By M.D. Kittle

[Madison, Wis...] Nic Ruffi, at the age of 12, has already learned what entrepreneurs everywhere know: Stifling regulation stops start-ups.

The Wausau tween wanted to do something more with his summer vacation than play video games and hang out. He wanted a job. He wanted to make money.

The answer: ice cream. Nic planned to sell frozen sweet treats on his three-wheeled bicycle.

His parents, owners of Ruffi Law Offices in Wausau, decided to check in with the regulators first before Nic proceeded with his ice cream American Dream. For his troubles, the would-be entrepreneur received a thick commercial vendor registration packet, replete with various rules and regulations. Nic would have to have his bicycle and his ice cream cooler inspected by the city health department, a $60 fee, and pay a permit fee - $75 for six months, $100 for a year.

But in order to get the permit, Nic's parents would have to take out an insurance policy for $1 million in liability, at a premium cost of $500. And the city required it be named as an additional insured party on the policy. Apparently the city was concerned about the possible carnage caused by a kid selling Fudgsicles from the back of his bike. Full Story....Here

By Hans Fiene

To feed their addiction, outrage addicts have embraced the following idiotic syllogism: ˜I am mad at people who say X. I am mad at you. Therefore you said X.

When James Damore wrote his ten-page memo criticizing Googles ideological echo chamber, he didn't argue that every woman's uterus makes her incapable of chairing board of directors meetings or writing code. He argued that, in general, women prefer to avoid high-stress jobs and solitary positions. In other words, he argued that the reason Google doesn't have an even male-female split in leadership and tech jobs is because, by and large, women don't want those jobs.

After Gizmodo leaked Damore's memo, numerous voices in the media began twisting his words. He said women may be genetically unsuited for tech jobs, barked the Washington Post. That guy didn't want any women near a computer, proclaimed CNN. When Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally addressed the controversy, he stated, to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not okay. Quite simply, Google fired Damore not for what he said, but for what the media claimed he said. Full Story....Here

• Everybody knows by now that President Trump is a fascist. He's a Nazi just like the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12. We know this because the mainstream media, a host of dimwit celebrities, various Democratic politicians and the highly reputable Antifa tell us he is.

  What we really know, though, is these groups don't know anything except how to shriek louder and longer than everyone else. A few also well know how to break other people's property and set things that don't belong to them on fire. But they don't know their history, and therefore don't know what they're talking about.

  But we're here to help them out, so let's make some comparisons. Full Story....Here

 Thomas Lifson

President Trump continues to receive scorn over his assertion last year that vote fraud accounted for Hillary Clinton's raw vote majority.  Democrats and their shills are unanimous in denouncing the "false claims."  (The Amazon Washington Post recently called it a "zombie claim.")  When the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was announced, it was denounced as a waste, an attempt to intimidate minorities, and a scheme to violate privacy, which has caused states to refuse to release public data requested by the commission.  Its investigator, J. Christian Adams, is being vilified. Even Republicans expressed reluctance to Politico over the investigation.

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They really, really don't want anyone looking closely at vote fraud.  They claim there is none of any significance.

That must be why this report from Chicago City Wire has been so thoroughly ignored by the mainstream media:

Full Story....Here

Wrapped around a brick, a missive from Sen. Tammy Baldwin came crashing through the transom here the Stately Manor, informing the Squire and his minions that working families in Wisconsin and across the country are getting a raw deal.

If it wasn't for Tammy and the Democrats (now playing at a chi-chi cabaret near you) how would the average Squire and his white lab-coated assistants ever realize how royally screwed we are being? (Forgive the sin tax.)

The stock market is up 11.5% since January 1. Unemployment is the lowest in 16 years. Inflation is negligible. And Scott Walker is bringing 3,000 to 13,000 jobs to Wisconsin. Oh the Humanity! Full Story....Here

By A.J. Hutson

For the insurance industry, a truly wonderful thing happened in the late 1970s. It was called stagflation 

The stagflation of the late 1970s/early 1980s was a period of  stagnant recessionary economy plagued with high unemployment and alarmingly high interest rates. It was an unplanned hardship for the country and its working people. But it was a boon for most insurance companies.

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The new players would actually benefit from increasing regulation because as market premiums went up, so did the funds available to generate investment income. And so the health insurance industry was both a primary cause and a primary beneficiary of the system we have today. Full Story....Here

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, well-known for his theory of moral foundations, argues that one of the most effective ways to sway an ideological counterpart to your side is to speak their moral language. He asserts that liberals and conservatives respond more favorably to arguments that appeal to specific virtues: The latter are more sympathetic to loyalty-based arguments while the former prefer fairness-based arguments. It's a useful way to understand our fellow man, but in the debate over school choice, the stubborn appeal to fairness can hold back the cause of badly needed reform.

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There is a critical difference between school choice and most welfare programs. Social-welfare programs are redistributive  taking from those of means and giving to those without. School-choice programs are different. In their purest form, they take money that is earmarked for a student in a public school and transfer it to an alternative private school that the students parents believe will provide a better education. The money is spent regardless of where a students parents decide to send him to school. Full Story....Here