Go deeper into the fight over more than 200,000 “movers”—voters who gave new addresses to the Division of Motor Vehicles or the Post Office and voters a conservative law firm want removed from the list of registered voters statewide—and you learn why the political stakes are so high.
Ten years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned portions of a federal law that empowered government to dictate how Americans who were not connected to any candidates and political parties could practice their inherent right of free expression. It was one of the greatest free speech decision…
This week marks 75 years since Soviet troops stormed the gates of hell.
If you’ve got more money than you can spend, you can spend your extra wealth on… guarding your extra wealth.
In a column on the eve of the 2016 election, I warned that if Donald Trump were to inexplicably occupy the White House, he would wreak havoc on American values, and his “authoritarian sensibility” would precipitate “a systematic breakdown of our democratic institutions.” I was merely stating…
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, sat for a discussion with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. She dropped a number of shocking statements—statements that elicited nothing but murmurs of agreement from Coates. AOC claimed: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.”
Bernie Sanders’ campaign recently stabbed Elizabeth Warren in the back. She was the Vermont senator’s comrade in arms. It also threw a pack of lies at Joe Biden, tarring him as corrupt with zero evidence. As former Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told Politico, Sanders “will play dirty.” The Demo…
The New York Times provided lessons in both journalism and television Sunday night, by way of bad examples.
More than 55% of voters in three counties represented by Democratic Rep. Don Vruwink, of Milton, voted for President Trump—a Republican—in 2016. Vruwink was elected with 54% of the vote that year.
Any discussion about downtown Janesville eventually gets around to the future of the Monterey Hotel.
The world’s billionaires don’t grow their bank accounts with hard work. Their money does the work for them.
“Women are winning in the Trump economy.” That’s a headline that should be emblazoned on the front pages of every major newspaper in America today and dominating TV newscasts from Boston to Seattle. But it isn’t thanks to the impeachment circus Democrats are using to distract the nation’s at…
In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive heir apparent to the Democratic leadership, Hillary Clinton. Obama was, of course, the first bla…
Actually, contends every 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, the economy is in really bad shape. It is only working for the wealthiest among us while leaving behind the poor, the working class and the shrinking middle class.
“It is quite astonishing to see with what deadpan and neutral a tone our press and television report the open corruption—and the flagrantly anti-democratic character—of the Iowa caucuses.”
One thing Canadians tend to be is sensible. And so it is surprising how many would consider making Prince Harry and his wife, the former Meghan Markle, king and queen of Canada. Harry is a beneficiary of the lucky sperm club, and Meghan was TV actress from Los Angeles. Do Canadians really wa…
The awful truth about the corporate and governmental power elites in our democratic society is that they really don’t like democracy at all. They prefer to rule by buying lawmakers, hiring lobbyists, running Orwellian PR campaigns and relying on authoritarian police power to control people.
The quality of water you drink and splash in at waterpark resorts and the water that vegetable growers, dairy farmers and manufacturers need to stay in business played no major role in the 2016 election for governor.
When people ask me what has been the biggest change in parenting in the last generation or two, I could say:
Before Donald Trump began to slur his words and concoct fake verbs like "tolerize," he declared on Wednesday that "as long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon...Their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world. We'll never …
My favorite picture of John Lewis is a mugshot.
Throughout this unsettling conflict with Iran, Joe Biden has stood out as a calming Democratic voice, speaking of the stakes and challenges with deep knowledge of foreign policy. Just another reason for activists on the left backing Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to lose their minds.
President Donald Trump launched a global round of teeth gnashing when he ordered the killing of the greatest terrorist leader in the modern Middle East, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was unquestionably responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and thousands o…
George W. Bush and Barack Obama both had Gen. Qassem Soleimani in their gunsights. Neither ordered the trigger pulled because of the enormous risks involved in killing one of Iran’s top leaders. In listing the possible responses to recent Iranian provocations, U.S. military commanders told P…
With former housing secretary Julian Castro departed, the oversized Democratic presidential field reaches a critical point: More candidates have dropped out than remain in the race. But that still leaves 14—a bulky ballot as the marathon moves closer to actual primaries and caucuses beginnin…
I’m here to say goodbye to Stephen King.
That property tax bill in your December mail--the piece of mail that was the opposite of all those holiday greetings--could have been much higher.
Increased academic pressure and testing in kindergarten is bringing everyone to tears—including the teachers.
If you are a Wisconsin Badger football team fan, you don’t need to be reminded that bad calls by officials can ruin a good game.
Being a conservative in perhaps the most liberal state in the country, Massachusetts, I’m often asked why I support the president by those on the left, some of whom think he’s a racist, misogynist, homophobe, criminal and, for good measure, a bully.
The same weekend that Orthodox Jews in Monsey, New York, were fighting off another knife-wielding anti-Semite thug with chairs and coffee tables—they were fortunate that the perpetrator hadn’t brought a firearm, like the killer who targeted a yeshiva in Jersey City only a few weeks earlier—J…
A late-December flurry of articles on a revival of Bernie Sanders’ prospects points to a cardinal rule of political journalism: The story must change. Whether the story has actually changed matters not.
