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Opinion

Almanac

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By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2025. There are 354 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919). On this ...

Killing the Constitution at Gitmo

Local columns

WASHINGTON — When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies -- real or imagined -- they often had them or their colleagues arrested on pretextual charges and then brutally tortured until confessions were extracted. The confessions were then read aloud during so-called trials; ...

Victimhood U

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NEW YORK — Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video looks at a new documentary called “The Coddling of the American Mind.” It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because “adults” at their ...

January is Radon Action Month

Editorial

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared January 2025 as Radon Action Month in Michigan, encouraging Michigan residents to learn more about this environmental hazard and to test their homes during the heating season. You cannot see, smell, or taste radon, and there are no short-term side ...

Almanac

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By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Jan. 10, the tenth day of 2025. There are 355 days left in the year. Today is Wednesday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2024. There are 356 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his ...

Pardons turn the truth around — then and now

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WASHINGTON — 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, ...