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Reflections on a half-century of reporting

LANSING — It was 50 years ago this month when I took a big gamble. With a fresh law degree, student debt, a new Volkswagen Rabbit with a car loan — and a 3-week-old baby — I gave up a safe congressional staff job I enjoyed, took a 13% pay cut and became a newspaper reporter. No ...

Trump's unjust and unconstitutional war

Over the past weekend, some apologists for President Donald Trump's recently ordered attacks on Iran argued that because Trump's plans call for a quick strike, the attacks do not constitute a war. George Orwell is vindicated yet again. These apologists believe that calling a war something ...

Plans reviewed?

To the Journal editor: Probably the most discouraging aspect of the sad state in which Trump has brought our country is the obvious and blatant manner in which he has done so. It might appear haphazard, or a result of his incompetence or well established mental disease, but for those who understand history, the well planned method he has used are painfully clear. Adolf Hitler has his Brown Shirts and Freikorps, quasi military organizations used in subjugating his people. Trump has his ICE mob, also a poorly trained hoard of pseudo police agents currently deployed among us today. The SS ...

The Age of Missile Defense

We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran's foremost military threat to Israel, ...

The Clintons: At it again

How much faith should one put in the veracity of Bill Clinton when he testified last week in a deposition that he did "nothing wrong" in his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein? I guess it depends on the meaning of "nothing" and "wrong." How much faith should one place in ...

The president that plays by no rules

Donald Trump breaks every rule in the book, and he's never read the book of rules. Time after time, Americans see he's constitutionally unable to follow the Constitution. To wit, he, with Israel, just started a war on Iran that ricochets around the Middle East. Contrary to the War Powers ...