Progressive Thinking

GREEN BAY - If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the Republican motto when it comes to keeping those pesky Democratic voters from voting. A few years back, they invented the great “voter fraud” epidemic, with no real evidence that it ever existed, to justify a voter ID law in Wisconsin. Since many more poor people, espec ...

GREEN BAY – I have been listening to the “debate” coming out of our nation’s capitol all day on CNN and just can’t help but comment. Today, the Republicans in the House voted to hold the budget of the United States hostage so that they could make a statement about ObamaCare. They would fund the budget but not the implementation of the Affordable C ...

A few months ago Burke wasn't on the radar screen of possible Democratic candidates for governor in 2014, and now she seems to be the hand picked candidate pushed by the party establishment. But having family money and running with the country club set have not been known to buy you love in traditional Democratic circles. GREEN BAY - According t ...

GREEN BAY - Maybe, if you don’t look at it, it will go away? That seems to be the conservative stand on the Affordable Health Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare. In Washington, the right wing in the House has voted 40 times to kill ObamaCare, while the pressing problems of the nation like job creation and immigration go unanswered. Governor Sc ...

GREEN BAY – The American Legal System boasts that it gives the accused the right to a trial before his or her peers. Unfortunately for justice, it sometimes does not guarantee the same right for the victim. Such was graphically the case in the trial of George Zimmerman last week in Florida for the murder of Trayvon Martin. In case you were vacati ...

Donald Trump scolding James Comey for lying is like Al Capone scolding someone for tax evasion. A Wisconsinite calls out the King of Liars for his world-class hypocrisy. LAKE GENEVA, WI - Donald Trump pointing his stubby finger and screaming that James Comey is going to be indicted for lying is the political equivalent of a fox accusing a chicke ...

Free speech dies when leaders get to decide what’s “acceptable,” and America is one tantrum away from making that mistake. LAKE GENEVA, WI - Here’s the dirty little secret every dictator knows: the first step to power isn’t winning hearts and minds. It’s shutting them up. Hitler did it with book burnings and propaganda. Stalin did it with gulags ...

Republicans can’t condemn political violence while excusing the January 6 insurrection, worshiping Trump, and pardoning insurrectionists. Hypocrisy this deep isn’t just ugly, it’s dangerous. LAKE GENEVA, WI - Republicans love to climb on their high horse about political violence. They point fingers at liberals, scream about “radical leftists,” a ...

Trump has a long history of firing anyone who tells the truth—from health officials and intelligence experts to election workers and generals. Now he’s firing the Commissioner of Labor Statistics because the job numbers weren’t flattering enough. LAKE GENEVA, WI - Donald Trump’s America has always had its own logic: deny, deflect, distract—and w ...

Progressive Laura Kiefert comments on the latest Trump garbage dragging Barack Obama into his deranged circus with talk of treason and prison? Hell no. That’s not politics — that’s delusion with a bullhorn. LAKE GENEVA, WI - I’ve sat through a lot of crap over the years. I’ve watched Donald Trump lie, rant, threaten, and throw around schoolyard ...