisconsin, but drive over the border, and you can get it for just 40 cents a pound in Illinois? That would be Wisconsin's minimum markup law at work--the law that bans selling things below cost. (They can sell below cost to match competitors' prices.) Part of commerce in the new millenium is "loss leaders"-the things so insanely cheap that customers are drawn into a store to buy those ...

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It reads like a soap opera: best friends, one tearing himself away hoping to leave a legacy, the other clinging to its past, embittered by the man the other had become! Puh-leeze. Jim Doyle and the teachers' union were bff's until Doyle suggested Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett take over MPS. Now the union is firing back at its former benefactor trying to salvage a failing MPS in its own way. My question? Where were all these ideas before? And will any of them come remotely close to being ...

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How is it that we who have normal cars have to drive a half hour or more to waste our lunch hour on emissions testing? If the DMV is hell, is emissions testing purgatory? A WI State Rep. wants to rescue us from more wasteful government spending, but will politics get in the way of real progress? Let's hope not.

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When you spend on a credit card, you are reminded of it when the bill comes due the following month. But when our government spends on credit cards, there's usually nothing to jog our memories. That's why--one month later--we revisit our state government employees' credit card charges highlighted by a state audit. The Department of Administration lets state employees make credit card purchases for state purposes, but, as the audit illustrates...you wonder whether the employees might have ...

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