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The bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson described as an attempt “to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses,” was met with fierce criticism from leading Democrats in Congress.
It’s time to crack down on reckless driving.
Cooke’s successful small-donor fundraising allowed her to hire an experienced campaign manager and set up an impressive campaign website, with thoughtful issue positions and creative social media with thousands of views. No wonder that unions, local small businesses and national organizations have endorsed Cooke.
Hovde claims excessive spending by Baldwin and Biden are responsible for our increasing national debt. In fact, it is the tax cuts of Trump and George W. Bush that have added the greatest to our debt.
Thirty-two states in the country right now allow teachers or school administration to conceal carry. South Dakota started the trend in 2013! Eleven years ago. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is not one of the states that allow teachers to defend their classrooms.
WPR restructures in the face of declining audiences, shifting media habits.
A measles outbreak is another problem that we don’t need, and one that can be eliminated if people would just get vaccinated.
H.R. 3269 represents a crucial step towards enhancing law enforcement safety and community protection by facilitating the adoption of advanced less-than-lethal technologies.
Arrest them. Remove them. Expel them. What we see happening on college campuses across the country is not about free speech.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the race for Wisconsin’s First Congressional District, where former Revenue Secretary Peter Barca, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1993-1995 along with two stints in the state Assembly, is running against Republican incumbent Bryan Steil.
Protesters like to claim they are “speaking truth to power.” That’s both noble and heroic. It is also rare, because speaking the truth requires knowing the truth. And knowledge is gained not by joining the crowd chanting slogans but by taking time to talk and to listen, questioning, debating, reading, and reflecting. It is a slow, arduous and ultimately rewarding process. It is called education.
To judge by media coverage — especially prominent due to the strong visuals of tent encampments and tensions between protesters and officials — one might infer that Gaza is foremost among political concerns this spring.
Former Beloit Daily News Editor Bill Barth sees echoes of the Vietnam War protest movement in today’s campus protests over the Isreal-Gaza war.
Blogger Gregory Humphrey chides Columbia University for blocking press access to protests. He also criticizes protesters’ demands journalists get protesters’ permission to photograph them.
The “outside agitator” meme is invoked to absolve — or, at least, mitigate — your tribe of accountability. That’s a cop out.
After insisting that she would only meet with protesters after they had voluntarily decamped, she met with them yesterday anyway. Why on earth is she rewarding this kind of behavior?
Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor during the ’90s, notes that since the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts, wealthy Americans have financed the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans — “profiting when the rest of us pay them back.”
We are a nation at a crossroads in need of prayer.
Injecting new ideas and forcing the major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests remain the most tangible results of minor-party and independent campaigns.
Tax dollars should fund election administration, and election workers should be paid for their vital efforts. It is now up to the Legislature to make sure the funding exists to make that happen in both ordinary and extraordinary election years, whether that’s due to a novel coronavirus or a not-so-novel economic downturn.
The bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson described as an attempt “to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses,” was met with fierce criticism from leading Democrats in Congress.
It’s time to crack down on reckless driving.
Cooke’s successful small-donor fundraising allowed her to hire an experienced campaign manager and set up an impressive campaign website, with thoughtful issue positions and creative social media with thousands of views. No wonder that unions, local small businesses and national organizations have endorsed Cooke.
Hovde claims excessive spending by Baldwin and Biden are responsible for our increasing national debt. In fact, it is the tax cuts of Trump and George W. Bush that have added the greatest to our debt.
Thirty-two states in the country right now allow teachers or school administration to conceal carry. South Dakota started the trend in 2013! Eleven years ago. Unfortunately, Wisconsin is not one of the states that allow teachers to defend their classrooms.
WPR restructures in the face of declining audiences, shifting media habits.
A measles outbreak is another problem that we don’t need, and one that can be eliminated if people would just get vaccinated.
H.R. 3269 represents a crucial step towards enhancing law enforcement safety and community protection by facilitating the adoption of advanced less-than-lethal technologies.
Arrest them. Remove them. Expel them. What we see happening on college campuses across the country is not about free speech.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the race for Wisconsin’s First Congressional District, where former Revenue Secretary Peter Barca, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1993-1995 along with two stints in the state Assembly, is running against Republican incumbent Bryan Steil.
Protesters like to claim they are “speaking truth to power.” That’s both noble and heroic. It is also rare, because speaking the truth requires knowing the truth. And knowledge is gained not by joining the crowd chanting slogans but by taking time to talk and to listen, questioning, debating, reading, and reflecting. It is a slow, arduous and ultimately rewarding process. It is called education.
To judge by media coverage — especially prominent due to the strong visuals of tent encampments and tensions between protesters and officials — one might infer that Gaza is foremost among political concerns this spring.
Former Beloit Daily News Editor Bill Barth sees echoes of the Vietnam War protest movement in today’s campus protests over the Isreal-Gaza war.
Blogger Gregory Humphrey chides Columbia University for blocking press access to protests. He also criticizes protesters’ demands journalists get protesters’ permission to photograph them.
The “outside agitator” meme is invoked to absolve — or, at least, mitigate — your tribe of accountability. That’s a cop out.
After insisting that she would only meet with protesters after they had voluntarily decamped, she met with them yesterday anyway. Why on earth is she rewarding this kind of behavior?
Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor during the ’90s, notes that since the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts, wealthy Americans have financed the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans — “profiting when the rest of us pay them back.”
We are a nation at a crossroads in need of prayer.
Injecting new ideas and forcing the major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests remain the most tangible results of minor-party and independent campaigns.
Tax dollars should fund election administration, and election workers should be paid for their vital efforts. It is now up to the Legislature to make sure the funding exists to make that happen in both ordinary and extraordinary election years, whether that’s due to a novel coronavirus or a not-so-novel economic downturn.
