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Will AI cause Doomsday?

In the satirical 1964 anti-war film "Dr. Strangelove," fears of a "Doomsday machine," an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked, gripped U.S. leaders and the Soviet ambassador in the American "war room." Predictions of ...

More threats to the freedom of speech

The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it prohibits the government from infringing upon it. The ability to think, speak, write, criticize, ...

First-world problems

There is nothing like a good cookout. The smell of the grill and the food getting perfectly yummy is incomparable. Then it comes time to serve the food. All the condiments are carefully laid out beside the delectable side dishes. Can you see the steaming corn on the cob, creamy potato salad, ...

A choice changes nothing until your actions support it

I’ve traveled quite a bit. Both in-country and overseas. I can’t tell you how many times people commented to me about how expensive it must be to travel so much, saying something along the lines of “it must be nice” to have so much free time and money to travel. Anytime I hear ...

Why Lansing’s swamp fear ‘yes’ on Proposal 1

If Lansing’s swamp creatures are this afraid of Proposal 1, Michigan voters should pay attention. The opposition to calling a state constitutional convention has brought together an unholy alliance of Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative consultants, associations, lobbyists and ...

The immigration politics of a felon's pardon

How far will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul go to keep immigrant criminals in this country? So far, she'll even pardon a man convicted of an aggravated felony, if that's what it takes to prevent the United States Supreme Court from setting a restrictionist precedent. Keisy Guerrero Mariano is a Dominican who spent two years in prison for committing a violent crime: second-degree assault. Mariano, known as "G.M." in court documents, is exactly the sort of lawbreaker Americans overwhelmingly want to see deported. But not Hochul -- she granted him clemency on Aug. 28. His case stood ...