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Trump and Musk: poor fathers, better leaders
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Trump and Musk: poor fathers, better leaders

Conservative influencer and author Ashley St. Clair petitioned a Manhattan court to legally declare Elon Musk the father of her child and grant her sole custody Feb. 21. This child would be Musk’s fourteenth, and St. Clair the fourth mother of his offspring. This should ring the alarm bells for conservatives who cherish traditional family...

City officials remain opposed to in-town marijuana sales
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City officials remain opposed to in-town marijuana sales

The open sign at Stoned Goat Cannabis, a dispensary in Osseo. Lauren Bixler | Circulation Manager As Coldwater took $757,000 in pot taxes, Hillsdale councilmen stand by bans on the drug Members of the Hillsdale City Council say they remain opposed to the opening of marijuana dispensaries as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a new...

Moderation isn’t enough
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Moderation isn’t enough

What do preserved fetal pigs and your Friday night cocktail at Rough Draft have in common? Cancer risk.  The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies alcohol as a Group 1 cancer-causing agent alongside tobacco, asbestos, and formaldehyde. These links initially surfaced in 1988,  but were reaffirmed in 2007 and 2010.  Christians often advise limited...

Poor leadership cost LA lives
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Poor leadership cost LA lives

I am a Northern California native. Fires rampage through my region during the dry summers every year. For this reason, when the Los Angeles fires broke out on Jan. 7, I thought little of it. Looking at my fire tracker app, I saw the Palisades and Eaton fires at 23,000 and 17,000 acres, which seemed...