John Fund at the Wall Street Journal comments on the defeat of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler: [T]he liberal majority on Wisconsin's Supreme Court [has] made so many suspect calls [beginning] immediately after …
Does this mean somone can defeat Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson when she runs for a 4th term next year? No one has announced plans to run against Abrahamson yet, but the election is a year away. Jim Pugh, a spokesman for Wisco…
This was a fight known mainly for the nasty ads put out by groups supporting the candidates, but the bottom line is that the balance on the court has changed. Here 's a recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on the …
The NY Sun has an editorial on the arrest of Vang Pao: We could barely believe our eyes. Vang Pao and the others arrested, according to the AP, were picked up during a sweep by more than 200 federal, state, and local agents. The…
A very sad plane crash: No one was believed to have survived the crash of a small plane that was carrying a six-member organ transplant team and their cargo of donor organs, authorities said Tuesday. Searchers found human remains…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Affirmative action in the University of Wisconsin System and state contracting would be abolished or significantly scaled back under legislative proposals to be taken up today by a committee of…
I'll be on "Lake Effect," on WUWM, the Milwaukee public radio, some time between 10 and 11 Central Time today. Streamable here . The archive will be up here later. I've already recorded the interview, which is …
Glenn Reynolds quotes one of my readers who commented on this post yesterday. The quote, from Telemacchus, is: Enough. I've read and re-read all the material on the Barrett case and then discussed, thought some more, and di…
Cathy Young has a piece in The Boston Globe about what she calls our "academic follies" at UW. As you remember from earlier posts here , Kevin Barrett, a part-time instructor hired to teach this fall will be inflicti…
It's funny that a guy with the initials TT -- does he drive a TT? -- seized upon the rhetorical device of "the three little T's" to denounce Governor Doyle : Thompson, [gubernatorial candidate Mark] Green and Mi…
Next Saturday is the WisPolitics/WisOpinion "Blog Summit." It's open to the public, but you do have to register. It's your big chance to go to Waukesha. I'm going to be giving the keynote address, from 1 to…
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has excerpts from a speech by 7th Circuit Judge Diane Sykes, complaining about the Wisconsin Supreme Court (where she was once a justice): In a series of landmark decisions [in the past year], the …
I'm back from Milwaukee. I got there on time, despite some bad traffic and the fact that the ramp listed on my Mapquest instructions was closed and I didn't have street map in the car. Travel tip : don't do that. Her…
Today is the Federalist Society conference, "The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court." I'm on the second panel, but I certainly don't want to miss the Solicitors General roundtable on the structural Constitution, whi…
Ward Churchill spoke at UW-Whitewater last night. The American Mind has a lot of photos of the pro- and anti-Churchill doings outside the hall. Here 's the Badger Herald's report on the speech: Churchill ... lashed out a…
Here 's a picture I found rather disturbing when I was a kid. It's an artist's rendition of Zinjanthropus, a fossil human ancestor discovered in the 1960s. The artist, Peter V. Bianchi, is from Wisconsin, and there is…
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel provides a good, local report of the decision by UW-Whitewater chancellor Jack Miller to not to allow Ward Churchill to speak on campus. I think Miller handled the situation reasonably well. The st…
The Capital Times reports : Wireless Internet could be available in downtown Madison and at the Dane County Regional Airport by this spring, said mayoral spokesman George Twigg. The state Department of Administration is putting o…
On the subject of picking an official rock song for the state of Wisconsin, Hazy Dave (BSEE 78) writes: I nominate "Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain" by the Red Ball Jets, a Milwaukee group from the late 70's. A…