Tired of the same old same old? Want to see something different? Want to experience something new?

Then I suggest traveling. After living and traveling in Europe for many, many years, I have experienced the good, the bad and the excellent.

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From the dawn of politics, corruption has always been its sidekick. But not has it ever been so easily seen, and so close to home with Milwaukee’s 6th District Ald. Mike McGee Jr.

For those of you not paying attention, Ald. McGee won the primary election a few weeks ago by carrying over 30 percent of the vote...from his jail cell. This tells the rest of Milwaukee something: Either the news media and law enforcement statistics have painted a horribly wrong picture for the neighborhoods in the 6th District, or the voters in the area really see nothing wrong with having a criminal in office.

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Illness and old age did what nearly half a century of U.S. policy toward Cuba could not – remove Fidel Castro, 81, from office.

After 49 years of ruling Cuba with an iron fist, outlasting nine U.S. presidents, Castro has formally stepped down as president and head of Cuba’s armed forces.

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In a February 11th Op/Ed, JJ Burseth gave his opinion of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student government, the Student Association, by renaming it the “Student Aristocracy”. In an Op/Ed published the next week, he compared the Student Association to Nazis. While Mr. Burseth can resort to name calling and personal attacks all he wants (it’s a free country), he is naïve to think students and faculty alike will conform to his definition of a “leader”.

Mr. Burseth is president of the Students for a Democratic Society at UWM. It’s the college branch of the Weathermen Underground, founded by Mark Rudd, mastermind of the violent uprising at Columbia University in 1969, and heralded by William Ayers, who bombed the U.S. Capital building in Washington, D.C. So I would like to ask Mr. Burseth and members of SDS what’s so funny about anarchy, civilian deaths and domestic terrorism?

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In this presidential year, with so much at stake, it may be prudent to bring up an influential political theory regarding the presidency. Developed by political scientist Stephen Skowronek, this theory, called the presidential regime theory, asserts that different presidential leaders who assert a new premise of governance (called “regime leaders”) appear upon the departure of unpopular and weak presidents belonging to outdated regimes of years past.

For example, Franklin Roosevelt – who pushed forward several policies collectively known as the New Deal that dramatically changed how we feel about government’s role in society – followed the disastrous presidency of Herbert Hoover, who was part of a “regime” of presidents that represented strong capitalistic economics within society with limited government interference.

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