This post was originally published on here By Keith Beardslee When Congress reconvenes this fall, one of the most important tasks at hand will be passing a government funding bill to keep the government open. Like a morning alarm clock set to go off at a specific time, we will hear cries from both the…
This post was originally published on here Two children, just 8 and 10 years old, sat in the pews of Annunciation Catholic Church, ready to celebrate the start of a new school year. Instead, they met a hail of bullets—50 to 100 shots, fired through stained-glass windows by a deranged 23-year-old named Robert Westman. Who…
This post was originally published on here As regular readers of this Memories series know, and new ones will soon discover, I enjoy sharing stories from my life and decades as a journalist. (All the links are below.) Especially if the stories seem to tell us about more than one immediate event. Advertisement Here’s one…
This post was originally published on here Friday night, a relative sent me a text. That wasn’t unusual. He’s recently discovered texting as a vehicle to rant, and specifically, to rant at me. The context also wasn’t unusual. It was a rant about “fascist Trump.” Trump, he wrote, had sent his stormtroopers to Washington state…
This post was originally published on here When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was trotted out on stage as Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 presidential election, he promptly proved to the world that he was a cartoonish gaffe machine who came with a trolley car’s worth of political baggage. Did Kamala’s team even bother…
This post was originally published on here Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner is making strides to divest illegal aliens from receiving government housing assistance. Turner is also pushing for President Donald Trump’s 2026 proposed budget which seeks, among other aims, to place a two-year time limit on Section 8 housing, hearkening…
This post was originally published on here I have to say that from the outside looking in, the New York City mayoral race has given me a sense of hopelessness about the Big Apple. Though the race is far from over, Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani appears to be in the driver’s seat, with the vast…
This post was originally published on here There are sometimes stories that you really don’t want to cover, but to remain true to yourself, you have to. This is one of them. When I was in high school, I don’t know how many times I saw Walking Tall at the drive-in. It was Joe Don…
This post was originally published on here There are sometimes stories that you really don’t want to cover, but to remain true to yourself, you have to. This is one of them. When I was in high school, I don’t know how many times I saw Walking Tall at the drive-in. It was Joe Don…
This post was originally published on here We’ve written about many of the problems Britain is experiencing—and the terrible choices their government has made over the years—because it’s a cautionary tale. Many of the policies that have led to its decline, like unfettered immigration from populations that despise the United Kingdom’s values, insane censorship, a…