LETTERS/OPINIONS
What the polls show
It was the Fox News poll of voters that a reporter asked the president about, the one that showed 59 percent saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone too far. Hard to dismiss as fake news, but the president wasn’t biting. He ignored the question, just sat resolutely …
Girls vs. boys
Am I sexist? I think there are differences between men and women — traits beyond obvious physical ones. But when I was young, feminist leaders said there were no differences. The only reason men ran most things was sexism. There was plenty of that. One example people forget: Until 1974, …
Lakeland Times: Our View
Most people in Oneida County don’t know it yet, but the county will soon make its biggest personnel decision in decades, a decision that will, in no small measure, impact our ability to make a decent living, to run a small business, to use our land reasonably, and to pay …
Democrats’ response to Minneapolis chaos could be to their detriment
The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democratic officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside the Trump administration. Together, these forces have produced exactly …
Bovino’s exit
Getting rid of Gregory Bovino, who had been the face (intentionally so) of President Donald Trump’s war on immigrants, is a first step, but it is hardly enough. “You know, Bovino is very good, but he’s a pretty out-there kind of a guy,” Trump said in a Fox News interview …
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Reader is nauseated over media’s ‘predictable’ mantra of chaos caused by ICE
To the Editor: Perhaps it is understandable, understandable that a political party with the means and opportunity, would use its power and authority to insure survival. Knowing that newly arrived immigrants, legal or not, would favor the entity offering this open invitation, “Biden world” ignored immigration law. Democrats willfully removed …
Uncommon criminal: The perp walk President protected from prison
It wasn’t enough last week for Americans to stomach the global humiliation of watching an untethered president babbling about “taking” territory from a NATO ally, or listening to his hourly cascade of lies about everything, from the sacrifices the allies he dissed had made on our behalf or the latest …
Jack Smith
Jack Smith finally got his chance to defend his investigation publicly in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Smith is a dinosaur by this administration’s standards. He is the polar opposite of Pam Bondi, which should be a frightening thought. He is a career prosecutor who doesn’t play …
Lakeland Times: Our View
There has been no shortage of news stories in recent weeks about the coming November elections and the battle for control of the Wisconsin Legislature. Republicans are fighting to hold the Assembly. Democrats are making an all-out push to flip the Senate. It’s a good bet right now that each …
Big news: We aren’t going to invade Greenland
But Minneapolis is still on the table. The news out of Davos on Wednesday morning was that President Donald Trump told world leaders that he does not plan to use force to take Greenland.
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The C-SPAN of Wisconsin must be saved
A bright light went out at the state Capitol last month. Lawmakers should plug it back in, with help from the public. WisconsinEye, an independent nonprofit, stopped broadcasting gavel-to-gavel coverage of legislative floor sessions, press conferences, public hearings and more from the statehouse and across Wisconsin.
The Insurrection Act
President Donald Trump made the threat, where else, on Truth Social: “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute …
What’s the matter with Minnesota?
Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry.
Lakeland Times: Our View
It is apparent these days in contemporary America that there is one consistent standard, and one consistent standard only, and that is the existence of an explicit double standard: Democrats and big government bureaucracies can never be held accountable for their wrongdoing, as average citizens are, and government players can …
Tricia McLaughlin defends ICE’s visible presence
There is still chaos surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and nowhere is the anger more palpable than in cities like Minneapolis. Protesters insist they are exercising their rights, even as some cross legal lines. The distinction matters. Observing ICE is lawful. Obstructing ICE is not. And when citizens interfere …
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