• The problem is not the funding formula!

    Tonight the Milwaukee Public Schools board met to discuss the possibility of dissolving the district. The consensus is that they can’t do it. But the sheer ignorance is stunning. The sound bytes from board members went like this: “The problem […]

  • Somebody please check Henry Paulson

    This whole “bailout” of the financial sector bothers me. It bothers me that as a taxpayer, I will be on the hook for a nice chunk of the $500 billion to $1 trillion that this will cost. (And the way […]

  • Bailout to Include Consumer Debt?

    The Wall Street bailout, publicly estimated to cost taxpayers somewhere between $700 billion and $1 trillion or more, could end up to be bigger than we ever imagined. Now added to the bailout plan: student loans, auto loans, credit card […]

  • Would You Sleep on a Wet Mattress for 59 Days for $295,000?

    How much money would it take for you to agree to sleep on a wet matress for 59 days?  The mattress keeps getting wet over the 59 days, so it gets a little moldy and a little smelly. But would […]

  • The End of Life As We Know It

    We now have a Socialist marketplace. I thought that the Democrats were the ones who would lead us there, but I was wrong. It is a Republican administration that has taken us down this road to ruin. No longer does […]

  • Dissolve MPS? Yes, please!

    Late this past week, the Milwaukee Public Schools board voted 6 to 3 in favor of “examining” the possibility of dissolving the district. This would be a sort of bankruptcy situation, and basically that is where the district is headed […]

  • The Financial Crisis: No Downside for Executives Who Have Been Paid Millions

    It’s easy to blame short sellers for troubles in the stock market. After all, they make money when a stock’s price goes down. That’s bad, right? No, not really. It’s no worse than the longs holding stock and hoping a […]

  • Laptop Computer Searches: Homeland Security Good, Foreign Governments Bad

    Mike Masnick at Tech Dirt alerts us to a very important development in the U.S. Government’s continued searching of laptop computers at the borders. (They might even take away your computer or Blackberry or other computerized device!) Travelers have had […]

  • Wauwatosa Teachers Doing Less Because They Got a Raise

    You read that correctly. Wauwatosa, WI teachers are upset that they got an across the board 3.8% increase, so they’re doing less around the schools. Did you get a raise this year? How much was it? I’d put money on […]

  • The editing of the ABC Sarah Palin interview

    I watched Charles Gibson interview Governor Sarah Palin with great interest. Yes, I thought he was hard on her, and I wondered how hard he has been on other candidates. (Turns out not hard at all, when you compare the […]