
Steve Benen: What Ron Johnson really ought to know about Mar-a-Lago security
Ron Johnson, who chaired the Senate Homeland Security Committee for six years, said Mar-a-Lago is “a pretty safe place” and “a secure location.” It’s not.
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Ron Johnson, who chaired the Senate Homeland Security Committee for six years, said Mar-a-Lago is “a pretty safe place” and “a secure location.” It’s not.

With the Espionage Act, that doesn’t matter.

To cool the planet, I think we’d be better off cooling the rhetoric.

To my frustration, the Pentagon Papers sparked a debate about freedom of the press rather than focus on the mountains of lies we’d told our soldiers, the men and women who risked, and lost, the most.

Only after Gableman nearly helped defeat Vos did the speaker declare that Gableman was an “embarrassment” to our state and fired him.

Instead of an honest investigator, Gableman was always a partisan Stolen Election mythologizer. Like the Queen of Hearts, he was verdict first, evidence later.

This summer’s primaries have, as a rule, strengthened Trump’s stranglehold over his party. But there are glimmers of hope here and there. Robin Vos may be one of them.

From the Kleefisch collapse to state legislative races and everything in between.

National and in-state media paid no attention to the Republican primary, in which the senator faced a little-known challenger named David Schroeder.

Who would have guessed that the 2022 midterm elections would turn out to be a referendum on the New Deal?

The ongoing licensing crisis at Gov. Tony Evers’ dysfunctional Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) has made life even harder for these critical health care workers.

I sincerely hope that Wisconsin leaves its current abortion law alone. It is correct. But if we are to debate changing the law, let us all engage with sincerity, respect, and reasoned positions.

Tony Evers has been a leader in the movement toward leniency on crime, and decarceration.

Once again this week Wisconsin Republicans, both those already in office and others aspiring to be, emerged from their hyperpartisan rhetoric with egg on their faces.

Unique in an era of volatile international politics, the unswerving leadership and commitment of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Congress and our Western allies have put Russia on the defensive in Ukraine.

Congressional Democrats, including all Wisconsin Democratic members of Congress, stepped up to the plate and hit a home run, the Inflation Reduction Act.

It was only after the votes were counted that Vos found his voice, even his backbone, along with a microphone into which he could utter his feelings about the former Supreme Court justice.

The latest act of defiance by the unelected commissioners forced the Legislature to seek to intervene in the lawsuit.

Ron Johnson’s Democratic challenger shows strength where the incumbent US senator shows vulnerability.

Tim Michels entered the race late and spent millions to blanket the state with TV ads introducing himself as the turn-Madison-upside-down outsider endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Ron Johnson, who chaired the Senate Homeland Security Committee for six years, said Mar-a-Lago is “a pretty safe place” and “a secure location.” It’s not.

With the Espionage Act, that doesn’t matter.

To cool the planet, I think we’d be better off cooling the rhetoric.

To my frustration, the Pentagon Papers sparked a debate about freedom of the press rather than focus on the mountains of lies we’d told our soldiers, the men and women who risked, and lost, the most.

Only after Gableman nearly helped defeat Vos did the speaker declare that Gableman was an “embarrassment” to our state and fired him.

Instead of an honest investigator, Gableman was always a partisan Stolen Election mythologizer. Like the Queen of Hearts, he was verdict first, evidence later.

This summer’s primaries have, as a rule, strengthened Trump’s stranglehold over his party. But there are glimmers of hope here and there. Robin Vos may be one of them.

From the Kleefisch collapse to state legislative races and everything in between.

National and in-state media paid no attention to the Republican primary, in which the senator faced a little-known challenger named David Schroeder.

Who would have guessed that the 2022 midterm elections would turn out to be a referendum on the New Deal?

The ongoing licensing crisis at Gov. Tony Evers’ dysfunctional Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) has made life even harder for these critical health care workers.

I sincerely hope that Wisconsin leaves its current abortion law alone. It is correct. But if we are to debate changing the law, let us all engage with sincerity, respect, and reasoned positions.

Tony Evers has been a leader in the movement toward leniency on crime, and decarceration.

Once again this week Wisconsin Republicans, both those already in office and others aspiring to be, emerged from their hyperpartisan rhetoric with egg on their faces.

Unique in an era of volatile international politics, the unswerving leadership and commitment of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Congress and our Western allies have put Russia on the defensive in Ukraine.

Congressional Democrats, including all Wisconsin Democratic members of Congress, stepped up to the plate and hit a home run, the Inflation Reduction Act.

It was only after the votes were counted that Vos found his voice, even his backbone, along with a microphone into which he could utter his feelings about the former Supreme Court justice.

The latest act of defiance by the unelected commissioners forced the Legislature to seek to intervene in the lawsuit.

Ron Johnson’s Democratic challenger shows strength where the incumbent US senator shows vulnerability.

Tim Michels entered the race late and spent millions to blanket the state with TV ads introducing himself as the turn-Madison-upside-down outsider endorsed by former President Donald Trump.