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Barack Obama

Cruel and Unusual?

President Obama: Solitary confinement ‘not smart’ and ‘not going to make us safer’

By | August 23, 2015

President Barack Obama called for reduction of solitary confinement during a July 14 address to the NAACP National Convention in Philadelphia:

“I’ve asked my Attorney General to start a review of the overuse of solitary confinement across American prisons. “The social science shows that an environment like that is often more likely to make inmates more alienated, more hostile, potentially more violent. Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.

Wisconsin State Legislature

GOP has edge in fall elections

By Bill Lueders | April 22, 2014

Could this be an opportunity for minority Democrats to make major gains, maybe even retake control? The pundits are shaking their heads.

Money & Politics Column

Court ruling blamed for record spending

By Bill Lueders | January 29, 2013

The 2012 presidential and congressional elections, said Lisa Graves, was “the most expensive election in U.S. history. In fact, it was the most expensive election in the history of the world.”

Guns

Gun law push will face pushback

By Bill Lueders | January 2, 2013

Then a gunman with an assault rifle murdered 26 people, mostly little children, at an elementary school in Connecticut. This atrocity, on top of other recent carnage, including two mass shootings in Wisconsin, is seen as opening the door to new gun laws.

Television ads

TV ads reviled, but effective

By Bill Lueders | November 13, 2012

Many voters insisted these ads had no impact on them. And some avowed that, when it came to them, the ads backfired. But Mike McCabe suspects these airwave-borne toxins are infecting the body politic “more than people realize or are willing to acknowledge.”

Money & Politics Column

Record spending brings little change

By Bill Lueders | November 7, 2012

Wisconsin’s status as a battleground state was reaffirmed in thousands of 30-second increments. The money flowed fast and furious. Yet all this spending brought little change.

Barack Obama

Obama preaches to choir in Madison

By Bill Lueders | November 5, 2012

President Barack Obama returned to Madison today to rally his supporters to cast their votes tomorrow to help “finish what we started” with his election four years ago.

Money & Politics Column

Cheeseheads frugal in presidential race

By Bill Lueders | October 30, 2012

Wisconsin has 1.8 percent of the nation’s population, but accounts for just .8 percent of the nearly $1.2 billion that has flowed to presidential contenders.

Money & Politics Column

Campaigns embrace new technologies

By Bill Lueders | October 23, 2012

Modern information technology is transforming society so fast that what was cutting-edge yesterday seems quaint today. Increasingly sophisticated communication methods are being used in all spheres, including politics.

2012 elections

A house divided

By Bill Lueders | October 18, 2012

In the battleground state of Wisconsin, Suzanne and Keevin Allen do what much of the political establishment cannot — disagree without being disagreeable.

presidential race ads

Presidential race: Ads will tell if state’s in play

By Bill Lueders | September 18, 2012

Either safely Democratic or safely Republican.

Wisconsin television markets have aired $6.1 million in presidential ads. But Wisconsin looks like an electoral thrift store compared to the battleground states like Ohio.

2010 elections

Youth voters, Dane County may narrow state’s ‘enthusiasm gap’

By | October 5, 2010

President Barack Obama’s visit to Madison last week could reap several strategic benefits for Democrats.

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