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  • A tribute to John Cole

    On Sunday, June 15, we will celebrate Father’s Day – a day for us to celebrate the dads who have helped shape us into who we are today. 
  • The M1 Abrams on parade – and containing Putin
    Look for 28 Abrams tanks on the parade route in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 14 as the U.S. Army celebrates its 250th birthday. Those Abrams tanks display a famous legacy.
  • The world is upside down
    Let’s bring obeying the laws back into fashion. It seems to be the fashion in small towns and rural America. Let’s bring this idea back to the big cities.
  • Making the power grid great again
    The lesson from West Virginia v. EPA is clear: transformative policy changes require legislative backing. Agencies cannot conjure sweeping powers from ambiguous statutes. The rule of law demands clarity, accountability, and restraint.
  • Building certainty for small businesses
    To unlock growth for small businesses, the House-passed reconciliation bill would increase the Section 179 small business equipment expensing threshold to $2.5 million and permanently raise the 199A pass-through deduction to 23 percent. This provides tax relief and certainty for small businesses who create jobs for 62 percent of our nation’s workforce. 
  • The right path to better deterrence
    U.S. deterrence strategy is in transition along multiple paths. Legacy deterrent forces represented by the U.S. nuclear Triad are being both significantly upgraded and replaced.
  • Being courageous is scary stuff
    You think that bold firefighters hold no fear in their bones when they rush into a red-hot cauldron of fire that was once a high-rise building? That police officers have no fear inside as they run toward an active crime scene? That parents don’t spend some sleep-deprived nights, dreading the marching onslaught of the notorious "teen years?"
  • LA riots hand Republicans script for midterms
    “This lawlessness is exactly what Americans rejected in 2024,” said Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
  • The rule of law: A visit to immigration court
    RealClearInvestigations observed days of immigration court proceedings to gain insight into the current state of a system with a backlog of more than 3.6 million people, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks immigration court figures through monthly Freedom of Information Act requests.
  • Trump can and should fire Fed boss over economy
    Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans lose popularity. He’s also ignoring Trump, whom voters will judge for the economy’s performance and whom the Constitution says runs the executive branch of which the Fed is a part.
  • What Sen. Josh Hawley wants from the One Big Beautiful Bill (for Medicaid)
    The battle over Medicaid reform comes when the federal debt exceeds $36 trillion, and after Moody’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign debt rating, and as interest payments to service that debt exceed federal spending on national defense.
  • A sermon on Holy Trinity Sunday
    It was God's eternal plan for you to be with Him in Heaven even before you existed. Please don't do anything bad to mess this up. I jokingly told a parishioner, "When I get to Heaven, I want a big mansion with a Pittsburgh Steelers banner hanging from the roof." He replied, "Father, that's not Heaven. That's hell."
  • Media bias proves costly
    When someone like Morning Doofus or Fake Trapper insists that 2024 Joe Biden was the sharpest Joe Biden they've ever witnessed, they know full well they are lying to their audience. Still, they are gambling that their audience (those few believers) is willfully ignorant and easily led astray all the way to the ballot box. I suspect they often laugh about the extensive gullibility of their own audience. 
  • On the Moraine, Part XV
    Among the collection of buildings in the McNary farmyard, there was a small granary. Most old farmsteads had one of these, usually built upon stone piers so the floor was as high as a wagon bed.  
  • James Madison’s appeal to reasonable discourse
    Madison understood that in the critical moment of the nascent republic, compromise was necessary to move the country forward. His example of moderation amid hostile rhetoric on both sides is a timely reminder in our present moment of division.
  • Silly sheep
    Curly always follows Larry's lead. She will stand right beside him as Larry and I kiss nose to nose, but if I bend over for a Curly kiss, she ducks her head and quickly backs away.
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