Wisconsin
Conservatives' vision of the future of American work Scott Walker's Wisconsin really is vanguard of the New Gilded Age. Republicans have introduced a new bill, almost certain to become law,.
While I am concerned about Scott Walker being one Republican who can actually win the lunatic Republican primary and win the general election, he's going to have to run against.
The mining industry has always loved violent labor intimidation, armed thugs, paramilitary operations against unions, and other fun parts of the Gilded Age we once thought we had left behind.
On May 3, 1911, Wisconsin created the first workers compensation program, followed almost immediately by Washington and most of the Northwestern states. This was the beginning of a system, albeit.
For conservatives, Paul Ryan's one possible weakness is that he's not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don't.
Too close to call is a better sign than I expected. Though I imagine enough votes will come out of Waukesha County, 1948 LBJ victory-style, to push the election to.
Well, it looks like Democrats are giving up on recalling Scott Walker. The DNC has still refused to help. Obama has stayed far away in a state that is a.
Like myself, Charlie Pierce finds himself beating his head against the wall over the inaction of the Democratic National Committee in Wisconsin. Pierce not only unloads on the DNC for.