Some might say that “freedom” is just an empty word. But no one would fight for a mere word. Freedom is an idea – a powerful idea – and it is worth fighting for.

Imagine a landscape, where grasses sway in the wind, where wildflowers bloom from the first days of spring until the falling leaves of autumn. During the day butterflies paint the skies, and bird songs fill the air, while at night fireflies dance under the stars.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, during the four years from 2021-24, a net 10.3 million people immigrated to the U.S. As a result of this huge immigration influx, the portion of the U.S. population that is foreign-born hit 16.2%, per the CBO, surpassing the all-time record of 14.8% set in 1890. That mark lasted for more than 130 years, but it couldn’t survive the Biden administration.

In just a few months, some of the deals have already become dicey, leading to fears that the Biden administration has created multiple Solyndras, the green energy company that went bankrupt after the Obama administration gave it $570 million.

The weekly trips to the McNary Farm settled in to being routine, and by the time I was in the fifth or sixth grade, they could be called boring. We had spent Dad’s vacation every summer on the farm and at last I started lobbying for a vacation somewhere else. 

Idioms have always fascinated me. They are phrases that are commonly used but mean something very different from their literal definitions. It's their popular use that imparts their understanding. I often wonder when they were first used, and why. 

Terrorist regimes cannot be appeased. They must be deterred, disrupted, and when necessary, defeated. Iran poses a real danger to American lives, and I will continue to ensure that our armed forces have every tool they need to stop it.

I have said and written for years that former Pittsburgh Pirates superstar (and later former Cincinnati Reds outfielder) Dave Parker (and his former teammate Al Oliver) belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame. After way too many years of waiting for the call, Parker passed away today on June 28 at the age of 74. His special induction ceremony was just weeks away.

The U.S. Supreme Court's Friday ruling limiting the power of judges to block a president's policies nationwide will have widespread implications for similar lower court decisions, an analyst says.

After years of crisis and chaos at the southern border thanks to reckless open-border policies, the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress are committed to border security and enforcing immigration law. 

Mamdani is not the answer to the Democrats’ problems or the voters’ problems.

If the trajectory of contemporary warfare continues to evolve rapidly, the tactical and strategic advantage may still lie with those military and political innovators, like the Ukrainians and the Israelis, who are two steps ahead of any Silicon Valley software.

Citing new intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said that Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed by U.S. airstrikes and that if the Iranians attempted to rebuild those facilities it would likely take them years.

South Carolina and other states can bar taxpayer dollars from the federal Medicaid program from going to Planned Parenthood for abortion services, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

If all of us choose to raise our kids without any morals and discipline, just because we have that right, then in just a few generations we will have grunting, rooting-in-the-mud pig leaders of our families and our good ol’ USA.