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Trump’s legacy

The Confederate Flag, for the first time in its existence, was displayed at the United States Capitol Wednesday. Understand the historical significance of that. In a four-year Civil War, one million confederate soldiers, led by arguably the most capable American-born general in the history of this nation, Robert E. Lee, failed to display that flag in Washington D.C. More than 150 years later, though, it took just one man to do what those soldiers couldn’t, and that man is Donald J. Trump. In a scene typically reserved for a third world country ruled by a dictator, our ...

Short Takes

Taking the oath of office THUMBS UP: Congratulations go out to Michelle Fischbach, Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, and our other government representatives recently taking the oath of office. Fischbach is now our new congressional representative in the 7th district. She took her oath Sunday. Meanwhile, state Sen. Dahms and state Rep. Swedzinski took their oaths on Monday when the Legislature convened for the 2021 session. All three will be working with their colleagues in the respective government bodies to deal with some major challenges, mainly due to the COID-19 ...

Congressional courage

Following the most harrowing day in our government’s history since the British burned the White House during the War of 1812, Congress returned immediately to work Wednesday night once the U.S. Capitol’s corridors were cleared of insurrectionists. Debating throughout the night, they did their constitutional duty and verified the electoral college results early Thursday morning. Vice President Mike Pence, after several days of resisting Donald Trump’s demands that he had the power to single-handedly overturn the results, read the count and confirmed the presidential election for ...

An attack on democracy

President Donald Trump’s frustrated and frantic efforts to nullify the results of the 2020 election resulted in a mob scene at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. Hordes of protesters waving Trump banners along with American flags pushed up to, and into, the Capitol, disrupting Congress as it was trying to do its constitutional duty and verify the votes of the electoral college. Many Republicans in Congress were planning to contest the election results that give Joe Biden the win, but the protesters didn’t give them the chance. An insurrection is defined is defined by Oxford Dictionary as ...

Congress should live up to its oath

Members of Congress take an oath when they are elected to office that starts out, “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” All newly elected and returning members of Congress took this oath on Sunday when Congress reconvened. So it should still be fresh in their memories when Congress takes up the task of certifying the results of the electoral college vote on Jan. 6. The college voted to elect Joe Biden as the nation’s next president. At the urging of President Donald Trump, members ...

Law enforcement at its finest

Once again, we have been reminded of how courageously many law enforcement personnel react to their protect-and-serve mandate. On Christmas morning, a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It had been placed in a recreational vehicle. The perpetrator had placed a loudspeaker in it, from which a few people nearby may have heard a recording warning them of the bomb. Many did not hear that warning. What they did hear was six Nashville police officers who had been alerted to the bomb, rushing from door to door, often in close proximity to the recreational vehicle, telling ...