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John Stossel

Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million. Merrill Lynch paid $20 million. Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away. "This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!" complains Heather Mac Donald, author of ...

Jamie Stiehm

Reader, who are the people who have stood up to President Donald Trump and confronted him, face to his furious face? Answer: Women, and only women, have done so publicly. Running for president, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris put Trump's ...

Rachel Marsden

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A 28-point peace plan to square away the war in Ukraine recently leaked, prompting meltdowns by those who have been fed the fantasy that Ukraine could beat Russia on the battlefield. The unofficial formula for Trump tackling any foreign policy question is ...

Tim Graham

After some Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2021, the national media aggressively reported on people who showed disrespect for the Capitol Police and for the rule of law itself. They touted groups like "Sedition Hunters" who aided Biden's Justice Department in prosecuting Trump ...

Letter to the editor

New Jail, rinse, repeat Editor: We have been dealing with the seemingly non stop new jail conversation for some years now. Might I suggest part of the problem is the transperancy into our local legal issues or lack of over the years. We used to see regular police & courts that gave an insight into how many and why we might have an over crowding issue. But that got removed. Frankly unless it was somethng fairly major, nearly aLL local crime goes unreported by the one and only local news. It is not uncommon for TV6 to be days ahead or even be the only report on a crime in Houghton ...

Robert B. Reich

The shooting of two National Guard members by a gunman identified by the authorities as an Afghan national was horrific. But Trump's response has been disproportionate and bigoted. He vows to "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries." He intends to deport legal immigrants ...