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There’s a fascinating debate going on in Wisconsin. Current state law requires that in order to have a liquor license, bars must be closed between 2:30am and 6:00am on Saturday nights, and between 2:00am and 6:00am the rest of the week. But the Democratic National Committee chose Milwaukee to host their 2020 convention, and there are apparently many in the state who just don’t believe that twenty hours per day provide enough drinking time to manage the Democratic party’s national convention. They might need more. There is therefore an effort afoot, allegedly spearheaded by the Wisconsin Restaurant Association – which...

For those legislating and regulating industry out of the country and reducing our living standard back to maybe 1800 to call themselves Progressives requires a sense of humor, but in a way, they're right. Closing Post-Classical civilization to move into a new era can be called progress, at least by some. Most in the newborn Western Christian era during its early Dark Ages might not have seen it as progress but we at the intended end of its flowering of wealth and technology certainly think of it that way. History leaves no doubt that civilizations rise and fall; the fall...

One night last August, someone called the St. Paul police and told them to get to the Pub East bar right away - the bartender’s outside firing a shotgun. When the cops arrived at 1180 East Seventh, the shooting was done and the pistol-grip shotgun was on a cabinet in the kitchen. On the way to jail, the bartender, Ronnie Eugene Stafford, well-liquored himself, had this to say. “I did what I had to do,” the bartender reportedly told the police. “I had to get ‘em out of the bar.” The city’s report doesn’t make clear to whom the bartender...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...