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The presidential election of 1912 reflected a time of party division and booming progressivism in partisan politics, as former President Theodore Roosevelt led a robust movement of Republicans who opposed reflexive conservatism. Roosevelt, who served as president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, dove into a vigorous presidential campaign for the Progressive Party, or Bull Moose Party, advocating against President William Howard Taft and his leadership. Taft’s presidency triggered Republican party division, prompting Roosevelt to form the Bull Moose Party, a political faction within the Republican party, and made Roosevelt become a prominent third-party candidate on the presidential...

Madison— In a final push on the state budget bill, a key legislative panel is poised Friday to ease some proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and a key conservation program while leaving in place most of the spending decreases for those programs. The GOP-controlled budget committee is also expected to approve Gov. Scott Walker's controversial plan to eliminate scientists and other positions at the state Department of Natural Resources but reduce Walker's proposed cuts to the UW System from $300 million over two years to $250 million. That extra $50 million would be distributed to the campuses...

Lawmakers Unveil Plan to Liberate Western Lands and Evict Feds Liberty-minded elected officials from Western states are coming together with citizens to take action in defense of the Constitution and the West.The New American 23 April 2014 With the now-infamous federal abuses against the Bundy ranching family and its supporters in Nevada helping to awaken a sleeping giant, liberty-minded elected officials from Western states are coming together with citizens to take action in defense of the Constitution and the West. Their mission: to wrest control over the vast expanses of land and wealth in the region that are unconstitutionally...

Letters from readers are always helpful. The feedback provides a way to measure how readers feel about the issue raised. Here is a question that several readers raised: I have recently read your article entitled Higher taxes guaranteed. OK, I have been reading this kind of material from others, and I am starting to become convinced that there is enough being said about government buying up land, etc., but not enough being said about what can be done to stop this government intrusion. Concerned land owner, Dean Smallwood It is important to know, and to help others understand, why government...