We will become enslaved, but instead of the chains being on our hands because we have to work FOR them, they will be on our tongues and minds. Paraphrased from the 1943 movie "Keeper of the Flame' Some say it can be interpreted as a warning against facism in our country.
I believe the Independent Star News does a fine job of following its guidelines while not stifling free speech. I enjoy the balance of letters from Bruno and Gorak.
If a person is obviously overweight, he is going to get some blowback from calling people “Piggy.”
When President Trump labeled Somali immigrants “garbage,” he weaponized presidential power to diminish an entire community. As novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned in her TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” power lies not only in the ability to tell another person’s story, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, were said repeatedly this holiday season. Wishing all the best is a long American tradition. Under the greetings should be a realization that all people deserve a fulfilling life.
I spent the weekend before Christmas evicting my mother's old suitors from the basement. Emily was visiting and working her organizational magic on the hundreds of boxes of treasures that have washed up in our basement over the decades.
New year’s resolutions were never a big thing for me growing up. It’s probably because I was raised with the mentality that you shouldn’t wait to do what needs to be done, nor should you do something just because the calendar flips over to a different year.
Wisconsin’s Legislature has passed landmark education legislation (2025 Wisconsin Act 42), which requires all public school districts to adopt policies by July 1, 2026, to ban students from using personal wireless communication devices during instructional time. This ban will be effective with the start of the 2026-27 school year.
It's an odd situation when you have to wait up for your cats. I needed to get to bed because I am fighting one of those nasty cold weather respiratory .invasions, but drama never ceases at holiday time! My cats, accustomed to living quietly with one old woman, freak out when I have company.
