×

Uncategorized

Trump’s address to Congress in 2025 will have little resemblance to 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation will hear a new president sing a far different tune in his prime-time address before Congress on Tuesday night. Some Americans will lustily sing along. Others will plug their ears. The old tune is out – the one where a president declares “we strongly support ...

U.S. auto industry could be collateral damage in trade wars

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry. If the president goes ahead with 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, he will disrupt more than $300 billion in annual U.S. automotive trade ...

Lessons from a comic mastermind

The beloved comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” was a part of my childhood, like many my age. Created by cartoonist Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” had a 10-year run from 1985 to 1995. According to Wikipedia, at the height of its popularity, the whimsical strip was printed in more than ...

Musk is a fast Macbeth for Trump

“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” — William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” “Quickly” is the key word for Macbeth as he muses before the bloody murder of King Duncan of Scotland. He must do the deed with his dagger by night, while the court ...

First, fire all the politicized generals

President Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown. Also ousted were the chief of the Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force, with perhaps others on the chopping ...

Tariffs worry border communities

DETROIT (AP) — At the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, a quote from former President Ronald Reagan is engraved on one wall. “Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for the future,” Reagan said upon signing a 1988 free trade pact with America’s northern ...