Meg's Blog
Trump's Plan to Crush Censorship
Welcome to the Golden Age of America. Elon Musk recently shared a 2022 video of President-elect Donald Trump outlining a plan to restore freedom of expression and eliminate "left-wing censorship regime," pledging immediate action upon taking office. Trump said: "When I am President, this whole rotten sys...
Nov 12, 2024
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The Golden Age of America
Welcome! This will be an ongoing chronicle of all the ways President Donald Trump will make America great again. Donald Trump's plan to dismantle the Deep State 1. "Immediately reissue my 2020 executive order, restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats." 2. "Clean out all of the corr...
Nov 11, 2024
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Will there be a reckoning?
Wisconsin Right Now's Jessica McBride joined me on The Meg Ellefson Show (here) and (here) to recap the election results and determine if there will be a reckoning with Democrats after Donald Trump's decisive electoral (and popular) vote victory on November 5. Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party (the so-called party o...
Nov 07, 2024
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See a Problem at the Polls in Wisconsin?
Here are resources if you see a problem at the polls today: Wisconsin Election Integrity Call: 414-441-4033 From Project Veritas: Journalists are spread out across the country investigating ANY and ALL election wrongdoing. SEND THEM TIPS so that they can be followed up on immediately. Email tips via email veritastips@p...
Nov 05, 2024
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Tammy Baldwin is Anti-Woman
The only thing that I can conclude is that Tammy Baldwin is against fair opportunities and a safe environment for women and girls. Why else would she support allowing male athletes, who have an unfair advantage, to compete against female athletes? As a former competitive tennis player, I can't imagine being forced to c...
Oct 31, 2024
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Conley Commentary
CONLEY COMMENTARY - Duffy for Governor
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Something you should remember about Sean Duffy. He has excellent political instincts. How good? On June 16, 2015 Donald Trump descended the golden escalator and announced his candidacy. Sean Duffy quickly identified Trump as the likely Republican nominee. That was by no means obvious. Ther...
20h ago
CONLEY COMMENTARY - The holiday tree
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - In case you haven't had your coffee yet, here's an easy question. What do you call an evergreen tree that's chopped down and placed in your home? It's typically decorated with lights, ornaments and tinsel. There is no one in my audience who answered "it's holiday tree." Of course, i...
Nov 19, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Smooth transition? My eye
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Last week when Donald Trump and Joe Biden met at the White House, the current president promised a smooth transition. My eye. Since that meeting a mere 5 days ago Joe Biden has made three policy decisions that the Trump Admininstration specifically opposes. You would think that part of a smoo...
Nov 18, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - Friday on Faith; The Martyrs
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Psychiatrists say over and over again, people will not die for a lie. People only lay down their lives for something they believe to be true. So today let's consider Jesus's apostles, the people who knew him or became his earliest followers after the resurrection. Peter, the disciple who is w...
Nov 15, 2024
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CONLEY COMMENTARY - The Wausau Budget
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - How would I describe the Wausau City Budget? A disappointment that could have been much, much worse. The two issues that drove the budget this year were largely out of control of city leaders and new mayor Doug Diny. They were property revaluation, and runaway spending from the past mayor Kat...
Nov 14, 2024
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Tom King's Blog
It's Been a Great Ride
As a kid in the 1960s-early 70's listening to WRIG & WIFC and pestering the DJs with requests and telling them that they were playing the wrong songs, I really couldnt have envisioned working in that business for nearly 40 years and spending many of those years working at those stations. I can't remember when I dec...
Dec 30, 2022
A Old-Fashioned Southern Christmas
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago.... The only "new" Christmas album I could find from 1972 was this one from "The Man In Black". He and his family, touring band and several notable guests deliver an album of mostly original holiday material along with old standbyes "Jingle...
Dec 22, 2022
The Album That Wasn't Supposed To Happen
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... Maybe the oddest thing about the hit double LP "Made In Japan" from the band Deep Purple is the fact that they didnt even want to record it and then when it was recorded didn't really care if it got released. Many fans had recorded bootleg tapes of t...
Dec 21, 2022
Soulful Shuffling
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... This is one of those LPs that nobody in Central Wisconsin heard at the time. No one was really playing jazz records here. Even ones as funky as this. You may not know the name Bernard "Pretty" Purdie but I guarantee you have heard him play. He was Ar...
Dec 20, 2022
Better Material Needed
We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago..... The New Riders of The Purple Sage were prolific if nothing else. "Gypsy Cowboy" was the second Lp of the year and their 3rd in 15 months. As in most cases of that much material being needed, some is weaker than most. The best tracks on the Lp are a s...
Dec 19, 2022
WSAU Newsroom Blog
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for November 12th
Tuesday's Wausau City Council Meeting will include a public hearing and vote to approve or deny the proposed 2025 city budget. The spending plan includes a mill rate of $8.72. That's a slight decrease from the 2024 rate of $9.06, according to materials included with Tuesday's agenda. But before you celebrate, remember ...
Nov 12, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for October 29th
Another round of 2025 budget discussions is scheduled for Tuesday at Wausau City Hall. The city's Finance Committee is scheduled to meet at 5:15 to go over the proposed spending plan, which Mayor Doug Diny says should not include an increase of more than 2.5% to the levy, or the total amount of tax revenue collected. A...
Oct 29, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for October 8th
The Wausau City Council is scheduled to take up a resolution regarding the much talked about municipal dropbox on Tuesday. And it's not whether to use or not use the much-talked-about receptacle. According to an amended agenda published on Monday, Alders will vote to spend $3,000 for updated security cameras and a new ...
Oct 08, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for October 2nd
A Joint Review Board in Rib Mountain will consider final approval for a tax increment finance district on Wednesday afternoon. TID 2 would cover an area from the Rib Mountain Golf Course to County NN and Robin Lane. The plan would reserve the first 12% of property tax value to fund infrastructure projects that would st...
Oct 02, 2024
Newsroom blog: What's coming up for September 25th
A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Wednesday morning for the Westside Commons, a new affordable housing development at the former Westside Battery location. The long-awaited project was first proposed in 2021 after several other developments, including a brewpub, fell through. The complex will include 56 affordab...
Sep 25, 2024
The Midwestern Conservative
Gilman, Sparta and Cadott take top archery honors
(DNR) MADISON, Wis. - Student archers from 51 public, private and home schools competed virtually in the state's National Archery in the Schools Progr...
Apr 04, 2022
President Trump's first social media posting
It took less than an hour for President Trump to send out his first message on social media following his swearing in. Trump posted the following message on Facebook: Greg Belfrage @belfrageshow is the veteran morning show host on KELO Newstalk 1320/107.9 in Sioux Falls, SD. Greg can be contacted at greg.belfrage@mwcra...
Jan 20, 2017
Poll: Obamacare replace must happen with repeal
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say any repeal of Obamacare should include an immediate replacement plan. The Morning Consult/Politico poll says voters support the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but they want another plan at the ready. Replacing Obamacare was listed by a plurality of voters as the top job facing Pre...
Jan 10, 2017
How The Far Right Fell in Love With Assange
Much has been written about “tribal politics” since the November 8 election. Simply put, loyalty to the tribe is put above all else. In a piece for the Washington Post, Michael Gerson uses the acceptance of criminal Julian Assange by leading conservative figures to maximum effect in explaining tribal politi...
Jan 06, 2017
What Will Trump "Russian Reset" Look Like
A U.S. intelligence community report declassified Friday squarely blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for “influence campaign” aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping President-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The report concludes that it was Putin himself who ordered the campa...
Jan 06, 2017