The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week, but the decision was far from unanimous. Two members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) dissented – an unusual occurrence that reveals deep disagreement about where the economy is heading. 

My father was many things, longshoreman, clock maker, superintendent of a rooming house, inventor and patent attorney. He moved easily from one livelihood to another, never totally letting go of what he had been before.

The civic education crisis our country faces seems to us to be part of a larger cultural malaise – one that fails to foresee the consequences of our inactions in other realms of our society and, then once demonstrated, fails to do anything about them.

I want to reopen the government as soon as possible so federal workers can get paid, Americans receive the benefits they’ve earned on time and without delay, and Congress can get back to doing the work our constituents sent us to Washington to do for them.

For over 200 years, we have laughed at the Luddites, those villagers who destroyed the steam-powered looms for fear they would lose their jobs. I fear the Luddites are about to be proven correct.  

We knew a lot about our small little world but knew almost nothing going on outside our circle. But realistically, should we? Isn’t it best to shield our children from those big things until the time is right?

Charlie Kirk held no elected office. His only weapons were words and open debate. Despite this, nearly one in five Americans shockingly declared in surveys that his assassination was justified, according to a Harvard CAPS Harris poll.

I have the feeling that younger generations (damn; I hate writing that, it makes me feel old) prefer social media posts to fair and accurate news reporting. Everyone on social media can present his or hers or "its, they's, them's" (in 2025 moronic parlance) expert reporting via cell phone video, regardless of the facts.

People don’t knowingly or willingly vote for their quality of life to deteriorate. But this is the progressive template, whether in the cities they control or on a national level with the open borders policy that, under the Biden administration, brought in 20-25 million illegal migrants, many of them criminals. It is common sense that law and order is an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, although according to a recent AP-NORC poll, 81 percent of Americans across political persuasions say crime is a “major problem.” The other 19 percent must be either criminals, progressive politicians, or both.

If Section 230 falls and every online dispute is dragged into court, it won’t be Big Tech that pays the price – it will be Americans whose speech and livelihoods hang in the balance.

Although the state of New York began investigating Brimelow and VDARE in 2022, it only brought civil charges last month for a complex series of transactions tied to a castle in West Virginia.

What will the campus protesters do now that there is peace? The answer is simple: they will double down. Their protests were never just about policy or politics; they were built on a hatred of Zionism itself.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to help others replace their fear with love. 

For the first time since early 2021, there are more unemployed Americans than job vacancies. If the Fed waits until 2026 to cut rates meaningfully, it will be too late.

As we got into the spring of 1965, things were smoothing out and becoming routine on the farms. I was finishing up my freshman year at Hillsboro High School and had only one more year of Latin to dread.