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Tortured by bureaucrats
Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful.
There won’t be nannies
When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. “But if I could afford nannies, I’d like to have four.” Musk reportedly replied: “That’s the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will …
News for the ‘downwardly mobile elite’: you’re still elite
A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban “downwardly mobile elite.”
Gabbard jabber: our (gulp!) head of national intelligence just says anything
Early on in “Fiddler on the Roof,” Yente the Matchmaker tries to sell a villager on Rachel, the shoemaker’s daughter, as a suitable wife for his son. “Rachel?” the man responds incredulously. “But she can hardly see! She’s almost blind!”
An open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: I am very disappointed that HR1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will not reduce the deficit. HRI increased the federal debt limit by $5 trillion dollars; congress knows the deficit will increase under this bill!
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Bobby Jr. would make Thomas Paine cry
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an imposition on posterity.”
War on capitalism
Capitalism gets a lot of hate. I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, “horrifying inequality” and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz, “accelerating climate change.”
River News: Our View
Just when you think everything is all clear, that the Democrats have gone so far round the bend that even the bend is shaking its head, just when you start to think that maybe the future is not so dark after all, that’s when you remember to turn your head …
Can American democracy rebuild after Trump?
There are a lot of things Donald Trump does not like. Find a common theme, and one may conclude that Trump doesn’t like America. This thought is not original to me. Democratic strategist James Carville offers it as his theory of why Trump wreaks so much damage on this country.
Depravity denial: On sexual violence, progressives make an Israel exception
By nightfall on Oct. 7, 2023, enough details of what several thousand Hamas gunmen had done to about 1,200 Israeli civilians had emerged to make clear the scope of their savagery: youngsters executed en masse running for their lives from a dance festival, families tied together and burned alive or …
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Good fences make good neighbors; zoo should build its own
To the Editor: This letter is in response to the July 11 front page article regarding the proposed apartment complex in Minocqua and the unusual requests from Wildwood Wildlife Zoo and Safari. How can anyone suggest that an adjacent property owner should be responsible for creating a buffer that you …
Drunk and defiant: ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ tops the charts
Every year, there’s a song of summer. It’s often something to argue over when conversation lags at the barbecue. In 2013, feminists attacked Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” for allegedly glamorizing sexual violence. “Blurred Lines” was a huge hit. According to Rolling Stone, “It held the whole world in its slightly …
Labor unions kill jobs
Progressives love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class. I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for better workers, gave us the weekend.
Big bill, big consequences
To the Editor: The “Big Beautiful Bill” has passed, and it is now official. There is over a one trillion dollar reduction in Medicaid over 10 years. In Wisconsin, we also call ours BadgerCare.
Big bill, bigger debt, no plan
To the Editor: In the debate about the budget bill recently passed by Congress, an essential point got lost. Estimates are that the tax and spending bill will add $3.5 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Missing from the discussion is that this amount is on …
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