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President ignored fallout of drilling ban

Editorial Post — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:48:23 +0100

From the August 29, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

When senior Obama administration officials concluded in June that a federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would eliminate 23,000 jobs — as news reports now indicate — and then recommended it anyway, they opened another window into the icy soul of a preening presidency.

It is telling that President Obama quickly signed off on a job-killing driRead More...

More to football than grass stains

Editorial Post — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:00:33 +0100

From the August 22, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

As Brett Favre once again retires from retirement — or so it seemed this past week at least — and young players once again collide on crowded local practice fields, we are reminded that another exciting football season is about to get under way.

Happy days!

It’s a wonderful time of year, as thousands of area families adjust schedules and make plans in anticiRead More...

BP has nothing on Barrett

Editorial Post — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:51:30 +0100

From the August 15, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

We read with amusement last week that the federal government’s top environmental cop, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, actually traveled to Milwaukee to talk to local officials about their “innovative water policies.”

It’s certainly possible this was a useful trip for everyone involved. Then again, it’s also possible Michelle Obama has useful advice oRead More...

This war -- is won?

Editorial Post — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:52:21 +0100

From the August 8, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

This week’s gold medal for political gall goes to a repeat winner — the commander-in-chief himself, who continues to be deeply impressed by his ability to spearhead the Big Win in Iraq.

Sounding a bit like his warmongering predecessor — although we’re sure that Mr. Bush knows the “p” in “corpsman” is silent — President Obama declaRead More...

Fewer friends for Obama

Editorial Post — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:51:15 +0100

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, whethRead More...

Time to open up Roadmap

Editorial Post — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:04:45 +0100

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 leaderRead More...

Dog days of the drama queen dawn

Editorial Post — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:46:06 +0100

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 itRead More...

Another progressive star flaming out?

Editorial Post — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:42:05 +0100

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.)

Declaration’s truths remain self-evident

Editorial Post — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:37:40 +0100

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 attackRead More...

Time for new Board of Regents

Editorial Post — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:53:33 +0100

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 Read More...

68 years ago, the tide turned

Editorial Post — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:18:35 +0100

From the June 6, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

As the Obama administration continues to inexplicably wring its hands over mere mention of the global war on Islamic terror — the war that dare not speak its name — it’s worth recalling a savage and decisive battle waged 68 years ago in the South Pacific.

The first months of 1942 were grim for the United States and its World War II allies. Hitler controlled Europe with a ruthRead More...

Not just another day at the beach

Editorial Post — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:26:28 +0100

From the May 30, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

Over the years, as Americans became further removed from the great conflicts of the 20th century, we’ve wondered whether the soul of Memorial Day has been sacrificed to a national obsession with recreation.

Today, however, the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan remind us — some more intimately than others, to be sure — that this solemn holiday always will be much moRead More...

We’re No. 42! CEOs pan the Badger State

Editorial Post — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:48:28 +0100

From the May 23, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

As Democratic members of the Wisconsin Legislature continue to issue news releases patting each other on the back for their heroic commitment to jobs, jobs, jobs, we note that America’s CEOs are less than impressed.

The magazine Chief Executive recently surveyed 651 CEOs across the country in an effort to rank the best and worst states in which to do business.

Wisconsin, not surpriRead More...

Big Foot, Fort stand tall, while others take low road

Editorial Post — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:51:13 +0100

From the May 16, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

From Big Foot High School to the big mouths of political hacks, here are a few hits and misses from the headlines in recent days:

Hit: Hats off to Big Foot and Fort Atkinson school officials, who say they will continue to use Indian team names, despite a new state law that allows the chronically aggrieved to challenge the use of race-based nicknames and mascots.

The law, championed Read More...

How much is enough?

Editorial Post — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:21:26 +0100

From the May 9, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

“I do think, at a certain point, you’ve made enough money.” — President Barack Obama

The president was “off-’prompter” when he uttered that revealing statement during a recent anti-Wall Street rally, but when the POTUS ignores the TOTUS, you know you’re getting the real BHO.

That said, we have a hard time believing that moneyed elites liviRead More...

No joke: They want tax hike

Editorial Post — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:35:45 +0100

From the May 2, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

At first, we thought it was a story from The Onion, the satirical newspaper with headlines like, “Obama Promoted To Senior Vice President Of American Affairs” or “Gun Goes Off During Life’s Third Act.” But the story was real, even if the headline suggested otherwise: “Illinois protesters call for tax increase.”

Some 15,000 public-sector union members and soRead More...

On low road with Wood

Editorial Post — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:57:49 +0100

From the April 25, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

In the often-slimy world that is Wisconsin state politics, some lawmakers behave in revealing moments as though they’re born to the muck. Such a moment occurred April 16 in the Assembly, when state Reps. Jeff Wood, I-Chippewa Falls, and Pedro Colon, D-Milwaukee, exposed themselves as authentic political cretins.

They were aided in the cynical exercise by Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan ofRead More...

The rise of Moocher Nation

Editorial Post — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:54:25 +0100

From the April 18, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

For almost a century since the federal income tax was created, most Americans could unite in lamenting the blackest day on the calendar: April 15 — tax day — the traditional deadline for ponying up to the federal leviathan.

For an increasing — and alarming — number of Americans, however, April 15 might as well be a national holiday. According to the left-leaning Tax PoliRead More...

Demonizing the Tea Party

Editorial Post — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:43:28 +0100

From the April 11, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

Now that the Democrat health care jihad is over and the truth about punitive costs and mandates trickles in from the mainstream media, Tea Party protesters are learning what their government and its sock puppet propagandists really think of them.

Verdict: You’re all a bunch of atavistic, mouth-breathing racists, enraged by the mere fact that the president is African-American. That he is prRead More...

Pope not the one who failed boys

Editorial Post — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:40:17 +0100

From the April 4, 2010 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:

Though Christians today celebrate another joyous Easter, the Roman Catholic Church continues to be roiled by the devastating sex crimes committed for decades around the world by pederast priests. And now, sadly, Wisconsin is in the spotlight, thanks, in part, to a disgraced former archbishop who is desperate to rehabilitate his shattered reputation.

Rembert Weakland, the longtime head of the MilwauRead More...