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The Results When Friendship Meets A Crazy Wrecking Ball
Canada and the United States have spent generations building a relationship that looks less like diplomacy and more like a long, comfortable marriage with shared borders, shared industries, shared cultural shorthand, and the occasional good‑natured ribbing about hockey or health care. The underlying theme is that neighbors who get along tend to prosper. We can… Continue reading
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Presidential Dignity Takes A Hit As Correspondents’ Dinner Speech Sinks Into Crude Grievances From Donald Trump
Long-term readers know I am a fan of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the work journalists do to cover how our government works and then report to the citizens. I also consider this annual event a time when some fun and hilarity can balance all the forces in Washington who are often in a… Continue reading
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Select Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Who Can Protect The 2028 Election In Wisconsin
We all have our reasons for supporting this candidate or that candidate in the Democratic August primary for governor. Over the past months, I have pressed for a pragmatic choice in the primary so we can win and hold this most important elective office in the state. While data centers, childcare, and sound schools are… Continue reading
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Testosterone Testing For The Military, How About Reading Tests?
I trust my husband completely. But when he told me, as we were setting the table for dinner, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will now annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy, framing it as a way to keep troops on the leading edge of lethality, I wondered if I needed… Continue reading
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Caffeinated Politics Podcast: Founding Ideals, Political Decay, And Coloma, Wisconsin
What “Happiness” Really Meant Institutions Under Pressure Small-Town Accountability, Wisconsin-Style Continue reading
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Fake Books On Air Force One For Reading-Adverse Administration And Their Low IQ Voting Base
The nation learned last week, courtesy of a photo op that looked like a Pottery Barn clearance display, that Karoline Leavitt, the shallow White House press secretary, was giddy to be photographed while seated in front of a wall of fake books. Not light reading, not decorative editions, but straight‑up hollow props. The kind of… Continue reading
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The Supreme Court Got Dragged Into America’s False Narratives
This week can be summed up with a line from Robert Reich, who wondered if the Supreme Court would “rule the Constitution unconstitutional”. I suspect all of us were checking our news feeds this week at about 9 AM CT to find out what rulings had been handed down from the Court. Then, in many… Continue reading
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The Fourth Of July Lesson We Need To Heed
We have red, white, and blue bunting on our staircase that goes to the second floor. James is an amateur vexillologist and has a series of flags flying at our home that highlight the history of the national celebration taking place in ten days. Doubtless, we will light the grill and enjoy fireworks with friends.… Continue reading
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