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in The Way We See It on December 22, 2010
From the December 19, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
We offer the following message of hope as a simple, uplifting retort to those who insist on transforming Christmas into a secular holiday. Their efforts wax and wane, but reminders abound that progressive elites always will have a problem with the public acknowledgment of this holy day.
In Madison, for example, the state’s Christmas tree now is a “Capitol Tree” for no reason other than to mollify indignant cranks who resent public displays of a Christian message that has inspired Americans for more than two centuries.
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in The Way We See It on December 13, 2010
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From the December 12, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
As Republicans prepare to take control of all levers of state government in Wisconsin, a largely disingenuous narrative is emerging among liberals that laments a lack of civility under the Capitol dome.
Cue the tiniest of tiny violins.
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in The Way We See It on December 06, 2010
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From the December 5, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Still smarting from historic election losses, Wisconsin Democrats seem determined to go anything but gentle into that good night.
With majorities in the Assembly and Senate only through the end of the year, Democratic leaders say they intend to call an unprecedented lame-duck session of the Legislature to approve new union contracts for some 30,000 state workers.
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in The Way We See It on November 15, 2010
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From the November 14, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Beloit School District residents might be wondering these days just how high the local unemployment, under-employment and foreclosure rates have to be before their school board calls off the tax dogs.
Just days before voters in Wisconsin and across the country registered historic disgust with the profligacy of government, the Beloit School Board approved a jaw-dropping 6.6 percent increase in the tax levy and a corresponding 14.9 percent increase in the property-tax rate.
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in The Way We See It on November 15, 2010
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From the November 7, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Democrats sickened by their losses in the midterm elections Tuesday might wonder what became of their grandfather’s big-tent party. The more thoughtful among them will correctly conclude that a party once led by America-first fiscal moderates like John F. Kennedy, Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Hubert Humphrey and Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been dragged to the fringe by an arrogant clique of big-government true believers.
When they voted for Barack Obama in 2008, centrist Democrats and independents expected — and were promised — a historic post-partisan, post-racial presidency that would usher in a new era of peace, love and understanding.
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in The Way We See It on November 15, 2010
From the October 31, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
As American voters prepare to make history at the polls in Tuesday’s midterm elections, history of another kind might well have been made in Boston days earlier when the Minnesota Vikings played the New England Patriots.
As of this writing, Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, the erstwhile Big Cheese of Cheesehead Nation, was hobbling about Eden Prairie, Minn., with a broken ankle that threatened to end his 20-year, NFL-record consecutive-games-played streak at 291.
