"You know," the late William F. Buckley Jr. once mused, "I've spent my life separating the right from the kooks." The conservative commentator was famously pugilistic, an ideological brawler, in fact, unrelentingly caustic, if eruditely so, about what he regarded as the deeply misguided policy ...
One of the country's veteran and some would say wise U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart nailed it when he wrote he could not define pornography but "I'll know it when I see it." Stop laughing because when it comes to defining "WFA" in the state budget, it really depends on whom is ...
More than 400 elected Democrat Party officials from all 50 states and seven territories huddled in Minneapolis this week before the horrible mass shooting at nearby Annunciation Catholic Church. The proceedings demonstrated a party in the wilderness, and the Democrats in the national media ...
The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788. There have been exceptions, of course. Abraham Lincoln took extraordinary steps to ...
As I look back on my early school years now, Mrs. Stahl was a godsend. Tough as nails if you didn’t behave, but fair and caring otherwise, this third-grade teacher understood me. It was she who I credit with encouraging my passion to read, and she who I credit for steering me into my ...
Every day in Michigan, families lose loved ones to opioid overdose—mothers bury children, friends carry the weight of grief, and communities lose vital members of their fabric. These deaths are not inevitable. They are preventable. And right now, the Michigan Legislature has a critical ...