Among the top priorities for newly selected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt. The pragmatist in me cheers, but the cynic in me says asking Congress to cut spending is like asking Dracula to cut back on his consumption of blood.

No one who is not in the military or law enforcement should possess a military-style weapon. No one who has been deemed severely mentally ill should own any firearm. Those reforms shouldn’t be so hard to support, including in gun country.

Not only have we largely stopped transmitting the story of our own civilization, we have substituted an alternative narrative that the West is reducible to racism, imperialism and colonialism.

Nearly a fourth of Americans (23%) agree that “things have gotten so far off track” that “true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

When you take public office, you have to change some of your ways. You’re in a realm of rules that don’t govern other people. Such as what you do and say in public. Most of all, you have to do the public’s business in public.

Joe Biden has been so good at cutting the deficit that it clocked in at $2 trillion last year.

When the leading cause of death of youths in this country is gun violence, and when there have already been 565 mass shootings (four or more victims) across the country this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, why are we still hesitant to pass stronger laws?