Early in his political career, Mr. Trump remarked that he could “shoot” someone in the middle of Times Square and get away with it. It sounded ridiculously self-aggrandizing and absurd then. Today, I’m not sure! Since that crazy observation, Mr. Trump has had plenty of opportunity to test ...
A handful of sparks flew at the usually laid back, relatively speaking, Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting earlier last week when the panel voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution entitled, "Resolution in Support of the People." This innocuous label obscured what the document was really ...
What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people -- slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention and debate in America than any other country in Europe or the Western ...
"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most ...
Call him the "antisocial" media president. When a president attacks the Pope, he telegraphs: "There's nothing I won't do or say." That is a profoundly troubling message. There are no lines I won't cross, no rules I won't break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole wide world. ...
As far as showdowns between popes and secular leaders go, President Trump versus Pope LEO hardly rates. LEO hasn't forced Trump to come see him and stand for three days in the snow, the way Pope Gregory VII did to Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1077. Nor has he issued an interdict, a ...