As the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump finally goes to the jury, it’s worth reflecting on the widespread failure of the media to keep in mind that a trial is not just about facts. A trial is where facts meet law.

High-tension situations can lead to tragic consequences for suspects and police. In a better world, police officers never would have to draw their weapons and use deadly force to resolve an issue.

Bald eagles in Wisconsin are starting to make a steady comeback thanks to conservation efforts. Unfortunately, also on the rise are the number of eagles being poisoned by lead.

There’s a silver lining behind all those clouds for Joe Biden. Unless it’s clouds threatening his silver lining.

The terrible problem of monsters sexually assaulting children and pimping them out for money seems to be getting worse. Is the internet fueling it? Probably, but there isn’t much we can do about that. But we can certainly make at least a small dent in this crisis by reversing one of Joe Biden’s most insane policy decisions.

The Republican National Committee decided to hold the party’s 2024 convention in Milwaukee for the same reason that the Democratic National Committee decided to hold their party’s 2020 convention in Wisconsin’s largest city.

During the Walker administration, we enacted some of the boldest reforms in the nation. Five years later, Wisconsin still ranks second in the nation on the Federalism Scorecard issued by the State Policy Network. Our reforms protected the role of elected officials over unelected bureaucrats and prevented the federal government from exerting undue influence over state policy.

Portland OR, once a caliphate of Antifa, has been mugged by reality. Voters in the Oregon metro region tossed its progressive district attorney this week in favor of a law ’n order guy, endorsed by the police. A former Republican! Portland is the third large West Coast city to quit Crazy, after Seattle and San Francisco.

Welcome Comrade, to East Germany Madison, where we insist that not only you turn over your private data on your private property to us, the energy police, but we also, for your convenience comrade, tell you to what say and think about our demands.

We all learned about the water cycle when we were kids. As a reminder, it’s the process by which water on the earth’s surface gets heated up by the sun and then evaporates and rises and condenses into clouds and then — as rain or snow or some other form of precipitation — falls back to the earth’s surface, where the cycle begins anew. It’s grade-school science that as adults, we mostly take for granted.