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National Columnists

September: When good ends for some, begins for others

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, said Shakespeare, and ain’t that the truth. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. The garden knows it too. The last batch of bright zinnias displays its ...

US economy growing, household incomes up

It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left for one reason: He’s been a ...

Wave of return to faith is rising

If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here in Pittsburgh, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

We must condemn all political violence

Political violence must be condemned in all its deplorable forms. Recently, we lost a 31-year-old young man, Charlie Kirk, by the act of a cowardly madman. An evil doer may have thought he prevailed when he took the life of this young man with a beautiful wife and kids, but evil failed ...

Battle ahead for capitalism vs. Mamdani

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he’s moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out ...

Football players use their ministry gifts

With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. ...