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Opinion

This Christmas, revive lost art of matchmaking

National Columnists

Forget Christmas socks, board games or even cash. The gift many single young adults want most is a spouse. Put on your Santa hat and keep your eyes out for potential matches. Marriage is a bedrock societal institution. It’s beneficial for those who tie the knot, too. “Today, married ...

Trump’s national security strategy is on target

National Columnists

When former President George W. Bush stood on the West Front of the Capitol for his second inauguration in 2005, he gave a speech that called for a utopian foreign policy that aimed at spreading democracy all across the globe. “We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The ...

Hotel delights with Christmas charm

National Columnists

A highly anticipated Christmas display in Pennsylvania that is both delicious and whimsical is when the Omni Bedford Springs Hotel in Bedford County transforms one of its main entrances into a culinary delight whose aroma hits your sensory palate long before you walk through the nearly ...

‘Iryna’s Law’ good start to get crime under control

National Columnists

What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? Recently news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway — though this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned ...

Trump’s immigration policy beyond inhumane

National Columnists

Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an ...

Telling truth is last on Democrats’ agenda

National Columnists

Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot ...