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Anti-abortion right not into compromises

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which ...

Latest sign that GOP is abandoning even most deeply held principles

The changing of the conservative mind in recent years could hardly be captured more pithily than in the headline of a recent op-ed: “Why I believe in industrial policy — done right.” So opined Sen. Marco Rubio for the Washington Post and, at greater length, for National Affairs. Note ...

DNR: Back off oak tree pruning until mid-summer

It’s time to leave the oak trees be, at least until mid-summer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources advises. While spring might be the preferred pruning season for many tree species, it could prove fatal if done with oaks, the DNR warned in a news release. Red oaks are vulnerable ...

Repeat, repeat, repeat

Repetition while teaching children is a necessary tool that allows them to absorb information and to build on it for future understanding. It is why my teachers required repeating times tables and words in language class. When it comes to the Middle East, repetition has been unsuccessful in ...

Disorder on border remains problem for Biden Democrats

What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters -- more than three-quarters of a million -- in the usually low-immigration ...

Democrats should reclaim patriotism

In 1984, at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, a lifelong Democrat stood up to denounce her former party. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who had switched parties to serve as Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, lambasted her former party for always “blaming America first.” Today, it is the ...