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WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANN BRADLEY

When the Wisconsin State Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality Gov. Scott Walker’s curtailing public employee unions’ collective bargaining power by a 4-3 vote, Bradley was one of the dissenting justices. Bradley and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson retired to her office to write their dissenting opinion.

Justice David Prosser and two other justices of the majority opinion visited Bradley’s office to learn when the dissent would be ready so the entire court decision could be published. An argument ensued and Prosser told Abrahamson that he’d lost faith in her ability to lead the court.

Bradley said she ordered Prosser out of her office and that he responded by putting her in a “chokehold.” Bradley immediately filed a complaint against Prosser, demanded he attend anger management classes and called him to resign.

Aside from the issue of who leaded the incident to the press, is the fact that Bradley’s version apparently bears little resemblance to the truth.

A special prosecutor investigated the incident. It was learned that all witnesses stated that Bradley charged Prosser and two witnesses said she had her fists raised. Prosser put up his hands in defense and pushed her away. No one, except Bradley, said there was choking.

All the witnesses agreed that Bradley was the aggressor, not Prosser. Bradley explicitly accused Prosser of putting her in a chokehold, both in a press release an in her written complaint. A chokehold has a specific legal definition in Wisconsin and is a felony. As she is a supreme court justice, she presumably knows this. She also apparently knew enough that in the report to the police, she did not use the term “chokehold.” That would have constituted filing a false police report, also a felony.

The special prosecutor ruled there was no case against Prosser.

Justice Bradley should know that if she’s going to falsely accuse someone of a felony, don’t do it in front of witnesses, especially if they are state supreme court justices. Don’t fly into a rage and then demand others need anger management. Don’t call for another justice to step down from office for the very traits you yourself exhibited in front of witnesses.

In short,

WHAT A MAROON!

In honor of the great American philosopher Bugs Bunny who first coined the phrase, I've decided to present the "What a Maroon" award each week to the politician, organization or celebrity who makes the most sand-poundingly stupid statement of recent days.
In honor of the great American philosopher Bugs Bunny who first coined the phrase, I've decided to present the "What a Maroon" award each week to the politician, organization or celebrity who makes the most sand-poundingly stupid statement of recent days.

Bad Luck

President Obama is on a bus tour of America's heartland, explaining how his economic policies really are working, despite persistently high unemployment, a skyrocketing deficit and downgrade of the country's credit rating.

He told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa,

We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again. But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.

Bad luck. Hmmm. The late author Robert Heinlein had some thoughts on "bad luck."

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

Democratic Hypocrisy and the Debt Limit

I just love how Democrats and their progressive fellow travelers accuse Republicans of rank partisanship it the debt crisis. You see, Democrats have never shied away from playing politics with the debt limit.

Between 2000 and 2010, the Senate passed 10 increases to the debt limit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) opposed raising the limit whenever Republicans controlled the Senate, but supported it whenever Democrats were in the majority.

Guess what other Democratic pol also played partisan games with the debt limit. How about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois)? There were four votes raising the debt limit during his brief tenure in the Senate. He missed two of the votes, supported it when Democrats were in the majority and opposed it when Republicans ruled, stating that it was a "failure of leadership.

Byron York has more on the Democrats hypocritical record of putting partisan politics before country.

Tribute to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of my personal heroes is Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Nobel prize winner not only told the truth about communist tyranny, but was willing to suffer the consequences for speaking out against the regime.

One of my favorite musical groups, Renaissance, performed a number, “Mother Russia” dedicated to this freedom fighter.

Contemptible Bill Maher

I don't like Bill Maher. I don't find him funny. I do find him contemptible.

Apparently, so does comedian Steven Crowder.

The ‘What A Maroon’ Award

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CONTESSA BREWER

MSNBC anchor Brewer was hoisted by her own petard during an interview with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama). They were discussing the economy and whether President Obama’s spending policies averted a depression.

Brooks disputed her contention about a depression, which led to this exchange.

According to the former KMIR news anchor’s official MSNBC biography, Brewer has a baccalaureate in broadcast journalism (cum laude) and Certificate of Contemporary Europe from Syracuse University. Nowhere does it mention that Brewer, unlike Brooks, has a degree in economics.

Any lawyer will tell you to never ask a question when you don’t know the answer. But Brewer is no lawyer. She claims to be a journalist, but violated one of the most basic rules of journalism — Do Your Homework!

She was obviously unaware of Brook’s credentials. A one-minute glance at Brook’s Congressional website would have told her what she needed to know. Basic research is Journalism 101. This cum laude grad must have missed that class.

WHAT A MAROON!

In honor of the great American philosopher Bugs Bunny who first coined the phrase, I’ve decided to present the “What a Maroon” award each week to the politician, organization or celebrity who makes the most sand-poundingly stupid statement of recent days.

Happy 235th, America!