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When I attended a much different public school in suburban Maryland, there was a public service announcement on TV that asked: “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

I was usually in bed at that hour on “school nights,” but that question might be put a different way today: “It’s 9 a.m. Do you know what your ...Read more

Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married.

This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.

It’s called Prison Fellowship...Read more

“We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can’t do if we do it together.”– President Joe Biden

I am not in the habit of favorably quoting the former president, but he was right when he said this. Why, ...Read more

When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from “Help”), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the previous fall and spring. A few still do, like “Wheel of Fortune” and "Jeopardy,” but those are syndicated shows. Still, it can be fun to watch programs you ...Read more

It has become a truism that people who are embracing socialism have never had to live under it and its ideological twin, communism. Young people seem so enamored by these train wrecks that they are willing to vote for the most radical candidates who promise them the moon and claim they can pay for it all by increasing taxes on “millionaires ...Read more

President Trump and members of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the graveyard, engaging in wishful thinking and/or deluding themselves into believing a demon can be transformed into an angel.

The Trump administration has announced a “deal” has been reached between the terrorist group Hamas that has occupied Gaza ...Read more

We are born with an ego – from a baby’s first cry to our death. Most can control their ego, protecting themselves and others from harm. Some give it free reign, causing the fallout to be substantial.

History is full of people who let their ego get the best of them. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who rose to international fame during the Covid-19 ...Read more

President Trump’s performance at last Friday’s retooled White House Correspondents’ Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon’s media attack dog. In a speech, Agnew called politicians ...Read more

Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent Republican Susan Collins following allegations that he sexually assaulted two women, charges he has denied. At least Platner was consistent in his Democrat Socialist of America (DSA) views. Jackson...Read more

The oath is a familiar one. The president and vice president take it, as do members of Congress and many other high government officials. It requires the oath taker to defend the Constitution “against all enemies,...Read more

The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) It has been repeated and attributed ...Read more

People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and grandparents. They believed such things would lead to better lives for themselves and for the nation. For many, they did.

Today we look at the lawlessness, the antisemitism, the hate speech directed at the ...Read more

The troubles Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing (he may have withdrawn by the time you read this) are only a small part of his party’s larger problem.

A week before the deadline to withdraw from the Maine race, a woman has come forward to accuse Platner of politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4248366">Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a Fourth of July message that sounded like America is on its death bed. Immigrant citizens standing on each side of him as he sat at a desk used by George Washington, were even more stoic.

July Fourth is supposed ...Read more

Two hundred and 50 years ago, self-evident truths meant something. Today, for some, things appear far less self-evident and truth has become subjective. Freedom from tyranny was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Today, freedom has been transformed into license, the right to do whatever one pleases and to pressure the wider culture ...Read more

Following last week’s primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) read a list of things he said those ...Read more

Those of a certain age – meaning roughly 65 or older – will recall the “Bicentennial Minute.” These were one-minute homages to the mostly good history of America that ran on CBS 1974 through 1976 to mark America’s 200th anniversary. Politicians, ...Read more

President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the “Memo of Understanding” (MOU) with Iran is a good deal for the United States and world peace. That’s not what Iran believes.

Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has hailed the MOU...Read more

President Trump’s interim peace deal with Iran, which has partially opened ...Read more

In what could be a metaphor for things to come, workers removed President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the rebranding of the Kennedy Center as the "Trump Kennedy Center" violated the law, politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4228224">Read more