No one had seen the new chief of staff squeeze his head with both hands in total frustration. No one knew when he abruptly shoved his office chair away from his desk and agitatedly leaped to his feet. And his office assistant was certainly not prepared when he stomped to her office and threw the door open so violently that it thudded against the wall. 

A dad approached me after the 2 p.m. Mass I celebrated at Children's Hospital last Sunday. He made an observation that perplexed him: "This Mass was so different than other Masses I attended." 

On this Peace Officers Memorial Day, observed during our nation’s time-honored Police Week, we pay tribute to the men and women of law enforcement who have devoted their lives to safeguarding our families and communities.

This year’s Farm Bill builds on our efforts from last summer’s Working Families Tax Cuts, where we strengthened crop insurance, permanently doubled death tax relief to $15 million per individual, and allowed producers to immediately expense 100% of new equipment costs.

I always enjoy this turtle time of year. Perhaps it is because I am somewhat turtle-like, for you see, like the turtles, I know that there is nothing quite like a good back scratch!

"On Mother’s Day, and every day, we honor the mothers who keep America strong.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey only make things worse through their frequent comparisons of ICE agents to Nazis and their threat to use the National Guard to interfere with federal agents.

At a time when local journalism faces real and growing challenges, Ohio has chosen common sense over obstruction. That is good for consumers, good for communities, and good for the future of local news.

Antisemitism has permeated the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Most troubling, Matthew Ynglesias, Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait have all suggested that non-leftist Democrats should recommend ending military aid to Israel. They also are willing to keep Hassan Piker in the big tent; someone who favors Hamas over Israel. 

AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) claimed this week that no one can earn $ 1 billion, proving she is no polymath (an individual whose expertise spans multiple, diverse fields, often combining profound knowledge in areas like science, art and philosophy to solve complex problems). Hey, AOC, give me a call, and I will tell you about the billionaires I have known.  

Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a sharply worded letter Wednesday to Secret Service Director Sean Curran demanding an immediate, top-to-bottom review of the Secret Service, a move that comes nearly two weeks after an armed gunman sprinted past a checkpoint leading to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in a third assassination attempt on President Trump.

“My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says. The president could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays, and my party would suddenly hate them. Such pointless pile-ons and attacks are unproductive. The American people want us to work together to find solutions on issues they and our country face.”

A Secret Service Uniformed Division officer was arrested early Monday for allegedly masturbating naked on the sixth floor of the DoubleTree hotel near the Miami airport.

The future of America will not be determined solely by politics or artificial intelligence. It will be shaped by whether enough Americans still have the courage to become heroes for one another. As the nation turns 250 years old, perhaps that is the challenge standing before all of us.

Social Security is designed to function as a pay-as-you-go system, meaning the government uses Social Security taxes from working individuals to pay for the benefits the program provides to seniors and the disabled. But when a greater portion of the population is of retirement age and there aren’t enough workers to support the program’s benefits – as is now the case – the government has to tap into the reserves held in the program’s trust fund.