Governor Scott Walker will discuss fiscal policy with AEI scholar Andrew Biggs.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Public employee unions and tea party supporters have been gathering signatures to trigger recall elections of, respectively, Republican and Democratic state senators in what amounts to a referendum on Republican Governor Scott Walker's policies.

In all three states at the center of the debate over reining in the public-sector unions-Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio-Republicans have taken control of the governorships and the state legislatures.

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

In the end, overcompensation for public employees isn't just about collective bargaining; it's simply that the public sector is different from the private sector.

There was a time when Wisconsin was a leader in school reform, but with intrepid leadership and innovative thinking to take on an entrenched and beleaguered profession, Wisconsin can return to a leadership position in K-12 schooling.