Posts Tagged ‘Conservatives’
Make your voice heard: How students can use campus newspapers to voice their values.
It is not easy to be an island of conservatism in the liberal sea that is a college campus. Not only do conservatives hold different values than their peers, but universities often tout their very existence as a threat to students’ safety, resulting in speakers being banned and safe spaces being built. Conservative students face…
Read More9 Ways to Build a Dynamic Campaign Website
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Every company, cause, organization, and even government agency has their own website, and political campaigns are no exception to that rule. All candidates need to have a presence online to spread their message and present themselves to voters, and that starts with a website. On local campaigns, however, many candidates don’t use their websites…
Read MoreWisconsin’s Public Union Battle: 5 years later
Five years ago today, thousands of patriots rallied in Madison, Wisconsin to send a message that they supported common sense collective bargaining reforms
Read MoreArmy Veteran Works to Improve Wisconsin School Board Finances
After returning from serving a tour overseas with the Wisconsin Army National Guard during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Josh Schoemann decided to continue serving the public by running for school board in his local district. He prepped to win by attending American Majority trainings.
Read MoreLiberal School Board Flipped in Wisconsin
The conservative grassroots movement is changing the political environment on the local level across the country. This political change is demonstrated by recent elections in the Kenosha Unified School District in southeast Wisconsin. Kenosha Unified School District is the third largest school district in Wisconsin and ranks in the bottom third of like-sized school districts. The…
Read MoreWhat if This Isn’t an Accident?
What if it’s all on purpose? The country’s biggest talkers have unabashedly taken this question into consideration in recent weeks as the state of our nation’s economy continues to worsen. Even Rush Limbaugh, the most listened-to man in America, argued that an economic collapse or a default on our national debt would be “intentional” on…
Read MoreWisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Budget Repair Bill
Late yesterday afternoon, the Wisconsin Supreme Court weighed in on the Budget Repair Bill (Act 10) and ruled that it did not violate the Open Meetings Law. Judge Maryann Sumi’s injunction to Act 10 was voided because she exceeded her authority, “invaded” the Legislature’s constitutional powers and erred in stopping the publication and implementation…
Read MoreNever Too Early to Think About 2012
Today, the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) announced their estimate of an additional $636 million of revenue over the next three years due to an increase in the LFB’s projection of Wisconsin tax collections. If liberals were running the show in Madison, we would likely already be hearing how the money should be spent as…
Read MoreEnough Already!
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Recount began today in county courthouses across the state. With Justice David Prosser having a 7,316 vote lead over Challenger Joanne Kloppenburg, many are curious what will happen through this process. This morning, I observed the Recount Canvass in Ozaukee County to get a feel for what the next few…
Read MoreObjectivity in the News: What’s the Point?
You may never hear me say this again, but I am proud to proclaim that I am more progressive than my peers here at UVA. When a group of twenty of us were asked whether it was worth making the effort to retain objectivity in the reporting of news, nineteen said yes: reporters and news…
Read MoreWhat’s Next for Wisconsin?
A recount is looming over yesterday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Currently, Incumbent Justice David Prosser is trailing by 206 votes to Prosecutor Joanne Kloppenburg with 100% of the precincts reporting. With the momentum from the union protests, this election was one that many thought Kloppenburg would win. But the Tea Party showed up to…
Read MoreTop 10 Dark Horse Republican Presidential Candidates
With the presidential election only about 20 months away, the list of GOP nominees is slowly starting to come into focus as “exploratory committees” and PACs are forming almost on a daily basis. The names are well known: Gingrich, Palin, Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Daniels, etc. And while some of these names might not excite all…
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New Local Government Leaders Needed
What we are seeing in Wisconsin underscores why local government matters and why we need a new generation of local government leaders. The Left, particularly the Labor Movement is readjusting its focus to the local level. Labor already has control of many school boards and other local government bodies across the nation. That’s why there…
Read MoreTop 10 Ideas for MSNBC to Try In Order to Increase their Ratings
I am just going to come out say it: I loathe MSNBC. I really do. I cannot stand that network. At all.
And because of this, I LOVE the fact that they consistently get beat down in the ratings by Fox News. Seriously, I delight in their misery.
Thus, it is that I came up with some ideas for MSNBC in order to try in an attempt to raise their normal viewership (somewhere in the neighborhood of 87-92 folks nightly) to at least the lower triple digits.
Read MoreWisconsin Craziness Continues
It’s hard to believe that protests have now been going on in Madison for 16 days and 14 State Senators have been AWOL for 13 days now. Here is some of the latest news. A private citizen is suing one of these Senators to compel the Senator to return to the state Capitol. The Senate has voted on a resolution to impose a fine for Senators missing two or more days. Taxpayers continue to pay the salaries of these 14 AWOL Senators and are wondering when this all will end.
Read MoreThe Karate Kid and Ronald Reagan
As a child of the 1980’s, I protested vehemently when my wife recently went and rented the updated, Will Smith-ified version of The Karate Kid. The film stars his son, Jaden, and is a remake of sorts from the CLASSIC film of the same name that came out when I was six. And yes, I…
Read MoreCutting Spending Isn’t Easy
Once a person benefits from government spending, they rely upon it and will be extremely motivated to contact their elected officials if there is even a rumor of cutting that spending. Almost without fail, there will be stronger political pressure to not cut spending than the political pressure to reduce the spending. Moreover, government agencies always think their budgets should grow, regardless of the effectiveness or necessity of their programs. It takes a tremendous amount of courageous and commitment to see a proposed spending cut through to be enacted into law.
Read MoreTransparency is a beautiful thing….
So, the elections are over and the legislative sessions have begun. Everyone is waiting with bated breath to see what those freshmen legislators are going to do, and tea partiers are hanging on every quote and vote to hold them accountable. If you don’t think times are changing, think again. The Pulaski County Quorum Court…
Read MoreNo Tea Party Caucus? What is Marco Rubio Thinking?
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Barking Dogs
As one of my mentors, Dr. Larry Arnn, is fond of saying, “A thing is good when it performs the purpose for which it was made.” A chair you can’t sit in or a gun that won’t shoot straight fail that test. So does a guard dog that won’t bark at bad guys. Being a…
Read MoreWisconsin’s February 15 Primary Approaching Rapidly
Conservatives need to not only make the general ballot, but they need to perform well in the primary. Perceptions influence voters greatly in elections. Accordingly, if you barely make the general ballot, the voters are less likely to vote for you in the general election because you will not be viewed as a frontrunner. Voters want to vote for those who they perceive have the best chance to win. They want to be a part of the winning team. Conservatives need to emerge from the primaries as the frontrunners.
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