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Opinion

The biased broadcasting corporation

Columns

Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.The edits made it ...

Firearm deer season much more than venison quest

Editorial

The Michigan firearms deer hunting season starts at dawn Saturday morning. Tonight, a lot of folks will be as excited as children on Christmas Eve, waiting for the chance to get out in the woods in pursuit of an elusive whitetail. While difficult winters have thinned the Upper Peninsula herd, ...

Shutdown winners, losers

Letters To The Editor

Democrats seem to be furious that eight senators “caved” and ended the shutdown. I’m not upset about what they did. The people who bore the cost of the shutdown were primarily the poor and those employees forced to work without pay. Shutdowns usually boomerang on the party that ...

Dems won victory in defeat

Columns

In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operation "a miracle of deliverance." Historians portray it as a perfect example of victory in defeat. Democrats raging at eight members of their ...

Musk and Mamdani: The end of harsh capitalism?

Columns

Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla's board caved in to Elon Musk's demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals). Musk's trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a mockery ...

Be ready as winter conditions set in

Editorial

The region got its first taste of winter weather in the past couple days, though not quite the levels seen in downstate Wisconsin or even other parts of the Upper Peninsula. Still, it’s a reminder that winter conditions, even storms, are back to being possible at this time of year. With ...