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Don’t fear school choice
Don’t fear school choice Waukesha parents deserve options Waukesha Freeman May 16, 2013 Page A6 Opinion The Waukesha Freeman reported the usual suspects against school choice met in the city at Horning Middle School on Monday night. They were opposing the expansion of school choice to the Waukesha School District and they were asking for more money for public schools. Tom Beebe of the Institute for... [Read more]
The Reverend Wright on the rubber chicken tour in Milwaukee
I spent Friday night with MICAH, bad Italian food, and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Over at the MacIver Institute, I wrote about the evening’s entertainment. If there was a humorous, slightly politically incorrect moment for the evening, it was when Father Tomas Mueller presented the Volunteer Award at the dinner to the co-chairs of the Immigration Task Force. Poor Father Mueller could not remember... [Read more]
It’s… alive!
Graeme Zielinski leaving the Democratic Party to write a book (probably the Daffy Duck coloring book) can only mean one thing, a return to Twitter. The Lord hears the cries of the poor. Blessed be the Lord. — Graeme Zielinski (@gjzielinski) May 19, 2013 …because Jerry Springer isn’t nearly as entertaining. Meanwhile, the genius behind the original hiring decision at the Democratic... [Read more]
All they need to do is break into RNC headquarters
White House plumbers threatening our First Amendment rights looking for leaks? Check. Government pressure on the White House’s enemies list? Check. Scandal with a cover-up? Check. A potential foreign policy quagmire in another country’s civil war? Check. An embarrassing Vice President? Check. Scandalous Attorney General involved in a cover up and invoking Executive Privilege? Check. Perhaps... [Read more]
It’s her day, but … Mom should have plenty of reservations about this ‘treat’
My Waukesha Freeman column about Mother’s Day from 2007. Not much has changed. – JW It’s her day, but … Mom should have plenty of reservations about this ‘treat’ By JAMES WIGDERSON Waukesha Freeman May 10, 2007 Consider this my public service announcement to the male of the species. This Sunday is Mother’s Day. No, really, it snuck up on you again. You probably should’ve... [Read more]
Good and Evil, Ripert and Bourdain
If you were at the Riverside Theater Friday night, you were witness to professional wrestling, or at least wrestling pros, onstage, and the pro-wrestling crowd in the audience. Onstage, author and television personality Anthony Bourdain and his friend Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin traded verbal blows in a friendly roast, “Good vs. Evil.” Offstage, the raucous crowd shouted at the stage at... [Read more]
GOP needs to govern boldly
GOP needs to govern boldly Senate Republicans going wobbly Waukesha Freeman Page A6 Opinion 5/9/2013 How many Republicans in the state Senate does it take to screw up the governor’s agenda? We’re learning the hard way. Already Gov. Scott Walker’s education agenda is seriously threatened. The governor had proposed expanding private school vouchers to nine more school districts in the next state... [Read more]
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