I am disgusted by the type of campaign that Senator McCain and the Republican Party are running. Speeches by Mr. McCain and Governor Palin are creating fear and inciting hatred and violence against Mr. Obama. People in the Republican crowds have responded by calling Senator Obama "A terrorist," and have shouted "Kill him!" and "Off with his head." "Joe the Plumber" was a Republican plant and his story is a lie. Mr. McCain has lied repeatedly about Mr. Obama's tax plans in order to scare us. There are still those that believe the Republican...

Residents of the South Shore, in areas like South Milwaukee and Oak Creek, have suffered too long under the unhelpful "leadership" of incumbent Representative Mark Honadel. Our current legislator has made choices, which have clearly been against the interests of his constituents.

Voters in the 21st Assembly District (South Milwaukee, Oak Creek and two wards of Milwaukee) will have a chance on November 4th to select someone other than incumbent Mark Honadel. In my view, Representative Honadel has failed to take into account the interests of his constituents. In February this year, he voted against the HOPE property tax exemption which would have closed corporate tax loopholes resulting in a $600 savings to homeowners annually.

I am sick and tired of the disgusting campaigns we are being subjected to, now just three weeks from the election. JohnMcCain came into this race riding the "straight talk express," but has changed to campaigning from a manure spreader. He is now running what is probably the most dishonest and dishonorable campaign in recent history.

Dear Editors: I was happy to see Congressman Paul Ryan passionate about someone's job as he spoke in favor of the Wall Street bail out. Unfortunately, the job he was worried about losing was his own. In the last two weeks alone, Paul Ryan has voted against: reducing our dependency on foreign oil, regulating overseas energy traders, stopping the credit card companies from preying on lower income earners, giving tax breaks for renewable energy, and making appropriations for job creation. While as many as 10,000 American workers will lose their jobs in the Janesville area, we finally see some passion out of Paul Ryan. It is just too bad that he cares more about his friends on Wall Street and his own job on K Street than he does putting, Made in Janesville cars on the street.

Today I found a flier on my door for Mark Honadel, who is the Republican candidate for State Assembly. The brochure says "An Independent Voice Working for You!" Independent? Honadel's record shows he's in lockstep with the Republican leadership.

When Tom Nardelli was on the Common Council, he used to say "I don't like to chew my cabbage twice." But since the city has parity with the county when it comes to pensions, the rich pimp style raise Scott "Easy Rider" Walker gave his sidekick will have him chewing pension cabbage till he goes to that Big Hutch in the Sky. But nobody but his loved ones will remember Nardo when he's gone. Fortunately, the same thing can be said about Easy Rider Walker when he tries to slide into the governor's chair with that $95. haircut of his.

The opinion piece penned by Joel McNally “Secret Plans for MPS” was long on speculation and short on any real facts, and unfortunately full of race baiting. Specifically, MMAC, the organization I represent responded to the MPS request to help them pass legislation authorizing a Neighborhood Schools Initiative that would have put money into schools in neighborhoods where there were more kids than capacity...

Bay View High School offers a variety of academic programs for students with diverse talents and interests The Math/Science Specialty is for the college bound. This 4-year curriculum offers advanced courses in Math and Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Ten Units of mathematics, science, and related fields are required to complete this course of study. The program is complimented by resources and tutoring centers, advanced placement courses, and intensive research work, as well as a partnership with MATC. Specialty students have participated in Science Under Sail voyages on the Denis Sullivan Schooner.

As a scientist, engineer, and educator at a local university, watching Sarah Palin's speech was like entering a black hole going back in time - an absence of content, or considerations of the realities of the 21st century in which we live.

Gun merchant Eric Thompson's suggestion - that laws allowing the concealed carrying of firearms might have prevented shootings such as those enabled by his company's sale of weapons to Cho Seung-Hui and Steven Kazmierczak - is completely ungrounded in any sort of reality. Bret Ratner cites several good reasons for this, but a look at what might happen in a shooting scenario suggests several others. First, Thompson's belief that potential killers might be discouraged by the possibility that their victims might have guns overlooks the fact that quite frequently, such killers end their sprees by turning their weapons on themselves. Clearly, the threat of being killed is no deterrent for such killers: their own deaths are part of the plan.

I would like to give my $0.02. I would have to say I am a fan of a well written and executed concealed carry law. I feel it is wrong of the state to tell me that my wife and I are unable to carry any type of defensive weapons.

An alternative to the archaic method of producing nuclear energy from Uranium/Plutonium is to use Thorium. (Nukes in Wisconsin Not Likely - Shepherd Express - August 14, 2008) Because Thorium is not a fissile material: There is no danger of a melt-down or nuclear proliferation because it is not suitable for the production of weapon grade materials in fact we should be able to share information with our “enemies.”

Being an honest conservative I do read the columns in your paper with the intent of balancing out input from other, much more "right wing", sources. Who knows? Someday, I might find myself or my sources in error and change my views and resultant actions (eg Voting). Yet, Mr. Joel McNally's ongoing parade of ignorance as to almost any subject he discusses has done nothing to encourage my ongoing efforts to view the world and its people in a fair way.

Immigration cruelty is at an all time high in the recent May 12, raid at Agriprocessor, a meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. 389 undocumented workers, mostly from Guatemala, some as young as 13, were swept up by some 900 ICE agents, arrested, shackled, and chained together in groups of ten, and taken to a makeshift court in a cattle corral, where they were pressured into pleading guilty to knowingly using a false social security number. While they had only the papers provided to them when they began work at Agriprocessor, these desperately poor and mostly illiterate workers, were manipulated into believing that pleading guilty was the quickest way back to their dependent families in Guatemala, through a "fast-track" Plea Agreement which allowed for no changes. Without understanding what it was they were pleading guilty to, and no understanding of immigration laws, the frightened workers waived their constitutional rights, and having pled guilty, were then taken away to serve a five-month sentence, followed by deportation. It is the Agriprocessor mangers who should be prosecuted and made to serve prison sentences for labor law abuses, fraud, and human rights violations.

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and others have been charged with crimes against the United States of America. These are serious charges and the impeachment trial is necessary to determine if these charges are valid or not, if the accused are guilty or not. Would we ignore charges of violence, rape, murder or theft of a suspect? No! We would continue the Trial to make a determination.

Joel McNally’s exposure of former Republican State Senator Tom Reynolds’ efforts to replace good, solid Democrats with wolves in donkey-hide is greatly appreciated. I would never deny anyone the right to run for public office. But, I strongly and vociferously object to this attempt by Reynolds to portray these individuals as Democrats in an attempt to hood-wink the voters. As Mr. McNally correctly stated, none of these candidates are dues paying members of the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, there is no legal requirement for someone to belong to the political party that they claim to represent as a candidate and potential office-holder.

This week, talk show host Michael Savage made inaccurate and derogatory comments about autism on his radio show, calling the condition “a fraud” and the result of a lack of parental discipline. Mr. Savage’s unsubstantiated comments reflect the misconceptions of over 50 years ago, that autism was caused by “refrigerator mothers” or unemotional parenting, which have been completely disproven by the scientific community. Autism is a neurodevelopmental medical condition that requires early identification and lifelong treatment.

Last week, in a major address in the nation¹s capital, former Vice President Al Gore called for a ten-year plan to move the nation's entire energy supply to solar, wind, and other renewable sources. What he failed to address is the massive role of meat production in the global climate crisis.

Summerfest did the right thing Tuesday and asked the Army -- at the urging of Peace Action and others -- to remove a virtual urban warfare game that allowed fest-goers as young as 13 to hop into a Humvee simulator and fire machine guns at life-size people on a computer screen. Rabid radio talker Charlie Sykes devoted more than half of his morning show railing on Summerfest for asking the Army to shut down a virtual killing game, urging listeners to call those wimpy Summerfest folks and complain.

What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the 4th of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks? According to our government's Meat & Poultry Hotline, this year's top fear is food poisoning by those nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs lurking in inadequately grilled hamburgers and hot dogs. Of course, they don't bother to mention that high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also forms cancer-causing com-pounds.

Lisa Kaiser's article "Bush's High Crimes and Misdemeanors," June 19, should act as a trumpet call to citizens, especially because Kucinich's articles of impeachment have already been sent to committee where they are expected to die.

The last 7-1/2 years have brought me horror and heartache, as I've seen my country turn from its good principles of humanity, and jeopardize the safety of us all in its escalation of the war mentality. When the Soviet Union fell, the European Union was learning to live together peacefully and we had a chance to work with the world to catch terrorists together and yes, try them in a world court.

$2500 for an individual or $5000 per family for a year? This is laughable. $2500 is not much more than my wife and I pay per month for health insurance, not to mention the humungous deductible and copayment; and ours is considered decent insurance.

Earlier this week, more than a hundred thousand South Koreans demonstrated against newly elected president Lee Myung-bak, as his entire cabinet offered to resign. At the root of this massive protest was not a declaration of war against North Korea, a boycott of the Chinese summer Olympics, or even escalating oil prices. It was a treaty allowing U.S. beef imports.