Wisconsin’s self-described progressives cheer for poverty and despair in socialist Venezuela, roll out a plan to drag Wisconsin back in time ten years and transfer power to bureaucrats, and try to stop UW-Stevens Point from modernizing its majors programs. Team MacIver, joined by our favorite intern Abby Streu, discusses all of this and actual progress for conservative reforms. Read More The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week – Progressive Minus The Progress Part
What happens when a higher ed administrator shows fiscal responsibility and pragmatism? He gets pilloried by liberals, of course. Look no further than UW-Stevens Point, where administration there decided to overhaul and modernize their academic offerings, only to meet protesters demanding the nixed majors – majors with sagging interest among incoming students – be retained. Read More MacIver News Minute: Liberal Protesters Demand UW-Stevens Point Cancel Modernization Plan
Team MacIver busts its brackets trying to unravel the fast-moving Legislature over the past week, which is simultaneously passing conservative agenda items and stymying other good reforms. Also, why is Eric Holder obsessed with elections in Wisconsin? And why are liberals freaking out in Stevens Point? Team MacIver has answers. Read More The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week – March Madness in the Legislature
By Chris Rochester – A Facebook meme saying “socialism sucks” and accusations of racism were among the many reasons liberal student government leaders at UW-Stevens Point felt “targeted” enough to reject a conservative group’s request to become a student organization. Read More UPDATED: UW-Stevens Point Liberals Felt “Targeted” By Turning Point’s Free Market Positions
In the left’s war on free speech, common sense finally won when the UW-Stevens Point administration overturned the student government’s vote to reject Turning Point USA – a mainstream free market group – when conservative students petitioned to start a campus chapter. Read More MacIver News Minute: Common Sense, Free Speech Win at UW-Stevens Point