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A Vietnam War veteran in Michigan has reportedly received his military honors more than 50 years after he left the U.S. Navy. The awards arrived after a struggle to make records publicly available. Vietnam veteran Karl Smith, who graduated from Muskegon High School in Michigan and enlisted in the Navy when he was 17 years old while still in school, received his service medals Wednesday, according to a report by WZZM 13. Smith, who was deployed to Vietnam and served in the Navy from 1969 to 1973, received five awards: the Navy “E” Ribbon, the National Defense Service Medal, the...

The leftist pundits in the media are twisting themselves silly trying to spin the terrible economic situation in an attempt to save President Joe Biden. A new Bloomberg Opinion op-ed actually tried to argue that high inflation is a good thing for America. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Karl Smith actually had the audacity to publish a nonsensical article headlined, “America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation.” His sub-headline was just as ridiculous: “The benefits of moderately rising prices and wages outweigh the costs.” His main argument was that “a higher rate of inflation, and correspondingly higher wage growth, could be a net positive...