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National Columnists

Trump bullish on golden age of America

President Donald Trump last week fulfilled his pledge to protect America’s national security and grow prosperity in the middle of the country when he announced a staggering $90 billion-plus had been secured to build artificial intelligence data power centers, all fueled by the region’s ...

Electorate has changed since 10 years ago

Nine months after the 2024 election, we’ve been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There’s wide agreement in the analyses of the Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democratic firm ...

We need to pray for Camp Mystic families

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what’s now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a dance camp were thrown from their bunks in the explosion. Thinking a water heater had exploded, ...

California’s high-speed rail leads to nowhere

We’re a long way from the transcontinental railroad. We built the iconic American infrastructure project in the 1860s in about six years, putting down 1,776 miles of track and blasting 15 tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Granted, working conditions back then didn’t exactly ...

‘Noah’ is riveting production of Biblical story

My church recently celebrated our pastor’s 75th birthday with a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to view the musical “Noah.” We boarded a chartered bus from Columbus, Ohio, for a six-hour trip of fun and fellowship through the country’s heartland. It had been several years since I ...

Trump takes Epstein tiger by tail

Catching the tiger by the tail, like catching lightning in a bottle, is a difficult task. More difficult is letting go of the tiger’s tail. In 2015, President Donald Trump wove together a collection of grievances against the ruling elite in Washington, D.C., and rode into office intent on ...