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Ed Fallone’s failed Supreme Court challenge will mean continued conservative dominance By RICHARD ESENBERG So what are we to make…

Conservative hopes brighten with the new season “You can cut all the flowers,” observed Pablo Neruda, “but you cannot keep…

Every now and then, two major talents emerge in close proximity. In 2011, Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder of the…

It was the otherwise estimable John Stuart Mill who observed that “Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people…

Every two years, the Wisconsin Assembly issues an activity book for schoolchildren. The book includes a cartoon called “How a…

After Nov. 6, conservative ideas are even more critical for the country Writing on the National Review website the day after the…

Well, that happened. After a year in which Wisconsin’s conservative revolution seemed to gather momentum — from Gov. Scott Walker’s…

From open primaries to school choice, Wisconsin has led the way for the nation By Warren Kozak What is it…

Following the 2012 presidential election, pundits of all stripes began appealing to retroactive prescience to explain what cost Mitt Romney…

Dane and Waukesha counties embody the bitter partisan divide in the nation By Torben Lütjen Editor’s note: How is it…

By Arthur C. Brooks Scott Walker’s victory over Wisconsin’s public sector unions and their political allies is a victory not…

By Stephen F. Hayes On Aug. 12, 2010, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker munched on a ham sandwich in the…

An old Democratic campaign manager once revealed to me the key to successful public relations: “The more liberal your candidate,…

Before there was a Tea Party, there was a Teed-Off Party. “It was just something I dreamed up one day,…

By Ambassador Mark Green (Ret.) I remember an episode from my state legislative days when we were grappling with an…

Wisconsin historical Society Photo 3562 In the summer of 1897, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Robert M. La Follette hopped on to…

By Fred Siegel Why did the labor left insist the on the self-defeating campaign to recall Scott Walker? An able…

By Charles J. Sykes “A little Madness in the Spring,” observed Emily Dickinson, “is wholesome even for the King.” Wisconsin…

A watershed moment for Wisconsin As Politico noted earlier this year, if there is any state that “epitomizes what the…

MVPs: Rodgers and Walker Except for an exceptionally mild winter, 2012 began inauspiciously.National League MVP Ryan Braun faced a 50-game…