Category: Gun control
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We need more guns in schools & churches
after the most-recent slaughter in a ‘gun-free’ zone! The signs aren’t working, people! The ones that prohibit firearms. Crazy people intent on death — others and their own — don’t obey no stinkin’ signs. We’ve been saying that for years. Three years ago we wrote, “Our schools are unarmed and dangerous.” It is gratifying to…
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Is the Madison school shooter’s father guilty?
Would charges have been brought in Waupaca County? We don’t have an opinion on everything. It just seems that way. We’re pleased that the new Pope was raised in Chicago and educated in the U.S. but he is not “an American cardinal” as some have written. He is or was a cardinal archbishop in Peru.…
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Don’t be a hero
You might need a lawyer! There were no Daniel Pennys on the F Train as it approached the Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn a week ago, early Sunday morning 12-22-24. No heroes to stop an illegal (excuse us: “undocumented”) immigrant from Guatemala from setting afire a sleeping homeless woman. No one to interrupt the perp…
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Some compassion is in order today
If the answers were easy,we’d have figured it out by now! Tragedy, eventually, comes to where you live. It never knocks first. In Madison WI this week before Christmas, this tragic history is still playing out. Three are dead — a teacher and two students, including the shooter by her own hand. Six more children…
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We don’t trust the science
Do not take the politics out of politics! Let’s cut Anthony Fauci some slack. The good man was wrong about a lot of things — masking, six-feet separation, closing schools, and the Wuhan lab among them. (Other than that, what’s left?) But the infectious diseases czar was a hammer and hammers see only nails. Close…
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About those Super Bowl shootings in KC
Can we call a thug a thug? Unlettered Field Hand: Whachoo pissed off about today, oh noble Head Groundskeeper? Blaska: An editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal this morning. Field Hand: But isn’t the WSJ your favorite morning newspaper published daily in Madison WI? Blaska: It is, indeed! Field Hand: And aren’t you most always…