Being conservative in legal matters means saying words mean things. When the US Constitution, or a federal law, or a government regulation, says “X,” we can’t cut off the bottom right-hand side and say it’s actually “Y.” It means judges don’t make the laws — that’s the job of the…

So far, at least 16 American citizens have died fighting on behalf of Ukraine. The Washington Post published an interesting article on the US Memorial Day this week regarding how the Ukrainian government, and its supporters in the United States, pay respect to Americans who have fought for a different…

Too many people view the Republican Party as a group of “old white men.” Sometimes the best response is to just post facts and photos.

As we approach the 70th anniversary of the armistice that, on July 27, 1953, ended the hostilities of the Korean War, it’s worth looking back at what went wrong, and how mistakes similar to those made seven decades ago may today lead to dire consequences caused by an underestimation of…

Predictions that “rural America is on the rebound” have been just as common in Republican circles as Democratic confidence that big cities are the future of America. The cloudiness of both parties’ crystal balls should be a caution on the hazards of predicting America’s political future. However, a recent article…

What’s happened with our Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and Ukraine? A year ago, he was saying “the most important thing we can do” was to arm the Ukrainians resisting Russian attacks. Today, he’s saying this: “The truth is that Joe Biden, and, let’s face it, congressional Republicans, have spent over…

The Chinese so-called “weather balloon,” for better or for worse, after crossing American airspace from Alaska to the Atlantic, has exposed serious limits on the ability of the United States to intercept or even detect foreign surveillance activities on American soil, or in this case, above it. We’ve now seen…

The attempts to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are over, but it’s worth noting that both of the senators who will represent Missouri next year, incumbent Senator Josh Hawley and Senator-elect Eric Schmitt, wanted to remove him as head of the Republicans in the Senate. It’s no secret that…

The Commission for Social Justice of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America sent me an announcement last week of the successful fight in court against a decision by the city of Philadelphia to enclose an 1876 statue of Christopher Columbus on Marconi Plaza in a plywood box…