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		<title>A Smart Investment for Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Too many people think of public services as expenses. Public spending is a burden on taxpayers that must be reduced and controlled. But taxes are the dues we pay for civilization. Taxes provide the capital needed to invest in all the things we need for a successful society. Public spending fuels the investments in people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Fire the Facts by Paul Hambleton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You Can&#8217;t Fire The Facts By: Paul Hambleton &#160; President Trump’s firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer—an accomplished, bipartisan-confirmed economist—for releasing unfavorable job numbers is more than political overreach. It’s an attempt to erase reality. But here’s the thing about truth: you can’t fire it, silence it, or make it disappear. Facts have gravity. They always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Red Counties Dependence on the “Deep State”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	“One of the most enduring conservative myths is that of the self-reliant, salt-of-the-earth, rural-dwelling American who pulls himself up by his bootstraps&#8230;If that were ever true, it hasn’t been for a while. These days, rural America is largely dependent on the federal government it claims to hate.” &#160; This quote is from an article in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Food Stamp Folly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We all do better when we all do better&#8221; was the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone&#8217;s simple, yet profound, statement of economic truth. In a stable, sustainable economy no one should be left behind even if they are poor or not as “productive.” This is not just kindness or charity. It is a recognition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Food Stamp Folly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We all do better when we all do better&#8221; was the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone&#8217;s simple, yet profound, statement of economic truth. In a stable, sustainable economy no one should be left behind even if they are poor or not as “productive.” This is not just kindness or charity. It is a recognition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Climate Change and the Grand Canyon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s called the Dragon Bravo fire, and it has burned well over 140,000 acres on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, taking the historic Lodge and many of the guest cabins with it. Whether we’ve been there or not, mark this loss as one of enormous proportions. Sitting on the canyon rim, the view of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nuclear War Scenarios</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(one of two in a series) “The likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe is greater today than during the cold war, and the public is completely unaware of the danger.” Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry This year is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans, if they think about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>JUNE 2025 THOMAS STREET NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR WITH THE FRIENDS OF WAUSAU HISTORIC LANDMARKS.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Citizens for a Clean Wausau and the Friends of Wausau Historic Landmarks teamed up in the Thomas Street Neighborhood this month. With the Friends of Wausau Historic Landmarks, we learn about the history of Wausau, the ornate landmarks, the lumber barrons, and how Wausau was formed.  This month was a unique blend of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I think the person running the country should be smarter than I am. We’ve just lived through the alternative, and it was only good for the liquor industry.” Andy Borowitz, political satirist, in his 2022 book “Profiles in Ignorance: How America&#8217;s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber.“ &#160; Mr. Borowitz was talking about President Trump in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Peace is Possible and Patriotic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“..I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war&#8230;The cost of war in human lives&#8230;I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war&#8230;” Gen. George C. Marshall &#160; We often think of military veterans as aggressive warriors and super-patriots who believe war is necessary to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gold Dome Bridge to Nowhere</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Krizek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “Star Wars Dome” Proposal Prioritizes Illusion Over Fiscal Reality While national defense is vital, the proposed continental missile shield—dubbed a “Star Wars Dome”—ignores practical and economic realities. Israel’s Iron Dome system protects a nation smaller than New Jersey (8,469 square miles), while scaling such technology to cover the continental U.S. (3.8 million square miles) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin&#8217;s  Budget</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has released his proposed 2025-2027 budget. In what has become a legislative tradition, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos declared Evers’ proposal “dead on arrival.” The next step in the biennial battle is for the Republican controlled Joint Finance Committee to write their own budget ignoring most of Evers&#8217; work. &#160; Gov. Evers&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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