More than 3,000 Christmas wreaths were laid on the headstones of fallen soldiers at Fort Snelling National Cemetery as part of the national Wreaths Across America campaign.
Read MoreDay: December 25, 2019
Commentary: The 2019 Lump of Coal Awards
It’s a good thing President Trump is making big, beautiful coal great again because Jolly Old St. Nick is going to need an ample supply this Christmas Eve. (See 2016, 2017, and 2018 for comparable supply-and-demand needs.)
Read MoreAmericanism and the Spirit of American Liberty
In 1782, just as the American War of Independence was coming to an end, Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, who had come to North America from France in 1755 and by 1765 had settled in New York, published Letters from an American Farmer. In it, he asked a fascinating and enduring question: “What then is the American, this new man?” Crèvecoeur’s question suggests that 18th-century Americans were somehow different from all other peoples, and thus he invites us, some 230 years later, to reflect on the nature and meaning of America.
Read MoreRidiculous Campus Protests of 2019
This year, conservative students had their beliefs silenced and beaten down by their leftist classmates and professors. A survey discovered that nearly half of college students have personally experienced their own professors verbally protest President Donald Trump in class.
Read MoreCommentary: Gift Giving Is Better for Society Than Economists Think
If there is one thing that can make the dismal science even less appealing, it would be an economist telling the nation that holiday gift-giving generates unacceptable deadweight loss. Bah, humbug.
Read MoreU.K. Researcher Loses Her Job After Declaring That ‘Men Cannot Change Into Women’
A tax expert and researcher in the United Kingdom was fired from her job, and lost the subsequent employment tribunal, after saying that transgenderism is not real and “men cannot change into women,” as The Independent reports.
Read MoreMichigan Right to Life Submits Petition to Ban Dismemberment Abortions
A petition was submitted Monday to the Michigan Bureau of Elections that would initiate legislation to ban the second-trimester abortion procedure of “dilation and evacuation” in the state.
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