“Milwaukee” on The Daily Caller

A man who has been involved in past protests in Milwaukee was arrested Thursday during a protest by Occupy Milwaukee at a downtown bank, but within hours different versions of what led to the arrest had emerged. (more)

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will be in Milwaukee this month to screen a documentary he put together with his wife about Pope John Paul II’s role in ending communism, reports the Associated Press. (more)

In 1981, when the air traffic controllers went on strike, Ronald Reagan fired them all. Can you imagine? Air traffic controllers — unique individuals with rare and valuable skills, thought irreplaceable, fired en masse. And we never noticed. Supervisors filled their shoes for months while new ones were trained. Not a single accident. What happened to those air traffic controllers who lost today’s equivalent of $100,000-per-year jobs? Few ever found jobs with that kind of pay again. (more)

In the wake of Jared Lee Loughner’s attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, experts believe that Loughner’s attorneys will seek an acquittal for their client by reason of insanity. (more)

Yet another former ACORN employee was convicted of voter fraud last week. This brings the total number of convictions for former workers from the embattled group to at least 15 so far this year. (more)

When the two main loves in your life are helping people and reading comic books, the call is loud and clear: Become a superhero. (more)

Because I’m an ardent NASCAR fan — and look unquestionably adorable in a firesuit — I was recently invited to participate in the Stock Car Racing Media Challenge at Pocono Raceway. It meant that I’d get to drive a real race car like the big boys do on Sundays, at top speeds and all by myself. (more)

What a week for “Countdown”! Approximately 97 segments about Christine O’Donnell, a song about Christine O’Donnell, and one hilariously bone-headed non-Christine-O’Donnell-related mistake. (Skip to Tuesday to check it out.) (more)

It's a sound that stopped generations of youth across the country in their tracks and marked the conclusion of a night of outdoor fun. The wailing of a curfew siren, usually from the local fire hall, was for many years a tradition in small towns across the USA. (more)

(CNN) – Those following President Obama’s prepared remarks during a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday were thrown a bit of a curveball when it came to a description of his critics: (more)

Cities and states across the nation are selling and leasing everything from airports to zoos—a fire sale that could help plug budget holes now but worsen their financial woes over the long run. (more)

MILWAUKEE – Before the Diamondbacks’ Adam LaRoche came to the plate in the fourth inning Wednesday night, Mark Reynolds turned to a teammate in the dugout and recalled how, a year ago, they hit three home runs in an inning against Brewers pitcher Dave Bush. (more)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back. (more)

MILWAUKEE — The people who brought chocolate-covered bacon last year have a new creation for this year’s Wisconsin State Fair. (more)

State elections officials narrowly rejected a Milwaukee Assembly candidate’s attempt to run with the slogan “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’ ” under her name on the ballot. (more)

Barack Obama isn’t the one that hundreds of millions of poor Indians have been waiting for. Many unemployed in Milwaukee won’t be too happy either. (more)

The manager of a Milwaukee custard stand on Friday asked Joe Biden for lower taxes in return for dessert, and the Vice President told him not to be “a smartass.” Perhaps on his own visit to Wisconsin today, President Obama will have a better answer for the latest blue-collar casualties of his Administration’s anticarbon obsessions. (more)

MILWAUKEE—Rhonda Dannenberg, a suburban mother of three, stuck her nose in six glasses of beer at the MillerCoors brewery here and swished a bit of each in her mouth. Then she delivered the kind of frank verdict that’s shaking up the mens-club world of beer tasting. (more)

No one is safe in today’s hyper-connected 24-hour news cycle, a vicious world where even the most obscure and absurd local story will suffer the fate of national attention — and ridicule. Peggy West, who sits on the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors, is the latest victim. (more)

Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said. (more)