LETTERS/OPINIONS
Roll away the stone
Half the country is hoping President Donald Trump is dying. The other half thinks that, if he does die, he will rise again on the third day and send troops into Cleveland. This does not make me more comfortable as I head to the dollar store to buy the cat …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Republicans in the Assembly rolled out a new package of education reforms this week with little fanfare and even less ambition. So what else is new? GOP lawmakers held a press conference for the Madison and Milwaukee press corps, which despises them, but neglected to send out any press packages …
Reader warns Line 5 delay risks homes left out in the cold
To the Editor: During a public comment period held by the Wisconsin DNR a major propane supplier warned that without the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline, Wisconsin and much of the Midwest would be plunged into a propane state of emergency. The warning went on to say this meant supply shortages …
Jury nullification
Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it’s called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury …
The barbarians within
This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a “People’s Conference for Palestine.” There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements of Hamas and denigrated the United States
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Reader asserts glossy ATV flyer blurs facts
To the Editor: If you have a US Post Office address in Boulder Junction, you should have recently received a flyer from the Boulder Junction ATV/UTV Club. This flyer is an attempt to convince electors to register support for allowing ATVs on Boulder Junction town roads during an upcoming survey …
Tiny short cut, big delay
To the Editor: This is addressed to those traveling Highway 70 East who mistakenly believe Big Arbor Vitae Drive and Marsh View Lane (BAV/MVL) offer a shortcut. The distance via BAV/MVL is 1.4 miles, 0.1 mile shorter than the 1.5-mile stretch on Highway 70 East. Time, however, is the usual …
Lakeland Times: Our View
We’ve all known it for some time now — conservatives in this state are not just facing strong headwinds, they are being whipped around and demolished like a mobile home in the path of a tornado. Frankly, and let us be blunt, there’s no excuse for it. This sits squarely …
Governance by threat, not constitutional order
The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.
Trump’s war against tradition
As American schoolchildren, we are taught that the great genius of the Framers was to create a constitutional balance of powers that wouldn’t rely on the assumption that “enlightened statesmen will ... always be at the helm.” This structure is presented like an ecosystem, as self-regulating and auto-correcting. As the …
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Number 11 was my nephew: The human cost of ATV road access
To the Editor: In 2018, I got deeply involved in ATV and UTV access to the towns in northwestern Vilas County. I have written numerous letters to the editor, been interviewed by local newspapers, spoken at town and county board meetings, helped write/administer surveys, and helped create a website (https://preservebj.my.canva.site/).
The left’s misdefinition of Americanism
This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited that “President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.”
Flag burning: Trump’s latest stunt
At the White House Monday, Trump signed another one of his infamous executive orders, this time announcing, “If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.” Not so fast. If the executive order said that, as Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld persuasively argues in The Free Press this …
Don’t blame socialism, blame dictators
To the Editor: Recently a guest columnist spent a couple of issues attacking “socialists,” without shedding much light on what that term might mean. He repeats the idea that socialist governments always fail. Apparently no one has told him about the socialist mayors of Milwaukee, in the first half of …
Sexuality is a spectrum
To the Editor: Many of us have a hard time understanding human sexuality. I remember as a child in the 1950s, homosexuality was not discussed and those who were in same-sex relationships lived quietly and unobtrusively, never brandishing their sexual orientation. Often those who spoke out about their sexuality were …
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