LANSING — It was 50 years ago this month when I took a big gamble. With a fresh law degree, student debt, a new Volkswagen Rabbit with a car loan — and a 3-week-old baby — I gave up a safe congressional staff job I enjoyed, took a 13% pay cut and became a newspaper reporter. No ...
Over the past weekend, some apologists for President Donald Trump's recently ordered attacks on Iran argued that because Trump's plans call for a quick strike, the attacks do not constitute a war. George Orwell is vindicated yet again. These apologists believe that calling a war something ...
Last year, California wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced: "We are 100% committed to getting this neighborhood rebuilt again!" Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed that, saying his officials were "responding to it at scale, with efficiency ... addressing building ...
Donald Trump breaks every rule in the book, and he's never read the book of rules. Time after time, Americans see he's constitutionally unable to follow the Constitution. To wit, he, with Israel, just started a war on Iran that ricochets around the Middle East. Contrary to the War Powers ...
We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran's foremost military threat to Israel, ...
To the Journal editor: Probably the most discouraging aspect of the sad state in which Trump has brought our country is the obvious and blatant manner in which he has done so. It might appear haphazard, or a result of his incompetence or well established mental disease, but for those who ...