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Opinion

The coming constitutional ice age

Columns

Last fall, during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs ...

Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial

Columns

President Trump says that "Republicans" should "nationalize the election" or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he lost in such places in 2020, and since it is axiomatic that he won everywhere, the reported ...

Sorry, Bad Bunny, the USA is indeed ‘America’

Columns

It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said, "God bless, America." For many Americans, they were the only words that they could understand and ones that they, ...

Natural gas OK for now

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: This is in regard to Michigan House Bills 4007 and 4283, natural gas, RICE generators and Marquette City Commission support for them. Up until 2019, the Marquette city residents relied primarily on coal for generation of electricity, with a bit of hydropower. While ...

Tariffs vs. the working class

Editorial

For decades, politicians have sold tariffs as a tonic for the working class. In reality, one particular group seems to benefit more than any other from trade wars: Washington influence peddlers. The United States collected some $288.5 billion in tariff revenue last year, up from $98.3 billion ...