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When I commented in March about President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on imported steel, I was hoping that he would back off from imposing tariffs on our allies. That is because the danger to our national security isn't steel or autos made in Mexico, Canada, or Europe; rather, it is China's rapacious assault on intellectual property and its "Made in China 2025" master plan for achieving world dominance in 10 crucial technologies.
Full disclosure: I have never seen an episode of the long-running PBS children's show called "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." The only reason I went to see "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the documentary about Mr. Rogers and his show, was because we were visiting friends who very much wanted to see it. Thank you, dear friends! The movie was very special — poignant, profound, elegantly understated and brimming with kindness, warmth, and understanding.
Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that suicide rates among American farmers are higher than any other occupational group, and five times higher than that of the population as a whole.
They danced. They sang. They shouted and cried for joy. Had their team won the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup? Had they won a giant Powerball lottery? No, but their lives had been transformed. A well had been dug in their village, and now they would have a clean, reliable source of water and not need to spend hours each week hauling water from miles away.
On June 3, 1961, barely into the fifth month of his presidency, John F. Kennedy met with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Peter Strzok, the former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI, testified on July 12 before two House committees.
When I finished my graduate study and moved out of Buffalo, New York, to take my first full-time professional job at the University of Missouri, I called my telephone company to discontinue my landline service. After being put on hold while the agent checked my account, I was shocked by the words I heard: "We are very sorry to lose your business. You have been a very good customer."
Shortly after leaving home last summer for a relaxing week at the beach, I noticed a white sports car in our rearview mirror, approaching with great speed. My guess is that they were doing triple digits. I said a quick prayer for the innocent drivers ahead of me. Ten miles later I saw that car again. I passed him, as he was doing zero, sitting along the side of the road, speaking to a police officer. Sometimes the system works.
The summer of 1968 was an absolute nightmare for the Democratic Party. Everything that could go wrong did, and there was precious little the Democrats could do to avoid or even anticipate it.
Countless Americans are expressing outrage at the separation of almost 2,000 children from their parents who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in a recent six-week period.
This weekend, I will celebrate the 50th anniversary of my high school graduation with most of the surviving classmates of the Cranbrook School Class of 1968. They became accomplished men (it was an all-boys school then), whose greatest common achievement has been to be solid family men.
And yet, there is reason to question the full extent of exactly what this opinion means.
Jeff Bezos made an outlandish and seemingly illogical statement recently. No, it wasn't in response to President Donald Trump's assault on Amazon with reference to the U.S. Postal Service being short-changed. After speaking about his business philosophy, the origin of ambition, the influence of his grandfather, unconditional love, and then his passion for space travel, Bezos ended the interview with the unexpected. It was absolutely fascinating and it came out of the blue.
As we pause to remember and honor the hundreds of thousands of our compatriots who have laid down their lives while serving in our armed forces, I invite you to ponder two points.
I have enjoyed every season of the TV series "Homeland." Writers and producers surely anticipated Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election because season six featured the election of President Elizabeth Keane. The problem for the show's writers became transforming President Keane into President Donald Trump.
We wrote earlier about the Grove City College Supreme Court case (*Grove City College v. Bell*) in which the High Court ruled that any "financial assistance" used by students and their families to pay for their education at Grove City College made the college a "recipient." What did this mean and what were the implications?
The culture wars will flare up again when the Supreme Court soon decides whether Colorado baker Jack Phillips may refuse to bake cakes for same-sex weddings.
