It’s delusional to believe McGee is Milwaukee's biggest problem
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, June 30, 2008
those people who are celebrating the downfall of former Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee Jr. have delusions of their own. They don’t recognize that McGee was needed not only as a voice for the powerless but as a prod to the powerful in a community that is creakingly slow to try to solve any problem before it becomes a full-blown crisis.
Power of petroleum barons to fool us is fading
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, June 23, 2008
With $4-a-gallon gas and the prospect of continuing price rises to $5 and above before the end of the summer, politicians are having a tougher job duping us into supporting more financial giveaways to the oil companies.
Amazingly, though, Republicans still keep trying.
Floodgates open on the trashing of Michelle
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, June 16, 2008Does the fact that Michelle Obama is black mean she no longer deserves even minimal respect from the media?
Where the dinosaurs roam
By JOEL MCNALLY - Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Politicians should know better than to trust the word of a company such as General Motors. That’s because politics and Big Business have exactly the same problem with “the vision thing.”
Spitting on Veterans
By JOEL MCNALLY - Tuesday, June 3, 2008As someone who opposed the Vietnam War and didn’t spit on a single soldier, I have never believed those stories about servicemen in uniform encountering a tsunami of expectoration upon returning from Southeast Asia.
Could any of us face same fate as former Milwaukee alderman?
By JOEL MCNALLY - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The longer former Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee Jr. is incarcerated without trial, the more obvious and embarrassing it becomes that there is one system of justice in Wisconsin for McGee and another for everyone else.
Assassination joke just wasn’t funny
By JOEL MCNALLY - Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Mike Huckabee’s incredibly ignorant remark suggesting the attempted murder of Obama will, no doubt, be quickly forgiven and forgotten. Reporters obviously like Huckabee, partly for his good humor, even though in this case he was about as funny as an iron lung.
The bad dream ticket: Obama would be foolish to pick Clinton
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, May 12, 2008Now that a bright, young newcomer has come out of nowhere to upset the Democrats’ only successful political brand in the past quarter-century, the last thing Obama needs is to be weighed down by the negatives of the past.
Inmate inflation: We could cut food costs by incarcerating fewer people
By JOEL MCNALLY - Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Instead of trying to figure out how little we can feed the people we incarcerate, isn’t it time we came right out and admitted the number of people we lock up in this country has become certifiably ridiculous?
Ending Milwaukee school busing won’t drive widespread upgrades
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, April 28, 2008It's ironic that a new effort to drastically reduce busing in the Milwaukee Public Schools is coming from leaders within the African-American community.
Hottest Wisconsin movie shootout doesn’t star Johnny Depp
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, April 21, 2008The video of a real-life gun battle and a violent beating that preceded it offers all the sleazy attraction of a particularly horrible car crash. But the real national and state debate into which the video feeds is the argument over the desirability of carrying handguns.
Politics and the Olympics
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, April 14, 2008Just over the past 40 years of Olympics, we have seen bloody massacres, hostages taken, dueling U.S. and Soviet boycotts, drug scandals, brutal repression by ninja turtle police and officials being bribed with plastic surgery operations and free guns.
Gableman resorts to new low for high court
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, April 7, 2008
If Michael Gableman’s sleazy smear campaign against Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler was his idea of positive, we’d hate to think what sort of stomach-turning tactics Gableman would employ during a negative campaign.
Faith doesn’t negate act of negligence
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, March 31, 2008
Religious beliefs deserve respect in our society. But so does the legal responsibility of parents to protect the health and safety of their children.
Secret race plays out in Milwaukee County
By JOEL MCNALLY - Monday, March 24, 2008
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is facing his first major challenge by a successful, established politician—Democratic state Sen. Lena Taylor—since Walker rode into county office as a reform candidate six years ago.
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