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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes,nWhen the waves turn the minutes to hours?" — Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the ...

Cal Thomas

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles says she has a plan for keeping Congress in Republican hands in next year's midterm elections. In an interview with the online show "The Mom View," Wiles said she hasn't informed the president about her plan, but said it involves putting him on the road ...

Jonah Goldberg

Here's a conundrum for Republican politicians going into 2026, and even 2028. What do you do when you've turned the GOP into a Trump-branded, populist, anti-establishment party but your party controls the government and it's not going very well? One time-tested answer: ritual human ...

Tim Graham

The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they're the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don't play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with 10 color photographs on the glorious Rosie O'Donnell ...

Letter to the editor

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 of government? Why do we need them or why do they us except for a check book? Maybe they need to resign if they can't do the job. William Wakeham Atlantic Mine

Robert B. Reich

Trump recently had his name engraved on the U.S. Institute of Peace — now renamed the "Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace." On Dec. 3, the White House confirmed the renaming, calling it "a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability." Actually, it's ...