Sports - May 12, 2009
Congress should leave college football, BCS alone
The only thing worse than having sports columnists, talk-radio hosts and fans argue about whether college football needs a playoff system is allowing politicians to weigh in on the debate. Congress is actually spending time, money and brainpower figuring out how it can force college football mucky-mucks to have a playoff system. One congressman from Texas, Joe Barton, has introduced legislation that would make it illegal for the NCAA to call a game a national championship unless it was the result of a playoff.
Tags: bcs championship, playoffs, college football, congress, barack obama

Politics - Jan. 14, 2009
Milwaukee alderman battle to win UWM campus
Aldermen haven't given up on their pitch to get UW-Milwaukee expansions Downtown. UWM has made clear its preference to put its new engineering school at the County Grounds in Wauwatosa. Alds. Bob Bauman and Nik Kovac offered a resolution this week directing city lobbyists to lobby the UW System Board of Regents to locate the largest upcoming UWM building project and new dorms Downtown.
Tags: jim sensenbrenner, latrell sprewell, congress, gwen moore, uwm expasnion, wauwatosa country grounds, dot

Sports - Feb. 16, 2008
Saturday Scorecard: A parliament of liars and fools
One of the best things about sports is that most games provide a tangible outcome. There are winners and losers. That wasn't the case when Roger Clemens and his trainer visited Washington D.C.
Tags: clemens, mcnamee, congress, hardy, melvin, bonecrushers, jason wilde, gary damato

Politics - Feb. 4, 2006
Opinion: The next frontier for civil rights is financial
A 28-day month is too short to fully appreciate the scope of African-American history. Rep. Gwen Moore asserts in this guest op-ed that the next frontier for civil rights will be financial.
Tags: gwen moore, black history month, congress

Politics - July 6, 2005
Opinion: Meltdown helping Sensenbrenner make a name for himself
Ninth District Wisconsin Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner sure is making a name for himself these days. His recent jaw-dropping stalk-out from a House Judiciary Committee hearing that he chaired pretty much re-defined modern-day Congressional arrogance. And that's just the start.
Tags: WisPolitics, Sensenbrenner, Democrat, Republican, Congress

Politics - Sept. 14, 2009
Pants on fire!
Think carefully for a minute: those who call others liars are usually deceivers themselves.      Do you think I am talking about the recent flap with SCCongress member, Joe Wilson? My fault, I forgot to say who or what was the object or cause of my opening aphorism--and t...
Tags: congress, health care