Politics

I started this piece eight hours before Charlie Kirk was murdered and I finish it now while the manhunt for his killer is still underway. We do not yet know the motive. We do not yet know the shooter’s mental condition. We do not yet know the shooter’s political affiliation. And while we soon will, I fear the truth will not stop some from advancing theories of their own.

In our nation, we often value toughness more than gentleness. We like our leaders tough. We like our athletes tough. We like our movie protagonists tough. We don’t even mind when they are flawed. Flawed is fine; we all are. But I feel we used to gravitate toward tough guys whose compass still pointed somewhere toward fairness and compassion.

The President of the United States of America brazenly and unabashedly, in the plain light of day and not in some smoke-filled back room, called for gerrymandering to retain the Republican majority.

You can tell a lot about a person, a media company, or a nation by the things he or it chooses to prioritize. For a person, priorities...

Fifty thousand more American families will feel the pain of losing a loved one to a bullet this year. This topic is as important as it gets.

Last fiscal year, our federal government took in $5 trillion dollars but spent $7 trillion. It spent 40% more than it had available to...

Thirty-two minutes, that is how long it takes to read the United States Constitution and its 27 amendments. Article II, Section 1 of the...

On July 21, 2005, shortly after the horrific terrorist bombings on the London transportation system that killed 52 people and injured...

Ronald Reagan, in his presidential farewell address, touted the accomplishments of the American economy during his time in office by...

The difference between effective and ineffective leadership lies mostly in asking the question, “And then what?” Every decision we make...

It’s hard to succeed in big things if you can’t succeed in the small ones. And last week the United States Congress proved that point....

I met President Joe Biden once. It was after his vice presidency and before his decision to run for president. I told him that, as a...

Clichés typically become clichés because they are fundamentally true. As someone who fancies himself a bit of a writer, I spend most of...

I was glued to my television all day for President Trump’s second inaugural, from the time his motorcade left Blair House for the morning...

On the morning of January 20, 1993, in his last hours as president, George H.W. Bush sat down at his desk and penned a letter to the man...

Why am I running for United States Congress?  That’s a good question, particularly given how the last few weeks have gone.  I’ve been...

As we begin to live through the presidential rematch that pits a man who lacks the capacity against a man who lacks the character, I have...