Commentary Some thoughts about our country as Christmas and the new year approach. In his Farewell Address to the nation in 1796, America’s departing first president, George Washington, observed: “It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring to popular government.” And what is the basis upon which we define morality? Washington…

Eighteen House Republicans, led by Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), are warning Secretary of State Antony Blinken to preserve all official documents and communications on a grant program promoting atheism overseas. Their warning came in an Aug. 2 letter made public on Aug. 3 in which the House GOPers told Blinken that…

Being a parent has never been easy, especially nowadays. Previously, we worried about the influence on our children by bad friends or the counterculture trends in society. But now, schools, the internet, media, doctors, and even laws are determined to diminish our influence on them. In March, Robert Hoogland, a Canadian father of a teenage…