This one is as old as it gets, but in this case it really does fit. There are two things in life you never want to see being made... sausage and legislation. Both are ugly, dirty and smelly, but in the product in the end is eatable. And right now all the special interest groups in our town ...

Doesn't Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passe? His speech to an audience of generals he'd summoned to Washington, D.C., has mystified and outraged critics who think his obsession with physical fitness is out-of-date at best and ridiculous at worst. "Frankly, ...

The secretary of defense opens his laptop late at night on Sept. 29. He logs on to his favorite AI chatbot. It greets him. Hi, Pete. What can I do for you tonight? Pete? I thought I asked you to call me Major Tough Guy. You're absolutely right. You did. Thanks for setting me straight, ...

In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing. The Memorandum, just like ...

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" ...

Fall means deer season and I'm reminded of the time an eight-point buck confronted me in the woods. It was October in Michigan and cold enough to warrant a fleece face mask. I sat on a stool under a tree just 100 yards from my husband, waiting in the early morning quiet while the forest took ...