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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

The headline shook me to the core. "Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow."

This is what the end of the rule of law looks like. The people who refuse to do the wrong thing leave, or are pushed out, and replaced by sycophants.

Joseph Thompson was number two in the Office and the former Acting U.S. Attorney ...Read more

President Donald Trump, with his brash, blaring mouth and devouring huge McDonalds lunches, is the ugly American -- the ugliest ever.

He's hurt the country in countless ways. Recently, the murder of Minnesota mother Renee Good, 37, shot in the face by a federal agent armed for war, awakened the national mood to anger across party lines.

We ...Read more

In my childhood years, I got to experience something I've cherished ever since: starry nights.

I was lucky to spend time during the summers on my Aunt Eula's and Uncle Ernest's tenant farm in Northeast Texas. With no TV or electronics, we made our own entertainment in the evenings, including "turning on" nature's Big Show. This meant rolling ...Read more

On the one hand, thank goodness there are videos.

But on the other, America's current leaders couldn't care less what the videos show. They are prepared to say anything at all with a straight face, and there remain millions of Americans happy to believe what these leaders tell them rather than their own eyes.

Here's what the videos show.

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Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its skepticism over Trump's plans for Venezuela. A stated ...Read more

When he entered the camps for the first time, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, confronting the horror, insisted that photographers create a full record of the atrocities, lest future generations deny that it had happened. Which hasn't fully stopped the deniers.

On Jan. 6, 2021, we all saw an insurrection directed at our democracy. It was on live...Read more

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Founding Fathers knew that -- "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted," James Madison -- warned they crafted the three branches of the new federal government as counterweights ...Read more

Louisville Urban League President Lyndon Pryor said something at the organization's annual Impact Luncheon last month that has been stuck on replay in my head ever since. I'm paraphrasing here, but he told the crowd, "If you're wondering what you would do in the face of injustice, you're doing it right now."

We find it easy to judge people in...Read more

There's no such thing as a "smart bomb" because bombs don't ask questions.

"You're not dropping me there," no bomb ever said. "There's kids down there."

But there are smart people, and this is one hell of a time to be smart.

After the United States bombed Venezuela for oil, the smart people talked about "geopolitics," the Monroe Doctrine, ...Read more