Albert Mohler: Good Tidings of Great Joy

“For unto us, a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the prince of peace.” That's what the great prophet Isaiah promised centuries before the birth of Christ. …

Jerry Bowyer: The Message of Scrooge and the Woke Left

.If they would rather die, perhaps they had better do so and decrease the surplus population. With that quote, Ebenezer Scrooge makes perfectly clear the true political message of A Christmas Carol. Dickens was writing amidst a wave of hysteria about population growth triggered by Thomas Malfus, …

Ed Morrissey: The Iran-Venezuela Connection Threat

Over the last few weeks, Donald Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Nicholas Maduro to leave Venezuela. The US has plenty of good reasons to force the Marxist dictator from power, narco trafficking, human rights violations, and flooding the US with transnational criminal gang members among them. P…

Hugh Hewitt: Norman Podhoretz: 1930-2025

Norman Podhoretz died last week at the age of 95. A long-time editor of Commentary magazine was, simply put, one of the conservative intellectual giants of the last three-quarters of a century. For me, Commentary magazine was added to National Review as my Christmas list “asks” when I was in coll…

Albert Mohler: The Future of Western Civilization

The murderous, premeditated attack at Bondi Beach in Australia forces us to look at two undeniable patterns. The first is the pattern of anti-Semitic violence. The second is the larger pattern of terror tied to immigration and Islam. This was not just a targeted terrorist attack on Jewish Austra…

Seth Leibsohn: The West's Lethal Slumber

Just after 9/11, there was a good deal of introspection within the Muslim community living in the West—there was even more good will toward the Muslim community from non-Muslim Westerners.  The good will has stayed the same, perhaps even accelerated into encouragement; the self-introspection has no…

Carol Platt Liebau: Lessons From Bondi Attack

People of good will around the world were rightfully horrified by the terrorist attack on an outdoor Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia. The attackers reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Islamist extremist group. For Australia’s Jewish community, open-air, a beachside religiou…

Ed Morrissey: This Is What "Globalize the Intifada" Means

When pro-Palestinian activists chant “globalize the intifada,” Bondi Beach is what they want. A father-son Islamist terror team has massacred 15 Australian Jews celebrating Hannukah. Australia’s Prime Minister went on television to address his nation about the lessons of this terrorist attack. He …

Hugh Hewitt: Time to Get Serious

Jamie Dimon—the head of JPMorgan Chase—just announced that he’s leading a $1.5 trillion initiative focused on investing in national security. Dimon has assembled a council of big names to advise on where to invest the bank’s own money in defense industries, as well as others money and in the hopes…

Carol Platt Liebau: A Debt of Gratitude to the Dells

A billionaire tech executive has just made one of the most strategic philanthropic gifts in American history. Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife Susan are giving more than six billion dollars to seed saving accounts for 25 million American children 10 and younger. Eac…