Earlier this year, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) helped embed that state on the watch list of most national political pundits when he took on public-employee unions. More accurately, it was HOW he did it that seemed to make  the difference. In what he now admits was a brash and...

Independence Day marks the beginning of a new season for the polling trolls at We Ask America, and we begin with a statewide approval poll on President Barack Obama in his home state (and ours), Illinois. Around here, any approval poll of the president has as it’s main focus one primary...