A young woman slowly entered the front door of Sunrise Mission in Alpena. Lowered eyes and quiet pleas were followed by several young children. The seven-year-old wet herself in the lobby, deeply frightened. All the kids were dirty and some shoeless, shaking and crying having quickly fled a ...

It's fashionable to call the current federal government shutdown a "crisis," to focus on the missed paychecks, delayed services and bureaucratic disarray. But what if this standoff -- this uncomfortable pause in government business -- is exactly what the country needs right now? What if the ...

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It's true that other presidents have ...

Everybody knows there are two sides to the political game. The outside game when what is said is for public consumption and the inside game which thrives in the cone of silence for as long as the pols can make it so. So our discussion here focuses on a bit of history involving the ...

"But people will die!" That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: "We all are going to ...

Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing. The wreckage looks like a crime scene, with President Donald Trump's thumbprints on it. He didn't ask or tell people, he just destroyed a sacred structure that sang of ...