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Category Archives: Blogging
A Guide to Summer Reading for Incoming Students
As you (incoming student) prepare yourself to enter your fall semester at The La Follette School of Public Affairs, probably nothing can beat reading a few good policy books and keeping up with the news. However, you may also find … Continue reading
Interesting News From Elsewhere
Happy New Year! Welcome back! Best time waster: Damn You Auto Correct! Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight (Think Progress) How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company (Fletcher Reflections) 18 Deleted Comments … Continue reading
Interesting News from Elsewhere
Is Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” a good thing? Criminals might commit less crime if they just had more information about the laws. Justice Scalia doesn’t think that the Constitution prohibits bias against women. He needs to meet Ainsley … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Local, Madison, National, News, Politics, Supreme Court
Tagged crime, criminal justice, Edgewater, Equal Rights, Madison, Politics, Supreme Court, TIF
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Interesting News from Elsewhere: Obama edition
On September 28, 2010, President Barack Obama held a rally on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus. An estimated 26,000 people attended, including many La Follette students. We will have a few posts on La Flog about the rally, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Events, Local, Madison, National, News, The President, Wisconsin
Tagged Blogging, Events, Madison, News, President Obama
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Interesting News From Elsewhere
Glenn Greenwald laments the Democrats’ strategy for motivating the base and interviews Russ Feingold. Freakonomics: The Movie comes out on Friday, October 1. Photography Is Not a Crime has a lot of interesting stories about police disallowing people to videotape … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Economics, Ethics, National, News, Policy, Politics, Wisconsin
Tagged Economics, first amendment, photography, Politics, Taxes
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Interesting News From Elsewhere
It’s late, but a New York-based culture blog wrote a primary voting post for Wisconsin. Worth a read even though the primary is over. Aaron Rodgers gets an endorsement. Would you vote for Ron Johnson for $9? What about $9 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Economics, International, National, News, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged burka, campsign finance, Economics, France, international, primary, Wisconsin politics
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Bleeding Cool put together a collection of non-Ground Zero non-Mosque political cartoons. Americans believe all kinds of crazy things. It all seems like dog-whistle politics to me. Maybe the whole Tea Party isn’t bad, but this guy is. FAIR has … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, International, National, News, Politics
Tagged comics, conspiracy theories, gun violence, News, Politics
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Veep’s Viewpoint – 9/10/2010
The LSSA VP doesn’t have a lot of set duties. The person supports the president, handles policy roundtables, and now, manages La Flog. La Flog is growing quickly. We have a significantly larger staff and more buy-in from new students. … Continue reading
Interesting News from Elsewhere
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Congress, education, Ethics, News, Policy, Politics, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged education, global warming, government service, Jack London, New York Times, policy, Politics, progressives, racism, Tea Party, Wisconsin, Wisconsin politics
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Blog Recommendations – Madison
I did a Madison-based “Interesting News from Elsewhere” post awhile back, but I thought I would put up some of the best Madison blogs for incoming Bobs: Food Madison A to Z is probably my favorite Madison blog and a … Continue reading
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