A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Wisconsin voters shows that just 39% favor weakening collective bargaining rights and 52% are opposed. At the same time, 44% support a 10% pay cut for all state workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) are opposed. That's partly because 27% of Wisconsin voters believe state workers are paid too much and 16% believe they are paid too little. Forty-nine percent (49%) believe the pay of state workers is about right. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Deadline says the film is written by Clay Wold, whose brother was on the McVeigh defense team, and that "he clerk's determination to expose the truth led to a bigger conspiracy and nearly destroyed the young man."

I'm going to say one thing: if this movie has any intent to clear the name of Timothy McVeigh or otherwise shift blame from him to someone else, it will be infuriating beyond belief. But that probably (hopefully) isn't the intent.

Deadline's article mentions the goal of the film involving "the real circumstances" behind the bombing, and given that the screenwriter's brother was on the McVeigh defense team I suspect that the `real circumstances' involve one of two oft-cited theories about the bombing: that McVeigh was involved with a far-right white supremacist group, or that there were Middle Eastern ties to the bombing. Both theories are tied to circumstantial evidence and lines of official inquiry that were begun then closed down during the investigation into the bombing.

Timothy McVeigh is exactly the sort of guy a lot of people would like to forget. A white, small-town, military kid who believed in small government, he could have been a Tea Partier right up until that point where he massacred his fellow citizens. But if he can be tied to a Middle Eastern group it would all be OK, because ultimately it would all be the fault of `regular' terrorists, right? (Shudder.) Needless to say, we'll be following this one. I'm very curious to see how it turns out.