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Filling holes Dear Editor: This letter is to fill in some "holes" left by your "Summer Happenings" section in the Saturday, June 25 edition. Keweenaw Week is sponsored by the Copper Country Rock and Mineral Club each year. Mineral Days was run by Michigan Tech, and has not been active for some time. They do, however, support the CCRMC with a lecture and very popular surplus mineral sale at the Seaman Mineral Museum. Keweenaw Week is a very popular event and sells out each year. As such, This year's activities are full. If anyone is interested in Keweenaw Week next year, they ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Columns

The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and ...

Armstrong Williams

Columns

Politics is often described as the art of winning. History suggests otherwise. The greatest political leaders understood that success is not measured merely by defeating opponents but by preserving relationships. Elections are won through competition. Governments are sustained through ...

Tim Graham

Columns

The Left's perennial scolds of CBS News churned out barrels of umbrage over hiring conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as part of the new team of correspondents at "60 Minutes." They suggested this was some sort of "desperate" lurch to the right, an obstreperous overthrow of ...

Robert B. Reich

Columns

Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Musk's spending is set to begin next month, targeting Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, and Ohio, and potentially North ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

How could Donald Trump with bottom-scraping approval ratings decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose — and, ironically, save ...