When life dumps on you, go confidently to Jesus for help. He will stand by your side with His shovel. I have a plaque that reads, "Jesus, there is nothing that happens today you and I can't handle."

When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime. But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

We strongly believe that a vote of No on Issue 4 is critically necessary in order for Greenfield to continue to make progress and thrive in an increasingly complex world.

The number one question that the Federal Emergency Management Administration, the Department of Defense, and Congressional overseers need to ask in a post-disaster assessment of Hurricane Helene is what caused the delay in Title 10 Forces responding? Soldiers and equipment from the 82d Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps based in Fort Liberty, N.C., less than 250 miles from Boone and Asheville, N.C., arrived five days after the disaster.

Iran's escalation shows America must bolster ailing Europe to prevail in the global ideological showdown. With Iran now on the brink of war with Israel, the situation could rapidly evolve into a global power struggle. 

The fight against the Iranian axis is not just Israel’s, but America’s, too. Iran and its terrorist proxies have killed thousands of Americans over the years and still actively plot to do so today. The only to stop these attacks and the threats is to inflict real pain on Iran.

If there is a bright spot here, polling has long shown that American consumers trust local media more than the national press. “In 2021, Americans were 17 points more likely to say they trust reporting by local news organizations ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ than to trust reporting by national news organizations,” notes a survey done by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.

I am not going to write about naked bodies and the image that phrase seems to conjure up to people. The focus of this column, the nakedness I am writing about? Your future. The naked, unvarnished truth straight out of the Bible, about your eternity.

The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing roughly 16,000 Border Patrol agents nationwide, endorsed former President Donald Trump for president while criticizing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. On Monday, the union issued a statement, saying, “On behalf of the 16,000 men and women represented by the National Border Patrol Council, we strongly support and endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.”

Congressman Don Bacon, a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, believes that the United States has become highly vulnerable to a nuclear first strike by Russia or China.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments about owning a “Glock” are proving to be, more than just a short-lived embarrassment, a microcosm of the problem plaguing her candidacy. Like other failed campaigns before, Harris’ camp seems to believe the public can be hoodwinked with prepared lines and ads and images that are at odds with the candidate’s record and identity.

What we don’t know is if Harris is saying the things she is saying today just to get elected and if she will follow through with them if elected. As vice president, she seems to have ignored the office and the mandates President Biden has given her.

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are downplaying the threat to former President Donald Trump posed by a man arrested outside a California rally Saturday night – despite assertions made by a local sheriff that his detention likely thwarted a third assassination attempt.

Many Americans are not aware that citizens of the United States are still suffering as hostages in Gaza. This may be due to the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has hardly mentioned them. 

I sat on the front porch, rocking in my chair, listening to the wind chimes and the occasionally falling walnut, pawpaw and buckeye. My mind slipped back to a time, worlds away, when the sounds were so different, and we were pinball wizards, and we were young.