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When President Joe Biden recalled his old friend Sen. Strom Thurmond and the former segregationist's record-setting filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, my mind flashed back to 1987, when Thurmond, who died in 2003 at 100, schooled me about his feat.
"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”
Social scientist Dr. Lawrence Eppard is joined by Bob Inglis, a former Republican South Carolina Congressman, to talk about how conservative principles can help solve the problem of climate change, the future of the GOP, and more.
As Joe Biden nears the first anniversary of his presidency next week, he faces the same main challenge that confronted him at the outset: end the COVID pandemic and restore normalcy to American life.
I am a constitutional conservative, born in the heartland of the West and raised in the plains of Texas. While the conservative label can mean many things, at its core it means preserving liberty, equality and the constitution. Without free and fair elections, no country can claim it values …
Francis has chosen “spiritual” fatherhood over what he calls — revealingly — “real” fatherhood. But I doubt that he has ever changed a “spiritual” diaper or walked the floor at 3 a.m. with a really sick “real” child.
“Forty is the old age of youth; 50 the youth of old age.”
After 33 years photographing people, places, and things in Cayuga County, I recently spent a few evening hours trying to browse through the hundreds of thousands of images in my archive. Needless to say, with this many images it would take me days, if not weeks, to completely go through the …
At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be saved, usually by instant amputation of limbs. In time, he developed a system of sorting and separati…
Social scientist Dr. Lawrence Eppard is joined by a political scientists to discuss a variety of topics including Joe Manchin, the Electoral Count Act, the future of American political parties, and more!
Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the eve of the anniversary of last January’s Capitol insurrection, I’m like most people still weighing the significance of that day’s events. To …
Episode 29: Richard Kyte and Scott Rada talk about the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant and what it says about us as a nation.
Commentary: We cannot address the symptoms of deep-seated cultural change through political fixes. Instead, we need to change the way we live.
The first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol last Jan. 6 is coming up this week. Congress is going to make a big deal about it. So, too, are the news media. They are both correct to do so.
While we’re closing the final chapter on 2021, and my colleagues and I gear up for a new Legislative session, I am optimistic for a brighter and better 2022. To say that the last year has been littered with obstacles and unfortunate distractions is an understatement, and it is now time to ge…
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
At the stroke of midnight it wouldn't be a New Year without singing "Auld Lang Syne." I love the song. The only problem is, I don't know the words. I know the melody and "ol ang sign and a cup of cheer," or something like that. So for all of you, who are like me, I present to you the lyrics,…
Bravo, Bill de Blasio. The New York City mayor announced on Tuesday that the city’s public schools will stop quarantining entire classrooms when one or more students test positive for COVID. Instead, the city will increase its use of testing to allow asymptomatic students who test negative t…
AARP is the nation’s biggest and most influential advocacy group for seniors. It has about 38 million members — more than 11% of the U.S. population. From lobbying for better conditions in nursing homes to getting travel discounts for members, the organization has done much to help retired p…
On Christmas Eve I had the misfortune of having to go to the emergency room where I was admitted and had surgery on Christmas Day.
As the head of Bridges, which sponsors 25 ministries in six states, I’ve seen our local leaders learning how to live and function during a dangerous malady which is impacting millions of people. But I don’t mean COVID-19; I mean the PTSD that results from it.
“I've got a bad feeling about this.”
For a quite a while, progressives were calling our country’s painful inflation mild and “transitory,” meaning it would last just a yawn or two and be gone. Relax, enjoy yourself, put up with policies that just maybe strike you as insane and vote for congressional Democrats, we were told. Jus…
In honor of Christmas, today we're reprinting perhaps the most famous editorial published in a newspaper. The words of Francis Pharcellus Church that appeared in an unsigned 1897 editorial in the The Sun, a New York newspaper, have inspired generations. Below are the words from the letter to…