Auchter's Art

Americans certainly don't own religious intolerance. It is a universal human fault. But as it happens, being a refuge for those who have experienced religious intolerance is a critical part of our country's origin story - it is literally foundational to how we intended our country operate.

Musk is donating to Republican candidates all over the country, including Michigan, and especially to bolster Mike Rogers here. Does this have anything to do with the people of Michigan? Heck, no.

President Donald Trump has made a political living for years saying and doing whatever the hell he wants. Somehow this is accepted as his style. But the horrible things he says and terrible decisions he makes aren't working well for his Republican underlings.

While not all "attack" ads are necessarily bad, recently, both political parties seemed to have found John Auchter's phone number, and the texts are just pouring in.

The best strategy would be to build a coalition of allies as trading partners, creating a bulwark against a powerful, overbuilt Chinese automotive industry desperate for new markets. Instead, we have an administration driven by ego and petty grievances that is doing the exact opposite with tariffs and trade wars.

Auchter: "I'm sure Mike Rogers would be happy to describe the GOP as "the party that abhors the government picking winners and losers," but the Trump administration has taken unprecedented opportunity for his government (and his own interests) to grab ownership stakes of private enterprises."

The U.S., and the people of the United States, received an enormous outpouring of goodwill in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Our friends and allies rallied to our aid to support and, in some cases, sustain us.

Certain Michigan school districts are now offering insurance-free healthcare so employees can afford healthcare. So, bypassing health insurance because it's both too expensive to buy and too expensive to use.

Now to understand why Trump sees the whole world this way, that answer is also quite simple: Roy Cohn. Cohn was Trump's mentor/lawyer/fixer in his formative years of pulling himself up by the bootstraps of daddy's fortune.

Honestly, I don't think I'll ever understand how some people who purport to be Christian so thoroughly miss the actual teachings of Jesus Christ.