Over the past week, there's been an uproar nationally and in this neck of the woods over an editorial that ran in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last weekend.

In the opinion piece, now being referred to as "The Asterisk Editorial", the Journal Sentinel editorial staff wrote that "In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America."

This comment has resulted in tremendously platitudinal backlash, with right-wing hypocrites throwing around terms like "thinly veiled Liberal racism" and recalling old strawman phrases like "acting white".  But such claims are intellectually dishonest in the context of this editorial, and come down to a simple strategy: The right-wing is playing the race card again.  And this time, like usual, they're laying a 2 of clubs and calling it an ace of hearts.

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How will Tuesday's Closed Door Senate Session play in America's Heartland?  Just ask Cindy Sheehan and the hypocritical callers to Milwaukee talk radio.

In the formerly blue collar city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we're all about accountability and transparency.  It's practically in our genes.  You see, we obtained these characteristics from the generations before us, who taught us that above all else stands honesty, and integrity, and a hard day at work.  And yes, you probably already know this from watching Laverne and Shirley reruns -

"Nothins gonna turn us back now.
Straight ahead we're on the track now.  
We're gonna make our dreams come true!"