Prior to Bush’s 2000 election, a think tank directed by Bush-Cheney hawks outlined the expansion of “forward-based” U.S. military forces as key to preserving “the global Pax Americana.”by John-David MorganMarch 31, 2005
More than two years have passed since President George W. Bush, on St. Patrick’s Day 2003, gave Saddam Hussein a 48-hour deadline to give […]

THE MARCH FOR PEACE IN MILWAUKEE
by 500 gather in freezing rain for global protest on theJohn-David Morgan
March 28, 2005
Milwaukee, WI — As Peace Action Wisconsin Organizer Julie Enslow read through the tale of devastation in Iraq last Saturday, she paused to consider whether it was possible for optimism to exist on the second anniversary of […]

Back in the early 1990’s, state Senator Alberta Darling authored chapter 980 of the state statutes. These laws made it so that once the sentence of a sex offender is up, they go from prison to their home county to receive treatment and supervision in the home county. In short, it shifts responsibility and costs […]

It’s no shock that Republicans don’t like to pay taxes – none of us do. What separates GOP partisans from the rest of us is our shared community values and an understanding that a well-monitored government can do good things for its citizens.
Common decency and an understanding that the least among us deserve a hand […]

As Board President Tim Taff runs for re-election, he wants the city to bail him out of “tax saving” plan
by Jim McGuigan
March 17, 2005
Angry parents crowded boardrooms to voice their frustration over why Wauwatosa School Board President Tim Taff was spearheading an effort to close down one of the city’s neighborhood elementary schools.
Taff claimed it […]

An open letter to state Rep. Polly Williams on police brutality in Milwaukee and GOP gay-bashing in Madison.
by John-David Morgan
March 17, 2005
Dear State Rep. Williams,
Holding court on race, justice and equality in the face of another maiming of a minority male in Milwaukee by three off-duty police officers — possessed of a particularly perverse brand […]