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Widgerson Library has this week’s Carnival of the Badger posted.

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Scott Walker misses the point in having the state GOP apologize to Schenks for practically accusing their son on vote fraud. He tries to push the onus onto the Journal Sentinel when he writes to Charlie Sykes:
Charlie,
Speaking of an apology, when do you think that the paper will ask the city/mayor to give an apology […]

James Widgerson wants your Wisconsin posts for the next Carnival of the Badger.

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Seeing stories on Google Talk in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal today convinced me this wasn’t a rumor floating through the ether. So I installed it. Just one problem: I have no one to talk to. My IM is MS Messenger. And since my Gmail account is a secondary one I have no […]

The Big Picture hosts this week’s Carnival of the Vanities.

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The Wisconsin Democratic Party had a chance to look classy and dignified while continuing the GOP’s embarassment for going overboard on their recent vote fraud accusations. Joe Wineke could have simply asked, not “demanded,” that the GOP apologize to Stuart, Gayle, and Joseph Schenk for indirectly accusing Joseph of double voting last November. Party chairman […]

Fear the Canadian navy.
“Canada Flexes Military Muscle”

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Charlie Sykes challenged Wisconsin webloggers to comment on Tim Cuprisin finally getting around to writing about how Kossites won WISN’s talk show host contest. He called me out by name. Hey, Charlie, I had to get up early this morning. My vacation’s over. It was either commenting on Milwaukee’s Talk Star or covering some real […]

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s credibility has been significantly strengthened with Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott issuing a statement supporting Shaffer’s claim. In his statement Phillpott told Fox News, “My story has remained consistent. Atta was identified by Able Danger in January/February 2000.”
The Pentagon has found no documentation to back up the two men’s claims. But […]

The Wisconsin Republican Party was wrong when they claimed nine people voted in multiple cities last November. U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic’s investigation found “found assorted clerical errors and other inconsistencies, but no fraud.” While the GOP came up empty Biskupic said, “[T]here still is plenty of evidence of double voting and the like.”
The state GOP […]

Based on the claims of the members of the Able Danger team Captain Ed wonders if the Sep. 11 commission might have gotten Mohammed Atta’s whereabouts wrong. The commission put together their timeline on interrogations of captured al Qaeda members Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Able Danger got Atta’s name to pop […]

Radio Blogger noticed a DirectTV typo(?) about Sen. Chuck Hagel. He also points out a fact about the Senator who loves preening before the Washington, D.C. press corps:
The problem is, within Republican circles, he is neither important nor influential.
He’s just plain annoying. He’s a wanna-be John McCain but without the history of being tortured by […]

Nina Totenberg really likes the word “very” when describing Judge John Roberts. Sometimes he’s “very very conservative” other times he’s “very very very conservative.” And just to mix things up Roberts is “a really conservative guy,” “a hardline conservative,” “a clear conservative,” and “a conservative Catholic.” I have been a little uncomfortable with Roberts simply […]

Economics’ newest celebrity Steven Levitt demolishes a NY Times Sunday Magazine story about “peak oil” and how it means oncoming economic catastrophe. It’s obvious to Levitt that writer Peter Maass didn’t pay much attention in his economics classes (if he took any). Levitt offers a Cliff Notes version of one very important economic insight:
What most […]

Here is my little contribution to Hugh Hewitt’s and Radio Blogger’s attempt to pound through the documents put out by the Reagan Library.
Box 31-JGR/Legal Services Corporation (4)
The first items are memos to Ted Olson, then Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding concerns about the Justice Department appropriations bill. Specifically President Reagan […]