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Opinion

Toys for Tots thankful

Letters To The Editor

On behalf of the Marine Corps League Lake Superior Detachment 764, we extend our sincere gratitude to the community for their support of the Toys For Tots Campaign in 2025. Through generous contributions and active participation, our campaign successfully collected more than 4700 toys, 1975 ...

Doomed?

Columns

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline." Now that he's president, the left agrees. "We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire," says Cornell West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many ...

The Washington Post on Trump’s China policy, deal with Taiwan

Editorial

The Washington Post on Trump's China policy, deal with Taiwan The Trump administration’s approval of an $11.1 billion arms sale will help Taiwan gear up for, and therefore deter, a potential Chinese attack. It’s an overdo correction after months of policy changes that favored Beijing over ...

An old and a new year

Columns

"What's past is prologue" wrote William Shakespeare in "The Tempest," a thought profound enough to be engraved on the National Archives building in Washington. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a blip on history's ledger compared to many other nations, we would do well to ...

Trump’s mass firing of diplomats a danger to US standing

Editorial

President Trump, would-be peacemaker on a global scale, has apparently decided he can fulfill that role with a decimated diplomatic corps that by mid-January will see more than half of the U.S. embassies lacking an ambassador. Nearly 30 ambassadors were told just before Christmas to pack up ...

Off to the races: Democrats getting ready to rumble

Columns

By JEFF ROBBINS Syndicated columnist A midterm election year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: we have entered the realm of quickened speculation about the 2028 presidential election. On the Republican side, if President Donald Trump decides to abide by the Constitution in at ...