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Mercy not part of Trump’s plan

The president has declared war on the nation, the nation as we have known it. — Anonymous If you ever go to Canterbury Cathedral in England, drops of blood from ages ago are still there on the altar floor. Legend has it that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, was brutally murdered by four knights serving King Henry II, whom Becket crossed. Henry had medieval knights; Donald Trump has legions of rioters, whom he pardoned and freed. In a sermon from the Canterbury Pulpit, the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde of the Washington National Cathedral urged the new president to ...

What to do and not do when feeding birds in winter

Bird feeders can support Great Lakes birds when natural food sources may be scarce or buried beneath snow and during migration come spring, but it’s essential to follow safety tips to keep them healthy and prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza and other diseases. Bird feeders can support Great Lakes birds when natural food sources may be scarce or buried beneath snow and during migration come spring, but it’s essential to follow safety tips to keep them healthy and prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza and other diseases. TO FEED OR NOT TO ...

DEI order good for all US

An ongoing principle of America’s democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation. Sometimes, cracks appear. Sometimes, they grow and get larger and deeper. Things get dangerous when the cracks so severely deepen that they threaten to totally sever our common turf and our social cohesion. Generally, the cracks reflect erosion of agreement about the nature of the core principles that hold us ...

China’s AI Sputnik surprises

This week, China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google. The fact that China was able to develop DeepSeek without a heavy supply of sophisticated microchips from Nvidia sent Nvidia stock spiraling, along with the other major tech companies in the United States: China seems to have cracked the code to bringing down the cost of AI development radically, in the process ending-around sanctions against their access to those microchips. In the words of former Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, ...

With Trump, I’m mad as hell

What Trump is doing is not normal. During the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Daniel Rodriguez plunged a stun gun into the neck of a police officer multiple times. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Rodriguez was “a one-man army of hate, attacking police and destroying property” as she sentenced him to a prison term of over 12 years. On his first day in office, Trump pardoned Rodriguez and over 1,500 others for their actions on Jan. 6. Pardoning those who attack police officers while storming the Capitol is not normal. Trump tapped Pete Hegseth as defense secretary to ...