• Opinions 11 January 2024

    O, wonder! Take a moment to smell the roses

    We cannot solve all our problems with a change of mind. But we can begin to become a happy, healthier people if each of us works to be a little more grateful. Even as we struggle with our own very real challenges and suffering, let’s each of us, each day, intentionally recall, through a sacred (or secular) prayer, all that we have to be thankful for. It can start healing our broken world and ourselves.
  • Opinions 11 January 2024
    Energy lease hypocrisy: Biden uses taxpayer protections to prop up wind, gut oil
    If hypocrisy were combustible, we’d be paying $1 per gallon at the pump.
  • Opinions 11 January 2024
    The root cause of academic groupthink
    The safest, surest, most common path to success in academia involves telling those already designated experts precisely what they most want to hear: That their own work had been so groundbreaking that the most interesting and exciting path forward is to build upon it.
  • Opinions 11 January 2024
    Rep. Chip Roy: 'We must impeach Secretary Mayorkas immediately'
    “Under the leadership of President Biden and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, America has experienced the worst border crisis in DHS history,” said Representative Roy.
  • Opinions 11 January 2024
    Poll: Increased Black, Hispanic support Trump over Biden
    The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, conducted Jan. 2-4, found that among likely voters, Trump holds 45% support compared to Biden’s 41% in a head-to-head faceoff, a lead that's outside of the poll's 2% margin for error with the Iowa Caucuses scheduled for Monday, Jan. 15.
  • Opinions 11 January 2024
    Nikki Haley surpasses DeSantis for 2nd in new GOP primary poll
    Former South Carolina Gov. and ambassador Nikki Haley has surpassed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis among Republican voters, according to a new poll.
  • Opinions 10 January 2024
    Top Haley surrogate warns ‘vote for Christie is a vote for Trump’
    “If Christie stays in the race, he helps Trump win. That’s it. He’s helping Trump. Trump wants Christie in the race,” Gov. Chris Sununu told RealClearPolitics. “I know that’s not what [Chris'] original strategy was, but again, that strategy has kind of come to an end.”
  • Opinions Fr. Mike Paraniuk 10 January 2024
    A sermon on 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
    Temperance is where you choose not to do something that would be sinful. Temperance requires a lot of practice. Satan makes sin so pleasurable. That's why so many people do it.
  • Opinions 10 January 2024
    Mayorkas bobs and weaves around the truth
    After months of back and forth, the House appears ready to begin the impeachment process against Mayorkas. On their trip to Eagle Pass, the 600+ House delegation that included House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said that his panel will officially begin an effort this month to impeach Mayorkas.
  • Opinions 9 January 2024
    We must stop the Chinese communist party invasion
    Transactions benefitting the Chinese Communist Party are a threat we cannot ignore. Biden and Brown have failed us and have not forcefully defended America from invasion or taken needed actions to protect our strategic interests.
  • Opinions 9 January 2024
    Time to expose America's secret lawsuit gambling ring
    By treating America's legal system as just another financial transaction on which to gamble, third party litigation funding is making it harder for defendants to resolve cases and harder for plaintiffs to get justice. 
  • Opinions 9 January 2024
    Claudine Gay is only digging deeper
    Thus Claudine Gay’s recent New York Times disingenuous op-ed alleging racism as the prime cause of her career demise was, to quote Talleyrand, “worse than a crime, it was a blunder.” And her blame-gaming will only hurt her cause and reinforce the public’s weariness with such boilerplate and careerist resorts to racism where it does not exist.
  • Opinions 8 January 2024
    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin must resign
    The news that the U.S. Department of Defense failed to inform the American public that its Secretary of Defense was hospitalized in Walter Reed for four days represents a stunning breach of transparency standards. It is also a measure of reputational damage from which Secretary Lloyd Austin will never recover. He must be forced to resign.
  • Opinions Christine Tailer 8 January 2024
    Marble treasures
    Some people are collectors. My mother was a collector of scarves. She had one to coordinate with every outfit. Back when I was an attorney, I took great joy in accessorizing my lawyerly attire by choosing just the right scarf to wear to court on any particular day. 
  • Opinions 8 January 2024
    Fighting Biden administration overreach
    Thirty years after its inception, the Congressional Western Caucus is working harder than ever for rural America. In the past three decades, we have grown from our humble beginnings to a bicameral caucus of more than 100 members of the House and 20 senators. 
  • Opinions 8 January 2024
    To raise real wages, Biden must stop reckless spending
    If recent polling is any indication, the American people are hoping President Biden’s New Year’s resolution will be to stop promoting bad policies that drive up prices and lower their quality of life.
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