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  • Leading the charge on civics education

    The need for stronger civics instruction has never been clearer. As recently released test scores revealed, American students simply do not possess the civics knowledge they need to become thoughtful and engaged citizens.
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates deserve better
    Though bottom-line-Bob won’t sell the team, he’s more than willing to sell off our baseball talent rather than keep it in Pittsburgh to help us win. Why he insists on remaining the owner is unclear.
  • Last gasp of the neoconservatives
    It is high time for Republicans and America’s leaders to ignore the advice of the Bill Kristols, Max Boots and David Frums of the American political spectrum. They have been wrong – disastrously wrong – for the last 30 years. 
  • Challengers ask Ohio Supreme Court to dismiss congressional redistricting case
    The court challengers in a case against Ohio’s U.S. Congressional district map seem to be backing down from the current legal fight.
  • U.S. cannot afford to auction off its industrial base
    U.S. Steel is the among the largest integrated steelmakers in the country. If it falls into the wrong hands, our industrial base and national security could be at risk.
  • All decisions are 'business decisions:' NCAA football made a bad one
    When future sports archaeologists ask what happened to college football's formerly soaring popularity, the answer will be bad business decisions made in the 2020s.
  • The age of shabby and shoddy
    Politicians talk about standards. What standards? Look at our clothes today. People buy jeans that have been purposely shredded. I get that you want to be cool looking like everyone else, but where did we get to the point that looking like we live in rags is a fashion statement we want to emulate?  
  • A sermon on Matthew 18:15-20
    The greatest faith is to keep believing God loves you when everything says He doesn't.
  • The yellowing
    It is that time of year when some folks look longingly back at the summer and wish that its warmth would never end, while others look excitedly forward to the soon-to-be cooler days of fall. But if we pause for just a moment, we can see that this time of year is really a time of its very own. This is the time of the yellowing.
  • 50 plus 50 can equal 0
    There will be times in life when one spouse will have to give more, other times that spouse will need to be given more. But that is the way a good marriage works. 
  • Rep. Chip Roy calls out San Antonio DA for reckless bail policies
    Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) this week called out San Antonio District Attorney Joe Gonzales for supporting soft on crime bail policies after two San Antonio police officers were shot and another was injured. The alleged perpetrator is a repeat offender who, prior to the incident, had been released from jail on bond despite having a violent past.
  • Albert Camus and the crisis of the West
    Writing less than a decade after the end of World War II, Camus strikingly offers the Nuremberg Trials as a witness to our crisis. The ideological strains on Germany in the ‘30s were not unique to that country, he thought, but a feature of Western civilization.
  • Beach bar balladeer's music, stories live on
    One of my favorite Jimmy Buffett quotes is “If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.” And now it has a new leader of the band. For the rest of us, his music and stories live on.
  • Senators demand answers after Biden sends $6 billion to Iran
    U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) recently joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and 24 of her Republican colleagues in demanding answers from the Biden Administration regarding the approximately $6 billion of ransom money reportedly released to Iran in exchange for American prisoners.
  • Rivada's OuterNet will change communication forever
    The Rivada system is gateway-less. Instead of beaming your communications straight back to a ground station, the whole constellation is interconnected with optical laser links. That means that if there’s a satellite above, you can get connected.
  • Turbulence: Republicans demand records of Hunter Biden’s Air Force Two travel
    Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have requested that the National Archives turn over all documents and flight manifests regarding trips that Hunter Biden took on Air Force Two, as well as Marine Two, during his father’s time as vice president. It is the latest in the ongoing probe of how the younger Biden made millions of dollars overseas and whether his father, the current president, improperly benefited from those dealings.
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