President Abraham Lincoln famously stated in the Gettysburg Address on November, 1863, that the nation would experience a new birth of freedom "and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. Forty-five years later, President Theodore ...
Recently this question was posed to me. As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, what does it mean to be an American? Reflecting on this, it’s hard to distill an answer down to a single aphorism. In a nation of 342 million people, there may be as many answers as there are Americans. For ...
Northern Michigan is so beautiful at this time of year. This past weekend my husband and I enjoyed a wind-tossed hike along Lake Huron’s shoreline. We took time to simply wade in the warm shallows and watch the geese couples call their goslings to safety while a gaggle of native swans bobbed ...
Are you up to speed on the political term, "the popular wisdom is" and then you fill in the blank? Here's how it works. A story, let's say what is the governor going to do after leaving office? is out there. Everyone is trying to predict what is going to happen and then some wise guy (this ...
Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship -- the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen -- through an executive order titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American ...
Tenants' groups and leftwing activists are cheering New York City's newly announced multiyear rent freeze. But Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent scheme is headed for a judicial smackdown at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2023 and twice in 2024, a hesitant Supreme Court declined to hear challenges by ...