Back in 2008, one brave lone American tried to make Matthew Vadum famous for his views. But do you know who Matthew Vadum is? Perhaps you do not! You are not even following his rude Twitter. Here's something Matthew Vadum wrote this week: READ MORE

Yesterday, President Obama held a live chat session on Twitter. Billed as a "townhall," the President spent an hour fielding questions from Twitter users about the state of the nation. It was a magnificent stunt in which the greatest beneficiaries were Twitter itself and amateur comedians. READ MORE

"The Wisconsin phone center is open," said Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips in his opening remarks on Saturday, just before conservative speakers Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann addressed the attendees of the RightOnline conference. Before turning it over to the headliners, Phillips further encouraged the crowd of 1500 to "take a break during some point in the day" and "go over and look at the script, try a couple." READ MORE

The last time gas prices spiked over $4 per gallon, the Tea Party exploded with rage against the sitting president, hanging the totality of the blame on his administration. Of course, by "exploded with rage," I mean "didn't exist." READ MORE

The simple rhetoric of the Wisconsin budget battle is that the Democrats are just "thug" unions—and that Republicans are carrying water for wealthy corporate sleaze. It's more complicated than that. For one, several teachers' unions endorsed Wisconsin Republicans last year—unions are hardly the unthinking automatons of the left they're now depicted to be. Why would they do that? Quite simply, those Republicans looked into the face of their constituents... and lied. READ MORE

Vicki McKenna is a conservative radio talk show host for Madison's WISN and WIBA. You can see her here on her personal website, tastefully and patriotically wrapped in an American flag.

Every day, McKenna's program calls her "a voice of reason in a city of chaos." Madison. Madison, Wisconsin! "A city of chaos." She's one of the star conservative voices in the region. Michelle Malkin endorses her as "The only voice we have in Madison."

The recent protests against Governor Scott Walker's proposal to bust up the pubic service unions has McKenna in a frenzy. Just before tweeting "FIRE THEM ALL" as a response to the teachers who have called in sick to protest, McKenna posted this little bit of news on her Facebook page: "LIBERALS CALLING TO ASSASSINATE SCOTT WALKER?!!"

The totality of McKenna's post reads "Posting on facebook today: OK, If you knew what a royal pain Walker was going to be...Would you have arrange a nice slow convertible ride for him while he was in Dallas? Is there a book depository in Madison?" [sic, all of it] No source is given.

Many of her Facebook followers immediately responded to the note. Jerry Smythe wrote, "This is sad but not unexpected. All too typical of the tactics of the left. Conservatives must always treat them with respect. They treat their political enemies any way they want with seeming impunity."

McKenna is suggesting that somebody posted the following Kennedy assassination comparison comment on Facebook. And that is true that somebody did post that on Facebook earlier. That person was Vicki McKenna. Thirteen hours earlier, as a comment on one of her own earlier posts about the protests, McKenna wrote: "this is nice, just got this sent to me: 'OK, If you knew what a royal pain Walker was going to be... Would you have arrange a nice slow convertible ride for him while he was in Dallas? Is there a book depository in Madison?'"

Conservative talk show host posts unsourced claim about assassinating Governor Walker in a comment thread on her own Facebook page. Half a day later, she finds the comment and is so outraged that she puts together a Facebook post about how liberal Facebookers are calling for the assassinating of Governor Walker. PRESTO! NEWS!

Even better, later on in her own post, McKenna follows up with a highly ironic question: "can you all imagine if i had put something like that up on a FB post?!!! my god, the headlines would be screaming: RIGHT WING RADIO HOST CALLS FOR LIBERAL ASSASSINATIONS! police would be alerted. i'd probably be arrested."

McKenna found her discovery so important that she tweeted a link to the page as well.

After several tries, we finally reached McKenna. She responded to our questions about the source, writing only that "it was a post from a friend" and that "no, i don;t have a link." McKenna added: "as a former reporter, i am interested to know how you conceive this as a news story, though?"

Meanwhile, right now, thousands more students and protestors are marching up State Street—quite peacefully.

McKenna's slanderous assassination accusation comes amidst rumors that Walker's GOP backing is beginning to have second thoughts about the bill. Not Walker, who, in the face of even bigger protests today, spoke to Fox News, reiterated that the National Guard was ready, dismissed the protests as "just a few riled up" people—and more or less told all of his opposition to get stuffed.

Republicans are already setting sights on their next victim, with plans to dismantle the state's regional transit authorities, essentially drawing the knife across the neck of improved mass transit.

McKenna's inflamed rhetoric is beyond the pale even for her and is emblematic of the mindset behind the bill's supporters. (Others on McKenna's side have attempted to turn workers against one another with claims that the "City of Madison protects its unions, not its taxpayers," as if union members did not pay taxes.)

McKenna's suggestion is made even more pathetic and vile by the fact that by every single report from the protests has shown them to be absolutely peaceful.

Blah blah blah McKenna ashamed blah blah blah should be blah blah blah don't hold your breath.

Abe Sauer can be reached at abesauer [at] gmail.com.

Is it the 80s? Because the National Portrait Gallery just removed a David Wojnarowicz video because the Catholic League thought eleven seconds of ants crawling on a crucifix was "hate speech." Here is an excellent backgrounder. (Trumpets the idiot scold at the League: "Smithsonian Pulls Vile Exhibit"!) Between this and Homeland Security bizarrely seizing rap websites without notice (most likely going way out of bounds to do so, and some old-school weirdness with the NYPD—oh and noted jurist Richard Posner straight-up declaring that "the problem of priests’ sexually molesting boys would be solved if priests were allowed to marry and if women could be priests," because, what, sorry, child-molesting priests are repressed gays?—it's feeling like a rather retrograde season of culture wars! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE.

This is the laziest op-ed ever written by lawyers, on the subject of Sandra Day O'Connor's support for Ballot Question 1 in Nevada, which would move that state to join the 25 others that pick judges by commission instead of by ballot. Entirely setting aside questions of how we should pick judges, the writers (David Rivkin Jr., who is the attorney representing the states suing the federal government over "Obamacare," by the way, and Andrew Grossman, who seems to be of the Heritage Foundation!) actually believe something crazy! They say that because O'Connor recently was on the Ninth Circuit panel that upheld Arizona's proof-of-identity-while-voting law but struck down Arizona's proof-of-citizenship-while-voting law (a law that has improperly prevented naturalized citizens from voting, by the way), that now "critics of hers argue" (ooh, some critics somewhere argue, good one) "that Hispanics in Nevada—and others who agree with her Arizona ruling—might now vote yes on Ballot Question 1 simply because of the Justice's endorsement." Got that? It's almost like they believe the court issued a pro-Hispanic ruling—not a pro-America ruling. An odd position to take, in light of the law's consistent and consistently right history of removing obviously discriminatory obstacles to the right to vote. They apparently do not believe in the equal right to vote. So, look out, Nevada! Mexicans, and worse, Mexican sympathizers: now they all be takin' orders from Sandy Day.

Now-fired Rand Paul campaign worker Tim Proffitt wants an apology from the woman whose head he was forced to stomp yesterday. His point being, she's a professional activist. You know, just like ACORN, or the NAACP, or "Americans for Prosperity," or "FreedomWorks," or Congress. Other people's points being that Lauren Valle is an UNHINGED ATTACKER PAID ACTIVIST. (Calling her an attacker is an extreme distortion, of course, of what happened.) But it's actually fascinating that the agitated right is now going after this woman, because her line of work is... mounting opposition to corporate fat cats. I mean, isn't that at heart the Tea Party line? Except I guess when your Tea Party is funded by the Koch brothers. It's all very confusing, except when it isn't.