Disparaging our men and women who don military uniforms and fight for our freedom is wholly un-American. It ranks right up there with not standing for the National Anthem or burning the American flag. It’s a slap in the face to all the things that make this country so beautiful and wonderful. The Atlantic recently…

The shots might have been fatal, but they might have also served as a wake-up call. Everybody’s painfully aware of the violence engulfing southern Wisconsin after a Black man named Jacob Blake was shot by a white officer in Kenosha during a domestic dispute call. It didn’t take long for the protests to begin—and it…

It’s starting to become a habit. Black man. White cops. Mix with a flurry of bullets. Put them together and you get protests that turn into riots that damage property and devastate cities. It happened again Sunday as Jacob Blake was shot seven times in Kenosha, Wisconsin, by the police. The shooting took place around…

Those who don’t learn history are doomed to pardon it. Presidents and governors have a wide variety of powers, the power to pardon among them. Leaders have used that ability to right wrongs, establish limits on excessive punishments and restoring the reputations of the innocent. This week, President Donald Trump exercised that power and pardoned…

Sometimes, politics can be funny. That might seem like a bizarre thing to say in this day and age, considering that most politicians are about as popular as a colonoscopy, but bear with me on this one. We’re used to politicians taking jabs at each other. Occasionally, they resort to picking on an average Joe…

Five-year-old Cannon Hinnant will never have the chance to grow up. He will never even have the chance to go into kindergarten. Cannon’s life was cut tragically short because someone five times his age came up to him with a gun and shot him in the back of the head. An adult killing a child…

The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world into chaos. After months of restaurants being closed to dining inside, they are opening again to the public in Wisconsin. However, there is one that likely won’t be open long if the attitude of at least one of its servers continues to be antagonistic. My partner, Todd, and…

Walmart has not always been known for making decisions that hold their employees at heart. As someone who has seen more than one loved one get the short end of the corporation’s stick, it was surprising to me when Walmart did something that I never thought it would do. This week, the superstore juggernaut announced…

Cancel culture is rearing its ugly head again, and the latest target in its crosshairs is “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our national anthem. The new attempt at shattering a tradition shows that nothing in this country is truly sacred. On Wednesday, Yahoo music editor Lyndsey Parker advocated for finding a new national anthem. She argued that…

Aunt Jemima has long been seen as the face of a brand of pancake mix and accompanying bottles of syrup. That face was once portrayed by live people who dressed up in the headscarf, blouse and skirt to appear like a slave, similar to the image on the mix boxes and syrup bottles. Now, they…