This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.”

Since the Knights of Columbus recently became a political issue, I’ve seen a constant refrain on social media that goes something along the lines of: “What do you mean, the pancake breakfast guys?” The point being: Could you be picking on nicer guys? But the Knights’ goodness goes far beyond…

Shortly after the cooling of the earth, I was privileged to be given a firsthand look at a Louisiana statewide campaign. It was then that I learned about former Louisiana Gov. Earl Long, who was portrayed by Paul Newman in the movie “Blaze,” which allegedly told the story of the married gove…

“In my country the people can do as they like, although it often happens that they don’t like what they have done.”

Once again, Coptic Christians faced bloody bodies in the sands of Egypt, as terrorists killed seven pilgrims who had just prayed at the Monastery of St. Samuel.

Almost every time, the local news items that come across my desk make me curious. I’m constantly looking up where things are or what a business does, and recently I ducked into as many of the little downtown retail shops as I could just to see what they sold. There were so many, I think I st…

“I” words are inundating Washington. President Trump insists his border wall would impede an invasion of illegal immigrants who injure innocents. Democrats say Trump indulges an idiotic idea to instigate an impasse and incite impassioned illusions.

Newly sworn-in Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib electrified progressives with her passionate declaration in vulgar terms that she and her colleagues will impeach President Trump.

Ten states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized adult use of marijuana.

Imagine that you are running a company, but you cannot get to your goal because all of your good workers keep quitting.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts became the first 2020 Democratic White House challenger to announce her “exploratory committee,” a legal device that allows candidates to receive donations and to hire staff in preparation for a full-fledged presidential candidacy. Make no mistake; pres…

INDIANAPOLIS — On the third day of the new year, the Indianapolis Convention Center transformed into a place of worship. Seventeen thousand people took over the space in the name of Jesus, gathering for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) biannual SEEK event, drawing in yo…

Months after the end of World War II, leaders of Youth for Christ sent evangelists to work in the battered cities of Europe.

Welcome to 2019! It’s the year everyone is going to get 300 percent smarter, 200 percent more caring and 500 percent thinner.

In November, I was privileged to represent cattle producers at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s hearing on the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), also known as NAFTA 2.0.

As the new year turns and Democrats focus on candidates to oppose President Trump in 2020, there’s one number they should keep in mind: 47.

North Texas plants are at rest right now. Winter is a time that is important for many plants. This “rest period” has a lot to do with how well these plants will do next year, especially fruit trees. How you ever heard the term, “chill hours”?

For years, I’ve heard American leftists say Sweden is proof that socialism works, that it doesn’t have to turn out as badly as the Soviet Union or Cuba or Venezuela did.

While the demand for healthcare is ever rising, the supply of primary care physicians continues shrinking. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the shortfall of primary care physicians will reach 43,000 by 2030.

Sometime in the political frenzy of the past year, I realized I had to stop scanning Twitter.

One of my favorite things about the holidays is getting to see lots of family members. And this time, I got to also introduce some of them to my new hometown.

Who owns the trees on your property? That’s the question at the heart of a pair of lawsuits in Michigan.

The Oxford English Dictionaries named "toxic" the word of the year for 2018. Merriam-Webster picked "justice." Two words that were never considered because hardly anybody talks about them in Washington anymore: "debt" and "deficit."

In these Washington hours of genuine bipartisan panic after the principled resignation of the nation’s thoroughly respected secretary of defense, James Mattis, American voters are forced to confront the real-life consequences of what it means to have elected an amateur-outsider — with no gov…

My New Year’s resolution: Make a careful distinction between speech and violence.

Photographing Cooke County’s biggest Christmas lights displays this week reminded me of one of my favorite childhood Christmas pastimes.

Here’s a Dickens of an idea.

“The man doesn’t tell the truth.”

WASHINGTON — In these days before Christmas, one story keeps haunting me. It is a tale that seems so odd — in today’s world of young people glued to iPhones, a leader stuck in a deep moral quagmire, and a national “conversation” filled with shouting and rage — that one could be forgiven for …

It’s bad enough when leftists smear capitalism. I hate it more when capitalists do it, too.

Most American political leaders would agree with the poet e.e. cummings, who wisely wrote: “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” For example, then-presidential nominee George W. Bush garbled in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Oct. 18, 2000, “Families is where our nation finds hope,…

I never met David Earl Miller. I didn’t even know he existed until the week he was set to die. Dec. 6 was his execution date at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. Both the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor refused his lawyer’s final attempts to gain a reprieve.

During 60 years of friendship, George H.W. Bush went on countless trips with James Baker III, his secretary of state and a confidant so close that America’s 41st president liked to call him his “little brother.”