Irving Berlin’s last musical was a largely forgotten show called “Mr. President” (1962). One of the silly songs below his usual high standards included the lyric “The Secret  Service makes me nervous.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray endured a barrage of questions from House Republicans this past week.

What is it with Republicans who try to fight the culture war with one hand tied behind their backs?

God cares deeply about justice. We’ve seen over the past articles that justice is part of His character (Deuteronomy 32:4), that He required justice of Himself for our salvation (Romans 3:23-26), and that He expects justice from His children (Micah 6:8) and from governments (Romans 13:1-7). So how does Biblical Justice compare with the Modern Social Justice movement?

By: Madeleine Kearns – nationalreview.com – July 9, 2023 It’s fashionable, nowadays, for stories to have no redeeming characters. But there is plenty of old-school moral clarity in Sound of Freedom, a new release by Angel studios. The movie takes as its subject one of the most awful evils known to man — child sex trafficking. By the end, there’s...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – July 7, 2023 Ben & Jerry’s ice cream wants the United States to return the Black Hills to the Lakota. Which raises the question: Once this transfer takes place, will the Lakota turn around and give the Black Hills back to the tribes they took them from? It’s never a good idea to get...

If you don’t want people to think you believe something, maybe don’t chant it in the streets?

By: Richard B. McKenzie – wsj.com – June 27, 2023 Longer life spans are an underappreciated cause of the increase in wealth concentration. Wealth in America over the past several decades has increasingly become concentrated among the top 1%. As of 2021, the wealthiest 10% controlled nearly 70% of total wealth—up from 63% in 1989. The wealth of the bottom half...

June has been set aside to promote awareness of a major issue facing a demographic that is struggling and minimally supported. No, I’m not talking about Pride. I’m talking about PTSD, which is especially acute among veterans, military service members, and first responders, and which is only part of the greater mental health crisis that our nation is facing.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2023 As we hurtle toward a resolution of the matter, I am struggling to intuit what the principled case could be in favor of the Supreme Court’s failing to strike down affirmative action this time. It seems to me that, irrespective of one’s preferred judicial philosophy, the logic leads inexorably...