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Action needed to break through no fault logjam

We wonder how the members of our Michigan House of Representatives can sleep at night. Thanks to their inaction, Senate Bills 530, 531 and 575 are languishing in the state House Committee on Insurance and Financial Services. Radio reports from Michigan Public in Ann Arbor said recently that ...

Yes, you can get to an early meeting

The Wall Street Journal ran a curious piece titled, “Is It Ever OK to Have an 8 a.m. Meeting?” It contained two dubious assumptions: (1) That 8 a.m. is very early in the morning, and (2) Employees have a right to rebel against a company policy that interferes with drop-off time for kids at ...

Israel isn’t committing genocide in Gaza war

If I were a Palestinian struggling amid the rubble in Gaza, I would probably think Israel is committing genocide. If I were a German hiding in Dresden or a Japanese civilian outside Hiroshima in 1945, I’d probably feel the same way about the United States. But none of these amount to ...

Politicians excel at lying

Politicians aren’t good at much, but they do excel at one thing - lying. They lie about the border. Both parties refuse to acknowledge the danger of a growing and unsustainable debt ( CNBC reports it’s increasing by $1 trillion about every 100 days). Consider. President Biden had his ...

IVF and the GOP: It’s complicated

The Alabama Supreme Court set off political tremors last week with its decision that frozen embryos have the status of “extrauterine children” and thus are covered by a state law that permits parents to seek damages for the wrongful death of a “minor child.” The implication that in ...

Frozen embryos are people? In the world of politics, at least

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are “children” offers a sad example of the age-old law of unintended consequences. Instead of simply protecting the developing life of the embryos to help childless couples become parents, the court’s move throws the procedure’s ...