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No party has monopoly on patriotism

If you don’t tell a lie, my father used to say, you won’t have to worry about which version of your story you told last. Right, I agreed, but, with an attitude like that, ol’ Dad was well advised to avoid going into politics. That advice came to mind amid the unfolding saga of an ...

Why do we keep laying our children on the altar of guns?

Is no one else tired of this? That’s what I asked myself Wednesday morning as I watched the news of yet another school shooting — this one in suburban Barrow County, Georgia: four dead, nine others injured at Apalachee High School. The images on TV were too familiar: shaking children ...

A fitting tribute to Ronald Reagan

First, they oppose you and condescend to you. Then, they reluctantly conclude that you had more on the ball than they thought. After that, they concede your achievements. And finally, they make a glowing feature-length movie about you. This has been the trajectory of Ronald Reagan and his ...

It’s not Bibi’s fault

President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to win the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas. As the saying goes “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” In his first statement since the recovery of six ...

What if Trump runs ahead of his poll numbers – again

As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see an anomaly. On one hand, the polls look very much like the 2020 and 2016 election results. Trump trails Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.9 ...

Now the feds are spying on Congress

“Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”— Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do so. Congress itself has ...