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Does either party actually want to win the Senate race in Texas?

One of the worst features of the election primary system in our polarized "Red vs. Blue" time is the tendency of primary voters to flock to the candidate they most want to "destroy" the other party, not the candidate best positioned to do so. Let's say a zombie is scratching at your door. ...

Australia’s dangerous naivete

The Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking, but not at all surprising. Some of the details were distinctive — an idyllic spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field, a father-son terror squad — but the basic picture of a radicalized Muslim immigrant targeting a ...

Nominations sought for Governor’s Service Awards

Know a person, business or organization in Michigan that goes above and beyond in doing volunteer work? Here’s a chance to have that service recognized. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Community Service Commission are encouraging Michiganders to nominate individuals, businesses and ...

Trump needs a remedial history lesson on regime change

On Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan caused the United States to enter World War II. We must remember that Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor was due to an expansionist Japan, U.S. economic sanctions, and the U.S. disrupting the ability of the Japanese to acquire oil (among other natural resources). ...

Ever again

How many more Jews must die before the world wakes up and does something about it? Maybe that's the problem: the world doesn't want to wake up as too many people are fine with hating Jews. The murder of at least 15 Jewish Hanukkah celebrants and the wounding of many more in Australia last week ...

How Christmas will steal the Trump

Trump gave what was billed as a "Christmas speech" in rural Pennsylvania last week that began with his "wishing each and every one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff" and boasting that now, under his presidency, "everybody's saying 'merry Christmas' again." Then ...