OPINIONS
Goodbye Pepe Le Pew, we hardly knew ye
Warner Bros. has made it official: That unloveable skunk of the Looney Tunes universe, Pepe Le Pew, is being banished forever, as the cancel culture has finally caught up to the cartoon world.
The never-ending emergency (powers)
In this world, there are two realities. One is the actual world in which we all live. The other is the world in which politicians, bureaucrats, and other elites want us all to live. (subscriber access)
America has arrived at a very dangerous place
This week, in what could be a cornerstone moment in American politics, Dr. Naomi Wolf appeared on Fox News's Tucker Carlson show to sound the alarm about what she correctly calls a growing despotism in the United States. (subscriber access)
The return of the radical aestheticists
Let's just go ahead and get this out of the way first. There's no shortage of bad actors in the current Oneida County zoning fiasco, in which a private group (aka the Thome Team) is seeking to rewrite a portion of Oneida County's shoreland zoning ordinance, in the process blindsiding …
Rogue bureaucrats are riding roughshod over property rights again
Ever since the election of Tony Evers, we have been keeping an eye on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, wary of signs that the agency's rogue bureaucrats would soon be up to no good by trying to subvert the will of the people.
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Oneida County's culture of overreach and deception
As of this writing, Oneida County's snowmobile trails remain closed due to lack of snow, and about the only thing more egregious than that in late January is the lack of due process coming out of the county from elected officials and bureaucrats who oversee the maintenance of those trails.
The Administrative Man
There's a lot of talk about state Supreme Court justice Brian Hagedorn these days, so much so that he has had to hold interviews to explain his inexplicable votes in 2020, in which he hunkered down with the court's die-hard liberals, giving the left a de facto majority on the …
Merry Christmas and a Happier New Year
It is perhaps an understatement to say 2020 has been one of the most trying and surreal years of all of our lives.
Say it ain't so, Bob
It was quite the deal, announced just this past week: Legendary folk singer and rocker Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalog of music to Universal Music Publishing Group for more than $300 million, as reported by the media. (subscriber access)
Pandemic politics sacrifices transparency for public health power
Long before there was ever a pandemic - it seems like an eternity ago - when life was "normal," government transparency was already on the endangered species list, and censorship and secrecy were on the rise.
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The unholiest of all alliances
For years now, we have written about the perils of a global alliance between multinational corporations and internationalist movements of the left - a collection of socialists, environmentalists, developing country bureaucrats in the United Nations, and others.
Tony Evers' best executive order yet
This past week, Gov. Tony Evers weighed in with a new executive order dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, and, we have to say, we like this order best of all.What's not to like, for in his order, Evers ordered ... well, he ordered nothing at all.
Feeling like a million dollars
There's probably a lot of joy this week around the Oneida County Courthouse. We can just see the buoyant bureaucrats now: Happy people, dancing and whistling and singing, "Boy, I feel like a million dollars!"
Beating a horse like a broken record
There are many ways to say it.You could say we are beating a dead horse. Or that we sound like a broken record.However one describes it, it needs to be said yet again: Oneida County needs to fire its corporation counsel, Brian Desmond.
For the 34th, Swearingen is the only responsible choice
For the 34th Assembly district, we wholeheartedly endorse Rob Swearingen for re-election. Mr. Swearingen stands as the only responsible choice in a race in which substance has been buried beneath character attacks and partisan stunts by a Democratic candidate who has taken electioneering to new lows.
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