It is not OK to murder people. That may seem to be such a self-evident moral truth that it should...

All right – let me try to clarify some misunderstandings about the gun article I wrote this week. First of all, due to last-minute editorial changes, I unfortunately made it seem as if DA John Chisholm was referring to straw purchases or lie-and-buy purchases as the “classic gun show loophole.” He wasn’t. Gun show loopholes refer to the ability for unlicensed gun sellers to sell gun...

Saturday’s Democratic Party of Wisconsin fundraiser turned out to be the hottest ticket in town—so hot that the Dems opened up a room for 400 people who couldn’t squeeze into the main event. The draw? Quite possibly the next president, as both Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama tried to win...