With the lights hung and rolls of wrapping paper filling spare bedrooms across the state, it can be too easy to fall victim to a last-minute flurry of spending. But we aren’t seeing that this year. According to preliminary numbers, 2022 holiday spending is the most cautious since 2013, as 41% of people say they...
Josephus Daniels, one of the most prominent North Carolinians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, played a key role in a story that often circulates around Christmastime. He’s not exactly its hero, but in the end Daniels makes the right call — and thus helps to save the celebration of Christmas during wartime....
There is a major flaw in our national security that we are powerless to avoid. I have studied this intently and there is absolutely nothing we can do to fill this gap. Foreign nationals are well aware of this Achillies heel, and there it is, just waiting to be exploited. I am not talking about...
Winston Churchill called the Battle of the Bulge America’s greatest moment during the war, not just for the heroics, but because we shouldered the tremendous German offensive alone.
Going back as far as August 2021, President Biden and Vice President Harris were “warning” Americans that due to supply chain issues, we shouldn’t expect a very Merry Christmas and to plan accordingly. For many in our culture that message, which was repeated by Democrat leaders with frequency, fell on deaf ears until only recently...
One of the goals within our cultural wars is to push Christmas aside, to make even more room for divisive politicized agendas that tear us apart.
We come to appreciate things we would never think to buy for ourselves, either because of sentimental value or because our gift-giver knew something we didn’t.
“Two thousand years ago,” said then-Vice President Al Gore in 1997, “a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child.”
Among the pagan-inspired customs of the Christmas season now appears to be the ritualistic burning of the straw man.
Mary and Joseph were not homeless. Joseph was not unemployed. They had been ordered by government to leave their home and journey to a strange town to be taxed.
Christmas is a time to renew one’s generosity of spirit. True generosity is, of course, a trait of voluntary action.
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