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Trump has accidentally made Canada great again

You've got to hand it to Donald Trump. Something really amazing is happening under his presidency -- in Canada. America's northern neighbor has never been hotter. And it has the U.S. President's constant negging to thank. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been cutting trade deals all around the world, trying to find new buyers to replace Trump's unpredictable U.S. market amid constant tariff threats. Much oxygen has been sucked up over the past week by hyperventilation over whether the U.S. and Canada would get a new trade deal. In the end, it doesn't matter much. Last week ...

Twilight’s last gleaming

There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning -- when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution. That's where America is today. The fiscal warning could hardly be clearer. The government's debt has now passed $40 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office ...

Tracing roots of our broken trust

In April of 2020, San Clemente, Calif., dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out of it. Down the coast, deputies arrested a man for paddleboarding alone in the Pacific Ocean. Towns unbolted basketball rims. The mayor of Los Angeles told Angelenos that snitches get rewards, and, God help us, people snitched. Then Gavin Newsom went to dinner at The French Laundry. All that explains two fights now burning down county commission meetings, fights that look like they have nothing to do with COVID: data centers and Flock cameras. In March of 2020, Americans closed ...

Browns fans send a message

CLEVELAND (AP) — Someone taped signs on Hall of Famer Jim Brown's statue outside the Cleveland Browns ' stadium criticizing the team for having quarterback Deshaun Watson on its roster because of his checkered past. Coach Todd Monken announced Monday that Watson, who was booed at home in Saturday's 31-7 loss to Buffalo in a preseason game, will enter the season as the starting quarterback. Watson, making his first appearance in 22 months because of a ruptured Achilles tendon, lashed out at the fans afterward and called the booing "personal." Watson's presence in Cleveland has been ...

Goodell will look into York’s arrest

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is looking into whether San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York will be punished for violating the league's personal conduct policy after he was caught in a prostitution sting in East Palestine, Ohio. "It's being reviewed under the personal conduct policy," Goodell said Wednesday at the owners' meetings in Atlanta. "We'll do that and when there's something to be reported we'll talk." York was arrested near an East Palestine mobile home park by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force after police said he was ...

Guardians win seventh straight

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Steven Kwan hit a tying double in the ninth inning, Travis Bazzana followed with a sacrifice fly and the Cleveland Guardians rallied past the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 on Wednesday for their seventh straight victory. Hunter Gaddis (2-3) retired the final two batters in the eighth to earn the win. Erik Sabrowski worked a scoreless ninth for his second major league save and first since 2024. With a runner on second, Sabrowski struck out pinch-hitter Travis d'Arnaud and got pinch-hitter Oswald Peraza to pop up to second as Cleveland completed a three-game ...