LETTERS/OPINIONS
Little kids, big government
Child care got expensive — more than $13,000 per child, per year. So many people want government to pay for it. My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay! But wait ... what government does isn’t free. Taxpayers pay. And taxpayers pay more because “government rules …
Long Covid: waiting for a cure
My daughter is suffering from long COVID. I have written about it before. I wish I had good news. I don’t. It is a nightmare you should do everything you can to avoid. Most people who get COVID get well and move on. That’s what we want to believe. No …
Lakeland Times: Our View
In what free speech advocates are rightly calling a decisive victory for the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of a Mississippi street preacher who challenged a local ordinance restricting where he could speak.
Tax the rich?
“Tax the rich!” shout progressives. Why not? America’s richest people are ridiculously rich.
This is what a world superpower looks like
America is living through a moment difficult to describe without sounding a little unhinged. But here goes: We are watching the United States do things that only the United States can do.
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Poor Pam
She did everything a loyalist could do. She bowed to his whims. She weaponized the Justice Department, turning it into the weapon and tool of a vengeful president. She fired all those who had dared to do their jobs and investigate him, or investigate and prosecute his loyal army of …
The sudden political star of Trump II: Marco Rubio
“White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict.” So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner’s website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb. 28.
Lakeland Times: Our View
Another year, another war. That’s the pattern Washington has settled into for more than 60 years now: the noise of war as a looping background track in the days of the nation, escalation as a sad but necessary outcome, and “mission accomplished” declarations that age about as well as a …
Reader calls for a new look at sovereignty and public funding
To the Editor: For the sake of this conversation, I will be referring to the Lac du Flambeau tribe as a special interest group. When a special interest group of Americans is given extra special rights and privileges it’s only natural for the rest of the population to feel that …
Washington politics
It’s business as usual — almost — in the midst of a war abroad and an affordability crisis at home and the longest partial government shutdown in history.
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In today’s NBA, beliefs can be a firing offense
There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job. League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, …
End it or explain it
The costs of this war are becoming, painfully, clearer and clearer. The Friday headlines of The New York Times capture part of the picture: “Global Food Supply Faces Dangerous Bottleneck in Strait of Hormuz” (that’s the skyrocketing price of fertilizer at work); “Diesel Is a Bigger Problem for Consumers Than …
Over a barrel: Iran has us between a rock and a hard place
In Washington recently, the Foreign Minister of a Middle Eastern country under attack by Iran argued that Iran must at last be forcefully confronted by the international community, and that continuing to kick the can down the road when it comes to Tehran is unacceptable.
Lakeland Times: Our View
There is an old assumption in American civic life that the legislature is the beating heart of representative government, the place where the will of the people is translated into law. It is also the soul of constitutional governance, where competing interests are massaged into compromise, where the excesses of …
The SAVE Act
The Republicans are determined to pass it. It’s their Hail Mary pass for the midterms. If you can’t win an election fair and square, then suppress the votes. Disenfranchise those who aren’t likely to vote for you. Create a phony problem that you then have to solve. It’s an outrage. …
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