Wondering how Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain would avoid tying himself to President Bush? Look no further than a national disaster. The same President George W. Bush who didn’t care to help out victims of Hurricane Katrina 3 years ago is suddenly concerned for the folks in the gulf coast as Hurricane Gustav bears down [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton just made a motion to nominate Senator Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States by acclamation. And thus it ends — within a minute of her motion, Senator Obama became the nominee. Amid smiles, cheers and admiration, today was not only the day that Obama became the nominee, [...]

Today’s Journal Sentinel‘s “Crossroads” section is a virtual festival of fallacious thinking, misunderstanding of reality, and just plain wrong-headedness. Reader Advisory Committee Member Kelly Kasum Ressel, for instance, criticizes those meddling local bureaucrats who mandate that pool owners put up proper fencing to keep children out. She complains that this places the responsibility on the [...]

Milwaukee businessman Sheldon Lubar believes that county government should be eliminated. He’s right. But he doesn’t go far enough. Counties should be eliminated all together. The additional governmental level of counties is unnecessary and the role of County government could be divvied up between state and city government. I say this as someone who has [...]

Right after Senator Obama returned from his trip to Afghanistan, a lie written by a soldier in Afghanistan was circulating around the blogs. The soldier, CPT Jeffrey S. Porter, Battle Captain, TF Wasatch, claimed that Senator Obama “got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle…As the Soldiers where lined up to shake [...]