Despite all of the machinations in Washington, the Affordable Care Act continues to work exactly the way its designers and supporters wanted it to. Premiums continue to rise. Insurers are refusing to take part in the exchanges. Medical inflation remains above the regular rate of inflation and the constant fear of “losing access to healthcare”…… MORE
Inter-racial Racism
In today’s episode of “Trying to Understand How Liberals Think”, we examine the curious reaction to the new movie The Big Sick. In the film, comedian Kumail Nanjiani–who is of Pakistani descent–meets a Caucasian woman and falls in love. The story centers around Nanjiani’s character trying to hide his white girlfriend from his parents–who are…… MORE
Banking Some Goodwill
I hope the Oshkosh Corporation tosses out a lot of candy during their parade on Saturday–and that every child that wants to ride on one of the big trucks gets a chance during their open house–because the company may need all the goodwill it can get for a battle coming up in the future. As…… MORE
The Early Bird Special
I don’t go to that many of them every year, but I would have to say that last night’s Waterfest concert at the Leach Amphitheater in Oshkosh was the best one ever. I don’t say that because Huey Lewis and the News is one of my favorite groups and that they played all of their…… MORE
Already Out of Touch
I sure hope newly-declared gubernatorial candidate Andy Gronik didn’t clear his schedule this morning to talk with radio and TV stations across the state about his candidacy–because it won’t be happening. Seconds after Gronik announced his intentions to seek the Democratic nomination in 2018 via an email press release, Governor Scott Walker sent out a…… MORE
Filling the Void
A recurring theme in the wake of the G-20 summit in Germany last week is that the US is “surrendering its leadership position in the world–and risking isolation”. A number of foreign news services aired footage of President Trump wandering around the summit halls with no one wanting to come talk to him or stand with…… MORE
Is It Time To Believe?
Having a five and a half game lead in the National League Central–and winning two of three from the New York Yankees in what has usually been a house of horrors for the team–is it time to believe the Milwaukee Brewers could actually make the playoffs this year? The ragamuffin assemblage of twenty-somethings and…… MORE
The Song Remains the Same
Last month I poked fun at Country USA for its “Bro Country” heavy lineup that featured song after song about drinkin’, partyin’ and drivin’ pickup trucks. Now comes Lifest, where the range of musical topics is even more narrow–like just one subject over and over and over again. Perusing the catalogs of some of this…… MORE
The New Americans
The host on one of our early morning shows asked yesterday “What does it mean to be an American?” It’s a bit of a crutch to throw out a generalized question like that. A better one would have been what are the differences between an “Old American” and a “New American”? I’m an Old…… MORE
The 25th Amendment
Getting nowhere in proving treason through campaign connections to Russia, the latest attempt to remove President Donald Trump from office is a movement to invoke the 25th Amendment. Because the Constitution as it is written really isn’t taught in public schools anymore, you probably didn’t know that the 25th codifies the procedure for replacing the…… MORE
