Category: Opinion
Despite the Challenges, Why My Family Still Has Hope Around Christmas
For my family, bad things always seem to happen between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. It started in the 1990s with a car trip from San...
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Don’t Just Blame Joe Biden for Troublesome Appointments – Also Blame Pro-life Never Trumpers who Voted for Him
It’s a tried but true adage: elections have consequences, and for social conservatives, this has never been more evident than with the looming prospect of...
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AN INAUGURATION TO REMEMBER
As our nation’s ruling class makes its way, harum-scarum, towards a January 6 codification vote of the Electoral College, another group of people are working...
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How the Heimlich Maneuver Helped Bring Down the Berlin Wall
This is a true story about how seemingly little things can sometimes, someway, somehow, someday – have big consequences. It involves a peanut, a future...
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Remembering and Giving Thanks for Bill Buckley
My dear friend the late William F. Buckley, Jr. would have turned 95 years old on 24 November. In one sense, he was forever young,...
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Sorry, But Not all Women are Worth Applauding
Since the election on November 3rd, I’ve seen numerous posts from many women stating that “for once” or “finally” they’re proud to be Americans because...
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Bush v. Gore Recount Veteran Reflects on 2020 Presidential Election
As a veteran of the Bush/Gore presidential election recount in 2000, where I spent 32 days in nine cities across Florida, the still-unresolved 2020 presidential...
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Republican or Democrat, It’s Time to Stand Tall
The election is over. Or is it? Ballots continue to be counted across the nation, more in some states than in others. This “COVID Election”...
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How I Found Jesus Christ Inside my Halloween Bag
Those who come to our door tonight will find an extra treat nestled in among the candies of each bag of treats – a Happy...
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Culture Expert Says Bible Has This to Say About the Violent Side of Halloween
Sixteen students. Arms raised. Every eye fixed on the front of the classroom where I stood holding a plain white hockey mask. The year was...
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Searching for Norman Rockwell’s America in the 2020 Election
The famed illustrator Norman Rockwell has been dead for 42 years, passing away at the age of 84 back in 1978. His nostalgia-laced art became...
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If President Trump Wants to Improve His Re-Election Chances, He Needs to Do This
It was just days before Christmas in 1947 when the phone rang inside Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham’s White House office. The highly decorated military...
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The New York Times’ Soft Bigotry Revealed in Adoption Story Involving Amy Coney Barrett’s Family
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination is expected to be voted out of committee later this week, setting up her narrow but anticipated confirmation...
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Rush Limbaugh Says He’s Under a “Death Sentence” – Yet this May Be His Most Important Message Yet
Rush Limbaugh, nine months into an aggressive treatment plan for stage 4 lung cancer, took to the airwaves on Monday to update his listeners on...
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Debate 2020: The Country Was a Sweeter Place When There Were More Candy Stores
President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, who are locked in a bruising battle for the White House, meet tonight in Cleveland...
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Ginsburg’s Final Wish: Our Last Words Reveal our Passions and Priorities
Details are emerging from the final days of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life, the second woman to ascend to the nation’s highest bench. NPR is...
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When it Comes to Presidential Politics, Kids Can Say the Darndest Things
You don’t typically see children at political conventions – events that once upon a time were filled with high drama and swirling second-hand smoke, not...
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An African-American Running for the U.S. Senate in the Capital of the Confederacy
With U. S. Senate elections swinging into full gear, and race relations at the forefront of the news, I am often reminded of a time...
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The New York Times Misleads the Public by Linking Churches to Coronavirus Cases
The New York Times stepped up its coronavirus disinformation campaign last week by falsely claiming that churches are now a “major source” of the spread...
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Celebrating the Fourth of July is Pointless Unless America Regains Her Virtue
Growing up in the small town of Champaign, Illinois, the Fourth of July was one of my favorite holidays. I vividly remember the excitement that...
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Chief Justice John Roberts has Turned. We Need Another Conservative Justice to Overturn Roe v. Wade.
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court struck down a commonsense Louisiana abortion law which required abortionists to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital within...
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My Life as a Recovering Racist
I want to talk about race for a second. I heard Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, recently lament the failure of our nation to overcome our...
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No More Snacks … please! Youth Sports, Post COVID-19
When youth sports return, hopefully soon, might the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic help push changes that will bring the game back to simpler times?...
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What a 50-year-old Simon & Garfunkel Classic Song Can Teach Us About Resilience
Walking into the kitchen last weekend, Riley, our 14-year-old son, declared, “Dad, you need to hear this great song by Mumford & Sons. It’s so...
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