Back in the 1960s, when the Vietnam War was raging, a familiar scenario played out in small towns. During election years, you’d see a “Nixon’s the One!” sign planted right next door to a “McGovern for President” banner. Neighbors would be mowing the grass around their respective slogans, stop to wipe their brows, and wave […]
“Pastor Scudder, why do you talk so much about Israel?” a young lady recently asked. “It’s quite simple” I replied. “From Israel came what is most important to me.” This question seems to be on the minds of many people today. Should Christians support Israel? My answer is an unequivocal “yes.” The reason our church […]
I hold both the Republican and Democratic parties in contempt as an independent voter and 100% disabled combat-wounded Marine veteran for allowing the country I fought for in Vietnam to justify the existence of the radical socialist parties such as the Democratic Socialists of America. Under the “presidencies” of Barack Obama and Joe Biden that […]
President Donald Trump ushered in a new era that ended the postwar years. Language defining it will emerge over the next decade, but, eventually, few will deny that Trump, nearly single-handedly and through pure Nietzschean will, kicked off this era. For those on the Left and in the ranks of the federal government, there will […]
Federal offices opened on Thursday without a shutdown, and Washington will treat that as an accomplishment. It should not. The House passed a stopgap bill, 370-48, that holds agencies at last year’s spending levels through Dec. 11. That is the safety net. The fall is what came before it. In the past 12 months, the […]
The American taxpayer is trapped in a multi-billion-dollar cycle of state-sponsored economic distortion. Under the banner of national security, green transitions, and economic resilience, Washington has institutionalized a system of corporate welfare that forces everyday citizens to pay twice for the same goods. First, Americans see their tax dollars confiscated to fund corporate subsidies, tax […]
A Santa Fe jury just sent a shockwave through Silicon Valley. On Sept. 25, 2026, First Judicial District Judge Francis Mathew presided over a landmark verdict finding Meta Platforms liable for nearly 44 million violations of consumer law. The case, brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, targets a decade of corporate deception stemming […]
In the days, weeks, and now three years since the attacks in Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, American college campuses have become a battleground of their own. I know this all too well — the final year of my college experience was defined by the antisemitism I faced on campus after the attacks. On Oct. […]
The 340B drug discount program was intended to help low-income and uninsured patients afford medicine, not create lucrative revenue streams for hospital systems in wealthy communities. However, without oversight, that is what it has become. Congress should return the program to its intended purpose by requiring hospitals to show that the program reaches the vulnerable […]
I have spent much of my life around war. My first combat tour was in Vietnam in 1969-70, where I served as an infantry platoon commander and later a reconnaissance platoon commander. I returned during the 1972 Easter Offensive as an aerial observer and Vietnamese linguist. Later came the evacuation of Americans from Beirut in […]
ABC News Australia’s new documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children, released this week, brought me to an image I couldn’t shake: a young child holding a rifle, smiling proudly. The image was jarring for another reason. I had seen it before. Not in Ukraine. In Gaza. The countries are different, the wars are different, and the actors […]
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants broke through Israel’s border and attacked communities in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Most of those killed were civilians. Yet the years since Oct. 7 have highlighted another phenomenon: celebrities increasingly inserting themselves into one of the world’s most complicated conflicts. The attack’s […]
Some of Richard Russo’s most memorable novels have depicted hard times in small towns. His 1986 debut, Mohawk, and 2007’s Bridge of Sighs both played out in fictional blue-collar backwaters in upstate New York, places where the leather industry had ground to a halt but citizens struggled on. For his career-defining, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire […]
