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Houghton County Board Editor: It seems our commissioners do what they please with our tax dollars: the purchase of the church property on Sharon Ave without any public input. Now they want to spend more money to tear it down without any public input. Is there any sense to this with this kind ...

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter. At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

It seems half the country's political figures have been instructed to grin like a theme-park greeter. Supposedly, that makes them seem friendly, approachable, relatable. When I want humanoid patter, I turn to chatbots. They're more convincing. Why this epidemic of wax museum smiles? One ...

Cassie McClure

Columns

Some fear rarely announces itself. It moves quietly, almost politely, and takes a chair in the corner of your chest and waits. Some days, I forget it is there. Other days, it stirs the cauldron of my stomach until I'm forced to account for it. For most of my life, I believed bravery belonged ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Columns

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted a meme of Franklin the Turtle, the amiable child's cartoon character, in a helicopter using a military weapon to kill people in a small boat below him, and captioned it "For your Christmas wish list," it understandably caused an uproar. Should the ...

Josh Hammer

Columns

Is the American Left finally waking up from its decades long climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall ...