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Opinions 24 August 2023

Red carpet for Afghanistan, Ukraine, but cold shoulder for Maui

While neglecting the home front, and funding corrupt foreign countries, Biden also has provided for them on U.S. soil. Programs such as “Uniting for Ukraine” and “Operation Allies Welcome” have made available resettlement benefits and parole, an immigration status that includes work permission, to many thousands of foreigners. Additionally, more than 70,000 Ukrainians have not arrived via Biden’s official program but rather have come illegally through the Southwest border.

Opinions 24 August 2023

Pa. Gov. Shapiro wrong approach to grid reliability

Decades of programs like Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, which subsidize expensive and unreliable energy and discourage the development of reliable fossil fuels, are failing Pennsylvanians.

Opinions 23 August 2023

With China and Russia on the warpath, it’s the wrong time to reinvent a triad

The Army would be better served to use different terms to describe the strategic effects of the confluence of Space, Cyber, and Special Operations capabilities, rather than appropriate a term that describes the strategic arsenal that has deterred our adversaries for over seven decades.

Opinions Fr. Mike Paraniuk 22 August 2023

A sermon on Matthew 16:13-20

How will Jesus remember you in your judgment? Have you lived your life in a way that Jesus will remember you as faithful to Him? Will He remember you as living Micah 6:8, "This is what the Lord requires of you. Be fair to other people. Love kindness and loyalty, and humbly obey your God."

Opinions 22 August 2023

Bad government, not climate to blame for Maui wildfire disaster

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and the media pointed the finger at climate change as responsible for the dozens of deaths and tremendous property loss resulting from the Maui wildfires. They’re pointing in the wrong direction.

Opinions 21 August 2023

How to create a catastrophe by the numbers

Some 850,000 visitors who overstayed their visas and remained in the country in 2022. Included in visa overstays are tourists, H-1Bs, J-1s, and F-1s as well as assorted other visa categories of which dozens are State Department-approved.

Opinions 21 August 2023

Partnership between parents, teachers key to recovery from pandemic learning loss

Parents are the first and foremost educators of our country’s next generation. The work our teachers and educators do is incredible and often inspirational, but it is by nature limited in scope. By design, God gave parents the precious responsibility of guiding children 24/7, 365.

Opinions 21 August 2023

Sen. Fischer, 18 GOP Senators urge Biden to withdraw funding block on school hunting, archery programs

“While the administration claims to be eliminating dangerous activities, this guidance will, in fact, have the opposite effect. These programs provided thousands of students with the opportunity to learn proper instruction for firearm and archery safety,” the senators wrote.

Opinions Christine Tailer 21 August 2023

Creek song

I know that the other sounds of our creek valley world still surround me, but I cannot hear them. At this moment, all I hear is the soothing song of my dear tractor. My heart is full.

Opinions 21 August 2023

The new IRS, same as the old IRS

The Internal Revenue Service recently tried to reinvent itself. Earlier this year, outfitted with an additional $80 billion and 87,000 new agents, the agency unveiled a new set of priorities for the next eight years. Its Strategic Operating Plan promises to “deliver transformational change for taxpayers” while improving services. That may sound too good to be true – because it is.

Opinions 20 August 2023

Poll suggests primary win for Biden, unless Michelle Obama steps in

Democratic voters are prepared to back President Joe Biden for another term in office – that is, unless Michelle Obama decides to step in.

Opinions 20 August 2023

JRB Ware: Biden may have used secret pseudonyms as VP under Obama

While vice president of the United States, Joe Biden allegedly used alternate email accounts, and now, House Republicans want to read all his old messages.

Opinions 19 August 2023

Conservative Christian education being born again

Hundreds of Christian schools are also adopting a demanding classical liberal arts program, a rapidly growing trend in private education that focuses on fundamental truths and virtue through the reading of great works of literature and philosophy.

Opinions Jim Thompson 19 August 2023

Points of decivilization

There are many reasons to be discouraged by the America of today, especially if you follow the news media and the politicians. Encouragement is found in the countryside.

Opinions 18 August 2023

The virtual worlds of climate and energy

While humans’ capacity to protect themselves from nature has grown considerably, humanity remains subject to the regularity of the tides and the whims of the weather. Despite our steadily growing appreciation of how complex natural and social processes really are, we have convinced ourselves that we can understand and control how events will unfold.

Opinions 18 August 2023

Amid surging gas prices, Rep. Walberg calls for Senate vote on H.R. 1

By U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg
R-Michigan