Tag: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(Speaking of Witch Hunts . . . ) Candidate Mary Burke Endures the Trial of the Trail
Though the real news was that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke had just been endorsed by the largest police union in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s online headline said, “Mary Burke stumbles when asked to define plagiarism”. As if the shock of the question caused her to lose her balance, thus betraying her pact with […]
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Judges Split and Journalists Merge
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is still split, though the judges did come together as one to uphold the legality of the state domestic partner registry, which is pretty much a moot point given that Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage has been ruled unconstitutional and the issue faces a U.S. Supreme Court test. But considering how much deference the current […]
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GOP Secedes from Reality: A Letter the Journal Sentinel Didn’t Publish
(What follows is a letter to the editor I submitted to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It wasn’t published, so I offer it here.)–JK Dear Editor, In his recent Journal Sentinel column (“Wisconsin GOP isn’t seceding from reality”), Christian Schneider accuses the economic protest movement known as Occupy of “darker strains of leftism” including anti-Semitism, as well as […]
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Saturday rebuttal: My one & only prediction for 2014
(An ongoing Afternoon Journal series of weekly “rebuttals” or direct responses to public utterances by pundits and politicians) Stopping just short of an even 30, AM radio conservative Charlie Sykes has made 27 predictions for 2014. I read the first six because the other 21 are hidden behind the RightWisconsin subscription wall, which no one […]
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Milwaukee County should join 140 other enlightened communities and pay a living wage
Milwaukee County supervisors, led by David Bowen, have put forth a “living wage” ordinance for county workers and the employees of certain county contractors and developers that would mandate a reasonable living wage of $12.45 an hour for some 8,000 working people in the Milwaukee area. This modest proposal has been rejected by County Executive Chris Abele […]
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The Rise of Thoughtlessness
I’ll start with a few lines from a poem by Wendell Berry, one of the nation’s best authors (recently interviewed by Bill Moyers), a writer who is also a draft-horse using farmer in Kentucky. The lines are the first stanza of an untitled poem from Berry’s recent book, Leavings: If we have become a people incapable of thought, then […]
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