Monday, December 29, 2025
America has many allies in what promises to be a decades-long Cold War 2.0 between the U.S. and its allies and the alliance of tyrants, led by China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Putin, Iran’s Khamenei and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. This quartet of dictators has some fourth-string powers allied with it in our hemisphere, like Venezuela’s Maduro and Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel.
President Donald Trump is in the process of securing the Western Hemisphere against this alliance. He stated what I’d call the “Trump Doctrine.” In all caps: "YOU WILL BE HIT HARDER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BEFORE IF YOU, IN ANY WAY, ATTACK OR THREATEN THE U.S.A."
In less than 25 words, President Trump put the whole globe on notice. The key word he included in his post: "THREATEN."
As 2025 comes to a close, the GOP is united on national defense. That’s a gift for everyone, whether they know it or not.
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Friday, December 26, 2025
Global antisemitism has surged since the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023. Now a civil-rights watchdog is exposing just how pervasive the problem has become on American college campuses.
StopAntisemitism’s 2025 campus report card examined conditions at ninety U.S. universities — and the findings are alarming.
Thirty-nine percent of Jewish students say they’ve felt forced to hide their identity. Sixty-five percent feel unwelcome in parts of their own campuses. And fifty-eight percent report that their universities failed to protect them.
Young people — members of a peaceful religious minority — are being targeted and marginalized at institutions that claim to prize inclusion. Even worse, administrators charged with maintaining safe, civilized learning environments are too often looking the other way.
Less than a century ago, the world vowed: “Never again.” Those words ring hollow when hatred is tolerated — or excused — in plain sight.
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Friday, December 26, 2025
Most of you know about Handel’s Messiah, perhaps the most popular and enduring work of George Frideric Handel. But few remember Charles Jennens, who wrote and conceived of the idea of the Oratorio, The Messiah.
The Oratorio is still performed thousands of times worldwide at Christmas.
Jennens wrote The Libretto. That's the text of Messiah, tying together the Bible central story, God's salvation of His people through the work of the Messiah. He used the very words of the Bible for his text. His purpose was to remind the audience of the truth and power of the story of salvation, and thus his attention on the Birth of Christ.
Handel put the words to majestic music in just 21 days. For unto us, a child is born. That is the prophet's declaration. That's God's great gift to us at Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
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Thursday, December 25, 2025
“For unto us, a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the prince of peace.”
That's what the great prophet Isaiah promised centuries before the birth of Christ.
The fulfillment of that promise is what we celebrate at Christmas. It happened in Little Bethlehem and the angel declared to the shepherds, “I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior, which is Christ the Lord.”
And so that baby was born, history was riven in two, and salvation came as the angelic host declared “glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”
Now you and those you love, celebrate a wonderful Christmas filled with the glory of Christ.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
.If they would rather die, perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population.
With that quote, Ebenezer Scrooge makes perfectly clear the true political message of A Christmas Carol.
Dickens was writing amidst a wave of hysteria about population growth triggered by Thomas Malfus, who argued that reproduction would exceed growth in food.
Scrooge was both anti procreation and anti-marriage.
Of course, Scrooge and Malfus who inspired him turned out to be wrong.
His nephew, Fred, and the ghost of Christmas present turned out to be right.
But the lessons from A Christmas Carol ought to give us strength today as well, as we press back against a message of outright hostility to family so prevalent among the woke left.
There is no such thing as surplus population.
God bless us everyone.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Over the last few weeks, Donald Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Nicholas Maduro to leave Venezuela.
The US has plenty of good reasons to force the Marxist dictator from power, narco trafficking, human rights violations, and flooding the US with transnational criminal gang members among them.
Perhaps the biggest threat Maduro poses, is his partnership with Hezbollah in Iran. Those ties go back to 1999 and Hugo Chavez, and Hezbollah is involved in every aspect of Maduro's criminal enterprises.
Iran's proxy army has established its own network in Venezuela and serves the Iranian regime's ambitions to destroy what its mullahs call the great Satan.
The mainstream media in the US have rarely reported on this partnership, but others have sent up warnings. The Atlantic Council warned five years ago that Hezbollah is equal to the cartels in organized crime and terror in the Western hemisphere.
That threat extends across Latin America, but Maduro's regime is its nexus in the region.
Donald Trump understands this threat and that America has to act now to stop it.
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Monday, December 22, 2025
Norman Podhoretz died last week at the age of 95.
A long-time editor of Commentary magazine was, simply put, one of the conservative intellectual giants of the last three-quarters of a century.
For me, Commentary magazine was added to National Review as my Christmas list “asks” when I was in college.
Since then, Commentary has never not been a part of my intellectual life.
It was Podhoretz’s memoir “Breaking Ranks,” that put the intellectual puzzle together for me—and how much the intellectual battles of post-World War II America mattered.
He spelled out the ideas and the fact that they had to be fought for: Communism was evil and could be contained and even defeated.
It may, or may not, be true that "No Podhoretz, no President Reagan," but that very well might be the case. He was a giant.
I never met him.
I was fortunate enough to interview him.
And I know firsthand what a great American Norman Podhoretz was.
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