Written by Star Parker
One big word worth learning is “schadenfreude.”
Schadenfreude is “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.”
Nothing better captures the perverse pleasure that Democrats are deriving from the pain inflicted on our country caused by the government shutdown.
Democrats precipitated this shutdown to force Republicans to back off efforts to turn around our suicidal growth of government spending and debt.
House Republicans passed a continuing resolution ready for the president’s signature to fund the government, but Democrats said no.… Continue Reading
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Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
November 7, 2025 5:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Jerry Newcombe
There were more mass shootings in Chicago last weekend. The irony of these shootings, in which 54 were shot and 8 died, is the weekend itself….Father’s Day weekend.
Some sociologists note that what we’re seeing in large part are quite often the results of fatherlessness in America.
Mark J. Perry, a scholar with American Enterprise Institute, put out a chart on March 30, 2021 on fatherlessness in America. He compiled the statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, and the chart compares the “percentage of U.S.… Continue Reading