Flip-flop… John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can’t, “then I lose. I lose,” the Republican said. He quickly backed off that remark. “Let me not put it that stark,” the likely GOP nominee told reporters on [...]

It is awfully difficult to tell what the truth is these days. With leaders and role models in nearly every facet of life sending out non-stop, self-serving versions of reality we all face a difficult time sorting it out. Let’s check in on some of the recent high profile searches for the truth. Barry Bonds [...]

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is frosted over the continued paying of officers who have been found guilty in the trial over the beating of Frank Jude Jr. He should be upset. The City of Milwaukee is being forced to pay $474,970.24 in pay and fringe benefits for the three officers convicted even though they were [...]

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 misdemeanor violation [...]

My post about Michael Monyelle provoked a lot of comments, almost uniformly negative, as I expected. I am reminded of this passage from Robert Bolt’s play about Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons: Meg: Father, that man’s bad! More: There’s no law against that! Roper: There is, God’s law! More: Then let God arrest [...]

It seems that, contrary to the old Frank Loesser song “Standing on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go By),” you can go to jail for what you’re thinking. Or at least what you tell your parole officer you’re thinking. Yes, Michael Monyelle, on parole for a sexual offense, is to be tried as a [...]