Ho ho ho! On December 21st, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) will gift the nation with the true number of existing home sales between 2007 and 2010. The NAR’s inflated numbers were flagged earlier this year by CoreLogic, a California based data firm. When confronted, the NAR grumped they’d look into it. Sounding more [...]

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Remember the late great Tea Party? The grass roots movement that made the political establishment quake? For one glorious moment it seemed as if a truly independent, average Joe/Joan movement might be gathering steam. A memory from that halcyon time: assorted TV pundits telling Republican leaders that Tea Party people “don’t like you guys either”. [...]

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In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them. Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to [...]

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Clinton once had a line “It’s the economy, stupid”, and one longs for someone to teach economics to the present administration. I was always a union supporter, and many of my family and friends belonged to unions. But you know what happened to a lot of textile jobs in the northern states in 1950′s and [...]

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Rep. Dexter, I had a high school math teacher who would occasionally tell a student he was being “stupid”, but he was always quick to remind us that the word actually means ‘intellectually lazy” and merely represented a temporary state of being. I really hope your position on payday loans is just because you are [...]

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When a politician starts talking about banning payday loans, it’s usually one of four reasons that motivates him. In each case, however, the consumer loses because they have a credit option ripped away from them against their will. Citizens lose also, because it means thousands of lost jobs and state revenue. The case of Gordon [...]

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It’s that time again. Time to put the opponents of Payday Lending into the clown dunk tank and wing a few balls at the target. No apologies if I accidentally hit one of these twits in the face. First up, the AP reported that the Center for Responsible Lending — the corrupt PR front for [...]

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To The Wisconsin Legislature: I understand a bill is to be introduced limiting payday loans to an annualized interest rate of 36% APR, and that it has numerous sponsors. Before voting for this bill, you need to understand three simple facts. SIMPLE FACT #1: Due to the average default rate of 6% and average monthly [...]

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From the desk of Charlie Churchill’s Parrot “Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is – the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.” – Sir Winston Churchill [...]

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Over the weekend I was sent a message about recent events in New Berlin, Wisconsin. This latest escapade is a mind blower yet not surprising. Normally this would fall under sexual predator behavior but I consider it a problem of Peer Abuse as well. A young man, Anthony R. Stancl, who is 18 years old [...]

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A 37 year old Wisconsin woman celebrated her birthday in a rare and unusual fashion. She loaded up her four kids into her 1999 silver Ford Taurus and they went for a ride. Sounds like a nice thing to do on your birthday! The joy ride turned into one that I certainly don’t think these [...]

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91 year old, Betty Borowski, of Greendale Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee was found underneath her car stuck where she had been for 2 days. She became stuck sometimes on June 29 when she crawled under her car to look for key and her head somehow got pinned by the axle. Borowski’s mail carrier had [...]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.” According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw [...]

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The announcement this morning by the Holy See that there will be a summit meeting in Rome in November between the Holy Father and Muslim leaders is indeed a significant event. In keeping with the theme of developing peace and harmony, the invitation of the Holy Father to extend an invitation towards dialogue and understanding [...]

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Gary Gygax, the colorful creator of the original Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, has died at age 69. Gygax has been in poor health for several years, suffering from heart problems and an aneurysm. The exact cause of death has not been released. Gygax is survived by his wife, Gail. Gygax spent many years as [...]

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Ron Paul News Roundup for Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Paul to continue Presidential Bid The Rise of “Ron Paul Republicans” Will there be More “Hotties 4 Ron Paul”, the Sold Out Calendar?  The big news this morning is that Ron Paul has announced that he will stay in the Republican presidential race. And that the [...]

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Building on last week’s “Potomac Primary,” Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) kept their winning streaks going.     In WI, Obama and McCain won by comfortable margins over Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR), respectively (58 percent to 41 percent in the Dem primary; 55 percent to 37 percent in the GOP primary). Though [...]

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From CHURCHILL’S PARROT blog John McCain is Winston Churchill?  We think not. Nonetheless the comparison is rather in vogue, some less asinine than others. Everyone agrees he is no Ronald Reagan. But then, of course, neither was Ronald Reagan. Rush, Anne, Sean, and Laura are betraying the Party. The Party is betraying Conservativism. What’s a [...]

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Wisconsin and Washington Hold Democrat Primaries, Hawaii Holds Caucuses this Week Consulting the Stars: How will Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama do? Who has the edge, Astrologically-speaking Between Clinton and Obama this Week? Another in the DBKP 2008 Political Astrology series. Under the star’s benevolence, who will receive celestial glad tidings and the key to [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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    ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Will A  Year of Firsts Yield  More of The Same Old, Same Old?   January 30, 2008   By RB Scott Boston, Massachusetts   Note:  RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.   As  the barrow [...]

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In another swipe at the US Military, the Daily Isthmus, a paper from Madison, Wisconsin, published a short piece called, “Army Aims at Schoolkids,” in which the paper quotes an anti-military activist as saying that the ad banners for the U.S. Army posted in Madison’s High Schools is “extremely inappropriate.” Of course, we should expect [...]

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Not since I was declared a fraud by the BBC, About.com, the Museum of Hoaxes, Wikipedia, NPR, The Churchill Centre, and others, have I been forced to endure such indignity.  Facebook, the upstart would-be MySpace, has deemed me, ME – Charlie Churchill’s Parrot, the brightest feather of the Right Wing, the only Conservative pundit who [...]

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General Petraeus’ coming testimony before Congress regarding the status of military operations in Iraq has inspired the Lefties to feats of classless jackassery beyond which anyone believed them capable. (Well, on second thought, it’s quite believable.) The group A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) has planned a “Die-In” for September 15 in [...]

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It’s no wonder that sensible people just shake their heads and wonder what’s wrong with the extremists of the far left when they come up with such off the wall nonsense and then try to pass it off as real political analysis. It just makes people who have even the slightest clue about what is [...]

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A woman missing from Madison, Wisconsin is said to have been dealing with the loss of her father and step-father before her disappearance. Kelly Nolan, a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student, has been missing for two weeks. She vanished on June 23 while out with her friends who were bar hopping in downtown Madison. Her [...]

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Earlier this week, numerous feminist blogs were proclaiming the April Griffin custody case to be the new “Woman victimized by sexist family courts” outrage (aka “Custody-visitation scandal case”). Past ones have included Genia Shockome, Sadia Loeliger, Bridget Marks, and others. According to the feminist website MotherWarrior, which is leading the charge for Griffin, she “has been [...]

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When police responded to a report of shots being fired from inside a home in Delavan, Wisconsin at 10:36 pm on Saturday night, they arrived on the scene to find six bodies inside a home on the street. In a nearby vehicle, a 2-year-old girl was found alive but with a gunshot wound to the [...]

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It takes a good bit of courage to rob a store. It takes even more to stick around and ask out the cashier you’re robbing. This was the situation on Sunday afternoon at a U-Haul store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two men pulled up to the store at about 3:00pm in a late 1980’s Cadillac. They [...]

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Friday night while addressing the Wisconsin Republican Party Convention, 2008 GOP presidential candidate, Sam Brownback drew boos and jeers for using a specific quarterback in a football analogy while talking about families.

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One of the correspondents on my main site,Publius’ Forum, has been trying to clear up a wretched email that was sent to one of our boys in Iraq refusing him service and telling him he should “pull out of Iraq”. Fox News has picked up this story that I have been watching for a few [...]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases [...]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after [...]

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If this isn’t a public service announcement for the dangers of internet dating, than I don’t know what is. A man who was wanted on two counts of murder in Arkansas, was arrested in Wisconsin after he placed an ad on an internet dating site that included his name, address and picture and a line [...]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were [...]

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Same-sex marriage bans called in SC, TN, VA, WI, leads in others, trails in AZ. Eight states were voting on measures that would ban same-sex marriage. CNN.com has South Carolina, Tennesssee, Virginia and Wisconsin passing the same-sex marriage ban. The issue is too close to call in Arizona, but is trailing there with 48% voting to ban [...]

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In response to the three school shootings this week, Wisconsin state representative Frank Lasee (R-Green Bay) has stated that he will introduce legislation early next year that he says will help the problem. If the legislation passes, it will make it legal for teachers and principals to carry firearms into class with them for self [...]

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