President Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson "a force of nature" and so he was. Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, was the last great orator of the civil rights movement. He could bring an audience to cheers or to tears with the power of his personality. I once accompanied him to a Washington, ...
America is tired. Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare that ...
Canceled school days Editor: To the Michigan legislators, and local school boards. Is educational time important? Would you introduce legislation, or pass school policies to make up all canceled school days, restoring a true 180 days of educational time? Yes, I understand the main reason ...
In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Engaged as we are now in a great civil war, a leader tearing the nation in two, it's well to look back to this time. Taking the oath of office in March 1861, ...
When President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan held a press conference Feb. 12 to announce a drawdown in federal enforcement in Minnesota, he reported that during their surge, ICE agents "located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children — children that the last administration lost and ...
Let's hear a word of praise for the ordinary citizens who have called for an end to the too-often reckless invasions of American cities by federal agents carrying out President Trump's crusade against undocumented immigrants. I am moved by the courage and patriotism of those who have come out ...