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Happily advancing freedom and opportunity at The Badger Institute. Three cheers for Wisconsin. AMDG. Reposts do not mean endorsement. My views are my own; blame no one else for them.

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Fanlund praises a woman for claiming that Charlie Kirk was "perpetuating" violence -- days after he was slain while engaging in civil Q&A.

Better take: A Wisconsin professor notes Kirk was killed for doing what every university should do:

www.badgerinstitute.org/post-kirk-as...

13.10.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And wholly unnecessary: The House already passed its continuing resolution to keep agencies open, and the Senate voted 55-45, on a bipartisan basis, to do so on Wednesday.

All it takes to keep agencies funded at the same level as before is a few more Democrat senators with a spirit of compromise.

02.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And wholly unnecessary: The House already passed its continuing resolution to keep agencies open, and the Senate voted 55-45, on a bipartisan basis, to do so on Wednesday.

All it takes to keep agencies funded at the same level as before is a few more Democrat senators with a spirit of compromise.

02.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's because -- even if the Canadian government pretends not to know this -- there *are* only two sexes.

02.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are greencultists suddenly so down on technology that lets you work or shop remotely instead of driving?

Because surging power demand makes plain to all that solar and wind, already desperately inadequate to supply Wisconsin, have no hope of keeping up.

www.badgerinstitute.org/numbers/how-...

17.09.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, dies at 89 The Christian family psychologist, founder of the Focus on the Family Christian ministry and former adviser to multiple U.S. presidents died on Thursday at 89 years old.

James Dobson, fierce defender of the family against a cultural revolution seeking to erase it, dies at 89.
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21.08.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More and more, the Biden regime’s tyrannical reflex is laid bare:

β€œThe Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as β€˜Domestic Violent Extremists,’ or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records.”

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23.05.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SANDOVAL: Mainstream Media Accidentally Proves They've Never Met A Christian Before The New York Times covers non-metropole American culture like an anthropologist venturing into the deepest recesses of the Amazon

SANDOVAL: Mainstream Media Accidentally Proves They've Never Met A Christian Before

30.04.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Note that sending illegal aliens back home is not the equivalent to treating another human being as property.

30.04.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judge Hannah Dugan Arrested In Milwaukee By FBI On Obstruction Charge Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested this morning by the FBI on an obstruction charge, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

The judge intentionally helped an illegal alien to escape law enforcement officers.

It may surprise @govevers.wisconsin.gov to learn that it's illegal to help people escape the cops, even if you dislike how the last election turned out.

www.wisconsinrightnow.com/judge-hannah...

25.04.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gov. Evers’ irresponsible budget - Badger Institute Badger Institute : Gov. Evers’ 2025 budget proposal would reduce the General Fund balance to an amount equal to only 2 percent of annual General Fund state spending β€” well below the 16 percent that ex...

The dwindling of Wisconsin’s fiscal cushion in the General Fund under Evers’ budget proposals results from the governor’s oversized spending plans.
www.badgerinstitute.org/gov-evers-ir...

25.04.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jewish Businesses Vandalized, a Mass Grave Hoax, and More Welcome back to Rupa Subramanya’s Canadian newsletter, where we’re discussing Monday’s election and lots more.

This week, Canada's government-run broadcaster began quietly admitting the "mass graves" story that's led to the burning of more than 100 churches was, in fact, a hoax.

www.thefp.com/p/jewish-bus...

25.04.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'This is insane': Magazine crops blacks from Trump inauguration party photo, then complains event is almost only white * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh Host, a black, charges he was 'intentionally' left out 'because it would have undermined their narrative that MAGA is some racist cult'

You need to realize how unbelievably dishonest the prestige media is, and is going to go on being, with you.

www.wnd.com/2025/01/this...

28.01.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's still -1F in Milwaukee at midafternoon: Remember that forcing Wisconsinites to give up natural gas means that heating their homes would cost $20,000 more.

And that's if intermittent wind and solar didn't send our electricity rates skyward.

Details:

www.badgerinstitute.org/the-cost-of-...

21.01.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Post-published Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Darrin "Bell is hardly the first Antifa affiliate or progressive identitarian to be accused of child pornography or pedophilia."

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16.01.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Governor And L.A. Mayor Diverted Billions From Fire-Fighting To Migrant, Homeless, And Climate Subsidies β€œThere wasn’t sufficient funding for pre-deployment,” says new firefighter whistleblower.

And of course they did.

www.public.news/p/california...

15.01.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Washington Post lays off 4% of workforce as turmoil engulfs Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper The layoffs will impact the newspaper’s business division, including its sales and marketing teams.

So pissing away your credibility was, in retrospect, a poor idea then. Ah, well.

nypost.com/2025/01/07/m...

07.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI used to believe in our judicial system,” he said, β€œbut now I see what generations upon generations of minorities and people of lower income have been complaining about.”

06.01.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Four companies step up to make homes affordable for Sheboygan County workers - Badger Institute Badger Institute : Wisconsin will need to build 200,000 housing units by 2030 to accommodate all the people who want to live and work here. Sheboygan County is a microcosm of the problem β€” but on the ...

β€œAs we are hiring, we often hear people say that it would be great to work here, but there’s no place to live affordably.”

So these Wisconsin businesses acted, and houses are being built.

It can be done.

www.badgerinstitute.org/four-compani...

01.01.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Girling the Boy Scouts Progressives notch another victory in their war on American institutions.

β€œThe DEI apparatus is the antithesis of the original Scouting ethic. Scouts are supposed to focus outward, not on themselves, and especially not on au courant diversity characteristics. ... They are supposed to be honest.”
www.city-journal.org/article/girl...

30.12.2024 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Busted thieves baffled by β€˜new laws’ in California that make shoplifting a felony, police video shows Accused California thieves were stunned to find themselves cuffed and shoved into a cop car thanks to β€œnew laws” that make shoplifting a felony, hilarious police video shows.

What a tremendously cheery and encouraging story.

nypost.com/2024/12/23/u...

29.12.2024 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"How did we lose the culture?" wonders a party that has spent the past two decades telling Americans their country is illegitimate and every man is a toxin.

24.12.2024 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude claims that Americans wanting a secure border simply want to "deport people who look like me."

Except, as became clear, people who look like him want to deport illegal aliens, too.

nypost.com/2024/06/17/u...

21.12.2024 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the Demise of DC’s Most Hated Political Watering Hole What the civility-promotion industry can learn from the death of a β€œbipartisan” Washington bar.

Another illustration of why there can be no peace between the parties: Because, quite explicitly, leftists do not want peace.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

20.12.2024 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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House GOP accuses Liz Cheney of tampering with J6 witness, ask FBI to investigate criminality Interim report by Rep. Barry Loudermilk concludes Jan. 6 attack was β€œpreventable,” highlights intelligence and security failures, Cheney's possible shenanigans.

House committee preliminary report concludes that the J6 riot "was preventable" and asks "for an investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney for criminally tampering with a witness during the Democrat-led congressional inquiry of the tragedy."

justthenews.com/government/c...

17.12.2024 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Mind you, it isn't Trump who's bringing the ABC News to heel.

It's a court and ABC's apparent acknowledgment that its hack host really did tell a malicious lie about Trump.

The noise out of leftist commentators amounts to an admission that they want to go on lying about him.

16.12.2024 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is unquestionably a good thing for society when places that are in the business of killing innocent human beings cannot commit their atrocities.

16.12.2024 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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No, 2.5% in addition to inflation. That's what's meant by the phrase, "real-dollar terms." That's what is meant, on this graph, by the phrase "2024 dollars."

15.12.2024 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exonerated of any wrongdoing by a jury of his peers and, indeed, having been shown to have bravely acted to protect his fellow passengers from a man shouting at them, β€œI don’t give a damn. I will kill a motherf–ker. I’m ready to die,” he then attends a game with the president.

Very good.

15.12.2024 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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