Men in the U.S. are stuck -- stuck in dissatisfaction, stuck in judgement and stuck in a culture that increasingly tells them that they aren't strong enough, attractive enough or mean enough to matter. In a perhaps related development, American sailors appear to be trying to escape the ...
When I sat down to write this, my original intention was actually to express some sympathy for the people who spent months collecting signatures in the recent recall effort. Let me be clear: I never agreed with the reasoning behind the recall. From the beginning, I viewed it as political ...
For months, I have stayed out of the recall debate regarding three members of the Alpena School Board, but recent developments have motivated me to finally chime in on the matter, which continues to be divisive in our community. Despite spending weeks collecting recall signatures on the ...
It was already one of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration -- the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president's big, beautiful reflecting pool. It then dropped them for legal ...
Advocates for transgenderism consistently present opposition to their agenda as not just incorrect but dangerous. We're used to the Trevor Project folks asserting that resisting someone's urge to identify as the opposite of their actual biology creates a risk of suicide. Sadly for them, last ...
More than any political cycle in memory, the 2026 primary campaign season has been marked by frequent, and often hysterical, condemnations of the influence of the so-called "Israel lobby." After the conspiratorial anti-Trump gadfly Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his Republican congressional primary in northern Kentucky in May, he quipped about the Trump-endorsed former Navy SEAL officer who defeated him: "I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv." Way to question the patriotism of a decorated SEAL ...
