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Pardons turn the truth around

Yes, I was there on Jan. 6, 2021, in the sacred temple of democracy when a mob’s deadly rampage darkened democracy and injured 140 police officers in a president’s plot to undo the election he lost. That was the best day of President-elect Donald Trump’s life: crowd size, TV ratings, a siege, all of it for three hours. That tragic day burns in my memory. To skip stones on history’s river: The present reminds me of Reconstruction’s end, when the meaning of the Civil War got lost in a blizzard of presidential pardons. But American memory is short. Four years later, ...

Doubling down on a national asset

Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden Administration’s war on fossil fuels. As President Biden prepares to shuffle off the stage, he’s attempting to burnish his tarnished legacy with last minute administrative actions. To that end, he has just banned new offshore drilling along an enormous swath of the U.S. coastline as part of — as a White House statement put it — “the most ambitious climate and conservation agenda in our country’s history.” “Ambitious” is one word for ...

Musk lambasted, Soros decorated?

One minute, he’s telling “subtard” online critics of his policy ideas to go “f**k yourself in the face.” The next, he’s fanboying for populist leaders at home and abroad. So what’s the problem with Elon Musk? Aside from his politics, that is. If Musk, the richest man in the world, held political views that were more establishment-friendly, he would have already received his US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Instead, he’s on the sidelines, yelling on his X Platform (ex-Twitter), for which he paid billions to reclaim control of this online global public square from the ...

Carter eulogists were rough on Reagan

In all the somber coverage of Jimmy Carter’s death, the audience could and should expect the tone of kindness that wafts over wakes and funerals. Each president served as leader of our nation, shouldering a great burden over a large country with an ever-enlarging government. But sometimes the tributes grow a little too treacly. CBS reporter Lesley Stahl mourned during the state funeral in Washington that Carter was already unpopular when she became a White House correspondent in 1979. But she claimed Carter “ended up accomplishing so much more than we realized when he was ...

Start 2025 smart on food

As Michiganders ring in the New Year, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is encouraging food safety be prioritized as part of New Year’s resolutions. Proper food handling and preparation can prevent foodborne illnesses and keep families safe. “New Year’s resolutions are often about fresh starts and new opportunities for healthy choices,” said MDARD Director Tim Boring. “Improving food safety practices is a great place to kick-off a happy, healthy 2025 for you and your loved ones.” Here are five simple food safety practices to utilize as part of ...

The age of censorship is ending

This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of free speech. Specifically, Zuckerberg committed Facebook to revising a series of standards: reliance on left-wing fact-checkers will end, replaced by an X-like community notes system in which fact-checking will be crowdsourced; political content will no longer be artificially muted; censorship will be ended around controversial issues like transgender ideology and immigration; the content moderation team will be shifted from ...