This year marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. While we celebrate this milestone, we are also grappling with efforts to remove or revise Black history in the classroom as well as the exhibits found at federal parks and museums. But Black history cannot be erased; it is preserved ...
Few things in Washington, D.C., generate as much as excitement and intrigue as a Supreme Court confirmation showdown. For decades, since the eponymous "borking" of then-Supreme Court nominee Bob Bork in 1987, political battles surrounding the membership of the nation's high court have been among the most contentious and raucous of Beltway affairs. Which is why it's rather curious that very few outside the most fervid of court-watchers seem to be discussing the distinct possibility that there could be one or two Supreme Court vacancies after the current term ends this summer. Justice ...
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.In modern day Michigan history in the races for governor, it has happened only two times. Perry Johnson ran for governor but never got on the ballot. He'll try, try, try again this year. Mike Cox ran for governor in 2010. He did get on the ...
I was happy to be raised as the ninth of ten children here in Alpena. Our family started in the late 1930’s when my parents met, fell in love and married. They were committed to hard work because that is how they were raised. And if they were going to be happy and healthy, they would have to choose to be clear and awake to all that life would bring; and they also chose to see the glass half full. My mom and dad’s choice of each other was divinely inspired as their individual lives were fed by their Catholic faith. Never a theological storehouse, they were raised and exhibited a ...
Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the ...
When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When ...
