Last night Senate Wisconsin Republicans removed the money from the anti union bill to pass it with a simple majority, 18 to 1.
Union members protested in the halls of the Capitol through the night. The people of Wisconsin VOTED for this crap last November. Perhaps this will be a lesson learned all across America. Are we going with Joe Hill or the Koch Brothers. Wisconsin Senate passes union curbs as protesters rally
At the top of social media trend topics this morning are Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world, the Dali Lama is retiring to become a simple monk and Kate Moss smoked a cigarette on a fashion runway in Paris on no smoking day!
Columnist Gail Collins takes a look at Republican state legislatures passing bills to carry weapons without permits, to carry weapons into bars, and even one Republcian submitting a bill that every adult be required to own a gun. School of Glock
In opposite of the trend news, Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has abolished the state’s death penalty. If this trend goes on someday soon all states but 13 will have abolished executions. You know which 13 I am talking about. Illinois becomes 16th state to abolish death penalty
NPR has fired Ronald Schiller for telling the truth about the Tea Baggers and also fired Executive Director of NPR Vivian Schiller for allowing it to happen. For over 30 years the GOP has been thirsting to destroy both NPR and PBS because both are free from having to disseminate corporate and conservative propaganda. This is sure to destroy federal funding which will not only make the media in many rural areas 100% (as opposed to 95%) Right-wing swill, but move the whole shebang to the corporate Right. Resignation Comes at Sensitive Time for NPR