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		<title>U.S. Labor, Then and Now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/u-s-labor-then-and-now-2/"><img title="2026 Labor History Flyer-1" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-Labor-History-Flyer-1-232x300.jpg" alt="U.S. Labor, Then and Now" width="232" height="300" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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		<title>A Better Way Than War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.&#8221; President Ronald Reagan. We know from long experience that wars do not solve problems. Wars are the problem and only result in death, destruction, debt and suffering. There are better ways to settle conflicts and interact with our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>History Does Not Provide a  Road Map To a Better Future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each historical age deals with the same basic issues. They are dealt with different technologies, but the issues themselves would be recognized from the stone age until now. How will individuals and their social/government groups make a living? What kind of family units will exist? How will children be cared for and taught? What kind of spiritual practices will satisfy [&#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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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/red-counties-dependence-on-the-deep-state/"><img title="Screenshot" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Map-of-red-counties-on-the-dole-300x208.jpg" alt="Red Counties Dependence on the “Deep State”" width="300" height="208" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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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>Left vs. Right is not the Issue, Rather Democracy vs. Extremism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the political left that our current administration attacks vehemently and relentlessly? It is not a single entity of opposition to any current leader, nor does it describe any single political position.  The political left describes a broad spectrum of ideologies that favor governmental reform in the general direction of more social equality. This political [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More on political violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has a lot of damn gall accusing Democrats and liberals of inciting political violence. Since 2015 he has been a primary source of inflammatory, divisive, hate-filled political rhetoric that  encouraged violence by his supporters. He is the only president in our history to incite a mob to attack Congress. &#160; In the past [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sacred Sites, Not Corporate Influence, Deserve Protection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Belle Ragins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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	After years of court battles, Kohler can begin construction of a luxury golf course on land eligible for the National Register of Historic Places and home to Native burial sites. A federally mandated 2018 archeological study of the original course unearthed human remains in seven locations. Kohler is now exploiting a legal loophole. After the courts revoked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hate in America 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump is lying again. Following the murder of right wing activist Charlie Kirk, he is falsely accusing liberals of promoting violence and political “terrorism.” With his usual fact free demagoguery, he claims, “The radical left causes tremendous violence” and in “a bigger way” than right wing extremists. &#160; The truth is exactly the opposite and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Arkansas and the Nation — Do We Have a Constitution?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denele Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/arkansas-and-the-nation-do-we-have-a-constitution/"><img title="image-2" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/image-2-300x179.png" alt="Arkansas and the Nation — Do We Have a Constitution?" width="300" height="179" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	https://www.5newsonline.com/video/news/local/arkansas-prison/franklin-county-prison-site-may-undergo-on-site-archaeological-work-ahead-of-construction/527-33b60464-ae22-4edf-86ec-a2a6576b58dc Well, pig soooie y’all, doncha just love Little Miss Gub’ner Sarah and her special skills at getting her way? She decided she wanted a plop a prison down in Franklin County where people are outnumbered by rabbits and deer, so by god she’s gonna have it, by hook or by crook! Methods so far [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deja Vu History or a New Society?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Contemporary times have a feeling of deja vu, especially for a history teacher.  Our new administration has its inspiration in an incompletely understood past.  We can begin with an economic system built on protectionist tariffs which harkens back to the 16th to the 18th centuries in Europe. It was called mercantilism.  The system was simple, a [&#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>Abolishing Nuclear War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Nuclear weapons do not provide security. They are instruments of mass suffering. Preventing nuclear war is a public health imperative.” Physicians for Social Responsibility We can abolishing nuclear weapons. It is a realistic, achievable goal. It is not a Utopian fantasy. But people must demand the United States change course and join the worldwide effort to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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