If firearms are bad per se, it should be easy to find places where either all guns or all handguns have been banned and murder/homicide rates have gone down. One would think out of randomness there should be at least one place where murder rates have gone down or at least stayed the same, but every single time, even for island nations, murder rates have gone up immediately after the ban.

Five players of the Iranian national women’s soccer team, the Lionesses, managed to break away from the larger group in Australia where they had been competing in the Women’s Asian Cup. Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled Crown Prince, says they have joined the anti-regime resistance.

This tax season will be better for hard-working Americans.

The contest for critical minerals is the defining industrial and security challenge of the 21st century. As a former U.S. Army general, I see daily how urgently America must regain control over the materials that underpin both its prosperity and defense.

When the human let us out the next morning, I ran straight for the tree. The limb had not moved, but the chicken was sitting on it looking worn out and sweating profusely. I didn’t know chickens could sweat. I was very disappointed.

The left does not give up. After every defeat, they double down, mobilize, and probe for further weaknesses. I give them credit for their tenacity, their savvy, their relentlessness. Rather than lament their success, we need to match them, then surpass them, then defeat them.

Faith alone may not reverse every sociological problem; indeed, people are not angels. But a revival of religious commitment could renew the civic bonds that sustain, safeguard and preserve a free society. 

Senate Democrats have chosen to use our homeland and the safety of the American people as a political bargaining chip. This is a dangerous and reckless choice.

I found 100 verses about the Kingdom of God in the Bible. But nowhere did I find a definition of the Kingdom of God. Please permit my humble attempt to define the Kingdom as I understand it.

As we celebrate America’s 250th, let’s all do our part to educate ourselves and the young people in our lives about the ideas that animate our country and fill our lives with opportunity. Let’s make civics the cause of the year.

Greg's grandfather was an old-time man, really one of the last of his kind. Greg called him Grandpa, and from Greg’s very first memories, he followed him about and learn his ways.

The Highland County Homeless Shelter is sounding an urgent alarm as entered 2026 with a $40,000 loss in federal funding, a cut that threatens to leave some of the county’s most vulnerable residents without a safe place to sleep.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Mirabelli v. Olson deciding against California’s law that allowed for gender transitions of school children without parental knowledge has met with commendation from advocacy groups and law firms, with a legal counsel calling the decision one of the “biggest parental rights wins” in a generation.

Other than Kristi letting things go to her head and spending a pile of money making some television commercials about deportation starring herself, I can find little to fault Kristi Noem.

This year, America turns 250 years old, and it deserves a birthday present – secure elections brought about by the SAVE America Act. It is time for the Senate to shake off the dust and use the only viable mechanism it has to pass the SAVE America Act – the talking filibuster.