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Is CIA located somewhere in your underwear? Answer may be ‘yes’

In a year, if a friend asks you if the CIA is in your underwear, you’d probably not take the question seriously. You’d be wrong. The CIA is spending millions in tax dollars to get into your underwear next year. Eleven years ago, when this column asked if the CIA was in your kitchen, folks ...

State needs poll workers

Michigan needs more poll workers. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is encouraging people to sign up. With recent changes to election laws in Michigan, adding workers across the state will be essential. Clerks need more staff to support the early voting requirements added to the state ...

Leave mandate off base

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appears to have decided the best way to grow Michigan’s population is to turn it into her version of a workers’ paradise. Policies pursued this year by the governor and her new Democratic-majority Legislature are largely being dictated by labor unions and tilt the ...

Can AOC win back our love? Maybe

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been giving interviews of late, serious interviews. The New York representative is clearly maturing. The celebrity-obsessed lefty has turned into a working member of Congress. That’s good for all who want the Democratic fringes to stop attacking their moderates ...

Joe Biden’s age poses big issue he can’t get around

In December 1998, Rep. Bob Livingston, Republican of Louisiana, was set to succeed Rep. Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House. Gingrich had announced his resignation from Congress and the speakership in the wake of a disastrous midterm election for Republicans as well as revelations that ...

Yet more climate fiction

It’s been a good summer for climate activists who are pushing the false narrative of “climate change.” We had the Canadian wildfires with smoke drifting into other parts of North America. Then there were hotter than usual temperatures in many parts of the country (it’s summertime and ...