This week, a 39-year-old Black man in Waukesha plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Six people wer…
It is Thanksgiving weekend. I know that for many it is the launch of a busy and hectic holiday period. I, myself, will be rushing to get the l…
Ready or not, Christmas is right around the corner. While it can be tempting to just go on your phone to get your shopping done, now is the ti…
During an hourlong sit-down on his Fox News program Monday night, Tucker Carlson canonized the deadly actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen wh…
Intense debate over the Build Back Better legislation has triggered stern lectures by fiscal conservatives about government spending. The legi…
The question often comes up whether the changes in climate over the last few decades are due to human caused “global warming” or whether it’s …
There was a time, not so long ago, when Michael Flynn’s latest pronouncement would have been considered outrageous, but I’m afraid we’ve reach…
I was 27 years old and working as a consultant when I decided it was time for a job change. A few days before I was set to leave, a secretary …
Once again, America is mourning the senseless deaths of innocents—this time the result of a mass killing in a city just west of Milwaukee. And…
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Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point.
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It was sad to read, in last Friday’s Gazette, about the planned closing in March of Janesville’s Book World.
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Riley Vetterkind started his new job as spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission the same week that several Republican legislators—inc…
Children are good.
Two contrary police reform measures—one to increase police officers in Austin, Texas, and another to decrease them in Minneapolis—went before …
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My friend—I’ll call her Nellie, as in Nervous—wants her usual pasture-raised, organic turkey, on the small side, for Thanksgiving. But her usu…
Avid baseball fans had a tough decision to make regarding the 2021 World Series. Do you cheer for the cheating Houston Astros or the tomahawk-…
Since 1984, the nationwide legal drinking age has been 21 for good reasons. Young people’s brains are still developing, which affects their ju…
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Everyone lately seems to have an opinion about Vice President Kamala Harris. Depending on which news source or social media site you visit, sh…
A frost finally came to southeastern Wisconsin last week and there were a few snow flurries to dust things off.
Being able to read a map is a good thing. Writing a map to overthrow American elections—not so much.
I’m tired of hearing that the current spike in inflation is “transitory”—not because I doubt the underlying economics of the claim, but becaus…
These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October and dodging Christmas displays of inflatable Baby Yoda yard art while w…
Finally, “Infrastructure Week” is no longer a punchline. As President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion bill into law Monday, he kicked off t…
Now two years into the pandemic, we continue to hear constant fights about the fundamental antagonism between being an independent individual …
It was a record-scratch of a moment: Texas actor and potential gubernatorial hopeful Matthew McConaughey, who is vaccinated against COVID-19, …
After five years of political, economic and social upheaval in America, this month has seen some hints of a return to normalcy. The question i…
Last week, a friend texted me this prediction about the outcome of Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial: “Kyle Rittenhouse walks or only (gets conv…
Comparing mask requirements to the Jewish people being required to wear a yellow star in Nazi Germany shows a unbelievable ignorance of history.
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Isabella Tichenor killed herself a few days ago. She was 10 years old.
