The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Thursday, ruled in favor of a Black man convicted of capital murder in Mississippi, who said the jury that convicted him was racially biased. 

A little over a month ago, Hot Springs, Ark. was privileged to welcome home the remains of World War II veteran, U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Russell O. Chitwood. While serving in France, his aircraft was struck down by German fire over enemy territory. Chitwood was among ten men, some of whom were captured as prisoners of war. However, Chitwood was never accounted for.

America can defend our interests on Diego Garcia today because the Chagos Islands are British territory. The leftists at the United Nations, however, want to change that. They unleashed a pressure campaign to shame the U.K. for maintaining any territory outside of Europe.

Jesse Brown attended Ohio State University before entering the Navy’s flight training program. The environment he entered remained overwhelmingly white, and not everyone there welcomed him. But naval aviation had a way of stripping away illusion. A pilot either knew how to fly or he did not. Brown did. In 1948, Jesse Brown earned his Wings of Gold, becoming the first African American naval aviator in the history of the United States Navy.

The Council of Economic Advisors estimates about 88 percent of seniors receiving Social Security benefits will pay no federal income tax on their benefits due to the Working Families Tax Cuts.

Next, we decided to slow down a bit. The last few weeks had been exciting, to say the least.  

Karl Marx wrote that history arrives the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Berlin in 1932 was the tragedy. Three women in heels doing a hip-thrust for the cameras on a courthouse step, badges on their chests, cheering a man who shot a father of two in the back, is the farce.

Bob was wedded to neither political party. He called himself a “radical pragmatist,” and talked with ease and grace to both the left and right.

God gave us Jesus because our eternal life mattered more than the life of His only Son. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16.) 

All Americans inherit the glorious gift of liberty that has been purchased with the spilled blood of brave warriors and the tears and heartache of those they left behind. It is fitting and necessary for our Nation to pause for an annual reminder of the enduring and perilously high cost of freedom.

I am learning all the time, but I am surprised that I had never before noticed how, almost overnight, for the past 23 years, the dandelions were suddenly gone.

“The fallen ask for no tribute in return. They do not ask for our tears, though we shed them. They do not ask for monuments, though we build them. They ask only one thing, that we live lives worthy of the freedom they left behind.”

Since the founding of our great nation, men and women have selflessly chosen to serve our country as a part of the Armed Forces.

Freedom isn’t free. Memorial Day reminds us that the cost of those liberties were paid by individuals who had dreams, families and futures that were willingly forfeited so that we may be free to live out our own.

The government has a knack for finding the least efficient way to solve a problem, and that’s certainly the case for how Washington deals with diabetes care in America.