Patrick McIlheran
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Happily advancing freedom & opportunity at @BadgerInstitute. AMDG. Reposts do not mean endorsement. My views are mine; blame no one else for them.
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Joined July 2011
You didn't do that. A generation of actual scientists years ago did that. Your generation of "scientists" became political hacks who cared more for fame, power, politics and entertainment than science. -"Two weeks to stop the spread"? -"Wuhan wet market"? -"The lockdowns can
We cured polio. We wiped out smallpox. We built the modern world. And somehow the dumbest contagion of all became people rejecting science. History is going to laugh at this era.
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Milwaukee’s bus system is in fiscal crisis, and taxpayers are going to be asked to help. Wisconsin taxpayers, then, can ask why officials are spending anything at all on a giant toy that, compared to a bus, costs nearly four times as much per passenger. https://t.co/nKtL28F80t
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Badger Institute : Money wasted on Hop while bus access for people who really need it is at risk Milwaukee County’s bus network has swerved back from the fiscal brink, one
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Enrollment in Wisconsin tech colleges is booming. In comparison, enrollment has gone the other way, if only slightly, in the University of Wisconsin System. https://t.co/mPjvkbqDDJ
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Badger Institute : While undergraduate enrollment in most University of Wisconsin System schools trends downward, there has been a dramatic increase in students choosing the state’s technical colle...
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As soon as government helps pay for something the price explodes. Heaven help the taxpayer if they make it "free."
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If Milwaukee’s buses carrying students to school and strivers to earn a living are in fiscal crisis, why is the very same community spending $19 a ride to tote the well-heeled around downtown, and at no fare? https://t.co/nKtL28FFQ1
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Badger Institute : Money wasted on Hop while bus access for people who really need it is at risk Milwaukee County’s bus network has swerved back from the fiscal brink, one
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If the agency is failing its duties to students, parents, teachers’ employers, and taxpayers, the question becomes: Who is served by keeping so much control of education out of the hands of Wisconsin communities and in the bungling hands of the DPI? https://t.co/rtXU9bA9aS
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Badger Institute : The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is facing a crisis of confidence after accusations of gutting academic standards, manipulating report cards, slacking on fiscal...
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How many Wisconsinites are licensed to drive? More than ever before: https://t.co/fE3k8Jmx6X
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The number of licensed drivers in Wisconsin has risen from 1.76 million in 1949 to 4.4 million in 2023, the most recent year in the U.S. Department of Transportation Statistics’ figures.
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For years, the Left called working-class Americans racist for the crime of opposing mass migration and their own disinheritance. The Minnesota Somali fraud is this on steroids: Fraudsters literally threatened to call Minnesotans racist if they dared object to being stolen from.
A group of Somalis in MN stole a billion dollars they said was for feeding kids. They spent it on luxury cars and property overseas. Liberal news channels wouldn't even cover it until they could portray the Somalis as the victims of how President Trump talked about the scandal.
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Madison’s dream of a city-owned grocery store isn’t an example for other places so much as it is a warning. https://t.co/luMPUBNDV9
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Badger Institute : Plans for a municipally-owned grocery store in Madison is the perfect illustration of why government should stay out of an intensely competitive business it knows nothing about.
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Should Devil’s Lake have a legal right to “flourish” and “evolve”? Should you forfeit $1,000 if someone — anyone — convinces a court you’ve done something — anything — to impair that right? That’s what some Wisconsin Democrats propose. https://t.co/hpF57CUxRa
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Badger Institute : Assembly Democrats intend to introduce a bill to grant Devil’s Lake State Park legal rights, as if it weren’t a set of inanimate rocks, water, trees and lichens.
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There is a growing recognition from California to Montana to Washington that government regulation can stifle home construction and affordability, said one expert. “But too often they only free the market for affordable housing.” “That’s a problem.” https://t.co/dvGT3D0a4G
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Badger Institute : The dire need for more houses in America has even regulation heavy cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Minneapolis and St. Paul streamlining rules — and providing a playbook...
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Wisconsin’s state schools regulator has suffered a series of scandals, from lowered standards to botched fiscal oversight to concealing teacher misconduct. It raises anew the question: Who is the Department of Public Instruction serving, anyhow? https://t.co/rtXU9bA9aS
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Badger Institute : The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is facing a crisis of confidence after accusations of gutting academic standards, manipulating report cards, slacking on fiscal...
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Since public transportation is so fiscally squeezed, taxpayers can ask why any of Milwaukee’s capacity to fund it is being whizzed away on something that isn’t transportation so much as an agent of mystical change. https://t.co/nKtL28FFQ1
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Badger Institute : Money wasted on Hop while bus access for people who really need it is at risk Milwaukee County’s bus network has swerved back from the fiscal brink, one
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The average Wisconsin taxpayer will pay $3,183 less in taxes in 2026 due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act going into effect next year, analysis by the Tax Foundation shows. https://t.co/cwYNwtwEqC
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The average Wisconsin taxpayer will pay $3,183 less in taxes in 2026 due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act going into effect next year, analysis by the Tax Foundation shows.
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Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia, an illegal alien from Honduras, is being charged with attempted first-degree murder after he stabbed a victim with a large knife on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. ICE lodged a detainer to ensure this criminal illegal is not released back
“Another stabbing by an Illegal Migrant in Charlotte, North Carolina. What’s going on in Charlotte? Democrats are destroying it, like everything else, piece by piece!!!” - President Donald J. Trump
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The EU says it wants "transparency." In reality, its agenda requires secrecy. The EU demonizes the West for colonialism and climate change; it thus seeks to destroy it through de-industrialization and mass migration. Free speech on X stands in the way of civilization suicide.
Europe’s €140M fine on X isn’t censorship, it claims. But it is. Europe is pursuing the same censorship-by-proxy strategy used in the US from 2020 - 22. The reason is that free speech on X, particularly around mass migration, has exposed Europe’s civilizational suicide.
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Yes Admiral… killing two narco-terrorists is equal to Imperial Germany sinking hospital ships and ocean liners. Worse than the Japanese destroyer Akikaze murdering infants and clergy. Worse than Japanese ships rescuing downed US airmen and Merchant Mariners just to torture and
Killing survivors clinging to a wrecked boat 2 hours after the initial strike puts Trump's war machine on equal footing with history's most blatant war criminals.
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Fact Check: There are no books that cannot be legally owned or sold in the United States. There is no such thing as a "banned book."
23,000 books are currently banned in the US. Many of them are banned based on a single complaint from a parent of a school student who doesn’t like something in the book. But JD fucking Vance et al. are lecturing Europe about freedom of speech.
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“So what state did you land in first of all?” “Kansas, of all places. It was like boot camp. … Anyone who … has ever visited Kansas, they will know what I’m talking about. It’s just a lot to deal with as a person of color.” As a “person of color” whose family came to rural
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