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Opinion

Trump’s police state

Editorials and columns

Now that Trump's tariffs have been halted, his One Big Beautiful Bill has been stymied, and his multibillionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power? On Friday morning, federal agents from ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ...

Escape and return

Editorials and columns

CAM RANH, Vietnam — The story sounds like a "Mission Impossible" script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time ...

‘Abundance’ is abundantly confused

Editorials and columns

The hot-selling book "Abundance" is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn't build as easily as it used to. But it's those liberals in expensive ...

Avoid encounters with bears

Editorials and columns

Anyone familiar with the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin knows this is bear country. But with this being a free weekend to go to state parks on both sides of the border, it doesn’t hurt to hear ways to better avoid attracting a large, hungry visitor when out in the woods or on the ...

Hey, guys, Democrats want your votes. They really do

Editorials and columns

Where are the Democrats? What are they doing about the damage President Trump is doing to ... everything? I hear that a lot from my liberal friends these days, ever since Trump swept the battleground states six months ago and proceeded to dismantle government as we Americans used to know ...

Pushing for school funding

Editorials and columns

Question: If you had a choice between improving the roads vs. spending more state dollars on K-12 schooling, which would you choose? It's not even close in the polling. Schools. Question: Do you think wealthy state taxpayers are not paying their fair share in taxes and if so would you back ...