Battleground Republicans across the country are on defense as ICE operations keep finding their way into local headlines.A flurry of ICE activity in four rural Kansas towns this week...
Trump told officials that anyone in the country illegally remains "on the table" for arrest and deportation after internal ICE guidance caused confusion.
It’s time to play “Hide the Homeless,” the Democratic Party game where you take homeless people you have allowed to camp in public and shove them into a closet when a major event comes to town. This time the player is Chicago, which is in the process of clearing out a homeless encampment near where […]
Wearing a yellow skirt that reached just below her knees, a black and white shirt, and a sunbonnet, 15-year-old Amelia Staffeldt planned to pick dandelions. But after she crossed the road to the old Steitz farm, she was attacked and stabbed twice behind her right ear. It looked as if the murderer had also tried […]
“We need corporate welfare reform.” Near the end of a speech that included hyperbole, vitriol, and some straight-up attacks on capitalism, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told the Republican delegates something they needed to hear. “The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations,” O’Brien said, “and this is real corruption.” Republicans understand well that […]
I was not sold on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) when former President Donald Trump announced him as his running mate. I thought there were better choices available that would have been staunch supporters of Trump’s platform and ideology while also appealing to undecided voters that could help Trump win reelection. My feelings were reinforced and […]
MILWAUKEE — In a healthy political culture, a party’s voters and delegates would see a felony conviction as a reason not to nominate a politician. We do not function in a healthy political culture. The Republican Party has a cultural sickness that is its cult of personality. Former President Donald Trump has successfully recentered the […]
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention brought about 50,000 people to this city for a week in mid-July. But of those, only one columnist ended up at County Clare Irish Pub on the night of July 16. “Shitty,” was how bartender Patrick described business that night. “It’s been bad all week.” County Clare is a […]
This campaign season, as Biden and his party face a potential electoral beat-down, expect corrupt churches to transform into brothels — pimping out the...
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump’s pick of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, along with Vance’s acceptance speech praising the working man while bashing big business and elites, suggests that the Republican Party, long seen as the party of the rich, could become a working-class populist party. It’s a natural progression in […]
