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Tag Archives: Wisconsin
Honoring Our Educators
“Part of compensation is public esteem. When governors mock teachers as lazy, avaricious incompetents, they demean the profession and make it harder to attract the best and brightest. We should be elevating teachers, not throwing darts at them.” — Nicholas … Continue reading
Worst Hundredth Birthday Present Ever!
100 years ago at 29 Washington Place, New York, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames and down in history as the largest man-made disaster in New York until 9/11. The fire forced New York to see its most … Continue reading
Contra Carney
Well, the Wall Street Journal is publishing fawning, sickly articles about how right The Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney is, so The Busy Signal might as well take an abbreviated stab at making the opposite case. First, I ought to mention that … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Hayes, crony-ism, Labor, Milton Friedman, populism, Scott Walker, The Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin
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“Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!” 1968, 2011 and Revolutionary Solidarity
“Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy” —The Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man I have before me the wooden poster my parents gave … Continue reading