As we begin to wrap up 2025 with Christmas presents and New Year’s Eve parties, it is naturally time to think ahead to 2026.Of course, this is the year we will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the…
The President’s new $12 billion bridge payment plan offers welcome short-term help for domestic farmers, but it also underscores how fragile the American agricultural economy has become – and how urgently we need reforms that…
As the end of 2025 nears, the question arises: What can Americans expect in the world of energy policy in 2026?Predicting future events where energy is concerned is always a risky enterprise. After all, if anyone could…
History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a bizarre theater of the absurd played out as titans of the oil and gas industry apologized…
Warren Buffet was asked how long he preferred to hold stocks that he bought for Berkshire Hathaway. His answer was succinct: forever. Buy good companies and hold on forever. As they grow, you earn paper profits you can use…
Growing up in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the 50’s and 60’s was a very early education in the impact of various nationalities and religions on a community. There were no walls or boundaries, but each nationality had its own…
There is a doctrine in Catholicism that not all souls are prepared for heaven at death, and that some must undergo a spiritual purification in a state or location that the Catholic Church calls “Purgatory.”There are a number…
Asked to cite the most significant event in history for an oral exam, the late great Justice Scalia thought it was a softball question and picked an event he considered important. “Wrong!” His inquisitor corrected him: “No,…
A reader chimed in after one of my recent articles. I said ‘chimed in’ to be kind. He really dropped the hammer on me for being too vague in my criticism of the Democratic Party. He condemned me for lacking specifics and…
With America’s 250th birthday as an independent nation coming up in 2026, the big debate on the right this season about what it means to be an American couldn’t be more timely.Vice President JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy — the…
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