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This should put an end to any stories that Big Labor, the Democratic Party and other left wing organizations aren't going all out to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, the organization that for months has been tracking the financial contributions of these groups through their Big Labor Big Money Matrix, today published the Liberal Mobilization Matrix. The Mobilization Matrix tracks the grassroots activities of more than fifty state, national and liberal organizations who are active in Wisconsin in the days leading up to the June 5th election. From phone banking, to get...

Democracy isn’t always pretty. Look no further than the nasty business surrounding Wisconsin’s recall campaigns for daily proof. The Kenosha teacher harassed and ostracized simply because she supports a governor that many of her peers don’t. Or the West Bend man charged with election fraud after allegedly trying to scribble out the names of recall petition signers in a reported burst of anger. Then there is, to many observers, the general childish behavior of lawmakers so swept up in partisan politics that they’ve forgotten that they’re in Madison to do the people’s business. There are a lot of people in...

Click on map for interactive descriptions of the widespread hate and violence of the #occupy movement.

Three-minute video synopsis of today's events in the Wisconsin State Senate. Begins with the joint committee meeting where Democrat members of the Assembly try to shout down the chair, and then the vote on the revised reform bill, with fiscal portions taken out.

After spending several days complaining about Governor Walker’s proposed compensation changes for state employees (as if a 100 percent match on pension contributions and picking up 87 percent of health insurance premiums were raw deals) the union operatives have shifted gears. “It’s about rights, not pay,” is their new mantra. Organized government employee unions are expressing panic over their would-be inability to negotiate items other than pay. They are specifically troubled at the prospect of no longer being able to dictate work rules, engage in union activities during the work week or participate in negotiated procedures to mitigate their grievances...