Terrence Wall's farewell gift

Local paper resumes Thirty Years War

Word under the dome is that the issue may have been raised as a farewell gift from Terrence Wall, who ended his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat after Ron Johnson jumped in and won the GOP endorsement by promising to spend $10-15 million of his own money against Russ Feingold.

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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter Dan Bice got run up one side and down the other by nearly all of 100 readers who responded to his column. Some good reasons were given. But none mentioned the most obvious: Reporter Bice's fomenting the undoing of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia between the Lutherans and the Catholics.