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President Joe Biden’s migration has flooded almost 1,000 poor Latino migrants into the poor college town of Whitewater, Wisconsin, according to a plea by the city’s police department. “Their arrival has put great strains on our existing resources, ” says the letter to Biden by the city manager and police chief of the 15,000-person city: Communicating with an immigrant population that generally speaks only Spanish has been a challenge we’ve worked to overcome by the use of costly translation software. We have found approximately three times the number of unlicensed drivers on our roadways compared to previous years. This occupies...

On June 15, 2022, a Racine County Sheriff’s deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle after observing it speeding in Racine, WI. Upon approach, the deputy noticed four children in the backseat when the vehicle only had three seatbelts in the back. The parents appeared to be argumentative and were ultimately given several citations.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden administration has been in communication with local law enforcement in Kenosha, Wisconsin, of possible unrest following the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. A jury of seven women and five men declared Rittenhouse, who was accused in the shooting deaths of two men on a night of riots and protests last year, not guilty on all five charges on Friday afternoon. The most serious charge would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison. Psaki on Friday said that the White House “has been in close touch with...

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The murder trial of young Kyle Rittenhouse, the only noteworthy prosecution to come out of the 2020 Kenosha riots, has become a surrogate for a war that the American Left has long tried to keep under the radar: the war against the concept of self-defense. The Left finds itself in a quandary. They cannot say “you have no right to self-defense” in so many words. They must get there in another way, a roundabout way, but one in keeping with their longstanding effort to defang America’s police departments. Create technicality acquittals, and erect restrictive rules of engagement for police. Build...

The nation has been mesmerized by a televised trial in Wisconsin. A teenager is charged with murder for a case of clear self-defense… THREE clear cases of self-defense, really. The haters say that all that doesn’t matter, because he didn’t have to be there in the first place. He shouldn’t have gone. He shouldn’t have put himself in that position. He wouldn’t have had to defend himself, after all, if he were back home in Illinois, watching TV or playing video games, the way teenaged boys are supposed to spend their time, right? I wonder how many Americans have heard...

KENOSHA, WI — President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear in Kenosha on Tuesday for a variety of functions in the wake of the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake. All told, Trump's time in Kenosha is expected to be just shy of two hours as he flies into an airport in Waukegan, Illinois, and heads north into Wisconsin's southernmost city. While in Wisconsin, Trump is scheduled to take a 20-minute look at a week's worth of property damage, a 15-minute tour of the local Emergency Operations Center and participate in a roundtable discussion about community safety that is...

Labor Raid: The FBI raids the Chicago home of a local union leader looking for terrorist connections as the union's former chief is investigated for corruption. Why are we not surprised? Thuggery and corruption are not quite synonyms for unionism, but it gets very close when you consider the Service Employees International Union, formerly led by Andy Stern. From being involved in fraudulent voter registration in Texas to beating up Tea Party activists outside town hall meetings in Missouri, SEIU's reputation is well-established. Now we can possibly add a linkage to terrorism. On Friday, the FBI searched eight addresses in...

Last week, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot three men – two of which have died – during a riot in Kenosha. The teen is being charged as an adult and faces two counts of first-degree homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims and possessing a weapon while under the age of 18. According to Pierce Bainbridge, the law firm representing Rittenhouse, his attorney was justified in using deadly force because Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) and Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian failed to protect the residents in the city. Although Rittenhouse lives 30 minutes...

The alleged Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter is facing 6 charges for allegedly shooting and killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber during a riot in the city early Wednesday morning, according to an official complaint. 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has 6 charges against him: The first charge against Rittenhouse is First Degree Reckless Homicide, Use Of A Dangerous Weapon. The complaint alleges Rittenhouse “did recklessly cause the death of Joseph D. Rosenbaum, under circumstances which show utter disregard for human life.” According to the complaint, the charge carries a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison if convicted. The second charge is First...