"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." — James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ...
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No, stop it! President Donald Trump is not the most racist president since the beginning of the 20th Century. That dubious distinction goes to President Woodrow Wilson, hands down. What are the qualities of a racist? 1. Racists believe that God made some people (white people) better than ...
My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at ...
This year is our 250th anniversary honoring our Founders forming and uniting a country under their vision of unalienable rights. The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights created our American identity, our shared common knowledge bond. Our founding documents don’t specifically call out protecting human dignity, maybe because our Founders thought protecting human dignity was just common sense, similar to knowing not to touch a hot stove. The King of England treaded on human dignity and was burned. We know not every Founder practiced what was envisioned during ...
Wow. That’s what a great many Upper Peninsula residents likely said early last week when a festering behind-the-scenes Republican Party dust up over who’s endorsing whom in the upcoming 2026 elections burst into the public arena as a full-fledged mud slinger. With epithets most often expected from the elected culture warriors in Washington, D.C., and less often Lansing, state Sen. Ed McBroom, joined by state Reps. Karl Bohnak and Greg Markkanen, ripped into U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman for his endorsement of former state representative Beau LaFave for McBroom’s job. McBroom, from ...
