LETTERS/OPINIONS
Giving Irish: A nation and a vibrant community celebrate one another
September 15, 2023
The phrase “fighting Irish” did not originate with Notre Dame’s football team, but with the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War.
Lakeland Times: Our View
September 15, 2023
Those who align themselves with the Democratic Party want everyone to know that there is absolutely no election stealing going on, none at all, not on the national level, not on the state level, not on the local level.
How Burning Man became uncool
September 12, 2023
This week, the Burning Man festival — a convocation of large groups of men and women seeking sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and other forms of hedonistic bliss — was flooded.
Debating a Democrat
September 12, 2023
Colorado has a popular Democratic governor, Jared Polis. He’s a rare Democrat who says, “I’m for more freedom and lower taxes.”
Enbrel makes the list
September 8, 2023
The U.S. government this week released the list of the 10 medications that will be the first to be the subject of the new price negotiations under the Medicare reform bill, and my arthritis drug, Enbrel, made the list. To make the cut, you either had to be taken by …
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After impeachment, Bill Clinton paved the way for Donald Trump
September 8, 2023
The laws of political physics, it seemed, had been reversed.
Lakeland Times: Our View
September 8, 2023
Of late the globalist warming crowd has targeted the poor cow for the cause of the earth burning up before our very eyes.
Control versus choice
September 5, 2023
COVID cases are up. Hospitalizations climbed 24% last week. But the media make everything seem scarier than it is. The headline “Up 24%!” comes after dramatic lows. Hospitalizations are still less than half what they were when President Joe Biden said, “The pandemic is over.”
The law of unintended consequences can’t be repealed
September 5, 2023
This week, the Biden administration announced that Medicare would name some 10 prescription drugs it would subject to direct price negotiations. The drugs include Jardiance (diabetes), Entresto (heart failure), Imbruvica (blood cancer) and Stelara (psoriasis). If the companies that created the drugs refuse to kowtow to Medicare, they will be …
Reader shares wake boat concerns
September 1, 2023
To the Editor: Large, high-performance powerboats have destroyed the shoreline and water quality in lakes Butte-des-morts, Winneconne and Poygan.
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St. Germain reader asserts town should be liable for fireworks damage to school
September 1, 2023
To the Editor: At the June 22 Town Board meeting, I asked if with the high fire warnings and drought conditions, if the Independence Day fireworks could be held at a later date. The answer was, “We will have to talk about it.” The fireworks went on.
Mugged: America digests the specter of inmate no. PO1135809
September 1, 2023
It wasn’t a midnight train to Georgia that carried the 19 criminal defendants charged by a Fulton County grand jury to that county’s sheriff’s office to have their mug shots taken last week, but one by one they all made the humiliating trek to the local jail to post the …
About Hunter
September 1, 2023
President Joe Biden loves his son. That’s the long and short of it. The son’s a first-class mess. Former drug addict. Peddled influence he didn’t have. The laptop. The pictures. The child he denied. The plea deal that collapsed. Now the special counsel will do his business. Can it get …
Lakeland Times: Our View
September 1, 2023
We suppose we should never be surprised about what is going on in Oneida County government — virtually none of it any good — and so it wasn’t much of a shock when the Oneida County district attorney completely flubbed her analysis of our complaint about the zoning committee’s actions …
Reader’s thoughts on Western culture versus anarchy and totalitarianism
August 29, 2023
To the Editor: When I left Saigon on my last trip in 1973, the handwriting was on the wall. The ink had dried on the last chapter in South East Asian-American history. Soon there would be mayhem at the American embassy. We would evacuate by helicopter the fortunate and leave …
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