OPINIONS
No conspiracy theory, Billy Fried, just the facts
As reported by The Times, when Lakeland Times publisher Gregg Walker addressed Oneida County's public safety committee last week, supervisor Billy Fried made several assertions about both the nature of Walker's invitation and the content of Walker's remarks.We feel Mr. Fried's comments demand a straightforward and public response, both to …
Road rats
State Sen. Jon Erpenbach came to town the other week, and, no surprise, he was whistling and singing a familiar Democratic tune: "Happy days are here again. Let's raise taxes and spend, spend, spend."
A principled public servant
The town of Minocqua and the entire Lakeland community lost a great friend and dedicated public servant this past week when town supervisor Bryan Jennings died after being struck by lightning at his Minocqua home.
Handing out Confederate diplomas
Everybody knows, or at least they should, that higher education in America is a racket.This is how it works. First, the bloated education establishment bellows about how everybody - and that's everybody - needs to go to college or they will wind up being losers in life.
I promise to do absolutely nothing
We're still waiting for the perfect candidate. Donald Trump has pledged a lot of good things, but he's still not it.He's not perfect because he wants to do too much, and every time politicians promise to do something, it's a sure bet we're going to get more government, more regulation, …
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Seizing back our property rights
The biggest problem with law enforcement is, they think we're stupid.That's why they feel emboldened to just seize all the property they can for police budgets through civil asset forfeiture, the process by which law enforcement can take property suspected of being used in a crime even if no one …
Step in and reform
The Oneida County sheriff not long ago told the county's law enforcement committee he didn't really want them meddling in internal department affairs: Just trust us and let us do our jobs, and everything will be fine, he basically told the committee.Of course, what's fine and what's not is in …
Their last hurrah
Tuesday's primary elections in Wisconsin were a drab affair compared to our national drama in politics, and that says a lot about the state.If the national political fabric is blood red and blow-hard blue, Wisconsin's primary colors can best be described as 50 shades of black, that is, it lacks …
Hillary between the hedges
Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that Hillary Clinton had raked in some $48 million in hedge fund donations compared to only $19,000 given by hedge fund managers to Donald Trump, and that set tongues to wagging.As it turns out, the Wall Street Journal was guilty of some sloppy …
Extremism in the defense of liberty
Predictably, the state's new Supreme Court justice, attorney Dan Kelly, is coming under fire from the Left as an unacceptable extremist.As we report in today's edition, Democratic state Rep. Dana Wachs was appalled that Kelly would call affirmative action the moral equivalent of slavery.
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The hot mess in the Oneida County Sheriff's Department
When there's a vacuum, it is said, someone fills it, and usually that doesn't end very well.And that's exactly the case in Oneida County with respect to the county's sheriff's department. There's no clear lines of accountability and oversight, and that leaves a vacuum into which sheriff Grady Hartman and …
Police power in the Age of Orwell
The assassination of five police officers in Dallas has once again turned the U.S. into a political barnyard. There's crap everywhere.Instead of just mourning the innocent officers, who were killed protecting protesters who despised them, instead of letting the police re-examine their security protocols, and moving on, the politicians have …
Another sad day for America
Let's be honest. Virtually no one believed the FBI - the official law-enforcement wing of the nation's liberalocracy - would ever indict Hillary Clinton for anything. The Clintons, after all, have made a career out of escaping prosecution.
Let's raise the voting age to 25, at least
The U.S. has made many a mistake in its relatively young history - see the election results of 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 for examples - but perhaps none has been more egregious than the 1971 ratification of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Sheriff Hartman gets it wrong again
Oneida County sheriff Grady Hartman just never learns, that's what we learned this past week after attending the county's public safety committee meeting.Even after losing a case in which he attempted to keep allegations of rape within his department sealed, even after he took bad advice to keep those records …
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