By M.D. Kittle – the Republican majority on the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee early Tuesday morning passed dozens of bills aimed at protecting GOP limited-government reforms over the past eight years and limiting the powers of the incoming liberal governor and attorney general. Read More Budget Committee Takes Up ‘Extraordinary’ Bills Amid Protests, Dem Grandstanding
By M.D. Kittle – This week’s scheduled extraordinary session of the Legislature has Democrats feeling extraordinarily cranky, charging the Republican majority with everything from post-election “temper tantrums” to legislative power grabs. Read More Republicans Call Extraordinary Session To Protect Legacy Of Reforms
By Matt Kittle – The Republican governor’s limited-government policies were so anathema to their big-government religion that progressives launched a recall movement, the birth of the left’s national resistance movement, against him. They hated him so much that they readily endorsed a secret, unconstitutional “John Doe” investigation — one of the darkest chapters in Wisconsin history — into Walker, his campaign, and many of the center-right organizations in the state. But Walker and the conservative Legislature embraced the battle, and bested progressives at nearly every turn. Read More The Scott Walker Legacy: An Unprecedented Time of Reform and Taxpayer Victories
By M.D. Kittle – Tony Evers wants more money for government – a lot more. Just how Evers plans to fund it all remains a bit murky, but one thing is certain: Somebody would have to pay for the candidate’s government expansion plans. Read More Tony Evers’ Tax Increase Ideas: Shifting ‘Priorities’ Or ‘Recipe For Economic Disaster’?
By M.D. Kittle – While there has been a big political push to pass a $100 million bailout to keep two Kimberly-Clark plants open, the proposed deal has its critics from inside the northeast Wisconsin factories. Read More Kimberly-Clark Bailout Like ‘Legalized Extortion,’ Company Insider Says
Special Guest Perspective by Dan O’Donnell – Wisconsin has been what conservatism has always promised. Or, more accurately, Wisconsin has proven that only conservatism can fix the failed promises of liberalism. Read More The Wisconsin Promise
By M.D. Kittle – Big Labor is pushing its weight around again, this time filing an expensive lawsuit against a service-disabled, veteran-owned electrical contractor company. Read More Wisconsin Lawsuit Could Give Union Pension Fund Right To Private Non-Union Information
Here we recognize the best and the worst of the 2017-18 legislative session and the sometimes just plain weird personalities and bizarre developments that impacted the public policy debate here in Wisconsin. Read More 2018 MacIver End Of Session Awards
By M.D. Kittle – The abbreviated, election-year session featured some tremendous wins for conservatives, for taxpayers, for the free-market, for liberty at large. Read More 2017-2018 Legislative Session Wrap
By M.D. Kittle – It’s been a big week for liberty and limited government in the Legislature. Read More UPDATED: Liberty Legislation Wins And Losses This Session