Call Bill O'Reilly! The War on Christmas has reached a new height. I refer, of course, to the Franklin carolers who were stopped, questioned, and searched on suspicion of being drug dealers, which destroyed their holiday — oops! I mean Christmas — spirit. Of course, this isn't the right-wing's culture war after all; it's the [...]

Living in Milwaukee can be difficult, especially if you’re black, and especially more if you’re a black male. Things are not going well on the North Side, where income shrunk in the last year or two or three, but if anyone needed an economic indicator to tell them this, they were fooling themselves. The North [...]

Donald Holt, the Republican candidate for Milwaukee County sheriff, doesn't believe in pointing fingers. It's not his style. But he sees what many observers say are major problems facing law enforcement in Milwaukee: A lack of coordination and a void in leadership. “I think we can cooperate better as law enforcement agencies,” Holt said in [...]

Congressman Mark Green picked a fight with Gov. Jim Doyle on crime this week, making wild accusations in a new TV ad about Doyle's record of cracking down on sexual predators and concluding that Doyle "gets it wrong" on crime. The Doyle campaign fired back yesterday with an unusually long email highlighting Doyle's crimefighting record. A response [...]

What’s the role of the Wisconsin Attorney General?  John and Jane Voter don’t necessarily know.  There is no incumbent left standing this fall in the AG's race to say, “I’m doing a great job,” and walk away with the election, as incumbent AG's typically do. The very definition of state attorney general is at stake [...]

The Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA) is spending $20,000 in their efforts to rub out Tom Reynolds from the legislature and it's no surprise — Reynolds scored dead last on their legislative scorecard, meaning the West Allis senator is about as anti-cop as they come. So the cops have two BIG billboards which show their [...]