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Lakeland Times: Our View
Just when you think everything is all clear, that the Democrats have gone so far round the bend that even the bend is shaking its head, just when you start to think that maybe the future is not so dark after all, that’s when you remember to turn your head …
So much for the rapists and murderers
Remember when candidate Donald Trump went on and on about all the rapists and murderers who were invading our country and he said he was going to deport them? It was his favorite issue, his answer to everything. It was enough to frighten anyone and helped him win the election.
Retrain American workers
More than anything else, American voters worry about the economy. Specifically, they struggle to pay their bills. Those with jobs are scared they will get fired through no fault of their own, perhaps because globalization ships all or part of their sector overseas, or because artificial intelligence replaces humans. The …
An open letter to Senator Johnson
To the Editor: I am very disappointed that HR1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will not reduce the deficit. HRI increased the U.S. federal debt limit by $5 Trillion dollars; congress knows the deficit will increase under this bill!
Are conservatives demoralized?
This week, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA’s big event in Tampa, Florida. There — without naming President Donald Trump — he unleashed on the Trump administration, suggesting that they were covering up a child sex trafficking ring and denigrating Trump’s victories thus far.
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Toughen up: Barack Obama’s message to Democrats
“It’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” former President Barack Obama told Democratic donors at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee last Friday night
Cease fire in Minocqua?
To the Editor: Our politics suck. And the cause is one man whom I’ve despised since the mid-80s because he was all hat and no cattle then as he is now. Somehow, he has tapped into the angst of far too many people who are overreaching in the pendulum of …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Well, it was another week and another bad decision from the state Supreme Court, a pattern we should have gotten used to by now. Over and over again the court has been thumbing its nose at the legitimate will of the people and embracing the prerogatives of the ideological elite, …
The Justice Department whistleblower
“If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone,” Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Senate Judiciary …
How to third party
Elon Musk says he is going to start a new third party. Assuming he’s serious, he’ll soon learn that the Democratic-Republican duopoly has made it insanely hard to break into their — emphasis intentional — system. As The New York Times observes, “Launching a new national political party in the …
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It’s too damn hot
Speaking of his budget bill, which will kick millions of people off the health insurance rolls, give tax breaks to the wealthy and add $3 trillion to our kids’ debts, President Donald Trump said last Thursday in Des Moines: “(Democrats opposed the measure) only because they hate Trump. But I …
What the hell happened with the Jeffrey Epstein case?
This week, the internet was set abuzz by a memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein, of course, was found hanging in his cell in a New York jail in August 2019, after his arrest on charges of sex …
Big bill, bigger debt, no plan
To the Editor: In the debate about the budget bill recently passed by Congress, an essential point got lost. Estimates are that the tax and spending bill will add $3.5 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Missing from the discussion is that this amount is on …
Lakeland Times: Our View
This week we take a moment to step back and appreciate the Lakeland community and all those who help to make the area what it is, and to offer a special thank you to all those who helped to make our Independence Day celebrations especially successful and sweet this year.
What’s wrong with the Democrats? They need more democracy.
What’s wrong with the Democrats and how can the party be fixed? When an insurgent outsider candidate from the party’s progressive Left defeats a moderate endorsed by the establishment, Democratic leaders reject the results and deny the will of their voters. They refuse the infusion of new ideas and tactics …
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