“I know DeSantis can win,” Rep. Massie said, “because I’ve seen him up in the polls just four months ago over Trump in Kentucky, which is Trump Central. He’s got a great chance. People want somebody who can drain the swamp.”

The fever dream finally broke when former President Trump was arrested Tuesday, April 4. Minus handcuffs, his New York arraignment happened almost exactly like “the Resistance” long hoped and dreamed. And then, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago; all but called the Manhattan district attorney, as well as the judge overseeing his case, a crook; said “the country is going to hell;” took shots at the other prosecutors investigating him; and declared he had “no interest” in plea deals.

The historic indictment of Donald Trump on weak, politically motivated charges underscores how far Democrats have knocked our country off the rails. Their incessant attack on the pillars of our society is creating a nation of cynics who no longer believe in anything. When the rule of law is dead, everything is permitted.

It’s time for consumers everywhere – families, farmers, truckers, organized labor, manufacturers, retailers, environmentalists – to demand a consumer recall for any idea that makes energy less affordable, available, reliable or environmentally responsible.

I heard this said recently, and it stuck. “Seems to me the past isn’t a great place to live, just a place to visit once, to learn from it.” Don’t waste your life in regrets of what you’ve done wrong. Visit there just once, long enough to learn differently. And then use your gray matter to live life better and happier.

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and followed that up by suspending new oil and gas leasing and drilling on federal lands and waters. Americans have unfortunately felt the effects of these actions through record-high energy prices.

A recent Rand study found that 77% of school districts used the federal money on exactly what numerous other fiscal hawks cautioned against: beefing up staffing with little regard for the future. “Roughly half of district leaders see a fiscal cliff looming after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) federal aid expires,” Rand researchers reported. The study noted that over three-quarters of public school districts have “increased their number of teaching and non-teaching staff above pre-pandemic levels.”

Special thanks is extended to two area residents – Bob Hodson and Jim Lukens – for recently sharing a bit of local history with The Highland County Press.

Despite empty government cubicles, President Joe Biden tucked a 5.2-percent pay raise for the 1.4 million employees of executive agencies into his proposed budget. That would be the single largest pay hike for the Swamp since 1980. They don't call it Club Fed for nothing.

With red flags flying, and with the stakes at American universities, laboratories and businesses high, Biden’s indifference to the Chinese entering illegally – and virtually at will – proves his callous disregard for the nation he’s sworn to defend and the citizens who trusted him.

On yesterday’s walk along the creek, I noticed that the buckeye trees were just beginning to wake up. Fat, red buds were swelling at their branch ends. I could see that some of the buds had even unfurled into close clusters of tiny, feathered leaves, and I was reminded of a story from several years ago when Greg and I drove east to visit my brother and his wife in the far northeastern mountains.

Will the information age be an era of informed, empowered citizens – or an era of a dominant, information-controlling elite? Stay tuned. That’s the question we need to answer.

We have to look to Jesus with faith, looking not for what the world celebrates, but for what sinners need: A holy Savior who bore the sins of His people on the cross and rose again for their salvation.

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a pro-immigration, Washington, D.C.-based research organization whose self-described mission is to “improve immigration,” published a timely report on Nicaragua and its citizens’ exodus from their home country.

AI development is at the point where researchers are not sure when its intelligence will surpass humanity’s and concede perhaps it already has. Earlier this week, an open letter containing names like Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and others gained over 1,000 (latest count 2,137) signatures calling for at least a six-month pause in training the AI systems to be more powerful than Chat GPT-4. Others are saying the pause needs to be 30 years. Good luck with that.