Thanksgiving proclamations, past and present. I’m glad President Obama looks to the past, but the other proclamations are much stronger in another respect. George Washington, 1789. Abraham Lincoln, 1863. Barack Obama, 2014.

We are forgetting our stories. We are forgetting the stories that once helped forge a national identity. We put so much focus on “multiculturalism,” and hearing other people’s stories, that we no longer tell our common stories. A Darwinian consciousness has gripped America, so that the past is dark, and deluded, and racist, and we…

The House Armed Services Committee hosted a hearing today on the issue of religious accommodation in the military. Articles about the hearing (example) make it appear black and white. One side says fundamentalist Christians are proselytizing without opposition, and the other side says Christians are oppressed. Obviously both can’t be right — and I have…

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Looks like the Bible was right all along. According to this study, retaining young adults is not a matter of smoke machines, dancing girls, liberalizing standards, or any of the other fads. “The holy…