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Yes, the world is in a horrifying mess, but I look back just in the past 92 years of my life to see we’ve been here before.
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Consider Wisconsin’s Adams County, a largely rural county of some 20,000 residents. Voters there in 2012 favored the reelection of Democratic President Barack Obama by 54%, a surprising total given that the county (over 96% white) voted to re-elect a black man. Now, come to 2020 Presidential election; despite carrying Wisconsin, Democrat Joe Biden got…
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When the morning newspaper gave out last night’s score What a year this has been for Milwaukee sports! The Bucks becoming NBA champions and the Brewers on their way to the playoffs, with a promise of a World Series in the offing. Yet, each morning when I pick up the morning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to…
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Labor Day 2021 could mark a crossroads in the future fortunes of America’s working families. Will the “rich get richer and the poor get poorer” trend continue? Will working people continue to be at the mercy of long hours, manipulative managers and unsafe and unhealthy conditions continue? Unless working people begin to understand we live…
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Today, if you’re single and seeking a romantic engagement, it seems to easy. Just go online at eharmony.com, match.com, silversingles.com (the later site for those of us over 50) or one of the many other dating sites. It didn’t seem so easy in our younger days, though. Think back to those days when, if you…
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Ten years ago, Wisconsin union members and supporters stormed the State Capitol to protest newly elected Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal (Called Act 10) that literally took all bargaining rights away from public employee unions (except for police and firefighters unions). Despite massed crowds – reaching close to 150,000 persons on frigid weekends – the Act…
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The mobs retreated from the U.S. Capitol Building, but not until they had draped that august structure with the odors of hatred. Sadly, these hordes of American citizens left their mark. Make no mistake: Trumpism is not dead, even if that poisonous individual peacefully leaves the White House on Jan. 20th. As we approach the…
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No doubt about it, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will not have an easy time of it when they finally take office. Partisan politics is a reality right now, with few Democrats or Republicans ready to stray from their respective party lines. And the Congress is truly split right down the middle. Even if the…
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– Another reason to vote for Joe Biden Yes, I’m here to praise politicians. Not all of them, of course, but those politicians who believe in democracy, who believe that they need in most cases to listen to the demands of the voters, and, at other times, to have the courage to act against the majority…
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Following is a from a homily given by Ken Germanson in a Zoom service before the nondenominational congregation, the Community of the Living Spirit of Waukesha WI, on Oct. 25, 2020 Like so many who had a Catholic upbringing, I paid little attention to the Bible. I found myself guided mainly by the gospels from…
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