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							<title><![CDATA[A Good Week for Wisconsin]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So the state's deficit is fixed, its finances are honest for the first time in about a decade, public services are trimmed but not decimated and no taxpayers were skinned to make it happen. All in all, it's been a good week for Wisconsin, especially its hard-pressed, middle-class...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Kohl Out, Wisconsin Is Wide Open in 2012]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin's senior senator just made Barack Obama's life more exciting.
Wisconsin will be the site of a scramble in 2012 for a U.S. Senate seat occupied for 24 years by one undefeated man, which is exciting enough. What's more, that man -- who on Friday declared he will not run again --...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Mistook the Change You Voted For]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of course it's payback that Wisconsin got snubbed when the Obama  administration divvied up $2 billion in train booty. Wisconsin said no  to the administration's grander, gauzier rail dreams, embarrassing the  president, so of course Wisconsin gets nothing now. This is how things  work....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unions Started the Wisconsin 'War']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA["This is war," panted Michael Moore, the left-wing propagandist,  after Gov. Scott Walker's limits on government unions' power passed the  Senate. Moore sounded eager.And he's right. It is war. But look at who's fighting whom.The unions  say they're the target because Walker demanded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Already Rifled the Deep Pockets]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin is $3.6 billion worse than broke next budget, and unions don't much like Gov. Scott Walker's cure, a central part of which is cut their dreamy benefits and restrain their power to bargain them still higher.
But the teachers largely went home this past week, leaving the Capitol...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's Governor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/19/the_ghost_of_fdr_is_smiling_on_wisconsins_governor_108962.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Somewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder at Wisconsin's governor. They are on the same page regarding government unions.
Except that Scott Walker -- Republican cheapskate, his visage Hitlerized on signs waved by beet-faced union crowds besieging the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Unions Have Too Much Control]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker's move to rein in  government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few  days should have cleared that up nicely.The  public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an  inadvertent message for the rest of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Aggression in the Midwest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/21/competition_destroys_systems_of_coercion_108613.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's what "aggressive" looks like in the upper Midwest. Wisconsin having switched governors, the signs at its border that bear the old guy's name are being replaced. Rather than saying that now Gov. Scott Walker welcomes you, the new signs read simply, "Open for business."
Wow. Release...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trains of the Future, Politics of the Kennel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/19/trains_of_the_future_politics_of_the_kennel_108006.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[High-speed rail, say its backers, shall zip the nation into the future, but for now it's producing flashbacks to, say, the elementary school lunchroom -- as in very large kids reaching across the table to grab your dessert.
That's because the Obama administration is relying on voters'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare: Still Poison in 2012]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Repeal-minded though Republicans are, it'll be practically impossible for them to dismantle Obamacare, analysts were saying Wednesday. True enough: The coming mandates and micromanaging are now law, which takes two houses of Congress and a president's signature to undo.But how much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs Duplicates of Chris Christie]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They speak a different language in New Jersey, really. New Jersey's governor, Chris Christie, stopped by Waukesha the other day to stump for Wisconsin's Republican candidate for governor, Scott Walker, and he was explaining the value of being direct when negotiating with political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin's Rail Dream is a Spending Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/wisconsins_rail_dream_is_a_spending_nightmare_107012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, about to retire, really wants his state to dive into the passenger-train swamp. He wants it so badly, he's throwing $300 million into the murk in hopes the state's next governor feels duty-bound to chase it.
This matters outside Wisconsin. It's your money, for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Comes to Wisconsin, Feingold Disappears]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/05/obama_comes_to_wisconsin_feingold_disappears_107024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's spending Labor Day afternoon in Milwaukee at an annual union festival. It's quite a party: Parade organizers were still looking for volunteers to help carry the giant protest puppets of the Earth Goddess and such. Pity, then, that Russ Feingold, the incumbent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Marriage Ruling is All About You]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's look at how the gay-marriage thing in California has unfolded so far:The state&rsquo;s Supreme Court in 2008, on a one-vote margin, decides to  redefine marriage to dump one key parameter that had always and  everywhere in human history been part of marriage: that it be between ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Marquette Free to be Catholic?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about Marquette University's latest storm and stress is that anyone's surprised by it.The Catholic university hired as a dean a scholar whose work flies as fast as it can from the church's understanding of sex and marriage. People are shocked at this hire. Those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obey Tilled Soil for a GOP Successor]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Sean Duffy does win northwestern Wisconsin's seat in Congress, he owes David Obey a thank you card.Obey, four decades in Congress and justly termed "liberal titan" in headlines, laid the groundwork for a Republican to win the seat.Not that it's a gimme. The Republicans need an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Shock is Just Start for Obamacare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Asked a question last week - whether it was wise to raise taxes in a recession - the president found himself stumble-running down a mountainside of words.Barack Obama went on for 17 minutes and 14 seconds, twice apologizing for rambling even as he plunged helplessly on. Along the way, he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Russ Feingold Survive?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russ Feingold, seeking a fourth U.S. Senate term out of Wisconsin, is by now a habit. His state wears him almost unconsciously, the way a rattling old Tercel in front of me at a traffic light still bore its "Feingold in '04" bumper sticker.
Next to the Feingold sticker was one promoting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dishonest Process Fits Bill Sold By Deceit]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsToday, perhaps by the time you read this, Congress may have voted in a way that both saddles us with Obamacare and lets House members deny they did so.Congress planned to resort to this trick,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Last Thing They Want is 'Voluntary']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsThe reason Rep. Paul Ryan is all wrong on saving the country from insolvency, say Democrats, is health care for old people. The Janesville Republican wants to replace Medicare, they say, by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shifting Terrain: Feingold Beatable?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/83069472.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsTed Kanavas, who last week said that he won't run for re-election to the state Senate, also says he's not just clearing his schedule to run against U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.People have mentioned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Be a Listener, Not a Fighter]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsOur president won't stop fighting, he swore last week, until jobs reappear, mortgages bob to the surface, children learn, life is fair and health care . . . well, especially until something...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare vs. Middle Class]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsSen. Russ Feingold deserves credit for showing up Monday before a room in Pewaukee packed with hundreds of . . .  well, Obamacare skeptics (and, by actual count, maybe a dozen fans).The senator...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Gets in the Way of ObamaCare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dan Zeidler is feeling, well, not disappointed in Sen. Herb Kohl. He sounds like he's straining really hard not to be disappointed.Zeidler, who lives in Wauwatosa, is a pro-life activist, mainly with Latin American human rights groups. He showed up at Marquette University in September,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We'll Cover Everyone by Covering Less?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now, said the Senate to us sheep, we'll do health care this way: No public option. Just a, um, public option.Senate Democrats' leaders, looking to pass something, on Tuesday night dropped the notion of a government-run health plan. Too many of their less liberal members recognized a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Your New Daddy: Uncle Sam]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsThe health care scheme that squeaked through the House of Representatives will load great new costs on people. But wait until you find out about what you get in return: a new dad.First the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Keynes is Still Messing Up Your Life]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick McIlheran</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Latest entries from editorial columnist Patrick McIlheran's blog, Right On.View All Blog PostsWe are all Keynesians now, Richard Nixon is said to have said. Too true, says Hunter Lewis, who's got a new book on how the famous British economist is still messing with your life.And he is. We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judicial Liberalism Lost Big This Week]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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