Unlike a sizable number of his congressional colleagues, Sen. John Kennedy does, indeed, possess the common horse sense that God gave a goose. (OK, sorry for the poor mixed metaphor.)

This year, as we celebrate Christmas, let’s take a cue from the shepherds. Take the time to pause amid the chaos of work to reflect on the miracle of Christ’s birth.

They call themselves “Indivisible,” but their radical protests around the country and around Ohio every weekend are organized and well-funded by practically invisible dark money.

HARA will conduct an “Introduction to Amateur Radio” question-and-answer program on Sunday, March 16 at the Hillsboro Global Methodist Church, 131 East Walnut Street, to tell about ham radio, its features and how to become licensed. This will lead to the group gathering for the next four Sundays at 2 p.m. to further discuss test parts they may need to understand better.

• “[Americans] have had to live through 20-percent inflation under President Biden. They understand what [Elon] Musk is doing. They understand spending on porn and wasting taxpayer money."

One of the mandates voters gave the new administration and Republican-controlled Congress is to end the scenes of bedlam at the border and protect communities from the dangers unlawful mass migration invites.

Producers are struggling to make ends meet in an environment where costs for farm inputs have ballooned from inflation, interest rates have doubled and market prices are far below the cost of production. The outdated farm safety net they are operating under is doing nothing to address these realities.

In less than two days, these same party pooh-bahs led by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi anointed Biden’s number-two, Kamala Harris, as their new vessel, confirming her central role as co-pilot for their failed policies that gave us record-high inflation, skyrocketing crime, an open border, two major wars overseas and a humiliating pullout in Afghanistan that killed 13 of our finest men and women in uniform.

The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture. Therefore, those who affirm the American nation – whether they are NatCons, FreeCons, or patriotic liberals – should be called Americanists.

This Fourth of July as we celebrate our independence, we should reflect not only on the Declaration of Independence but also on the wise and prudent counsel uttered by John Quincy Adams more than 100 years ago.

An Ohio man wants the federal government to stay out of his whiskey. John Ream, of Newark, Ohio, sued the U.S. Department of Treasury on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Ohio to end the federal ban on home distilling of spirit beverages.

With the freezing temperatures, snow and enormous amounts of rain over the last couple weeks, baseball has never felt so far away. However, pitchers and catchers report on Feb. 13, along with the first spring training game occurring in roughly a month.  

The last time Joe Brindley saw his big brother, Kenyon, was in 1941. The younger Brindley recalled Kenyon’s generosity at leaving his siblings his uneaten piece of lemon pie before heading back to his U.S. Army Air Force assignment. While Kenyon regularly wrote letters to his family, those stopped nearly 80 years ago.

Veterans Day is a special time to remember and honor the sacrifice of these patriotic Americans who came from all walks of life but had the same sense of purpose – to protect and defend our country and our freedoms.

The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday isn’t the final word. But the real question is this: Why do Democrats keep pushing a policy that costs so much and has no crime-reducing benefits? Someday, knowing who owns guns will help them to target their confiscation efforts. Mass registration will set the stage for future gun bans.