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Jack Smith finally got his chance to defend his investigation publicly in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Smith is a dinosaur by this administration's standards. He is the polar opposite of Pam Bondi, which should be a frightening thought. He is a career prosecutor who doesn't play politics, and never has.

In his ...Read more

As a leftist, I'm heartened by the reactions of the citizens of Minneapolis and its neighboring municipalities to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's assault against their noncitizen neighbors. The killing of Renee Good makes the risk of confronting illiterate armed paramilitaries hopped up on aggression-fueling steroids brutally clear. Plus, ...Read more

Muhammad Ali was honored with his own forever stamp by the United States Postal Service on Jan. 15. "I should be a postage stamp," Ali famously once said, "because that's the only way I'll ever get licked."

I attended the launch celebration in Louisville where Bob Costas served as the master of ceremonies. As I listened to each speaker share ...Read more

I always thought I was safe from police harassment while driving because my car wasn't a junk, I'm white, and if you pulled me over, I had the country station on my radio.

I'm older now, and I figured that made me even safer. I'm still white, I drive a modest-sized SUV, I wear flannel shirts six months out of the year, my hair is silver and I...Read more

A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid confrontation and outrageous behavior becomes routine.

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But Minneapolis is still on the table.

The news out of Davos on Wednesday morning was that President Donald Trump told world leaders that he does not plan to use force to take Greenland.

It's actually a relief to hear him say that, even in bellicose tones, which is a measure of the depth to which we've sunk. After all, for the last two weeks...Read more

High noon: And I dream of President Donald Trump's punishment for 2026 acts alone. Minnesota suffers ugly violence on its streets while NATO faces his threat of seizing Greenland. Throw in a military raid on Venezuela, and there you have it.

Seeing the flower-strewn dancing streets in San Francisco for the late great-ful dead muse Bobby Weir ...Read more

WARNING: News headlines can give you a headache.

For example, take typical headlines on today's environmental stories: "Earth's Climate Getting Catastrophically Hotter, Faster," "Greenhouse Pollution Increasing Again," "President Calls Global Warming a Hoax," "Fracking Executive Now Runs Energy Department," "U.S. Funding New Coal Plants," "...Read more

On Oct. 7, 2023, when Israelis were trying to locate the mutilated bodies of their countrymen slaughtered in their homes or at a music festival by thousands of Hamas gunmen, 34 Harvard student groups publicly blamed the massacre not on Hamas but on Israel. In the days that followed, while Israeli forensic experts sought to identify body ...Read more

President Donald Trump's approval ratings are down the drain. The midterms are coming, and if Democrats prevail, his agenda gets boxed in fast.

What can he do to avoid that outcome? Well, what's worked in the past? Immigration! Former President Joe Biden had irresponsibly left borders open for too long, a failure that suited Trump just fine. ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this week, continuing to stoke fear and chaos in a situation his administration created by unleashing lawless, armed federal agents against our communities.

This is not the first time the president has threatened to invoke the act, which Congress intended presidents ...Read more

President Donald Trump made the threat, where else, on Truth Social:

"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which...Read more

The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in a Minneapolis suburb has prompted a familiar debate over civil disobedience and government policing of the sort that typically follows these incidents, in which justification of the use of force, or lack thereof, depends on your political stance. There is, ...Read more

It's Girl Scout Cookie time and this year feels extra special in Louisville, Kentucky, where I live. Not only are Girl Scout cookies made by Little Brownie Bakers here in Louisville, but this year's cookie mascot has ties here as well.

Every year, the Girl Scouts' cookie program has a mascot which is chosen by vote. Scouts get to rally around ...Read more

The news stories say people don't go out as much as they used to before Amazon.com. Before COVID-19. Before "remote days." Before. Before. Before.

People drink less alcohol, I read. Some studies say young people aren't having as much sex as they did a decade or so ago. Before.

In the midsize city next to my suburb, the weed stores are doing ...Read more

Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what's happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should be another question:

Where are the fathers? And by fathers, we do not mean men who merely spread their seed and then take off, but men who hang around and provide moral and financial support...Read more