5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (458+ words) Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” Benjamin Franklin wrote,…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (132+ words) Marxists want economic enslavement, not individual empowerment. They want to confiscate private property and end property ownership. It is, after all, not affordable. They do not want to create opportunities for individual success and achievement. Remember, if you own a…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (521+ words) Twenty-five years later, 9/11 still lingers in our nation’s memory, though not as strongly as it should. 9/11 was the third time our country sustained an attack from a foreign state on our soil. The others occurred during the War of 1812, with…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (611+ words) We just had the first “mid-term convention.” Do you remember anything from it? Maybe President Trump’s promise to send every adult a $5,000 check if Republicans win, but that's about it. And we all know that is never going to happen,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (381+ words) One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My pre-sacrament reverie was broken by the sight of a seemingly heavily armed…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (615+ words) American steelworkers are finally seeing real investment pour into their mills, and some union leaders still act like it’s a problem. The U.S. Steel contract expires September 1. Negotiations are underway and a very serious offer of 18 percent in wage increases…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (641+ words) The founders of America said our rights come from God. That is what we have celebrated recently with America at 250. But there is a very different understanding of who God is between Christianity, the worldview held by the founding fathers,…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (540+ words) Editor's Note: This column was written by Mary Connor Tully The row of colored flags eked, creaked, and fluttered in a gusting, biting wind that swept across the hill. The guide raised her voice above the shrill as the people…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (153+ words) That is the benefits cliff conservatives spent a generation warning about, and it remains even when the recipient is married and votes Republican. My Christian friends praising this idea are making families dependent on government and turning stay-at-home mothers into…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (288+ words) Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the…...