Sunday in Whitewater be partly sunny, with scattered afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:32 AM and sunset 8:29 PM for 14h 58m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 80.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1955, Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
There’s much controversy of what to call a person or group: by the nouns or pronouns members of the group would prefer, or by terms apart from individual or group preference? The term Latinx is an example this question. Frank Newport of Gallup addressed the topic earlier this year in Controversy Over the Term ‘Latinx’: Public Opinion Context:
One of the central threads in critiques of the use of “Latinx” is evidence measuring the opinions of rank-and-file Hispanic Americans themselves. These data show that relatively few Hispanic adults have even heard of the term, and very few indicate an interest in using it to describe their ethnicity.
My colleagues Justin McCarthy and Whitney Dupree reviewed Gallup’s research this past summer. Only 4% of Hispanic Americans surveyed by Gallup preferred “Latinx” as the label of choice to describe their ethnic group. The majority (57%) said that a choice among the labels “Hispanic,” “Latino,” “Latinx” or another term didn’t matter to them, while another 23% preferred “Hispanic” and 15% preferred “Latino.” These results were very similar to those from a Gallup survey conducted in 2013.
A follow-up question asked the 57% of Hispanic Americans who initially said it didn’t matter to them which term was used if they leaned toward the use of any of the labels. Only 5% of this residual group (equivalent to 3% of all Hispanics) leaned toward the label “Latinx”; most tilted toward the use of “Hispanic” or “Latino.” Overall, then, Gallup data show that at most 7% of Hispanic adults have an interest in the use of the term “Latinx.”
These results have been replicated in other surveys. Pew Research in 2020 reported that 76% of Hispanic Americans had not heard of the term “Latinx,” while only 3% reported they actually used it and 4% said they prefer it be used to describe the Hispanic or Latino population.
What is a libertarian to make of this?
First, in a private context, between individuals or groups, people should be able to describe themselves as they’d prefer. Others, outside those groups, should be free to meet those preferences (the culturally considerate position) or reject those preferences (less considerate but still lawful).
Second, in cases where one doesn’t know how a given member of a group wishes to describe himself or herself, it’s sound to rely on what one knows about most members through polling and surveys. (This isn’t a libertarian position as much as a practical one: a first approximation, so to speak, relies on likelihoods derived from sound surveys.)
Third, government should accept and accommodate strongly-held preferences of designations among adults’ preferences where possible. People are possessed of individual rights, and individual rights, when harmless to others, are to be respected. (If this were not so, there would be no legitimate dissent in speech or religion. Contra Trump, the liberal in liberal democracy doesn’t mean left-of-center, it means respect for individual rights within a majority-voting polity.)
(The hardest questions about terminology don’t involve adult speakers, but government’s response to children speaking away from their parents in terms those parents do not accept. That’s not my topic here, but it states the obvious to sat that that question is an order of magnitude more intense than debates among adults about terminology. A topic for another time…)
As for speaking about the Hispanic community, this non-Hispanic libertarian will begin by describing that community as a surveyed majority of its own members prefer. I’ll adjust in reference to individual members as they’d prefer, and if a majority of the Hispanic community one day adopts a new designation, then I will adopt that term.
Their preferences should supersede an imposed term.
75 years ago, he lost his home and his family. Now he is going back. 95 year old Vladimir Munk, a Holocaust survivor, who eventually became a university professor, returns in 2020 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, where his parents and over 30 relatives were murdered during World War II. A telling, moving story…
Saturday in Whitewater be partly sunny, with scattered afternoon thunderstorms, and a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:31 AM and sunset 8:30 PM for 14h 58m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1945, the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
An economy facing labor shortages could alleviate those problems with greater worker productivity, automation (itself a spur to worker productivity), or more workers. America is a productive economy, but gains in worker productivity are nowhere so great that they compensate fully for labor shortages. American businesses do use robots, but there are still many industries where robots cannot compensate fully for labor shortages.
According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were over 11.2 million job openings (May 2022). In the construction industry, there were an estimated 434,000 job openings (May 2022), yet there were just 389,000 unemployed in that same industry (June 2022). In other words, there is a shortage of almost 50,000 workers. In retail trade, the gap is even wider. With 1.14 million job openings and 720,000 unemployed, there is a labor supply deficit of 420,000 people. If that’s still not surprising enough: The number of unemployed people in the accommodation and food services industry is 565,000, while the number of job openings totaled 1.4 million. Even if every worker in that industry were employed, there would still be 835,000 job openings.
From a broader perspective, in just 12 years, adults 65 and older will outnumber children under 18 for the first time in the history of the United States. And shortly after, by 2040, projections suggest the country will have 2.1 workers per Social Security beneficiary. According to these calculations, the system needs at least 2.8 workers per Social Security beneficiary to maintain its economic feasibility.
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Let’s now add into the equation some stylized facts about the 1 million workers that the U.S. has deported back to Central America since 2009. The data comes from representative surveys carried out by Colegio de la Frontera, a Mexican research institution that surveys deportees from the U.S. in Mexico’s south border on their way back to their home countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
The vast majority of these deportees are men and have a high school diploma or less, according to the most recent data from 2019. They are also overwhelmingly young—with nearly 90 percent of them between the ages 15 to 39 and 65 percent being between the ages 15 to 29. Compare this to all other migrants in the U.S. who have a median age of 46 years.
Among the deportees that gathered some work experience in the U.S. during their stay (the ones who stayed for longer, naturally), they worked in a very diverse set of occupations that, ironically, have remarkable overlap with the occupations in high demand right now in the U.S. For instance, about 60 percent were in the construction industry, about 20 percent worked in services (such as the food industry), nearly 10 percent worked in industry, and 8 percent were technicians and administrative staff.
(Emphasis added.)
Free markets in capital, goods, and labor are to America’s economic advantage.
Friday in Whitewater will see thunderstorms with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:30 AM and sunset 8:31 PM for 15h 00m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater, Wisconsin (population 14,889) is looking for a new city manager. The municipal government has a seven-person common council and an appointed city manager.
In Whitewater, unlike nearby towns, the city manager is expected to take a front-and-center role. In other communities, an appointed city manager plays a less public role. By contrast, in Whitewater, the city manager plays a prominent public role, as though an unelected mayor. (Every so often, Whitewater considers the idea of an elected mayor, but proposals of that sort have never succeeded.)
On 7.12.22, the six members participating in a special common council session voted unanimously to select GovHR, a consulting firm, to conduct a search for Whitewater’s next city manager. It was the right decision. Although GovHR submitted a higher-cost bid, they offered more services within that bid, and the expectation of prominence that Whitewater has for her city manager justifies a diligent, skilled search firm. (See, above, video of the full council special session.)
While a search is no guarantee of an outcome, laying a sound foundation for a city manager search is sensible. (When the search firm presents its candidates, the Whitewater Common Council will then have an obligation to choose wisely among the prospects offered or demand new candidates.)
The goal of the search should be to find someone who will assure the daily, practical management of a limited and responsible city government.
BOSTON — A family’s beloved pet cat that’s been dodging airport personnel, airline employees, and animal experts since escaping from a pet carrier at Boston’s Logan International Airport about three weeks ago was finally caught Wednesday.
“Whether out of fatigue or hunger we’ll never know, but this morning she finally let herself be caught,” an airport spokesperson said of the cat named Rowdy in a statement.
Rowdy was given a health check and will be returned to her family.
“She looks great, is happy to be with people and I am sure will be happy to be reunited with us,” her owner Patty Nolet Sahli posted on Facebook.
Rowdy’s time on the lam began June 24, as the family returned to the U.S. from an Army deployment to Germany, Sahli previously posted. When their Lufthansa flight landed. the 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage, in pursuit of some birds.
Soon Rowdy herself was on the receiving end of a chase, as her getaway set off a massive search involving airport and Lufthansa personnel, construction workers, and animal welfare advocates, as well as the use of wildlife cameras and safe-release traps.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:32 PM for 15h 01m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1789, French revolutionaries storm and seize control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. (The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power.)
All hail his majesty Fred Prehn, whom the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently coronated as a member-for-life on the state Natural Resources Board.
Prehn is the stubborn and self-important dentist from Wausau who has caused extended legal fights at taxpayer expense so he can cling to his precious post more than a year after his six-year term expired.
The good dentist should go back to fixing teeth.
Instead, he has refused to leave office long after his ego got the best of him. And with help from the high court, he’s blown a big hole in state traditions of good government.
In a 4-3 decision June 29, the court allowed Prehn to stay on the Natural Resources Board indefinitely, or at least until the state Senate finally does its job and confirms or denies Prehn’s able replacement, Sandra Nass of Ashland, whom Gov. Tony Evers nominated in May 2021. So far, the Senate has refused to act on Nass’ nomination and dozens more.
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Just as former President Donald Trump has refused to concede his obvious defeat in the 2020 election — based on all credible evidence, reviews, audits and dozens of court rulings — Prehn is refusing to accept that his turn in power is over.
This squatter needs to leave — now. He’s not the king of the Natural Resources Board. He’s supposed to be a public servant with a term limit and some respect for the unelected position he continues to hog.
Prehn should leave, of course, but he likely won’t.
Once culture is pushed set aside (and for Trump and Prehn traditional cultural obligations hold no sway), one simply takes the biggest slice of cake and keeps eating.
Prehn is a tiny, selfish man. Too old and too late to expect better of him.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:32 PM for 15h 03m 10s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1787, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
Whitewater, and all the area of the Kettle Moraine beyond, is a place of impressive natural beauty. We have, despite the skill of our own art and design, nothing so beautiful as the natural world offers us. The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards remind as much. Immediately below, see video award winner Liron Gertsman’s entry and his description of it. Sharp-tailed grouse have a wide range that includes northern Wisconsin —
Category: Professional Species: Sharp-tailed Grouse Location: Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada Camera: Canon EOS R5 with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm lens and Canon EF to RF mount adapter; 1/60 second at f 5.6; ISO 5000
Story Behind the Shot: This clip from the pre-sunrise hours captures Sharp-tailed Grouse males dancing and chirping at a lek. Careful not to bother them, I filmed as they bent over, stretched their wings, and stomped their feet. It sounded like rapid drumming. Their tails standing straight up, they displayed again and again. As much as I love the power of photos to tell a story, some scenes need more than a frame to capture the bigger picture.
Bird Lore: All of North America’s prairie grouse have impressive courtship dances that have been inspiring humans for millennia. Many Native American peoples of the Great Plains and the Interior West have stirring, elaborate ceremonial dances based on those of the grouse. The Sharp-tailed Grouse is a close relative of the two species of prairie-chickens, but it’s less dependent on open grasslands, favoring habitats with more brushy cover, and often moving into wooded areas in winter.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:32 PM for 15h 04m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 4 PM and the city’s Public Works Committee meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1543, King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and his wife paid his former chief of staff and his wife $280,000 in cash gifts while they worked together, an arrangement Democrats say is a breach of Senate rules, according to an ethics complaint filed Monday.
Noting the cash gifts in the complaint had been publicly available for years, Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning called the complaint frivolous and said the Oshkosh Republican hasn’t done anything wrong by gifting money to his former chief of staff and longtime friend, Anthony Blando.
Henning declined to specify why Johnson made the payments, but noted Johnson first contacted Blando in 2003 after Blando was diagnosed with cancer, and Johnson offered to pay for his continued treatment.
The Senate has ethics rules meant to limit how much congressional aides can be compensated and also how much and from whom they can receive gifts. The Johnsons’ cash gifts to Blando appear to follow one guideline allowing aides to receive gifts from senators, but appear to clash with another guideline saying cash gifts aren’t acceptable. They also raise questions about whether they are an attempt to circumvent the compensation limits.
Federal records reported on LegiStorm, a website that tracks congressional staffing, show Johnson and his wife gave Blando and Blando’s wife each $24,000 in fiscal year 2014, $28,000 in 2016 and in 2017, and $30,000 in 2018 and 2020, for a total of $280,000.
Blando’s salary was $168,999.85 in fiscal year 2014; $169,458.96 in fiscal years 2016, 2017 and 2018 — 4 cents shy of the maximum in those years; and $172,789.68 in fiscal year 2020, according to the complaint filed by Wisconsin resident Laurene Bach.
The origin of the complaint in this case matters less than whether this was a scheme to avoid compensation limits (and by consequence also avoid taxation). Libertarians would prefer changes to the tax code, but those preferences don’t excuse violations of current tax law.
And look, and look — one can be a critic of Johnson (as I am) and still find this odd. One can be a supporter of Johnson and still recognize (or at least should recognize) that this is another deviation from a senator who’s already a national oddity.
Monday in Whitewater will see a morning shower, then afternoon thunderstorms, with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset 8:33 PM for 15h 05m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Gilbert suggests that the WOW counties (Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington) may favor one candidate, while WISGOP primary voters may elsewhere may favor another. He’s right that that geographical split has happened in Republican primaries before.
That brings us to the 2022 gubernatorial primary, where the frontrunners are Kleefisch and Michels. A third contender, Kevin Nicholson, dropped out Tuesday after failing to catch fire.
We don’t have enough public polling to measure with much confidence the specific regional strengths and weaknesses of Kleefisch and Michels. But in simplified “insider vs. outsider” terms, Kleefisch is the more established candidate, having run with and served under Walker for eight years. She probably needs a very strong showing in southeastern Wisconsin, her home base, to win statewide.
Michels is not a complete outsider, since he ran for office once before, losing a U.S. Senate race to Democrat Russ Feingold in 2004. He also has some “insider” support. But he is a lifelong businessman (he runs a huge construction firm) and has never held office.
Michels is flooding the race with TV ads. And he has Donald Trump’s endorsement, which probably carries more weight in northern and western Wisconsin, where Trump performed well as a primary and general election candidate than it does in the Milwaukee suburbs, where Trump underperformed as a candidate.
While Michels may turn out to be very competitive in the southeast — also his home base — you would expect him to get his best numbers in other parts of the state.
I’m not sure a meaningful split will manifest. Michels will likely be “very competitive in the southeast,” diminishing a split between geographies.
Tim Michels, a wealthy businessman endorsed by both Trump and Thompson is an outsider who isn’t: while he’s not the former two-term lieutenant governor, there’s more than enough in his background to appeal to establishment Republicans in the southeast, while still appealing to Trump devotees. Thompson’s endorsement doesn’t add to Michels’s establishment credentials; Thompson’s endorsement merely acknowledges those credentials.
(Michels is also willing, as is common among Republicans in the Trump era, to jettison any prior positions that might seem too soft for the would-be alpha males in the WISGOP. Those men who’d complain about wearing a mask will find enough to be copacetic with Michels. A more serious generation rightly esteemed stoicism, but here we are.)
Tim Michels is, or will make himself, what WISGOP voters would like. It’s been working so very well for him, with less than a month until the primary.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:33 PM for 15h 07m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this date General Henry Atkinson and his troops built Fort Koshkonong after being forced backwards from the bog area of the “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk. The Fort, later known as Fort Atkinson, was described by Atkinson as “a stockade work flanked by four block houses for the security of our supplies and the accommodation of the sick.”
It was also on this date that Atkinson discharged a large number of Volunteers from his army in order to decrease stress on a dwindling food supply and to make his force less cumbersome. One of the dismissed volunteers was future president, Abraham Lincoln, whose horse was stolen in Cold Spring, Wisconsin, and was forced to return to New Salem, Illinois by foot and canoe.
Two-term Lt. Gov. Kleefish has been, effectually, running for governor since she left office. Scott Walker, members of his family, and Walker operatives have supported her effort. She created a PAC to back likeminded candidates for local office. Kleefisch should be a clear frontrunner.
Instead, the polls are close.
Last year, she plunged into the high-profile recall race over the Mequon-Thiensville School Board, only to see her recall candidates lose. This spring, her candidates for that board’s spring general election lostagain.
Tim Michels, with a printing press in his basement, entered the race. Trump endorsed Michels. Kevin Nicholson dropped out, giving Michels an opportunity to consolidate non-Kleefisch support.
Now former Gov. Thompson (Tommy to the 7.96 billion people on this planet) has endorsed Michels:
Polls show Michels is in a tight primary race with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
In an interview with WPR, Thompson cited longstanding ties with Michels’ family, specifically his parents Dale and Ruth, who founded the Michels Corp. construction firm based in Brownsville.
Thompson said Tim Michels and his brothers have built the firm into one of the largest construction companies in the Midwest.
“And I think he’ll take that same hard work, that same determination that he got from his father and mother and do the same great job as in the state of Wisconsin as governor,” said Thompson.
The Midwest and the Plains states don’t get hurricanes. They get derechos — sprawling thunderstorm complexes that can travel hundreds of miles and cover multiple states with the impact of a 100-mile-wide tornado. Parts of South Dakota and Iowa, as well as Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois, faced a derecho on Tuesday. It even turned the skies green in some areas.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 08m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 75.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
For his 1985 documentary about the Statue of Liberty, the filmmaker Ken Burns interviewed two Jewish boys sitting on a bench in New York City. They were twin brothers who had fled Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, with their father. Like generations of refugees before them and generations since, they had arrived in the United States hoping for a better life.
One of those boys, Alexander Vindman, would grow up to become a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and director for European and Russian affairs for the National Security Council. He was also a key witness at the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. His brother, Yevgeny, would become a colonel in the Army and serve as deputy legal adviser for the National Security Council.
In recent months, as the Vindmans’ homeland has come under siege by Russian forces, Mr. Burns reunited with the brothers to make the Opinion Video above.
In this short film, the Vindmans argue that the refugee crises in Ukrainian and elsewhere demand a much stronger response from the Biden administration, including not just fully restoring a refugee system gutted by the Trump administration but expanding it further.
The nation’s policies, they contend, are not living up to its ideals.
4,084 people gathered in the Australian outback on July 7, to break the record for the world’s largest group ‘Nutbush.’
Nutbush is a type of line dancing inspired by Tina Turner’s 1973 song, ‘Nutbush City Limits.’ Attempts to break the record for the largest group ‘Nutbush’ dance have become an annual tradition in Australia.
This year’s attempt, which shattered the previous record of 2,878 set last year in the same location, also raised $60,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, an Aussie nonprofit org.
Tuesday, July 12th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Death on the Nile @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Crime/Drama/Mystery Rated PG-13, 2 hours, 7 minutes (2022). Based upon the novel by Agatha Christie.
1937: while on vacation on a cruise on the Nile, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates the murder of a young heiress. Among the suspects: Annette Benning, Gal Gadot, and Armie Hammer.
Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 09m 39s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 65.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this date James Jesse Strang, leader of the estranged Mormon faction, the Strangites, was crowned king; the only man to achieve such a title in America. When founder Joseph Smith was assassinated, Strang forged a letter from Smith dictating he was to be the heir. The Mormon movement split into followers of Strang and followers of Brigham Young.
As he gained more followers (but never nearly as many as Brigham Young), Strang became comparable to a saint, and in 1850 was crowned King James in a ceremony in which he wore a discarded red robe of a Shakespearean actor, and a metal crown studded with a cluster of stars as his followers sang him hosannas.
On the national scene, assigning feelings of resentment to political factions ignores the ideological foundations of their actions. There are ideas underlying political behavior, and calling others merely resentful is a second-order description for a first-order matter. SeeResentment’s a Nebulous National Explanation.
First, an introduction. There’s a libertarian expression, that some libertarians are born (into libertarian families) and some are made (through tragedies at the hands of government). I fall, it should be needless to say, in the first category; I have no personal grievances, claim no personal injuries, and have no personal animus. It’s all ideological, down to the marrow, from being born into an OG libertarian family. (That has been, in my view, my good fortune and blessing, but it comes from a happy upbringing, not tragic experience.)
It’s true, however, that a daily commitment over time works its own will, and one becomes more of what one always was: one becomes more oneself, so to speak. Over years, a firm view becomes adamantine. Someone from Whitewater once criticized me for using that word, as she felt it too showy, too unusual. She was mistaken then and would mistaken now. (As it turns out, she’s no longer a resident, having left this town in need for another place. People should be free to come and go.)
Of Whitewater. And yet, and yet… Whitewater is the place, then and now, a place in need, and worthy of one’s devoted commitment. One would hope that others who see this would, each in his or her own way, stay and fight for the betterment of the community.
In this beautiful city, however, one can say that, for some other residents, resentment is sometimes a distinct local explanation for frustration. When those residents look at city hall, the school district, or the university, they feel exclusion and are resentful over it. (The libertarian talks of town squires and notables with ideological sarcasm and derision; for others, however, a feeling that a few officials fail to communicate or fail to include them leads to feelings of insult.)
For officials in this town: too little communication, toward too few people, often too late, and a selfish desire to separate themselves from the community they claim to serve. They seek to sit at a restaurant’s reserved table, feeling important with their own seating.
For the libertarian: there should be notice of the restaurant’s hours, and ample, open seating for any and all, as a matter of principle worth asserting and defending.
For many residents: a conviction (often accurate) that they don’t know the restaurant’s hours or menu, and when they arrive they are often consigned to a children’s table near the restrooms.
When a board in this town blames residents for dividing a supposedly unified community, that board has lost its way. This community has been divided by socio-economic forces since the Great Recession, and more so since the middle of the last decade. If there have been additional conflicts, the first place an official or professional should look is to himself or herself, not to ordinary residents. That initial introspection is a fundamental requirement of a professional life. The professional looks first to himself or herself, and sees that every day begins anew with that duty of self-reflection. SeeThe Better Approach of the Dark-Horse Underdog.
This duty is immanent within a profession. Always has been, always will be.
It matters not whether a board of seven or seven hundred insists otherwise. As several or as a horde: still wrong by any number.
When some residents complain about being pushed aside, they’re not wrong. It has been a problem for in Whitewater for years.
I may not feel resentment in matters as they do, yet as a consequence of moral sentiments I am sympathetic to their feelings.
Of a New Whitewater. These moral sentiments hold regardless of others’ similar or opposing ideological positions. Whitewater should be — and so must be — a restaurant with open tables, welcoming all, where the greatest duties and obligations rest with officials and professionals to assure government remains limited, responsible, and humble.
On this point, this libertarian blogger has, one might say, an adamantine conviction.
