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Paul Ryan's cruelest ploy
Cap Times editorial

Ben Bernanke is holding interest rates down in order to encourage economic growth in what remain very hard times. Yet, Ryan is attacking him for this — claiming it is inappropriate for the Fed to take steps to combat high unemployment.

Feb 03, 2012 | 6:15 am | Loading…
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Mitt Romney, taxes and twilight of the oligarchs
Cap Times editorial

It is fair to say that few candidates in modern history have done themselves more damage than did Mitt Romney’s campaign team when it decided to release his tax returns on the day that President Obama was delivering a State of the Union address about tax fairness.

Feb 02, 2012 | 5:00 am | Loading…
Assembly mining vote disregards the North
Cap Times editorial

Northern Wisconsin voters elect representatives to the Legislature who are responsible for protecting their interests. So you would think that the Legislature would pay at least some attention to those representatives when making decisions about the future of the North.

Feb 01, 2012 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Plain Talk: Open season on sandhills? Send our crazy legislators home

Rep. Joel Kleefisch, the Oconomowoc area Republican who is one of Scott Walker's biggest cheerleaders (he's married to the lieutenant governor, after all), thinks Wisconsin ought to make it legal to start shooting sandhill cranes. Yes, you read that right. Sandhill cranes.

Feb 03, 2012 | 4:30 am Loading…

Plain Talk: Walker spins the State of the State
It has been a tumultuous year of bitter divisiveness, tearing apart our once famously congenial state, and if you were the person who presided over all this, wouldn’t you try to paint the rosiest picture you could during your second State of the State address?
Plain Talk: Adulterous behavior aside, Newt’s still despicable
While a debate moderator’s question about one of Newt Gingrich's ex-wife’s allegations is “close to despicable,” his own prying into others’ private lives is apparently just fine and dandy.

John Nichols: Money beats Tim Cullen, and that's wrong

State Sen. Tim Cullen has dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. And that's too bad.

Feb 02, 2012 | 5:00 am Loading…

John Nichols: What did Walker know? And when?
The potential that the John Doe inquiry will be a major political problem for Scott Walker now seems a good deal greater than it did just days ago.
John Nichols: Sarah versus the ‘Stalinists’: Palin targets Republican Politburo
Oh my, it looks like Sarah Palin might not be speaking at this year’s Republican National Convention. Either that, or she will be the keynoter.

E.J. Dionne Jr.: How Romney won, and lost

Romney’s decisive victory in Florida came at a price. He aggravated Newt Gingrich’s hostility to him, with all the trouble that could entail, and left behind a dispirited Republican electorate in a state the GOP needs to win this fall.

Feb 02, 2012 | 5:30 am Loading…

Margaret Krome: Local foods neither Republican nor Democratic

If Congress does take up a farm bill this year, let’s hope they will pause from their divisive behavior and listen to both Republican and Democratic constituents.

Jan 31, 2012 | 6:30 am Loading…