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HISTORIANS and political scientists are growing more comfortable using the term Cold War Two when describing the international tension between China and the United States.  The first Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union from about 1945 through 1991 when the Soviet Union colla…

THIS point has been made many times before by many other commentators all over the world, but voters need to be reminded of it constantly: We won’t just hire anyone to pull out a broken tooth, treat an illness or fix our car. We will go to a reputable expert: a dentist, a doctor, a mechanic. And ye…

THE TRUTH of the matter is I believe the Senate has leaped before they looked, which is a big no-no! We learn in our formative years to “look before you leap” and yet the Senate seems to have jumped off the EVS-TAP cliff without doing their homework (KNOWING it will work). Based on what I have read…

THE TRUTH of the matter is our Governor has “chosen wisely” for us and WE-as-a-People, need to get on board and start moving forward as “one people headed in the same direction” and stop figuratively looking in the rearview mirror at China. We don’t hear Kilili promoting this EVS-TAP stuff because …

Rosemarie D. Embile ONLINE scams have become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent in the digital age, exploiting various avenues such as romance and investments. The infamous Simon Leviev romance scam shed light on the vulnerabilities in online relationships, but the deception extends to other …

FROM the archives: Roughly 250 years ago, the United States and Great Britain partnered to become the dominant center of power on Earth. It started ironically enough, when one declared independence from the other, but since then their mutual interests have never seriously been in doubt. Over the en…

THE TRUTH of the matter is the “scatter-brain approach to rebuilding our Economy” that I wrote about was not just supposition but indeed FACT! The Governor wanted to focus on Japan but it seems the GOP that are left is taking the lead when they (Ralph & Crew) were the ones who killed our Econom…

THREE days before Javie Milei was sworn in as Argentina’s president, the Wall Street Journal reported that “El Loco” — his nickname, “the crazy one” — was already taking “a softer tone….” That shouldn’t be a bad thing. Governing is vastly different from campaigning. And we’re talking about governin…

TWO couples sharing a remote island in the Pacific, the first returned to Hawaii in the other couple’s vessel and the second couple was never seen again, alive.  What happened on Palmyra?  Now we know some of the truth. Palmyra lies 1,200 miles south of Hawaii and is a lonely outpost sometimes occu…

A police officer with gun drawn stands vigil outside G.B.’s house during the long hours of the armed man’s reign of terror in Chalan Kanoa. AROUND this time of year, 1983, Saipan’s biggest news story was about a repeat offender with a submachine gun and other firearms. What followed was…