Best-paying summer jobs

The boring ones pay more to attract sunshine-forgoing workers.

Via Best-Paying Summer Jobs @ Brookfield Patch.

Lake Geneva’s Beautiful

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Why, yes, it is.

More photos, equally lovely, via Images of Lake Geneva @ Wisconsin Happy Farm.

Mike Tate’s running again as WisDems chair

Incumbent Tate wants another term, but he’s not telling how much he makes, where the election will be held, or when’s the filing deadline for other candidates.

Via A second Party @ GarveyBlog.

An anniversary and farewell

Boots and Sabers celebrates a decade, and Owen says farewell.

Via Decade @ Boots and Sabers.

IRS officials targeting conservative groups had more than zeal for motivation

There were bonuses, too.

Via Bonus Pay for Harassing Conservatives? Mere Coincidence @ Dad29.

Scott Walker’s dubious record of fiscal conservatism

Big-government Republicanism lies beneath.

Via MURPHY’S LAW The Not-So Fiscally Conservative Governor @ Murphy’s Law.

Friday Catblogging: Five Doors Later

Southern Wisconsin Faces Black Bear Invasion

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Via DNR: Bear with us @ Wisconsin Happy Farm.

Wisconsin’s netted about 62,000 jobs since Gov. Walker took office

That’s job-creation at only half the pace required to meet his 250,000-job, first-term goal.

Via New Numbers Put Walker Jobs’ Fail Again On Full Display @ The Political Environment.

The IRS unfair targeted the Tea Party movement’s applications for tax-exempt status

Now the Tea Party has a chance to make lemonade from those lemons.

Via Rebooting the Tea Party @ Althouse.

A Naked Paranoia Grips Brookfield

Tsk, tsk, tsk: In a world of serial killers, mudslides, and North Korean bluster, Brookfield officials are beside themselves over sometimes-naked teenagers playing with Nerf guns.

Via ‘Paranoia’ Runs Buck Wild in Brookfield @ Brookfield Patch.

New Insect Species Head for Wisconsin

Watch New Insects on the Horizon Thanks to Climate Change on PBS. See more from The Wisconsin Gardener.

Is Madison Mayor Soglin evil?

If boycotts by government should prove evil, then Mistaken Blaska thinks it’s Evil Soglin.

Via Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evil @ Bring It!.

Walmart doesn’t always get its way

It certainly didn’t prevail in Caledonia, after an ad hoc group took ninety minutes of testimony.

Via Caledonia Walmart Plans Take a Hit @ Caledonia Patch.

About that national sheriff’s award…

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke won an award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. He’s neglected to mention that that group’s primary focus isn’t conventional law enforcement, but finding supposed traitors to freedom within their members’ communities.

Via Sideshow Clarke @ Cognitive Dissidence.

Looking at Gov. Walker’s jobs promise

It all starts of so very confidently…

“[E]very initiative that’s undertaken and every program that’s administered will be examined for its effect on jobs. Every decision must be considered in the context of what it means for job creation and economic recovery.”

Via Scott Walker’s Broken Promises @ MAL Contends….

More where he came from

Convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell may not be the only abortionist in America who killed live babies. There may be another in Texas.

Via Gosnell II, Texas Edition @ Dad29.

Coming to a Garden Near You: New and Stronger Weeds

Watch New Weeds from the South on PBS. See more from The Wisconsin Gardener.

Gov. Walker defends free speech

Scott Walker’s vociferously blasted selective IRS scrutiny of conservative groups across America. His record on free speech within Wisconsin isn’t equally zealous.

Via Scott Walker: Defender of Free Speech! (Not Applicable in the State of Wisconsin) @ Cognitive Dissidence.

Public Records on the Milwaukee County Board-Downsizing

Hundreds of documents revealing “where it was really devised, who exactly is pushing it, how are they pushing it and why.”

Via Releasing Milwaukee County & AB 85 Related Records @ Eye on Wisconsin.