Woke initiatives like putting a “chief diversity officer” at the Department of Defense and making the Navy’s “digital ambassador” a drag queen definitely doesn’t increase our national security. House Republicans’ 2024 NDAA gets rid of woke programs like these.

According to the latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) annual tax survey, nearly two-thirds of small business owners reported that the administrative burden of the federal tax code is significant.

Yes, laughter is the best medicine. While this column may lack depth (what do you want for nothing, a rubber biscuit?), I'll close with this: Here's to four more years for Turd Ferguson; we all need the jocularity. Thanks, Joe, and the Cackler. Good health to the POTUS.

This valley is our home, our world, and our neighborhood, and it is filled with the most wonderful life energy you could ever imagine. Perhaps now, you’ll better understand what I mean when I say that I so love these hills and the life that flows through them.

Despite Congress’ thin interest in sports from a lawmaking and regulatory standpoint, they just can’t help but stick their nose into them. Last week, it was the LIV and PGA merger that was more important than the southern border.

China is not only carrying out genocide against a religious minority, the Uyghur Muslims, but President Xi Jinping views all people of faith as a direct threat and is trying to insert himself in the “role of God” over all people of faith in China, a top House Republican has asserted. The Falun Gong and Uyghurs have been forced into labor camps and hundreds of thousands have been killed for their organs in what has become a billion-dollar involuntary organ-transplant industry in China.

In a climate where partisanship and crude tribalism have compromised our receptivity to truth, Jeff Gerth and others like him are providing a new model of what freedom of the press can mean – and reminding us how vital it remains.

So many do not sense the coming danger. Have we reached the point of no return? Are our consciences and our moral compass so damaged by the play water that we as a nation can no longer grasp that there is a wrong and a right in the eyes of our Creator? 

If two FBI whistleblowers who’ve come forward are telling the truth, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland may have committed at least two felonies, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. Cruz called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate Garland.

The progressive war on free expression hit a speed bump on July 4 when a federal judge prevented the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook in its effort to police online content it deems misinformation.

A favorite talking point from the Biden White House is that guns are the leading cause of death of children. The problem is that it is false.

The choice to install General Brown as the next CJCS is overtly political. The public should be skeptical of the general's contentious leadership style which is anchored in DEI ideology – a Marxist derived philosophy, which he has aggressively instituted throughout the Air Force.

“I do wonder if Major League Baseball understands how they’re being complicit with forced labor,” Isaac Stone Fish, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, testified Tuesday before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

There are many ways to address climate change, but it can’t be done at the expense of our national security with strategies that make us more dependent and less ready. The goal of our Pentagon leadership must be training and equipping a fighting force that is the most lethal, not the most eco-friendly.

The IRS has a wide range of issues the American taxpayer expects the agency to address. The last thing the IRS should be doing right now is diverting resources and attention to an ideologically driven, elective project that is ill‑conceived and destined to become the IRS’s next boondoggle.