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Just who is behind Wisconsin for Falk, and how independent is that group from the Falk campaign, the Journal Sentinel asks in a Dan Bice column splashed across the top of page one this morning.

Is anyone is shocked to find that unions are supporting Falk, or that political operatives move from state to state to work on campaigns?  If so, don't admit it or someone will put you in the corner with a dunce cap.

It's a little ironic to read that when Scott Walker has been flying around the country since November, scooping up right-wing money by the millions for his campaign, while a series of right wing groups "independently" run millions of dollars worth of TV advertising on his behalf.

So it was a 1.5 magnitude earthquake, not an alien invasion or giant gophers, that's been making those mysterious noises in Clintonville, we're told.

Well and good. Let's hope those microquakes stop.

And let's hope this also means that Wisconsin's Wolf River Batholith (the purple area on the map) will come off the list of potential radioactive waste sites once and for all.

Read some of them at The Paul Ryan Watch.

A former Wisconsin congressman running for U.S. Senate has an unusual running mate by his side on the campaign trail.

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann held a small pink pig named Mr. Favors as he spoke in Milwaukee on Monday. -- AP.

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Pegged to the release of Paul Ryan's new budget this week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will launch a new paid and grassroots campaign today called "Medicare March" in 41 Republican districts.

Penny-pinching Paul Ryan is so worried about government spending that he's spent some of your hard-earned money on this political video to push the Republican agenda and attack President Obama and the Democrats.

More at The Paul Ryan Watch.

A year after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused a major disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors, it’s almost business as usual for the US nuclear industry, which remains bullish about its prospects to expand and build more reactors.

In Wisconsin, home to three of the nation’s oldest reactors, with two more just across the Mississippi River in Minnesota, that may pose serious risks to the environment, the economy, and to human health.  

The Koch brothers have gotten more than their share of attention in Wisconsin during the past year of turmoil, but there's another billionaire, with Wisconsin ties, who also loves Scott Walker and is quite capable of investing heavily in keeping Walker in the governor's office.  He gave Walker $100,000 on Nov. 16, the first day the limit on donations was off for the recall. But that could be just the down payment.

He's Foster Friess, Rick Santorum's sugar daddy, who has contributed more than $1-million to the Red, White and Blue super PAC keeping Santorum's campaign alive. Friess is also the guy who recently suggested women put an aspirin between their knees as a birth control method.