History warns us that great powers often stumble when confidence hardens into certainty.

This case is not an argument for blind trust in authority, nor is it a call to dismiss legitimate scrutiny of use-of-force decisions. Investigations matter. Transparency matters. Accountability matters. But so does honesty about human limitation and the consequences of escalation.

So, it won’t be a simple vote that decides Venezuela’s future. There will be fights, maybe even a civil war, just like we had in Iraq all those years ago. Every country has a military, and every country has politicians who want power.

Marion County did not make me who I am because it was perfect. It made me who I am because it was honest. Honest about work, honest about faith, honest about responsibility and honest about human limitations. Those lessons remain relevant, not because they are old, but because human nature has not changed. If America is to endure, it would do well to remember what small towns like mine once understood without needing to be reminded.

His worldview is built on resentment rather than responsibility, identity rather than character, and outrage rather than policy. This may generate attention online, but it cannot build institutions, govern effectively or improve lives. History shows that movements centered on humiliation and exclusion inevitably consume themselves.

It is truly an enduring legacy: Fox hunting remains a deeply embedded tradition in Maryland, celebrated through events like the Hunt Cup and the continued activities of clubs in the greater Baltimore area.

Some time between 62 and 65 A.D., Saint Peter wrote in I Peter: “Be alert and be of sober mind.” Imagine that. An instruction to be vigilant and sober-minded. Roughly 1,960 years later, it sounds anachronistic. Solemn and stern. Oddly out of place. Never, though, has it been more timely to be reminded of the need to be serious and sober. Consider sinking into a comfortable chair and taking a deep and sustained puff of high-potency marijuana; immediately, seriousness and sobri

Right now, too many Americans are white-knuckling their way through each month — nervous, numb and spiritually adrift. Changing course will require more than a new policy or a new president. It will require rebuilding the financial, social and spiritual foundations that make real life possible — and having the honesty to admit that our souls are just as overdrawn as our credit cards.

In that sense, belief in heaven is the ultimate inclusivity — not because standards are lowered, but because grace is freely offered. Anyone may pass through the Pearly Gates who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, confesses Him as Lord, and trusts in His death and resurrection for salvation.

The restraint that civilization requires does not come from men; it comes from God’s Law, written in our hearts, there even before we learned to argue about it. If it comes from man, that begs the question as to which man.

So, if somebody says, “Well, I wonder what Pfizer thinks about this,” I don’t think Pfizer is an objective person to weigh in on whether we should get a vaccine or whether or not you should have the hepatitis vaccine or COVID vaccine for children.

If anything, the real task is to rediscover an ancient perspective — one that sees life and death as part of the same mystery, not a technological problem to be solved. A society that remembers that may live longer, and more importantly, live wiser — and in that wisdom, we might find the peace that no laboratory can manufacture.

The upshot is alarming. The average health insurance premium would increase 26% in 2026. The average monthly premium for subsidized ACA enrollees would rise from $888 to $1,904. Even if the subsidies are extended, many individuals will still experience sticker shock with premium hikes of 50% or more. Emergency room visits can be expected to spiral.

A question has also been raised of whether Omar knew that this fraud was occurring, or at least should have been tipped off to the fact that something was amiss. One of her own former campaign officials, for example, was convicted of stealing millions of dollars and has on multiple occasions been seen with another member of the fraud scheme who similarly stole millions of dollars.

But the fact is, Lakanwal killed a member of the U.S. military and critically injured another, and he was brought in under potentially suspect circumstances. It is not unreasonable for the president to now question whether the broad stroke of a pen that allowed over 77,000 Afghans to enter the United States might have let in a few rotten apples.

By the time New York's special and off-year elections rolled around, the picture sharpened. In races across Long Island and the Hudson Valley, areas where Republicans had made significant gains, Democrats clawed back lost ground.