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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 days are canceled. It's for the safety of students, and staff during weather related events. However, there are many remaining safe days which to choose from when education time can be made up. After all, everyone has been paid for the days. Operational funds have been budgeted for the days. Why not ...

Cal Thomas

Columns

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, ...

Armstrong Williams

Columns

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 ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

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, ...

Tim Graham

Columns

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 ...

Michael Barone

Columns

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments. In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime ministers, ...