I always liked wheat harvesting season. It was summer. Even the straw bales were about half the weight of hay bales.

Overall, Russia’s daily attacks on civilians have resulted in 3,018 child casualties – comprising 733 killed and 2,285 injured. According to the NGO, Save the Children, 43% of the children in the Ukrainian regions where they operate, suffer from symptoms of anxiety, fear, moodiness, and irritability. These children develop speech defects, uncontrollable twitching, terrifying nightmares, and scream in their sleep.

Give the gift of love to those who have less-than-joyful holiday experiences coloring their outlook on the holidays. Love them in the form of being understanding, patient and caring. And one of the greatest gifts you can give is to Just. Be. Present.

Lingering tax uncertainty makes the U.S. a less attractive place to do business and invest. It also hurts tax compliance. The U.S. must not fall behind in this rapidly growing market.

Christmas is the story of Heaven coming to earth. Heaven is a place where Peace, Joy, Life and Love never end. Heaven is a place where God accepts anyone who sincerely seek Him from their hearts. 

Some traditions stay the same, no matter how much time passes. They continue unchanged, flowing from generation to generation. I will always set a candle in the center of my pressed tin holiday wreath, just as my mother did as far back as I can remember, and her mother did long before my childhood memories.

Remember, almost nothing is worth arguing over. And those things you want to argue over, likely you can do little about – especially if they are in faraway Washington, D.C. Grasp the amazing miracle of being a living being on the only planet that we know that supports life. This is nothing to take for granted.

Any framework that treats antisemitism primarily as a reaction to Israeli power reverses cause and effect, mistaking a centuries-old, lethal hatred for a modern political grievance. To ignore that is not merely an academic blind spot. It is a moral hazard.

Right now, the world is at a crossroads: Do we supercharge AI innovation, or do we clamp down before it’s too late? The debate is taking place, live, on two opposite paths. One is taken by Europe, the other by China.

Republicans have delivered the results that the American people voted for this year – and I look forward to continuing the progress in the new year.

One of the telltale signs of a bad meeting is food. If you walk into a conference room and there are donuts or bagels, coffee, juices and soft drinks, you're in for a long meeting. It's even worse when the dimwit who demanded the meeting orders sandwiches around noon. You can kiss productivity goodbye for that entire day.

Sometime next year, President Trump is scheduled to make a state visit to Beijing and Xi is scheduled to come to Washington. They’re destined to focus on the cooperative parts of the relationship, but you don’t need to ask ChatGPT to see that the two countries are on a collision course over AI. Buckle up.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s control and Iranian power have sent the Christian population into a tailspin. In Iraq, the number of Christians has dwindled to just over 100,000 faithful from over 1 million barely a decade ago.

Two momentous things come together as the New Year approaches. The first is the 250th anniversary of the greatest document in political history, the Declaration of Independence. The second is the national firestorm that rages over its meaning.

What was at stake in the Scopes trial was not a conflict of science versus religion, or evolution versus creation. Rather, it was a political tussle over a different question entirely, namely, who gets to decide how parents educate their children?