Where to start? There are plenty of lessons to be learned from this week's slaughter of the Republican Party. Here goes: 1. It's the economy, stupid. How many times do we have to see this movie? The inflation caused by COVID-19 spending plus Biden-era policies has created real economic ...
The contentious, vicious election is over. What did we learn from the results? By “we” I mean the American people, specifically the American voters, because it’s clear the two major parties didn’t learn anything. This much we know. Just last month three major polls showed 72-75 ...
There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South ...
Sunset on the colorful trees, oh my. We are more than a little lucky to live here. I go to bed so early I seldom see the display in the night sky. I do see the sunset and the moon. It is enough to fill my mind and soul for a good night’s sleep. Except the fellow I sleep with decides just as ...
Michigan lawmakers have consistently failed to address our state’s structural revenue problem for decades. Michigan simply does not raise enough in taxes, and lawmakers as a whole have been apprehensive to adequately address it. While more could be done on the revenue side, Michigan has some ...
Right before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would stop providing military aid to Israel, forcing the most dedicated Israel-obsessed antisemites to declare that this, too, was evidence of nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest scheme. However, as debate swirls over what this means for America and one of its most consequential foreign policy relationships in the world, it's worth pushing back on the underlying premise of all military aid: that America has been manipulated into giving up the goods. Nothing could be ...
