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Fitchburg Man’s Story Echoes Fear About Ice in 2026
In the Sunday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal, a story about what to know if you’re approached by ICE caught my attention. This weekend, when placing a couple of books into a Little Library station in our neighborhood, I saw brochures with the same information being provided to passersby. While I very much agree Continue reading
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Local Citizen Writes Cogent Letter For Impeaching Donald Trump To Senator Ron Johnson And Congressman Scott Fitzgerald
Our friend and realtor, Robin Guernsey, wrote a powerfully cogent and timely letter to her federal officials this morning, following the murder on Saturday of an American on the streets of Minneapolis. Before I get to the heart of this column, first, I need to explain the character of the woman who wrote the letter. Continue reading
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Letter From Home: Heartstopper And Hancock 1/23/26
Last fall, at Barnes & Noble, thanks to a large display near an entrance to the bookstore, I first became aware of Alice Oseman, and the Heartstopper series. Several books of her work were prominently displayed, and I spent a few minutes reading a bit and exploring the overall tone and mission of them. Heartstopper Continue reading
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Americans Cannot Bend To Threats Of Insurrection Act — Not in Minneapolis, Not Anywhere
It does not take a news junkie to realize that something is dreadfully wrong in our nation. Someone with severe macular degeneration can witness the absurd overreach and absolute lack of humanity after an ICE employee murdered a woman by shooting her in the face multiple times. Following that, numerous law enforcement and military veterans, Continue reading
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Last Book Of 2025: Riveting British History From Robert Harris
History, when told well, has the pulse of a thriller. Over the past few decades, the quality of the narratives from historians and writers has increased, ranging from Herbert Donald Smith, David McCullough, Ron Chernow, and Erik Larson as they stoked boundless enthusiasm on the printed page for the lives and times of Abraham Lincoln, Continue reading
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Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!
Caffeinated Politics returns with more opinions and musings on January 1st, 2026. Continue reading
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Goodbye Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Let A New Page Be Turned
It was only a few months ago that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan embarrassed Catholics and slapped reason and common sense away when stating on right-wing television that racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and misogynistic Charlie Kirk was “a modern-day St. Paul.” And I am in the running for the next crew aboard the space station. What Continue reading
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Pete Hegseth Must Be Fired As Defense Secretary
We are watching the wheels come off the Donald Trump Administration. This weekend, we learned gut-punching news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a completely deplorable and totally unacceptable order to kill everyone in a missile srike, inferring that even included survivors in the waters off Venezuela. That is what happened after a U.S. military Continue reading
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