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Opinion

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Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Nathan Hale supposedly said prior to being executed by the British in 1776, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” As a free thinking American citizen, I’m also — like Nathan Hale — willing to give my life in the fight against ...

Paul Ehrlich was wrong about everything

Columns

Biologist and author Paul Ehrlich, the most influential Chicken Little of the last century, died at the age of 93 this week. His 1968 book, "The Population Bomb," launched decades of institutional panic in government, entertainment and journalism. Ehrlich's core neo-Malthusian argument was ...

Evil meat

Columns

Do you eat steak? You're killing the planet! So say climate activists. Silly media agree: Vox warns that beef is the "worst thing we eat when it comes to global warming." The World Economic Forum, which says it's "committed to improving the state of the world," released a video promoting a ...

State advises 187K students about Tuition Incentive Program

Editorial

The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential — MiLEAP — recently mailed more than 187,000 letters to Michigan students and their families notifying them of their eligibility for the Tuition Incentive Program, or TIP. TIP, a longstanding state scholarship ...

Immigration reform needed

Letters To The Editor

Suppose a luxury liner with 100 passengers one day discovers there are four stowaways on board. Would you vote to toss the four overboard, or would you find a way to accommodate these less fortunate, hard-working stowaways? Now consider, of the roughly 340 million people in the U.S., 14 ...

Trump’s stupidest cabinet member, a hard call but a clear winner

Columns

At a press briefing on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained about a CNN report that the Trump administration had underestimated Iran's ability to disrupt global oil traffic by closing the Strait of Hormuz. "Patently ridiculous," Hegseth told reporters, adding — even as the ...