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Congress out on recess again!

Summer is over, the kids are back in school and will be in class nearly every Monday through Friday except for a few days at Thanksgiving until their Holiday break over Christmas and New Years, totaling about 75 days until 2027. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives in Washington took off ...

A choice changes nothing until your actions support it

I’ve traveled quite a bit. Both in-country and overseas. I can’t tell you how many times people commented to me about how expensive it must be to travel so much, saying something along the lines of “it must be nice” to have so much free time and money to travel. Anytime I hear ...

First-world problems

There is nothing like a good cookout. The smell of the grill and the food getting perfectly yummy is incomparable. Then it comes time to serve the food. All the condiments are carefully laid out beside the delectable side dishes. Can you see the steaming corn on the cob, creamy potato salad, ...

Why Lansing’s swamp fear ‘yes’ on Proposal 1

If Lansing’s swamp creatures are this afraid of Proposal 1, Michigan voters should pay attention. The opposition to calling a state constitutional convention has brought together an unholy alliance of Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative consultants, associations, lobbyists and ...

Steelers and faith: The foundation behind the grit of the gridiron

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp. For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County has played ...

We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for

We're now officially in the run-up to the midterm elections, with less than two months to go before Election Day 2026. The good news is most Americans now understand how bad Trump is. With the exception of Nixon, he's the most unpopular second-term president at this stage in his tenure in the history of polling going back to the 1940s. On issues where he once was strong -- like the economy, national security and immigration -- Trump is now underwater, with more Americans opposing than supporting his policies. All the major problems America now faces are entirely self-inflicted by ...