Once I started to Hillsboro High School in the fall of 1964, I had access to the stores in Hillsboro, for the school bus took me there and back every school day. I was making a little money, earnings from helping neighbors put up hay, and I had an account at Farmers & Traders Bank.

Former vice president and 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris leads Democratic contenders for 2028, according to a new poll.

It seems like a real story – one that deserves the full attention of the press – but where are the special investigation teams at the New York Times and the Washington Post? What have you heard about this story on CBS, NBC, and ABC newscasts? Very little if anything. Certainly nothing in comparison to the coverage provided to Watergate.

Legislation that would bar elected officials from owning stocks reveals an additional fault line: supporters tend to be affluent white-collar professionals, while opponents made their millions by founding businesses and/or making investments on Wall Street, an investigation by The Center Square found.  

I stepped outside. The sun was just coming up over the hill on the far side of the creek. A heavy dew covered the grass in the upper yard. It sparkled in the first few rays of sunshine.

Vice President JD Vance is currently the strongest contender for the 2028 presidential election among Republican voters, according to a new poll. 

It comes as no surprise that in our highly polarized current political environment the latest RealClear Opinion Research survey also documented stark partisan divisions on questions pertaining to Americans’ vision of themselves, their safety, and their future.

What does it signal to you when you see a train car covered with graffiti? Or someone’s yard or home up to here in trash? Are these things so ubiquitous you don’t give them a thought?  

The latest federal data expose a stark reality: Violent crime has surged dramatically despite claims to the contrary. The growing gap between reported crimes and actual victimization reflects both a breakdown in law enforcement and the deliberate downgrading of offenses by progressive prosecutors.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s statement that the now more than two-week long government shutdown reveals the U.S. Department of Education is unnecessary – an idea the Trump administration has been pushing–met with agreement and approval from policy directors. “Two weeks in [to the shutdown], millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said in an X post.

The recent increase in gold prices in the United States and around the world has been driven by a confluence of economic, financial, and political factors.

The government doesn’t create jobs. Hard-working people do. But the government can make it much more difficult for the businessmen and women in Louisiana to continue to grow their companies.  

Coal isn’t nostalgia – it’s common sense. It’s the engine that built this country and the only one strong enough to keep it running. 

A compromise on subsidies may be the off-ramp to end the shutdown. If the Senate were to pass a clean bill with an extension of the subsidies, it is hard to imagine the House would not do the same.

Since its birth in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been attached to the United States by a figurative umbilical cord which has sustained its life well into old age – 76 years.