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Opinion

Rubio: More than just the good cop

Columns

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at ...

Smith’s report on Trump classified documents blocked

Columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents, a prosecution that was once seen as the most perilous of the four criminal cases the ...

Almanac for Feb. 24, 2026

Columns

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2026. There are 310 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 after his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later ...

GOP in UP at each other’s throats over endorsement

Editorials

Wow. That’s what a great many Upper Peninsula residents likely said early last week when a festering behind-the-scenes Republican Party dust up over who’s endorsing whom in the upcoming 2026 elections burst into the public arena as a full-fledged mud slinger. With epithets most often ...

Liberty without strings

Columns

"Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war." — James Madison (1751-1836) Last week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, ...