Vice President JD Vance is currently the strongest contender for the 2028 presidential election among Republican voters, according to a new poll. 

It comes as no surprise that in our highly polarized current political environment the latest RealClear Opinion Research survey also documented stark partisan divisions on questions pertaining to Americans’ vision of themselves, their safety, and their future.

What does it signal to you when you see a train car covered with graffiti? Or someone’s yard or home up to here in trash? Are these things so ubiquitous you don’t give them a thought?  

The latest federal data expose a stark reality: Violent crime has surged dramatically despite claims to the contrary. The growing gap between reported crimes and actual victimization reflects both a breakdown in law enforcement and the deliberate downgrading of offenses by progressive prosecutors.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s statement that the now more than two-week long government shutdown reveals the U.S. Department of Education is unnecessary – an idea the Trump administration has been pushing–met with agreement and approval from policy directors. “Two weeks in [to the shutdown], millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” McMahon said in an X post.

The recent increase in gold prices in the United States and around the world has been driven by a confluence of economic, financial, and political factors.

The government doesn’t create jobs. Hard-working people do. But the government can make it much more difficult for the businessmen and women in Louisiana to continue to grow their companies.  

Coal isn’t nostalgia – it’s common sense. It’s the engine that built this country and the only one strong enough to keep it running. 

A compromise on subsidies may be the off-ramp to end the shutdown. If the Senate were to pass a clean bill with an extension of the subsidies, it is hard to imagine the House would not do the same.

Since its birth in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been attached to the United States by a figurative umbilical cord which has sustained its life well into old age – 76 years.

Slamming the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” earlier this year, Warren complained, “Trump’s tax cuts stand to benefit (the) highest income earners.” She would know – she’s one of them. The $919,583 in household income Warren reported on her 2024 tax return she filed jointly with her husband puts her in the top 1% of highest-earning Americans.

Never one to be unclear when it comes to the government and health care, one of the 10 practicing physicians in Congress well versed on both sides of this issue has strong feelings about his opposing colleagues on the government shutdown.

God speaks most powerfully in the darkest moments of life.

When it came to working in the fields, I had three favorite seasons. Soil preparation, especially plowing; hay-making and wheat harvest. I usually did not get to participate much in the fall harvest, for that was going on while I was in school.

My House Republican colleagues and I got our job done by passing my continuing resolution. Yet, my Democrat friends on the other side of the Rotunda continue to abandon the most basic duty of public service: keeping the government working for the people.