While running for Governor of California in the 1960’s Ronald Reagan established the 11th Commandment of politics: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”. For decades the GOP abided by that commandment–as it’s presidential primaries were fairly cordial affairs compared to the ugliness that beset the Democratic Party . But in today’s political…… READ MORE
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The Savers Get Punished Again
I’ve always expected the Government to come for our retirement funds. There is a lot of money tied up in tax-sheltered accounts that every member of Congress could find multiple ways to spend. I just always assumed that Democrats that would take steps to take it away–not Republicans. There would always be a Bernie…… READ MORE
Sure, Now You Love Him
Remember how President George W Bush was treated while in office? Late night comedians mocked him as being some kind of idiot. Democrats claimed he knew nothing about foreign policy. He was portrayed as racist because he didn’t go to New Orleans five minutes after Katrina passed to start helping “all of those black people”. …… READ MORE
Stop Giving Us What We Want!!
Milwaukee County is considering a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies and distributors blaming them for the rise in opioid addiction. The argument will be that the drug companies profited from the painkillers prescribed to people that later turned into heroin addicts that either died from an overdose, required medical treatment for overdoses, or ended up in…… READ MORE
A Lot On Our Plates
An effort is afoot to take “America’s Dairyland” off of Wisconsin license plates. The catch-phrase has adorned our plates since the 1950’s–when milk marketing really started taking off–but the folks at Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce believe it somehow limits how the state is perceived–like dairy farming is some backwoods operation conducted by country yokels. …… READ MORE
Millennial Town
As the City of Oshkosh moves closer to selling off Lakeshore Golf Course so the Oshkosh Corporation has a sleek, modern headquarters to lure “young talent”, let’s start planning some other changes to cater to our new millennial neighbors. Here are some of the things that other cities are doing to “attract and retain” the…… READ MORE
It’s All on Mike Now
It was certainly coincidental that the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl hopes were likely dashed on the very field where the game is going to be played in February. The loss of Aaron Rodgers for at least the rest of the regular season puts the pressure on someone whom I think has been allowed to…… READ MORE
Spare Us the Indignation
Hollywood can spare us the indignation and “shock” over the Harvey Weinstein case. The same people that gave a tearful standing ovation to convicted child rapist Roman Polanski when he was awarded an Oscar (in absentia to avoid arrest and going to prison for drugging and sodomizing a 13-year old girl) in 2003 are now…… READ MORE
The Best Team Parents Can Buy
Now that we’ve had a day to poke fun at US soccer fans after their team’s miserable failure to qualify for the World Cup, let’s talk about the serious threat that led to the debacle: elitism in sports. More than one expert pointed out yesterday that Team USA was not a collection of the…… READ MORE
I Believe That We Don’t Care!
It looks like Americans won’t have to pretend to be interested in soccer for the next five years. With a shocking loss to Trinidad and Tobago last night, the US Men’s National Team fails to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. That means no lengthy on-line stories about how a deep run…… READ MORE
