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Crime, Daily Bread, Law, Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 5.27.22: Ron Johnson Scrambles for an Unlocked Door

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/27/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 68. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:23 PM for 15h 01m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 8.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the…

Bad Ideas, Bigotry, Crime, Daily Bread, Nativism, Race

Daily Bread for 5.15.22: Replacement Theory Brings Tragedy (And Not for the First Time)

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/15/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 72. Sunrise is 5:30 AM and sunset 8:11 PM for 14h 40m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1911, in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States…

Crime, Daily Bread, Incarceration, Law

Daily Bread for 5.14.22: Convicted Murderer Douglas Balsewicz Is Unworthy of Parole

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/14/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:31 AM and sunset 8:10 PM for 14h 38m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 96.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1953, Milwaukee brewery workers go on strike: Milwaukee brewery workers begin…

Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Politics, Sedition, Trump, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 2.5.22: He’d Give Them Pardons

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/05/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 20. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 5:14 PM for 10h 10m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 22.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W.…

City, Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Local Government, Politics, Trump, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 1.30.22: Trump Teases Pardons for Insurrectionists and Rioters

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/30/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 27. Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 5:06 PM for 9h 55m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1930, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders that…

Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 1.6.22: The Trumpist Insurrection, One Year On

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/06/2022 • Comments

Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:37 PM for 9h 11m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 18.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Whitewater Fire Department holds a board and…

Courts, Crime, Daily Bread, Kenosha, Law

Daily Bread for 11.2.21: The Concerns of the Rittenhouse Jurors

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/02/2021 • Comments

Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 45. Sunrise is 7:31 AM and sunset 5:45 PM for 10h 13m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1960, Penguin Books is…

Bad Ideas, Crime, Daily Bread, Law

Daily Bread for 10.11.21: Whitewater Schools Use Pandemic Funds for Artificial Turf

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/11/2021 • 2 Comments

Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 77. Sunrise is 7:04 AM and sunset 6:17 PM for 11h 12m 51s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 31.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1767, surveying for the Mason–Dixon…

Bad Ideas, Crime, Daily Bread, Law

Daily Bread for 10.10.21: Candidate for Wisconsin’s Worst Legal Argument of the Year

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/10/2021 • Comments

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with showers and a high of 78. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 6:19 PM for 11h 15m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 21.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1973, U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged…

Crime, Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 8.20.21: Regarding Attorney General Kaul’s ‘Regardless’

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/20/2021 • Comments

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 89. Sunrise is 6:07 AM and sunset 7:47 PM, for 13h 40m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1794, United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware,…

America, Crime, Insurrection, Justice, Law, Sen. Ron Johnson

Country Over Party

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/19/2021 • Comments

America, Crime, Documentary, History, Insurrection

Inside the January 6th Capitol Riot

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/01/2021 • Comments

Over the last year, Trumpism has advanced three grand lies: against the significance of the pandemic, against Biden’s clear win in the presidential election, and against the fact of a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In response to that third lie – that there was no violent insurrection – there is ample…

Courts, Crime, Law, Wisconsin

Probably Not the Headline the Wisconsin Supreme Court Wanted

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/30/2021 • Comments

Todd Richmond of the Associated Press reports Former drug smuggler can practice law in Wisconsin, state Supreme Court rules: The 4-3 ruling reverses a decision from the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners to block Abby Padlock from becoming an attorney in the state. According to court documents, Padlock became a drug smuggler to earn money so…