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Dear Jesus,

We commonly communicate, but communication reaches a new level in sacredly celebrating your birthday -- Christmas Day. Times passes swiftly. But it comes to a halt on Christmas. We pay homage and gratitude to you for your wisdom and sacrifice that we strive in vain to imitate.

Your Sermon on the Mount is our light to happiness and ...Read more

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who's been naughty and nice. Of course, whenever he stops by the U.S. Capitol, he finds evidence of a lot of naughty fiscal irresponsibility that has given us a budget and government that overflow with inefficiency and waste. So my holiday wish is that, ...Read more

It is proof of the power of our faith that the spirit of Christmas prevails over all the reasons for cynicism.

I'm thinking now of Psalm 40:4 where we read: Fortunate is the man who has puts his trust in God and has not turned to the arrogant and to those who stray after falsehood.

Regarding "the arrogant and those who stray after falsehood,...Read more

The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York -- with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights -- flickering, hovering, then disappearing.

Airplanes, helicopters and/or authorized drones flying in the night sky?

The WhatEverTheyAre -- these lights and noises...Read more

'Tis the season for giving. For me, that mostly means supporting charities. One organization I donate to is SSP, Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to kids from low-income families. SSP helps children escape bad public schools by providing grants to students so they can pay the cheaper tuition at mostly Catholic ...Read more

Even after The Wall Street Journal published a four-byline bombshell detailing how President Joe Biden's staff energetically hid his ongoing cognitive decline from the public, there wasn't a single question at the White House briefing. No reporters demanded answers about how they were misled, or complained they were pressured into silence.

They...Read more

When Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was serving his first term in 2018, he warned his colleagues and the American people about something he perceived to be "immoral" and "unsustainable."

"For years, Congress has spent irresponsibly and with what seems to be little or no thought for how it might affect future generations," Johnson ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anything that is complicated.

First, as storytellers, we're drawn to the complicated.

Second, as journalists, we're paid to simplify the complicated.

Third, as mostly linear thinkers, we often struggle to break down and explain whatever is complicated...Read more

It's easy to lose sight of this among lights, carols and presents, but Christmas actually celebrates a birthday.

In Luke 1, an angel visited Mary to inform her that she has "found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- For as long as I can remember, my father had a model train set on a platform in our home. From the middle of our living room floor in our old house on Colby Street to the game room of the house he designed and built on Chapin Street in 1972, a modest model train set was always part of our lives.

For my father -- as with most ...Read more

Here's my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025.

1. Slash Job-Killing Regulations

The regulatory state is a $2 trillion tax on the American economy. We all want worker safety, a clean environment and consumer protections, but in too many cases the costs of regulations far...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden announced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Yes, really.

Thirty-seven murderers, former Clinton pollster Mark Penn posted on X, "are spared the death sentence in yet another desperate act of outgoing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner "How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge." Tuesday's New York Times story "A Weary Biden Heads For the Exit" told a similar tale, as departing staffers have starting spilling the beans.

If this were a game of "Tell me something I didn't know,"...Read more

One year ago, almost to the day, I used this column as a "post-wedding dispatch" to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on marriage. The column was published five days after my wedding. Now, almost exactly one year later, I am using this column as a "post-birth dispatch" to offer some (very) preliminary thoughts on another milestone life ...Read more

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases.

While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it's obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential, blunder by the Islamic State as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East...Read more

Don't call PolitiFact an "independent fact-checker." When they assemble to select their "Lie of the Year," they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.

It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: "A lie marked a town and its...Read more