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In past years I have suggested going beyond Christmas and other holiday gifts that will soon be forgotten, returned or worn out, in favor of one that will last for generations to come.

Last year I wrote about the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which provides private school tuition for poor and middle-class children in failing public schools. ...Read more

The soon-to-expire Biden administration is behaving as if an invading foreign power is about to take over and the house must be burned down to keep the “invaders” from succeeding.

In the past few weeks, the cynicism meter has ticked up several notches because of the decisions made by the outgoing president and others in his administration. ...Read more

Before this time of the month was hijacked by the secular progressives as “the holidays” in deference to everyone – except the ones who have a real reason for the season – it was called Christmas.

Associated with Christmas, including sentiments on cards we once sent to friends and family before the postage rates and cost of cards became...Read more

Media reports say President Biden is about to issue a slew of blanket pre-emptive pardons for people associated with his administration to thwart any “revenge” the incoming Trump administration might take against them.

While the Founders intended presidential power to be nearly unlimited (there is an exception for a president who has been ...Read more

Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question from David Muir of ABC News about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,” the ...Read more

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats, especially, but also ...Read more

The annual American holiday called Thanksgiving formally began with a 1863 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln declaring the last Thursday in November a day of “thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent ...Read more

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in opposition to fluoride in the water supply. Dr. Ladapo cites controversial studies that claim the additive poses a risk to developing brains.

I shall resist ...Read more

There is a reason the Founders wrote Article 2, section 2 and clause 2 into the U.S. Constitution. They gave power to the president to nominate people to high office, but that power ...Read more

Fifty years ago when Ron Paul (father of Sen. Rand Paul) was running for Congress from Texas, a billboard featured an obese Uncle Sam with the caption “let’s put big government on a diet.”

Since then, the federal government has grown even more obese. To seriously ...Read more

If any constitutional amendment can be hated, it would be the 16th Amendment.

Passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified by the states in 1913, it allowed Congress to “levy income taxes without apportioning them among the states based on population.” At first the ...Read more

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment,” “self-reflection” and “regret.” It seems most on the losing side are rethinking their far-left policies on immigration and the entire social agenda. Let’s wait and see, because for the left these are matters held ...Read more

In the end, Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. President-elect Donald Trump won the greatest comeback in American political history – bigger than Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory – by surviving two assassination attempts, a media that was shamelessly in the tank for Harris and a majority of voters ...Read more

What can a columnist do when his deadline is Election Day and he doesn’t know who has won the presidency and other offices (and we likely might not know for days, or more, if the polls are right about a virtual tie)?

Answer: He speculates about 2028.

Whether Donald Trump wins or loses, and if he does lose whether he concedes, or not, 2028 ...Read more

Sixty years ago this week, Ronald Reagan delivered a speech in support of Barry Goldwater’s presidential bid. It was dubbed “A Time for Choosing.”

Re-reading the speech, or watching it on YouTube, is a reminder how little has changed in ...Read more

If Clark Kent had a twin brother he might resemble Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. That includes Johnson’s mild-mannered nature.

Underneath that bland exterior of Johnson’s may not be a Superman, but Johnson on the first anniversary of his speakership is confident that while Republicans may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single ...Read more

MIAMI - As in most presidential election years, ballot measures are usually overlooked or downplayed by the national media. One is in Florida where a proposal to legalize cannabis to be administered...Read more

A political rule of thumb is that candidates should never offend a large group of voters, especially close to an election.

Harris ignored that rule, not once, but twice last week.

First, she disrespected the annual Al Smith dinner in New York, which raises money for Catholic charities and has been attended by every modern presidential ...Read more

Three years ago, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said this: “I don't think we're going to have real peace and security in the Middle East until the regime of the ayatollahs is replaced, not just because of ...Read more

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”– Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020

“ We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all ...Read more