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For conservatives, just saying ‘no’ probably won’t be enough to solve our state’s and nation’s problems By Richard Esenberg The…

By Charles J. Sykes As summer turned to fall, most of Wisconsin turned from the perfervid frenzy of the recall…

His pieties about protecting middle class families are a cover for hiking taxes on the poor By Christian Schneider On…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a commentary contrasting the tough budget introduced by Governor Walker with the soft, easy on-the-eyes budgets we’ve seen out of Washington.

A funny thing happened on the way to electing yet another big-spending, lawyer-laden, special-interest-loving Legislature last fall: Voters in four…

Let’s peel away the hyperbole to see what Gov. Walker really did in his first budget. By George Lightbourn Great…

Scott Walker is Reagan-like in his bold steps to remake Wisconsin government By Richard Esenberg Madison has fallen. All of…

There could not have been a sharper contrast between the tension in Madison and the calm in Washington, D.C.

It’s a shock for some: He means what he says, and he does what he promises by Richard Esenberg Last…

The lessons from Indiana’s playbookBy Christopher Ruhl After more than six years in office, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has earned…

Peter Barca, a usually levelheaded Democrat, articulated what has been wrong with state government.

By Stephen F. Hayes On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama won 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. He won Wisconsin by…

The voters exact vengeance upon the disdainful Democrats. Before the vote on Nov. 2, humorist P.J. O’Rourke quipped that it…

Dear Gov.-elect Walker (Scott): Welcome back to Madison. While you were busy convincing us to elect you, most Wisconsinites were…

Editor’s note: Christian Schneider, a WPRI senior fellow, spent nearly a decade running campaigns in Wisconsin. This story was written…

Recently, a liberal friend suggested that I read President Obama’s “nuanced and thoughtful defense of government” at the University of…

While it makes sense that Paul Ryan would be the conservative pin-up guy in 2010, the story was much different…

CHARLES J. SYKES Even for a normally frigid region like ours, this was still the season of our discontent. Abetted…

Paul Ryan, unlike the president, acts like a grownup in facing the entitlement tsunami By RICHARD ESENBERG In his State…

Conservatives know that American genius flows from the bottom up rather than the top down By Richard Esenberg Reaction to…