Dave Zweifel
Dave Zweifel is editor emeritus of The Madison Capital Times (WI).
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Views Saturday, March 23, 2013 Single-Payer Health Care Is Still Right Way To Go For the 11th straight year, Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers has introduced what he calls the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act to establish a universal, single-payer health care system in the United States similar to what exists in most developed countries throughout the world. Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 24, 2013 Crying Crocodile Tears for Standard & Poor’s Why do I get this vicarious feeling of delight whenever I read a headline like this: “States could add to S&P exposure.” That’s a Wall Street Journal headline on a story that reported that Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services could face a much higher legal bill than the $5 billion the federal government is seeking because several of the states are now deciding to join the battle against the credit-ratings firm. Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 26, 2013 Don’t Buy Lies About Social Security Let’s be brutally frank today: The claim by some of those Wall Street money changers and politicians like Wisconsin’s own Paul Ryan and many of his Republican colleagues that Social Security is contributing to the national debt and therefore needs to be “fixed” is nothing more than an outright lie. Read more |
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Views Friday, September 21, 2012 Is GE Part of Romney’s 47 Percent? I found myself asking earlier this week exactly who Mitt Romney is including in that 47 percent of Americans he says aren’t paying any income taxes and are expecting the government to take care of them. Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 26, 2012 Bankers' Profits Soar on Backs of Home Buyers Don't you just love the bankers? The worse things get, the more money they make. We're going through a period where interest rates on mortgages are at all-time low, which is good news for folks who are in a position to buy a home, but it turns out to be even better news for the big banks making most of those loans. Read more |
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Views Friday, March 09, 2012 Usual Suspects Are Beating Drum for Ill-Advised Attack on Iran It’s hard to believe, especially after the tragic decision to invade Iraq over nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, that the Republican candidates for president and even the Republican candidates for Wisconsin’s soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Tea Party Paranoia Shouldn’t Be Ignored People regularly send emails and letters telling me that I don’t understand the folks who call themselves members of some or another affiliate of the so-called tea party. Read more |
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Views Monday, February 27, 2012 More GOP Hypocrisy — This Time on Contraception In this day and age of dysfunctional politics, Americans don’t expect anything but hypocrisy from their elected officials. But, just for the record, here’s another example of political double talk that’s sweeping the nation. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Sad Email Underscores How GOP Divides Us My recent column suggesting that it’s time we stop demonizing public workers in Wisconsin generated a huge response from around the state. Many thanked me for writing it, others suggested I take a long walk off a short pier. One response, in particular, caught my attention. It came from a farm woman I’ll just refer to as Brenda and it expresses the frustration she feels about her and her family’s predicament, all of which doesn’t make her feel kindly about folks who work in public jobs. Here is what she said: Read more |
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Views Friday, January 27, 2012 What Citizens Can Do to Fight Citizens United One of the most asked questions in my email inbox is what can the people do to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision that declared corporations people and opened the floodgates to unlimited campaign spending. Read more |