WASHINGTON — It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is worth reengaging with the document whose enactment marks our national birthday: the Declaration of Independence. The ...
Today's Highlight in History: On July 7, 1976, the United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980. On this date: In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican ...
EDITOR: The recent uproar over Michigan’s high electricity rates deserves real scrutiny, but not just of DTE or Consumers Energy. What’s driving our bills through the roof isn’t executive pay or lobbying. It’s a radical, top-down energy agenda being pushed by Lansing politicians and ...
EDITOR: Oh my! Jamie Larsen let the old man/woman out in her article, "It looks bloody stupid." You sound as though you are an older (+50) person. Did your mother never teach you the saying: If you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all? Where is your respect for others? Where is ...
WASHINGTON — We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President ...