Biography
Michael Leon is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, The Advocate, In These Times and CounterPunch; and locally in the Isthmus, Corporate Report Wisconsin and the Capital Times. Leon works as a writer, editor, veterans' advocate, and public relations consultant.
World War II, a time of the war effort, disdain for profiteering and chicken hawks, and societal mobilization for a war that was necessary
May 12th, 2012 | Posted in Editors' Picks,History,Of Interest,World War II | Read More »
Walker runs from a secret campaign headquarters at an undisclosed location (seriously); spends $millions and remains mired by a criminal path, aides stealing from veterans, and the worst-in-the-nation jobs record.
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Richard Nixon never had the help of a daily newspaper like Scott Walker has the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and Journal Communications Inc.
May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Congressional seat traditionally held by progressives gets trojan horse candidate in Kelda Helen Roys (D-Unknown-Madison). Primary in August will chart direction of politcal winds in Wisconsin
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Scott Walker is expecting to raise over $30million to defeat the recall movement and fund his criminal defense fund,. Walker is mired in a criminal John Doe probe that has already led to several top aides being charged with multiple felonies while working in Walker’s 2010 campaign for governor. Charges include Walker’s top aides stealing from veterans and their families.
May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Deescalation in the war against those suffering from PTSD; in 2005 Sen. Barrack Obama (D-IL) blasted the Bush-Cheney-Rove administration in a letter to VA Secretary Nicholson for its targeting 72,000 PTSD
April 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
“Men like Scott Walker and his co-horts wrap themselves in the American Flag, the same Flag used to cover the caskets of our Brothers and Sisters that died for this country, that isn’t being enough of a hypocrite though, now they must steal funds well meaning Americans donated to support those that served.”
April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
“Stealing from veterans is as much a tradition as Mom and apple pie; raping mom and stealing apple pie,” said Gordon Duff, USMC Vietnam War.
April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Editors' Picks,Veterans,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
How about Scott Walker issues a statement: All parties during his tenure in the Milwaukee county executive’s office tell the truth, especially Tim Russell who stole from veterans and their familes
April 15th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Edward Fallone offers a powerful defense of the individual mandate, formerly championed by the rightwing, but declared the scourge of a free people imposed by Joseph Stalin reborn
April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
The warrant for justice in the murder of Trayvon Martin was drawn and sustained by the American people led by a small group who said: Oh, hell no, not this time!
April 11th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
In a telling sign, the Wisconsin GOP propaganda organs have launched their first direct attack on the Milwaukee County DA’s probe on Gov. Scott Walker and his criminal rise to power
April 10th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politico | Read More »
Scott Walker is desperate; eight weeks before the recall election, Walker discoveres helping veterans, and engaging in bipartisanship is a good thing
April 6th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Wisconsin’s Recall candidates are set to face the most dishonest, corporate-whoring, veteran-embezzling, secret regime in Wisconsin history
March 31st, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politico | Read More »
Are our great constitutional guarantees in danger? The answer really lies with the people themselves. Civil rights are pretty generally safe except in periods of widespread emotional instability. In such times there are always those who, either because they lack balance themselves or because they see an opportunity to exploit the anxiety of others, institute scares and make drives to save the country from exaggerated dangers by suppressing free speech, or censoring free press, or punishing free opinion.
March 30th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
Alam Kind feels empowered to shoot and kill with a 45-caliber pistol a crouching, young black man hiding after the break-up of the loud party, without fear of retaliation.
March 30th, 2012 | Posted in Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
This one decision will determine if Wisconsin is a lawless, unconstitutional state; or a democracy where the rule of law and the rights of citizens guaranteed in the Wisconsin Constitution hold sway over nihilistic politics.
March 29th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
Let us face the facts. This is a harvest. It is the crop of things sown. You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.
March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
Focus public attention towards the issues not being discussed – GI Resistance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual assault in the military or Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
March 20th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Iraq War,War | Read More »
This one decision will determine if Wisconsin is a lawless, unconstitutional state; or a democracy where the rule of law and the rights of citizens guaranteed in the Wisconsin Constitution hold sway over nihilistic politics.
March 19th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
Does Van Hollen imply he is waiving the GOP argument that voter IDs do not unduly burden legal voters? He does implicitly.
March 14th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politico | Read More »
Innocent man wrongfully convicted; stripped of PTSD benefits for pursuing his claim. The U.S. gov has $1,000,000s at its disposal; a vet’s family has his service to our country and the fact of his innocence.
March 14th, 2012 | Posted in Benefits,Editors' Picks,Veterans,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
“If you create a legal defense fund, you are either being investigated, being charged with or have been convicted of a criminal violation of Chapter 11 [violation of campaign finance laws] or Chapter 12 [prohibited election practices”
March 10th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors' Picks,Government,Politico | Read More »
That’s right Listecki, mass rape of children has been badly handled, as in enabled and perpetrated; but Listecki cries out that the Catholic Church is the real victim
March 1st, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Politico | Read More »
David Koch said that “he took credit for the fact the Republicans maintaineing control of the legislature in the Wisconsin Senate recall elections held last August. The GOP has a narrow 17-16 majority in the Wisconsin state senate
February 27th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politico | Read More »
I worked the polls Tuesday as an election inspector, and I had to reject an Army Reserve ID that did not include an expiration date.
February 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
The last time the GOP went this bat-crazy about sex was 1998, a crusade resulting in President Clinton’s highest approval numbers and demands from the American people for the GOP to move on.
February 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Government,Politico | Read More »
As an observer from the NAACP looked on, the 200-plus voters in one Fitchburg, Wisconsin voting district yesterday presented an electorate irritated with the GOP’s new voter ID requirements.
February 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politico | Read More »
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki gives blessing to Scott Walker but not the Recall, in return for blocking Child Victims legislation and attacking womens’ rights
February 16th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors' Picks,Government,Legislation,Politico | Read More »
Updated – Elite Marine unit fracks up bad, using NAZI iconography. What were they thinking as they disgraced the uniform and flag?
February 10th, 2012 | Posted in Editors' Picks,Military | Read More »
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