There’s plenty of complaining from the right about ballot tampering, but let’s not forget the scandal in Florida that led to George W. Bush getting selected as President by the Supreme Court or how about his bogus re-selection which showed there were major problems in Ohio with mysteriously disappearing ballots.
Here’s a good resource for insight [...]

I keep seeing letters to the editor in the Journal-Sentinel reflecting an idea you’ll also see in national magazines and conservative blogs: Liberals oppose the war in Iraq because they hate George W. Bush and want to see him fail, no matter the cost.
This is, of course, insane.
Do these W supporters really swallow their own [...]

Back in 1996 when I first ran for County Supervisor I was urged to seek the endorsement of then Alderman Tom Nardelli. At the time I knew nothing of him and he knew nothing of me except that I was running against a person he disliked.
Nardelli gave me his endorsement in what I later [...]

Sheriff David Clarke is capriciously dispensing discipline on internal affairs cases. Let’s do something different for this story. We’ll let the readers match the facts of the cases to what they believe the disciplinary result was.
Case 1: off duty deputy solicits an undercover MPD officer for sex, gets arrested. This is a [...]

Wisconsin State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) came out in opposition to Governor Jim Doyle’s healthcare plan for an interesting reason — we can’t afford it because of China’s trade surplus with us.
Having just returned from China yesterday, let me just say that not all is rosy in the far east.
In China, if [...]

As I walked down the streets of Shanghai with my family this week a hand came out of no where to pet my sons hair. This oddity has become a nearly daily occurrence here this week.
All week we’ve noticed that locals are staring. It’s not often they see a man with a 50 [...]