Sen. Susan Collins’ already famous response to Donald Trump’s indictment – “I don’t know what to make of it” – speaks for many, especially the news media. Despite the incessant chatter about the 2024 presidential race – who’s in, who’s out, who’s ahead, what the hourly polls say – the way forward seems cloudy, if […]

It’s budget time again – and the one President Joe Biden proposed is a beaut! Biden’s budget proposal is the kind of thing only a progressive could get enthused about it. It grows the executive branch’s regulatory power, takes total yearly spending to nearly $10 trillion by 2033 (up from just over $6 billion now, […]

There is no silence like the silence of a house where a child once was. Marge LaRue should know. Last fall, her grandson, Nicolas Elizalde, was shot and killed outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. It came just after the end of a junior varsity football scrimmage between players from Roxborough, Northeast Boys High School, and Boys Latin Charter School. Nick was just 14 years […]

Right now, the land echoes with songs such as “Power in the Blood” and “Because He Lives,” but past performance assures me that the ditty waiting in the wings is (apologies to Alice Cooper) “God’s Out For Summer.” Yes, countless people (whether unchurched or nominally religious) are counting down the days until Easter goes hopping […]