Opinion
Off the Editor’s Desk – 1-19-2022
Who is Ray Epps? Last Tuesday, January 11th was the day when top United States Law Enforcement officials appeared at the U.S. Capitol to testify about what happened on January 6, 2021. They faced questions from Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) that federal law enforcement agencies took part in the Capitol breach…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 1-19-2022
Last week I was listening to a video of Representative Kat Cammack (Florida). She was concerned about two bills that passed the House and will head to the Senate. One is H.R. 1 “For the People Act” and H.R. 4 “Voting Rights Advancement Act.” Between the two, it gets rid of voter ID requirements (during…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 1-12-2022
Dems want to make Jan. 6th another Pearl Harbor If the Democratic Party, now in power, gets their way, January 6th will become a day to be remembered like December 7th and September 11th or July 4th. Just in case you have forgotten January 6th of last year is when a crowd of violent protesters…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 1-5-2022
The ‘Violence Against Women Act’ (VAWA) that passed the House (H.R. 1620) is being unveiled in the Senate by Dianne Feinstein. VAWA is promoted as creating and supporting comprehensive, cost-effective responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking. There are some points in this bill that could have unintentional consequences. One key provision…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 1-5-2022
Are government officials using their personal email account for public business? Over the many years that I have attended government board meetings in our local communities I have watched as information to members of that public body has changed from type on paper to information on a computer screen, mostly a personal computer of that…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 12-29-2021
Drugs are killing us About 93,000 American citizens lost their lives to drug overdose in 2020 and here in Wisconsin the number of deaths is growing each year. Our state listed some 1,530 deaths from drug overdoses in 2020 up from about 1,200 the year before. Everyday the television news is full with reports about…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 12-29-2022
Dear Editor Last week I visited Lilydale’s to listen to former WI Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman speak about the November 2020 election investigation that he is heading. He spoke about the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC); the $500 million Zuckerburg money that was funneled through certain organizations into five major WI cities; what that money…
Read MoreLetter to the Editor – Joan Malcein – 12-22-2021
Dear Editor It is written that if you are willing and obedient to God’s laws you will eat of His good land. IN the first 39 chapters of Isaiah (like the first 39 books of the Old Testament) are filled with judgment upon immoral and idolatrous men/women/ Judah has sinned; the surrounding nations have sinned;…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 12-22-2021
The Christmas tree! I thought that I might find out when and how the White House celebrated Christmas. A Christmas tree in every house is a relatively modern custom. Checking on what the Lincoln family did to celebrate Christmas, apparently they had neither, decorations or a tree, but they probably visited a church near the…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 12-15-2021
Are we doomed? I once read a piece that stated something like this. “If the public gets access to the government checkbook, we are doomed as a nation.” With all the money that the government has sent to the American public this year, looks like that is what is happening. According to a report that…
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