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in The Way We See It on August 02, 2010
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From the August 1, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Once the darling of everyone, this administration now seems to be at odds with everyone, fussing, feuding and defending itself. Not since Carter have we had a White House so divorced from public opinion.
You expect the opposition to disagree with a president who has moved the country farther to the left than any chief executive since FDR. And indeed, the changes have been epic, whether it’s the nationalization of health care, the $700 billion in bailouts, the $862 billion in failed stimulus, the takeover of the car industry or attempts to control Wall Street.
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in The Way We See It on July 26, 2010
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From the July 25, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
As the election season nears, feckless congressional Republicans seem poised to squander an opportunity to stand for something other than easy opposition to the Obama cult of personality.
Poll after poll suggests the profligate president and his party are vulnerable to a smart, clearly articulated alternative that does not further elevate the ravenous federal leviathan. But GOP leaders, from national strategists to congressional heavyweights, have been either unwilling or unable to rally around a message — one of intellectual substance as well as tea party style — that offers a clear response to the Democrats’ reflexive Keynesian expansion of government.
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in The Way We See It on July 20, 2010
From the July 18, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
In the world of sport, the dog days of July traditionally are reserved for the boys of summer, whose stories, once again, unfold on the field, now that the bloated behemoths of the steroid era have been exposed as liars, cheats and neckless narcissists.
Even in these parts, where the BP Brewers leak oil and the Clueless Cubs menace each other in the dugout, baseball has re-asserted itself for all the right reasons.
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in The Way We See It on July 12, 2010
From the July 11, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
American progressives not indulging a Ralph Nader fetish have cast their lot with three legitimate political superstars over the past 18 years. In each case, true believers trusted America would be reborn as a nurturing land of tolerance for all things they deemed tolerable. (This applied, sadly, to Tipper Gore dancing the pony at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, but we digress.)
Their cult-like devotion was rewarded in the first case with adultery, serial perjury, impeachment and political drift to the hated center. By the time Bill Clinton shambled out of Washington, he had become an inconsequential figure — the lothario-in-chief, permanently consigned to the margins of presidential history.
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in The Way We See It on July 06, 2010
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From the July 4, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
“Independence forever!”
— John Adams, toasting the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
As Americans celebrate Independence Day this weekend, a pause for reflection on the current threat to freedom is warranted.
History teaches that Islamist murderers are not the first terrorists we’ve been forced to fight. Barbary pirates attacked U.S. vessels in the 18th and 19th centuries, and virtually alone among nations — sound familiar? — the fledgling United States fought back and prevailed. A century ago, terrorists from Mexico, masquerading as revolutionaries, crossed our border to kill Americans. U.S. forces stopped the attacks.
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in The Way We See It on June 21, 2010
From the June 20, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
This week’s evidence of the disconnect between the public and private sectors comes from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, which voted unanimously to hike tuition rates statewide by a whopping 5.5 percent, then whined bitterly about the meager salaries of academic employees.
A large tuition hike in the midst of a grinding recession is emblematic of the indifference government-education officials long have had for the people who pay the bills. It also suggests that the board, which has doubled tuition over the last 10 years, is inclined to dissociative behavior, retreating in troubling times to its happy place, where the public trough runs forever deep with other people’s money.
