First off, let's drop the Republican claim that not extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts is a tax increase. Many of these tax cuts were purposely designed to expire and for a sneaky reason. Making them permanent would have hiked the bill's cost by more than $1.5 trillion over 10 years. Add to ...

Last Friday, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody's, the ratings firm, announced that the U.S. government's rising debt levels will grow further if the Trump Republican package of new tax cuts is enacted. This makes lending to the United States riskier. (Moody's is the ...

With summer approaching, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services recommends Michigan residents and visitors avoid foam on Michigan lakes, rivers, streams and other surface waters. Foam can form on any body of water. It can be white, off-white or brown; have an earthy or fishy ...

The massive cover-up of Joe Biden's mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. ...

President Trump's refugee policy reminds me of what automaker Henry Ford supposedly said about his company's Model T: "A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it's black." So it is with the Trump administration's policy toward refugees who are fleeing war or ...

I hope Trump pushes forward on tariffs. Hear me out. He has already backtracked faster than a hiker who spies a rattlesnake. Trump spent the first weeks of his second term spitting out tariff rates in a twitchy staccato. On Feb. 1, he announced 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada ...