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Tuesday, February 7,2012
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Sheriff Clarke: A Man Alone

By Joel McNally
It sounds odd for Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a conservative African American, to describe...
Tuesday, January 31,2012
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The Smoking Laptop

By Joel McNally
When companies are discovered to be keeping two sets of books—one for public consumption...
Tuesday, January 24,2012
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Feeling Like a Million

By Joel McNally
To quote soon-to-be-recalled Republican Gov. Scott Walker at the end of a telephone conversation...
Tuesday, January 17,2012
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The Kids Are All Right

By Joel McNally
I have a visionary idea to revitalize the moribund Grand Avenue mall in Downtown Milwaukee...
Wednesday, January 11,2012
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Send Lawyers, Guns and Money!

By Joel McNally
“Send lawyers, guns and money! Dad, get me out of this!” That's actually the late singer...
Wednesday, January 4,2012
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The Twinkle Amendment

By Joel McNally
When it comes to granting equal rights to the unborn under our Constitution, most honest people...
Tuesday, December 27,2011
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The Republican Sideshow

By Joel McNally
Our state and our nation are about to enter a momentous year that could bring two unprecedented...
Tuesday, December 20,2011
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Wisconsin Supreme Court: Corruption at the Top

By Joel McNally
Growing enthusiasm for a recall election has focused so much attention on corruption...
Tuesday, December 13,2011
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Hauling Away Wisconsin

By Joel McNally
In one of his signature songs, John Prine longs to return to the golden paradise...
Wednesday, December 7,2011
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The End of Free Speech in Wisconsin

By Joel McNally
On July 9, 1964, a week after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act...
Tuesday, November 29,2011
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Let's Hear It for Double Dipping

By Joel McNally
Right-wing politicians who are trying to whip up hatred toward public employees...
Tuesday, November 22,2011
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Happy Thanksgiving 2011

By Joel McNally
Thanksgiving dinner with Beth's parents was always the root canal of family holidays...
Thursday, November 17,2011
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Support Equal Rights for Hunters

By Joel McNally
Second Amendment constitutional rights do not end at the entrance to the woods. Wisconsin is finally controlled by enthusiastic Republican supporters of the Second Amendment dedicated to protecting the...
Tuesday, November 8,2011
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Wisconsin's Quicksand of Corruption

By Joel McNally
Even though the first official effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker was filed by a Republican...
Tuesday, November 1,2011
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Gunfight in the O.K. Capitol

By Joel McNally
It's tempting to support the Scott Walker administration's crazy idea of allowing armed gunmen...
Tuesday, October 25,2011
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The Brewers' Best Season Ever

By Joel McNally
Amid all the unseemly trashing from “what have you done for us lately?” self-proclaimed baseball...
Tuesday, October 18,2011
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Recall Walker: Game On

By Joel McNally
The most important year in Wisconsin's modern political history is about to begin...
Tuesday, October 11,2011
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Wisconsin Goes National

By Joel McNally
Don't believe your local media when they tell you the “Occupy Wall Street” protests are coming...
Tuesday, October 4,2011
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High Noon for Sheriff David Clarke

By Joel McNally
When Sheriff David Clarke symbolically called him out in the street at high noon to settle their...
Tuesday, September 27,2011
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The Brewers' Horrible Season

By Joel McNally
What a disappointing season for the Milwaukee Brewers. If that sentence makes no sense to you...
Tuesday, September 20,2011
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Gov. Walker's Plan: Tooling Wisconsin Teachers

By Joel McNally
When I had a summer newspaper internship in college, reporters in Dayton, Ohio, used to hang out...
Tuesday, September 13,2011
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Voter ID Fraud

By Joel McNally
The dead giveaway that the real purpose of Wisconsin's voter ID law was to try to prevent some...
Wednesday, September 7,2011
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Big Guns on Campus

By Joel McNally
With the nation's bloody history of student, teacher and administrator shootings at schools from elementary...
Tuesday, August 30,2011
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The Madison Strangler, Part II

By Joel McNally
No one who has followed the...
Tuesday, August 23,2011
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God's No Republican

By Joel McNally
Bob Dylan told the truth about God's political views in the song “With God On Our Side...
 
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