Our system of checks and balances needs attention U.S.A

Our system of checks and balances needs attention

December 5th, 20250 Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing too powerful. The American people have supported this arrangement. My concern is that the checks and balances have eroded. The system is...
No end in sight to Israel’s wars U.S.A

No end in sight to Israel’s wars

November 21st, 20250 In the days after October 7, 2023, then-President Biden cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to make the same mistakes the U.S. made following 9/11. Biden never publicly spelled out his meaning, but it was understood as a warning to Netanyahu: Don’t overreact or overreach, as President George W. Bush had done by...
The American people want Congress to do its job U.S.A

The American people want Congress to do its job

November 20th, 20250 It caught my attention recently when two senators issued a news release about trying to repeal laws that authorize the president to use military force against Iraq. This is a positive effort for several reasons. It deserves support. First, as the senators, Indiana Republican Todd Young and Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine, point out, the...
Megyn Kelly and the new conservative revolt against Israel first politics U.S.A

Megyn Kelly and the new conservative revolt against Israel first politics

November 13th, 20250 Megyn Kelly has long been known as a sharp interviewer who occupies the moderate space inside conservative media. She built her reputation on tough questions, cool analysis and an ability to challenge anyone who sat across from her. In recent years, however, her voice has taken on a new charge. She is openly rejecting the political...
The end of blind loyalty: Why America must reconsider its ties to Israel U.S.A

The end of blind loyalty: Why America must reconsider its ties to Israel

November 7th, 20250 The world has become a witness to unimaginable suffering. In Gaza, entire families have been erased from the registry of the living. Children, once filled with laughter, now silenced by hunger, dust and fear, stare blankly from hospital beds that have no medicine in hospitals that no longer have walls. Every explosion feels like an echo...
FBI raids in Dearborn spark outrage and doubt in the Arab American community U.S.A

FBI raids in Dearborn spark outrage and doubt in the Arab American community

November 7th, 20250 Three young Arab Americans charged with terrorism-related offenses after alleged ISIS-inspired Halloween plot; community leaders decry “reckless hysteria” and “Islamophobic targeting” DEARBORN — Three young Arab Americans, aged between 19 and 20, are facing terrorism-related charges after being arrested by the Federal...
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Political violence undermines our democracy U.S.A

Political violence undermines our democracy

November 7th, 20250 I was in Congress for 34 years. During that time, I attended scores, possibly hundreds of public events. They were held in all kinds of places, in nearly every circumstance that you can imagine. I can recall only one incident of potential violence. There were sometimes heated disagreements, but almost never did people reject the...
The recurring struggle for the soul of America U.S.A

The recurring struggle for the soul of America

October 31st, 20250 You Have Your America, I Have My America: Lessons from Gibran and the Struggle for Democracy A century ago, Khalil Gibran wrote a love poem to Lebanon, "You have your Lebanon, I have my Lebanon." He spoke of his affection for the Lebanese people’s generosity and hospitality and Lebanon’s beauty in contrast to its bickering...
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Trump administration tightens U.S. citizenship test requirements U.S.A

Trump administration tightens U.S. citizenship test requirements

October 24th, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On October 20 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) started implementing new changes introduced by President Trump’s administration to the oral portion of the U.S. naturalization test. Under the revised rules for the civics test, which measures green card holders’ knowledge of U.S. history,...
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Senate confirms Michel Issa as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon U.S.A

Senate confirms Michel Issa as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon

October 10th, 20250 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Michel Issa as the new U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, succeeding Ambassador Lisa Johnson. Issa is expected to arrive in Beirut by the end of October to formally begin his duties, according to an official notification delivered to the Lebanese government. Issa —...
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How using religious language muddies up politics U.S.A

How using religious language muddies up politics

October 3rd, 20250 On September 10th, conservative Republican political activist Charlie Kirk was murdered while speaking on a college campus in Utah. The reactions to his death have reflected the deep divisions that plague American society today. While most critics of Kirk’s extreme views on race, women and gender issues were respectful in their...
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The tide is turning against Israel in America U.S.A

The tide is turning against Israel in America

October 3rd, 20250 For decades the American political establishment has treated support for Israel as an unshakable pillar of foreign policy. Presidents, senators and governors tripped over themselves to prove loyalty to Tel Aviv, while critics were sidelined and smeared. Yet a profound shift is underway. The tide is turning, and Israel no longer enjoys...
Grand Blanc Mormon church massacre leaves four dead, eight injured U.S.A

Grand Blanc Mormon church massacre leaves four dead, eight injured

October 3rd, 20250 GRAND BLANC – A Mormon church in this community was the target of a bloody terrorist massacre during Sunday services, leaving four people dead and eight others injured. The assailant, who rammed his truck into the building before opening fire on hundreds of worshipers and setting the church ablaze, was killed by police. The church was...
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