Best wishes for a Happy New Year. We could use one.

How would starting the United States on a round of territorial expansion fit in with vows to chop $2 trillion out of the budget? Not well, and another reason to dismiss the clown show.

What can we learn from 1925? Plenty, if we will. As Confucius observed: “Study the past if you would define the future.”

We need to get back to giving newcomers a more proper welcome, but I guess we’ve got to get past another election first.

What worries the peoples of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, as well as the Baltic States and (quietly) Kazakhstan, is that the independence they finally regained in 1991 may prove just another interlude in this expansionist story of Russia.

The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland and Virginia. Then California and Nevada residents reported odd airborne night lights — flickering, hovering, then disappearing.

President Joe Biden, or whoever is running the White House, grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.

Will this era be remembered as the time when Donald Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?