Ron Johnson, Dick Leinenkugel and Bill McCoshen to hold press conference this morn to respond to Feingold ad on industrial revenue bonds.Via Twitter.
This should be good.
September 14, 2010
Ron Johnson to lobby for more special treatment
Career politicians to the rescue
This should be good.
This should be good.
September 13, 2010
What's Ron Johnson going to deny next?
I'm Ron Johnson and I approved this falsehood
Dick Leinenkugel's guide to industrial bonds
Ron Johnson challenges professor of economics
Zach Brandon, deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that "if a company derives a benefit from the taxpayer, it's a government program. The company derived the benefit at the expense of the taxpayer."Earlier:
Dick Leinenkugel's guide to industrial bonds
Ron Johnson challenges professor of economics
Tea group accuses other Tea group of impurities
Earl Grey, not hot enough!
When Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Mark Neumann touted the endorsement of the Wisconsin 9/12 Project, numbering it among the myriad "Tea Party" outfits, rival Tea Party supporters of Scott Walker were offended. 'Those are not the Real Tea!' they yelped, and even local medium-wave hominid Charlie Sykes weighed in to facilitate the howling.
What to make of this, then, where the Wisconsin 9/12 Project appears as a Tea group at the authoritative TeaPartyPatriots.org, which lists the Glenn Beck-inspired 9/12 troupe among its sororities.
Maybe they are only the decaffeinated Tea.
But isn't Glenn Beck about as Tea as Tea can be?
When Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Mark Neumann touted the endorsement of the Wisconsin 9/12 Project, numbering it among the myriad "Tea Party" outfits, rival Tea Party supporters of Scott Walker were offended. 'Those are not the Real Tea!' they yelped, and even local medium-wave hominid Charlie Sykes weighed in to facilitate the howling.What to make of this, then, where the Wisconsin 9/12 Project appears as a Tea group at the authoritative TeaPartyPatriots.org, which lists the Glenn Beck-inspired 9/12 troupe among its sororities.
Maybe they are only the decaffeinated Tea.
But isn't Glenn Beck about as Tea as Tea can be?
Terse Neumann acknowledges AGW
Premise accepted
Question: Should state take any steps to curb gases that cause global warming?On the issues.
Mark Neumann: No.
The Truth-O-Meter says
According to PolitiFact® Wisconsin:
Canvassing the district yesterday, we found voters enjoying the warm sunshine, shopping, bicycling, and engaging in a number of recreational activities otherwise impossible while buried in a pile of direct mail pieces. Even the children of voters, who are on the whole much shorter in stature than voters, were relatively unencumbered by piles of direct mail pieces. We rate the claim false.
Voters have been buried in a pile of direct mail pieces.
Canvassing the district yesterday, we found voters enjoying the warm sunshine, shopping, bicycling, and engaging in a number of recreational activities otherwise impossible while buried in a pile of direct mail pieces. Even the children of voters, who are on the whole much shorter in stature than voters, were relatively unencumbered by piles of direct mail pieces. We rate the claim false.
September 12, 2010
I'm Ron Johnson and I approved this falsehood
[Russ Feingold] has not worked anywhere outside of politics.JSOnline All Politics Blog
(Ron Johnson donated $10K to career politician Scott Walker.)
Then Ron Johnson tells Mike Gousha: "I don't know what else [Russ Feingold's] done in his life." What a comedian. Do you or don't you?
In Wisconsin, dark paranoias vs. carefree spirit
And F. James Sensenbrenner's falsehoods* probably don't help
Sounds like somebody's having fun and somebody else, not.
"Support for Mark Neumann is up three points from earlier this month and is the highest measured for the candidate since polling of the race began in February." — Rasmussen Reports, reporting a dead heat between the Republicans Walker and Neumann as of August 27.
It's the polkas, stupid.
* "[Scott Walker's communications director Jill] Bader suggested that because Sensenbrenner was Walker’s congressman, he would have supported Sensenbrenner’s position." Follow the logic: Because Russ Feingold/Barack Obama was Walker's senator/president, Walker would have supported Russ Feingold's/Barack Obama's position.
Exactly how dumb does the Walker campaign expect people to be?
Republican candidate Scott Walker claims Democrats are trying to hijack the primary and knock him out of the race.Meanwhile, Walker's primary election rival Mark Neumann is "traveling the State in a school bus complete with a polka band."
Sounds like somebody's having fun and somebody else, not.
"Support for Mark Neumann is up three points from earlier this month and is the highest measured for the candidate since polling of the race began in February." — Rasmussen Reports, reporting a dead heat between the Republicans Walker and Neumann as of August 27.
It's the polkas, stupid.
* "[Scott Walker's communications director Jill] Bader suggested that because Sensenbrenner was Walker’s congressman, he would have supported Sensenbrenner’s position." Follow the logic: Because Russ Feingold/Barack Obama was Walker's senator/president, Walker would have supported Russ Feingold's/Barack Obama's position.
Exactly how dumb does the Walker campaign expect people to be?
September 11, 2010
September 10, 2010
Ron Johnson's creationist sunspotters
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel letter to the editor:
This is exactly the type of dishonesty that creationists engage in.
P.S. Have you got your sunspot reflector cap?
I contacted Ian Eisenman, the author of the other study [Willie Soon et al] referenced. He states that his work does not contradict, but rather broadens, the case for Arctic sea ice retreat by showing that the winter sea ice is retreating just as rapidly as the summer ice. This conclusion is willfully and completely misrepresented by the signers of the letter.Good for Keith Armstrong of St. Paul, MN.
This is exactly the type of dishonesty that creationists engage in.
P.S. Have you got your sunspot reflector cap?
Why Wigderson can't read
I don't know why Wigderson can't read,* I only know that he wasn't able to read in at least one instance. Because if a person makes a certain claim but another person does not make that claim, then the person who did not make the claim has not "joined" the one who did.
Seems straightforward enough to me. As a matter of fact, this source did not even make the claim. So Wigderson is fantasizing.
Whatever turns him on, as they say.
* His blog post is entitled, "How to be complete morons," which is considerably more effective as a descriptive label than as advice.
Seems straightforward enough to me. As a matter of fact, this source did not even make the claim. So Wigderson is fantasizing.
Whatever turns him on, as they say.
* His blog post is entitled, "How to be complete morons," which is considerably more effective as a descriptive label than as advice.
September 9, 2010
It's Mark Neumania!
Ha! Now even Charlie knows Neumann is going to win. I am glad more and more people like Belling and Sykes are realizing the old dirty tricks and negative campaigning of Milwaukee career politicians are not working. We need a conservative leader, a business man, not a Milwaukee career politician.By the way, what is it, September, 2010, and just today has "The Blogfather" made it possible to direct-link to reader comments.
Sensenbrenner must be voting for Tom Barrett
New Scott Walker ad, c/w F. James Sensenbrenner voiceover:
See how ridiculous these sorts of ads are? They practically depend on voter ignorance. And there could only be but one rational explanation for this one: Mark-Neumann-breathing-down-your-neck desperation.
Obviously, Scott Walker is feeling the heat.
Sensenbrenner and Walker have spent 59 years on the public payroll
* Except Scott Walker has never been a member of Congress.
** Mr. Obey's farewell speech to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin convention last June was quite possibly the most politically liberal peroration I've ever heard since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(That's not facetiousness; it was a tremendous speech.)
Mark Neumann voted 'Yes' for nine billion dollars in pork projects when he was in Congress. He voted 'Yes' to wasteful transportation spending. I voted against that bill because it was full of waste and payoff to special interests. Like me, Scott Walker opposed the bill* and the nine billion of wasteful spending. [Conclusion:] That's why I'm voting for Scott Walker.Guess who else voted against "that bill"? Tom Barrett, Lloyd Bentsen, Alcee Hastings, Steny Hoyer, Robert Wexler, and ... David Obey.**
See how ridiculous these sorts of ads are? They practically depend on voter ignorance. And there could only be but one rational explanation for this one: Mark-Neumann-breathing-down-your-neck desperation.
Obviously, Scott Walker is feeling the heat.
Sensenbrenner and Walker have spent 59 years on the public payroll
* Except Scott Walker has never been a member of Congress.
** Mr. Obey's farewell speech to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin convention last June was quite possibly the most politically liberal peroration I've ever heard since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(That's not facetiousness; it was a tremendous speech.)
Dick Leinenkugel's guide to industrial bonds
WisOpines former candidate for U.S. Senate Dick Leinenkugel:
However, three pertinent facts remain unaddressed and therefore not denied by Mr. Leinenkugel et al's otherwise helpful commentary:
1) An industrial revenue bond is a government loan in the clear sense that it is a loan facilitated and administered through a cooperative undertaking of federal, State, and local government authorities.
2) An industrial revenue bond confers a subsidy on the loan recipient in the clear sense that the said recipient secures an interest rate of up to 2-1/2 percentage points below market — thanks to the aforementioned three-tier governmental cooperative effort.*
3) Ron Johnson says he wants the government to "leave [him] alone."
The latter is the crucial determinant for "attack" purposes. So where is the "wrongfulness" on the part of Feingold? Nowhere to be found.
* Had there existed a fourth tier of government** then perhaps Ron Johnson would have cheerfully helped himself to that one as well.
** Not counting Communist China.
Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs) have wrongfully been targeted by U.S. Senator Russ Feingold as a "government loan" or a subsidy as part of an effort to attack his opponent, Oshkosh businessman Ron Johnson.Mr. Leinenkugel then proceeds to describe the benefits which accrue to various parties through the effective administration of IRBs. Did anybody dispute that any of those benefits exist? No, they did not.
However, three pertinent facts remain unaddressed and therefore not denied by Mr. Leinenkugel et al's otherwise helpful commentary:
1) An industrial revenue bond is a government loan in the clear sense that it is a loan facilitated and administered through a cooperative undertaking of federal, State, and local government authorities.
2) An industrial revenue bond confers a subsidy on the loan recipient in the clear sense that the said recipient secures an interest rate of up to 2-1/2 percentage points below market — thanks to the aforementioned three-tier governmental cooperative effort.*
3) Ron Johnson says he wants the government to "leave [him] alone."
The latter is the crucial determinant for "attack" purposes. So where is the "wrongfulness" on the part of Feingold? Nowhere to be found.
* Had there existed a fourth tier of government** then perhaps Ron Johnson would have cheerfully helped himself to that one as well.
** Not counting Communist China.
Celebrate Burn-A-Book-You've-Never-Read Day
Item: Florida pastor tells Anderson Cooper he's never read the Qur'an.
I'm going to torch Finnegan's Wake. And I'm hoping thousands of self-described "free marketeers" join me by burning Atlas Shrugged.
Even if it does mean finding something else to prop the door open.
I'm going to torch Finnegan's Wake. And I'm hoping thousands of self-described "free marketeers" join me by burning Atlas Shrugged.
Even if it does mean finding something else to prop the door open.
Vote Ron Johnson because he rarely does
Ouch:
Ron Johnson also contributed $10K to career politician Scott Walker. Got to get rid of all of those career politicians, don't you know.
Even in high profile and contentious races, Ron Johnson wasted a right that countless American soldiers have died for.Hey, come on now. It looks like he voted for Mike Gableman.
Ron Johnson also contributed $10K to career politician Scott Walker. Got to get rid of all of those career politicians, don't you know.
September 8, 2010
Wausau Daily Herald endorses Ron Johnson
In the September 14 Republican primary:
And we haven't heard the last of it.
We also were troubled by [Ron Johnson's] view that a democratic nation ought not to debate war policy publicly — under any circumstances, he seemed to say."Troubled," you say? It's outrageous.
And we haven't heard the last of it.
Charlie Sykes secretly terrified for Scott Walker
Legendary coif in evident disarray
"Unlikely this will catch on in any big way," denies local medium-wave hominid Charlie Sykes. He's squawking about advice issuing from some Democratic quarters to forego the Democratic Party ballot and select a Republican one next Tuesday, to vote for Republican candidate for governor Mark Neumann against Sykes's favorite Scott Walker.
Wisconsin has an open primary, and a qualified elector needn't even declare party affiliation when voting. At the polling station, a voter receives separate ballots listing candidates for each party respectively, and then chooses one or the other in the voting booth.
It might be unlikely to catch on in a big way in Milwaukee County, where there are a number of competitive Democratic primary races and liberals won't pass up an opportunity to dethrone, for example, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke or State Senator Jeff Plale, both widely viewed by progressive observers as political impostors.
Dane County, the State capitol seat and repository of Wisconsin's second largest population of registered voters, is a different story. Left-leaning voters in Madison — which is nearly all of them, according to standard conservative mythology — could be sorely tempted to derail career politician Scott Walker's lifelong ambitions.
And the temptation needn't catch on "in a big way," as the radio gabber fears. For one thing, Rasmussen Reports already shows Scott Walker and Mark Neumann in a dead heat,* and for another, Walker needs to deal with voters in Wisconsin's hardline conservative counties, among the next most populous after Milwaukee and Dane.
Potential Democratic shenanigans aside, those out-State voters are the ones the big city-bred Scott Walker really needs to be concerned about, and his comically desperate attempts to paint Mark Neumann as a Nancy Pelosi clone demonstrate that he's very concerned indeed.
No wonder Charlie Sykes's hair helmet is figuratively disheveled.
* Head to head against the (unopposed**) Democratic candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Scott Walker and Mark Neumann are equally favored. Moreover: "Support for Neumann is up three points from earlier this month [at August 27] and is the highest measured for the candidate since polling of the race began in February."
The latter finding is the true source of the Scott Walker contingent's fear and trembling. Mark Neumann has captured the late momentum.
** eta: Whoops. Sorry about that, Tim John.
"Unlikely this will catch on in any big way," denies local medium-wave hominid Charlie Sykes. He's squawking about advice issuing from some Democratic quarters to forego the Democratic Party ballot and select a Republican one next Tuesday, to vote for Republican candidate for governor Mark Neumann against Sykes's favorite Scott Walker.Wisconsin has an open primary, and a qualified elector needn't even declare party affiliation when voting. At the polling station, a voter receives separate ballots listing candidates for each party respectively, and then chooses one or the other in the voting booth.
It might be unlikely to catch on in a big way in Milwaukee County, where there are a number of competitive Democratic primary races and liberals won't pass up an opportunity to dethrone, for example, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke or State Senator Jeff Plale, both widely viewed by progressive observers as political impostors.
Dane County, the State capitol seat and repository of Wisconsin's second largest population of registered voters, is a different story. Left-leaning voters in Madison — which is nearly all of them, according to standard conservative mythology — could be sorely tempted to derail career politician Scott Walker's lifelong ambitions.
Late momentum favoring Neumann
And the temptation needn't catch on "in a big way," as the radio gabber fears. For one thing, Rasmussen Reports already shows Scott Walker and Mark Neumann in a dead heat,* and for another, Walker needs to deal with voters in Wisconsin's hardline conservative counties, among the next most populous after Milwaukee and Dane.
Potential Democratic shenanigans aside, those out-State voters are the ones the big city-bred Scott Walker really needs to be concerned about, and his comically desperate attempts to paint Mark Neumann as a Nancy Pelosi clone demonstrate that he's very concerned indeed.
No wonder Charlie Sykes's hair helmet is figuratively disheveled.
* Head to head against the (unopposed**) Democratic candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Scott Walker and Mark Neumann are equally favored. Moreover: "Support for Neumann is up three points from earlier this month [at August 27] and is the highest measured for the candidate since polling of the race began in February."
The latter finding is the true source of the Scott Walker contingent's fear and trembling. Mark Neumann has captured the late momentum.
** eta: Whoops. Sorry about that, Tim John.
True/Mostly True/Half True/Barely True/Sykes
How about a truth-v-lie investigation of just one hour of the garbage generated by their own Charlie Sykes every morning?
September 7, 2010
Lt. Gov. candidate not familiar with 1 Timothy
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.It's probably just as well.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. — 1 Timothy 2:11-12 [KJV]
Maybe it was Tom Cochrane's highway?
_______________________________________________________
Mea maxima culpa — Scott Walker is correct:Public Law 105-178 [H.R. 2400] Sec. 1214(e) National Defense Highways Outside the United States. (1) Reconstruction projects. If the Secretary [of Transportation] determines, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, that a highway, or a portion of a highway, located outside the United States is important to the national defense, the Secretary may carry out a project for reconstruction of the highway or portion of highway. (2) Funding. (A) In general. For each of fiscal years 1998 through 2002, the Secretary may set aside not to exceed $18,800,000 from amounts to be apportioned under section 104(b)(4) of title 23, United States Code, to carry out this section. (B) Availability. Funds made available under subparagraph (1) shall remain available until expended.The Haines Road.
_______________________________________________________
That is some damning guilt by association. Neumann is finished.
September 6, 2010
Wisconsin GOP primary ascends into farce
UPDATE: It was/is this "strategically significant" highway.
Pelosi attack flier was a "hardcore negative slam" — Neumann
The other day, Scott Walker sent out a mailing accusing rival Mark Neumann of voting with Nancy Pelosi on a 1998 transportation bill, when Neumann was in Congress. This is a grievous sin among Republicans: associating with Nancy Pelosi. The Heavens forfend.
It's only the oldest scam in the book, given the oft-mutating voting blocs within a 535-person (plus or minus Guam) bicameral legislature.
Never mind that dozens of other conservative Republicans — anybody top Jesse Helms? — voted for the transportation bill as well. Watch this comical WISN-12 teevee feature tracking Mark Neumann's agent as he stages an insurrection at Scott Walker HQ where, WISN's announcer gravely reports, the agent "received a chilly reception."
Cut the crap. Which highway in Canada did Mark Neumann pay for?
Please, let it be the Queen Elizabeth Way.*
* Disambiguation: #canadiansexpositions
THIS JUST IN: Top GOP mandarin demands Scott Walker stand down
On teh web: "Going negative" (complete with dropping bath towels).
Pelosi attack flier was a "hardcore negative slam" — Neumann
The other day, Scott Walker sent out a mailing accusing rival Mark Neumann of voting with Nancy Pelosi on a 1998 transportation bill, when Neumann was in Congress. This is a grievous sin among Republicans: associating with Nancy Pelosi. The Heavens forfend.It's only the oldest scam in the book, given the oft-mutating voting blocs within a 535-person (plus or minus Guam) bicameral legislature.
Never mind that dozens of other conservative Republicans — anybody top Jesse Helms? — voted for the transportation bill as well. Watch this comical WISN-12 teevee feature tracking Mark Neumann's agent as he stages an insurrection at Scott Walker HQ where, WISN's announcer gravely reports, the agent "received a chilly reception."
Cut the crap. Which highway in Canada did Mark Neumann pay for?
Please, let it be the Queen Elizabeth Way.*
* Disambiguation: #canadiansexpositions
THIS JUST IN: Top GOP mandarin demands Scott Walker stand down
On teh web: "Going negative" (complete with dropping bath towels).
Obama snubs Feingold, won't appear in Janesville
In re — Idiotic Fox News Republican talking point of the day:
Patrick McIlheran catches wind of J-S fact checkers, flees to RCP.com
Said Senator Feingold, "I always go to the Janesville [Wisconsin] parade in my hometown, which is one of the oldest Labor Day parades in America."And in a related development:
Patrick McIlheran catches wind of J-S fact checkers, flees to RCP.com
Milwaukee sheriff does care somewhat for officers
Feelings ... whoa whoa whoa Feelings ... [That's enough. — ed.]
"I could care less about what the rank and file — what they feel about me," said Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke.On teh web — Breaking news: David Clarke is not a Democrat.
Republican Sharron Angle's unfair use doctrine
Asked how much Angle could be liable for, or how much copyright holder Righthaven LLC might demand, Elizabeth Rader, an intellectual property attorney at the law firm of Alston & Bird responded: "How much money does she have?"Politico
Who else paid for a highway in Canada?
The following devoted Nancy Pelosiites, is who:
John Ashcroft (R-MO)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Bill Frist (R-TN)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Jesse Helms (R-NC)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Fred Thompson (R-TN)
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)
Inter alia.
→ Mark Neumann did pay for a highway in Canada
→ Scott Walker plays the Canuck card
Roads, bridges all fine, says Wisconsin Republican
Item: Infrastructure plan announced
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, said in advance of the president's visit that "at a time when the country is falling of a fiscal cliff," spending $50 billion is the wrong answer.Chairman Reince Priebus's GOP-leased Cadillac Escalade then bounced off a giant pothole and disappeared over a "Bridge Out" sign.
Most Lt. Gov. candidates amoral heathens
Kleefisch, though, seemed surprised to hear that one Jewish recipient of the flier was offended by it.Reports Daniel Bice.
Earlier: King for Wisconsin Secretary of Jesus
Also: Milwaukee sheriff says what?
September 5, 2010
Mark Neumann did pay for a highway in Canada
"Bridge to Nowhere"* was cool also, except for the Nancy Pelosi
Yet the fact that Scott Walker lied — the U.S. government does not pay for highways in Canada — in his official campaign mailer isn't even mentioned, not by Neumann, and not by the Journal-Sentinel, which incidentally launched a new "fact-checking" website last night.
So you are a worse person for simply blowing another reliable Fox News dog whistle at the other guy than you are when you flat out lie.
Which of those two things says more about your suitability seems clear enough. Scott Walker's getting away mighty easy on this one.
The people need to stop validating politicians' sins. Stop teaching them that merely "going negative" is worse than lying like a rug.
* That long-ago proposed connection actually is directed in the bill.
At a press conference on Sunday, Neumann didn't dispute the assertion, but said that the comparison with Pelosi, a liberal Democrat, was a low blow and a "personal attack" against him.Lots of other folks actually admire Nancy Pelosi and her achievements but for these people even the mildest association with the Speaker of the House is a "low blow," a "personal attack." Fine. That's politics.
Yet the fact that Scott Walker lied — the U.S. government does not pay for highways in Canada — in his official campaign mailer isn't even mentioned, not by Neumann, and not by the Journal-Sentinel, which incidentally launched a new "fact-checking" website last night.
So you are a worse person for simply blowing another reliable Fox News dog whistle at the other guy than you are when you flat out lie.
Which of those two things says more about your suitability seems clear enough. Scott Walker's getting away mighty easy on this one.
The people need to stop validating politicians' sins. Stop teaching them that merely "going negative" is worse than lying like a rug.
Isn't it obvious that no one's concerned with facts anymore?It's getting there alright.
* That long-ago proposed connection actually is directed in the bill.
September 4, 2010
Chairman Ron's 'Orient Express' travel mug
Keep your Kool-Aid "far more certain" with a RoJo go-cup
Ron Johnson has found himself explaining or modifying his statements on ... the business climate in China compared to the United States.
Collect the whole set!
Scott Walker plays the Canuck card
The ever vigilant Xoff spotted an internecine political mailer, in which Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Scott Walker accuses his Republican primary election rival Mark Neumann of voting for a federal "bill that contained ... funding" for "a highway in Canada."Et voilà :
Maybe somebody ought to ask Scott Walker which highway in Canada the U.S. federales funded, because it doesn't seem to be in here.
Could have been worse; could have been France (worse yet, Québec).
(Also I heard that road heads straight to New Flyer Industries in Winnipeg, which makes Scott Walker's Milwaukee County buses.)
Or at least put the question to Walker's coterie of communications professionals, whose replies might well be all the more implausible.
Moar:
→ Mark Neumann did pay for a highway in Canada
→ Who else paid for a highway in Canada?
→ Wisconsin GOP primary ascends into farce
Newt Gingrich, America's smartest hypocrite
Republicans' vaunted conservative principles evaporate
Newt G., selfless defender of [third] traditional marriage[s].
Newt G., selfless defender of [third] traditional marriage[s].
WPRI report is "fatal" to minimum markup case
Its thinking tanked, sez 7th Circuit panel
Note Reagan-appointed judges Posner, Ripple, and Kanne:
Note Reagan-appointed judges Posner, Ripple, and Kanne:
Conclude all three:Although the authors of the WPRI Report argue that "[m]ost of the empirical research done on retail gasoline markets suggests that the primary problem in the market is not predatory pricing, but rather a propensity towards price collusion," there is no evidence in the WPRI Report of any actual collusion in the Wisconsin motor vehicle fuel market.
On teh web: WPRI.The lack of evidence in the record supporting Flying J’s allegations of collusive conduct by gasoline dealers is fatal to its claim that the motor vehicle fuel provisions of the Act are preempted by the Sherman Act.
September 3, 2010
Ron Johnson's Second Amendment fantasies
Candidate Ron Johnson discusses D.C. v. Heller:
Johnson's claim against Senator Feingold is a false one.
Candidate Johnson again:
One more, always a favorite:
And finally:
That's not just a flip-flop, that's a geomagnetic reversal.
How the heck to tell this guy from a career politician?
The Justices that Senator Feingold has supported are the ones who voted against an individual right [to bear arms].That's news to all three of those Justices:
In interpreting and applying this Amendment, I take as a starting point the following four propositions, based on our precedent and today’s opinions, to which I believe the entire Court subscribes:h/t Stephen Breyer (boldface added).
(1) The Amendment protects an "individual" right—i.e., one that is separately possessed, and may be separately enforced, by each person on whom it is conferred.
Johnson's claim against Senator Feingold is a false one.
Candidate Johnson again:
The right to bear arms I think of as an absolute right and I'm glad the Supreme Court has finally ruled on that.Continues Justice Breyer:
(4) The right protected by the Second Amendment is not absolute, but instead is subject to government regulation.Where on Earth does Ron Johnson come up with this stuff?
One more, always a favorite:
Strict constructionists ... people like Scalia ...Hold it right there:
Textualism should not be confused with so-called strict constructionism, a degraded form of textualism that brings the whole philosophy into disrepute. I am not a strict constructionist, and no one ought to be—though better that, I suppose, than a nontextualist.h/t Antonin Scalia.
And finally:
I'm going to be a very strongest defender of the Second Amendment. ... And of course the fear of people that are strongest defenders of the Second Amendment is that the government will use that registration to some point in time possibly confiscate weapons. In my mind there's really no reason for the government to know who has these guns.Holy Mackerel. Ron Johnson has gone from a fisherman who believes guns should be the business of Department-of-Transportation-style bureaucracies to Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Idaho Militia.
That's not just a flip-flop, that's a geomagnetic reversal.
How the heck to tell this guy from a career politician?
New religion baloney slice is thinnest yet
And God said, Let there be not light
And the (State) court didn't say whether the Menorah-lighting itself was "an unconstitutional excessive governmental entanglement with religion," but only whether there existed a perception that it was an unconstitutional excessive governmental entanglement with religion.
In short, there's no constitutional problem when the city transports, erects, displays, and dismantles the Menorah but as soon as it does that thing that makes the Menorah a Menorah — lights it — there is.
Although, this one would be easier to light if it wasn't 18 feet high.
Court OKs Menorah Display, But Not Use of City Personnel and Equipment To Light ItChabad of Mid-Hudson Valley v. City of Poughkeepsie
And the (State) court didn't say whether the Menorah-lighting itself was "an unconstitutional excessive governmental entanglement with religion," but only whether there existed a perception that it was an unconstitutional excessive governmental entanglement with religion.
In short, there's no constitutional problem when the city transports, erects, displays, and dismantles the Menorah but as soon as it does that thing that makes the Menorah a Menorah — lights it — there is.
Although, this one would be easier to light if it wasn't 18 feet high.
September 2, 2010
Charlie Sykes gets an earful from Sarah Palin
"I don't read some of it because ... impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references," Sarah Palin told Fox News celebrity Sean Hannity.
Next time get the XXL, says Walker haberdasher
Don't worry they shrink a bit
[Your Affiant] saw Tim Russell in the parking lot of a Madison hotel forcing AirTran t-shirts on the tour's riders.Complaint & Affidavits
Pol can't seem to spend self out of poll
Willie Soon: Latest Rasmussen coincides with drop in solar activity
* Correction: Won the race on September 2.
Johnson has spent $4 million on broadcast TV in the State ...
These findings show little change since Johnson, a plastics manufacturer and businessman, entered the race in late May.*Only $11 million to go.
* Correction: Won the race on September 2.
AZ Gov remembers a joke she heard last year
Larry, Barry, Terry, and ... scary.
[YouTube @ 0:40] That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. [/flack]
[YouTube @ 0:40] That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. [/flack]
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