LETTERS OPINIONS
A reader’s open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: I am very disappointed Congress is not taking a stand to support the American people or the US Constitution. The president is charged with upholding the laws passed by Congress. President Trump is declaring ‘national emergencies’ to go around Congress and the Courts.
Tourist crowds aren’t good for tourists, either
My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, “How was it?” She said, “Awful.” They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience …
How the White House takes power from congress
Russell Vought is the ultimate Trumper. The head of the Office of Management and Budget just anointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to wind down the U.S. Agency for International Development (“wind down” being one of his favorite words) had a new stunt to try out to subvert constitutional …
From all directions: America’s become a place for hate
“You know,” the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, “I’ve spent my life separating the right from the kooks.” The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely so, about what he regarded as the deeply misguided policy prescriptions of liberal Democrats. Staunchly …
Slouching toward dictatorship: Trump reigns and America sleepwalks
Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolled eyes, dismissals that the warnings were hysterical, and cries of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a neat little expression utilized by those who argued that the evidence in …
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Who will protect the kids?
Some parents abuse their kids. Child welfare workers are supposed to stop that to protect the kids. But bad things often happen while they watch.
Don’t blame socialism, blame dictators
To the Editor: Recently a guest columnist spent a couple of issues attacking “socialists,” without shedding much light on what that term might mean. He repeats the idea that socialist governments always fail. Apparently no one has told him about the socialist mayors of Milwaukee, in the first half of …
I’m with Newsom
I don’t always say that. Sometimes the California governor and would-be 2028 contender drives me slightly crazy with his transparent stunts to get attention. But this is not a stunt. The redistricting bill that the California legislature passed and Newsom signed aims to counter what Texas is doing with its …
River News: Our View
That huge rustling suspiration everybody in the Northwoods heard this past week can now be explained: It was a collective sigh of relief upon hearing the news that former Oneida County corporation counsel Michael Fugle had resigned.
My socialist mayor part 2
The Socialist politicians are coming! In Minneapolis, Democratic Socialist Omar Fateh is favored to be Minneapolis’ next mayor. In New York City, bettors say there’s an 80 percent chance that socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor.
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Are we beginning to fix immigration?
It's with some discomfort that I consider the possibility that Trump's radical immigration agenda will lead to better immigration policies. The discomfort comes from the cruelty involved: the roughing up of good people who've been quietly working, the celebrations of brutal incarceration, the racially tinged rhetoric.
Open letter to Congressman Tiffany
To the Editor: I recently read in a column by Bruce Murphy in the publication “Urban Milwaukee” that in an interview with him regarding smoke from Canadian wildfires, you indicated that you don’t believe that man-made climate change has been proven, calling it a “theory that needs to be tested …
Public lands are priceless: Stop the Roadless Rule Repeal
To the Editor: While spending recent would-be beautiful Northwoods weeks indoors because of Canadian wildfire smoke, I have been thinking about Representative Tom Tiffany’s letter to Canada’s US ambassador.
Infrequently asked questions: Amid misery in Gaza, some things don’t compute — Part 2
On CNN last week, analyst Scott Jennings asked Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, like many a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, if Rogin had an alternative to militarily removing Hamas from power in Gaza. Rogin’s recommendation: “You can steer (Hamas) toward better governance, but …
Smoke and smokescreens: Tiffany’s climate stance under fire by reader
To the Editor: On this very smoky day, I’m wondering (indoors) if Congressman Tiffany has read — all of it — “Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report - Summary for Policymakers” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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