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This is an analysis piece. Arguably, Vice President Kamala Harris won the debate on expectations and performance. But former President Donald Trump won the debate on policy , and that's what really matters. Harris got generally high marks on performance because she wasn't a babbling fool, and Biden lowered the debate bar so low. She didn't get tangled in word salads or stare vacantly into the distance or wander around like a lost dementia patient on stage, so she exceeded expectations. Because she didn't collapse spectacularly, in a way she won, even though her inappropriate smiles and smirks were extremely annoying. She talked so fast = about absolutely nothing that one's mind wandered midway through each Harris soliloquy.  It was like she was on a Halloween candy sugar buzz. Harris didn't move the needle on policy at all, and that's where the rubber meets the road. https://twitter.com/RobertCahaly/status/1833734394101604631 The debate isn'

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are squaring off in their first, and perhaps only, debate. The stakes are high for Harris as Trump has been surging in recent polls. The 90-minute debate will be held at 8 p.m. central time on Sept. 10 on ABC, FOX, C-Span, and other networks. Here, for your viewing pleasure, we present... DEBATE BINGO! https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/trump-vs-harris-play-debate-bingo/?feed_id=19508&_unique_id=66e03406ac53e

By Madeline Mazur, Hartford Union High School student On Sunday, Sept. 8, high schoolers at Hartford Union High School spent several hours planting 2,977 flags on the lawn in front of their high school, an event organized by Young America’s Foundation. It was a tedious task that blistered their hands and may have seemed overwhelming and unimportant to bystanders. Yet, this event connected students with history in a way no history class can. Each flag was planted to honor a life lost on 9/11 and is a part of the 9/11 Never Forget Project, the largest campus activism project of its kind which Young America’s Foundation has organized for the past 21 years. [caption id="attachment_211112" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Hartford Union High School students.[/caption] The youngest people who were alive on September 11, 2001, are now 23 years old, which means no current high school student lived through perhaps the most significant moment in recen

"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" This is an opinion piece by Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany. As Kamala Harris steps onto the debate stage for the first time to face Donald Trump, we should ask ourselves: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? As Wisconsinites grapple with rising prices, inflation has become the number one issue for voters across our state. The Biden-Harris administration's economic policies have led to historic inflation, making it nearly impossible for many American families to make ends meet. We feel the reality of these failed policies every day as we go to the grocery store and pay for gas and electric bills. Skyrocketing prices affect everything, ranging from everyone's favorite appetizer, cheese curds, to an ice-cold beer at Lambeau Field. Consider this: in 2020, a pound of cheese curds cost $4.99. Today? You'll pay an increase of nearly 50%. The price of a beer at a Packer game has jumped b

Was Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it's the perfect movie for this time. What's happened to film criticism in this country? Movie critics have turned into elite snobs who seem increasingly incapable of separating their liberal politics from analysis. Unfortunately for them, half of the country doesn't agree with their personal politics. It makes reading movie reviews these days predictable and, frankly, an obnoxious bore. I don't remember Roger Ebert clouding his movie reviews with ideological snobbery. We ran into the same thing when we reviewed Matt Walsh's documentary "What Is a Woman?" Largely ignored by critics but loved by massive audiences, we won a Milwaukee Press Club award for that review. Yes, Reagan is a political movie. However, when the values that deeply move so many audience members are the very things that almost every published critic mocks, Houston, you've g

First, I have to say a word to President Trump. Dude, the next time you’re in Wisconsin, I’d like to interview you for Wisconsin Right Now. Have your people call my people. I have to disclose that the last time I met Trump, at a hotel in Milwaukee, and I went through the security check point inside the garage with my pickup. The secret service dog alerted on the bed of my pickup, and I found myself with a few guns pointed at me. Fortunately, the German shepherd alerted on the dog food in the back, to which the secret service found themselves laughing and I found myself wetting myself. (Well, not that last part.) In order to enjoy Labor Day weekend, you probably had to pay twice as much for a lot of goods and services. I literally saw one sign this past weekend that said “buy 5, get 1 free”. Now that’s inflation! No more buy 1 get 1 free deals. Komrade Harris is now touting a $50,000 deduction for startups - as a distraction from her inflationary policies… ahh, hello, dummy, sta

A suspected Venezualan gang member who is not a U.S. citizen now has an ICE detainer hold on him after he was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile female in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, according to Prairie du Chien Police Chief Kyle Teynor. The suspect, Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26 of Venezuela, is believed to be a member of “Tren de Aragua," a violent Venezuelan gang, Teynor wrote in the Sept. 6 press release. That's the same gang that has sparked massive outrage and headlines after a video emerged showing gang members at an Aurora, Colorado, apartment building. According to online court records , since 2023, Zarate has been wanted on warrants out of Dane County, where he was charged, but never showed up for court, on a slew of violent-crime charges. On Thursday, September 5, 2024, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the Prairie du Chien Police Department in Wisconsin "responded to the 300 block of East Wells Street for a physical disturbance," the chie