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Scott Walker's pro-Foxconn campaign ads are everywhere in Wisconsin, and face little opposition. Update: Tony Evers sticks to his ...

Barbara With, a citizen activist and public intellectual living in northern Wisconsin, asks: "Is it my PTSD from being in Paris during ...

 From the 1894 report of the U.W. Board of Regents The Wisconsin State Journal columnist, Chris Rickert has found that the University ...

Good enough for Texas. From The Rehabilitation Of Joseph McCarthy? Texas Textbooks Process Grinds On by Justin Elliott When we last checked ...

Update : Civil Rights Groups: 'We are watching;' GOP: We don't care . As much as the rightwing has tried to bash Sotomayor, ...

Update II : Live feed Update : MAL's crazy, young nieces are great sports as the hours-long, snaking lines funnel towards the capitol. A...

When the Republicans get a talking point fed to them, they do recite well. But today's GOP talking points are so dynamic (and not credib...

Update : Gitmo Ruling Enters The Election: 'One Of The Worst Decisions' In History via mal contends - The hysterical dissent by the...

Question : Why is the support and righteous indignation directed on behalf of veterans more likely to be offered by those less inclined to s...

That Bush could let an Attorney General express the opinion that the "U.S. Constitution doesn’t expressly recognize habeas corpus ...