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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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Minneapolis ICE Shooting Is Moral Dividing Line
When we explained in 2024 to our family and friends why it was dangerously wrong to cast a ballot for an authoritarian candidate running for president, there was a range of feedback. Reasoned people grasped the larger issues on the ballot, such as character, the foundation, and values of our nation. Others openly rejected facts 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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Evangelicals Accept Donald Trump’s Behavior
In the fall of 1976, Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter’s interview in Playboy created a rush of news stories and political commentary. There were many in the conservative religious wing of the Republican Party who were truly upset that a presidential nominee would give an interview to a publication that was viewed as pornography. President Continue reading
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