In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" "Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, ...

In a sense, the mass murder at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, was a symbol of how badly off-track our country has gotten. Amid the bunting and marching bands and families on lawn chairs, a disturbed idiot with a powerful rifle fired randomly at grandfathers, children and ...

This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change? "The forefathers knew what they were doing," said one woman. But the Constitution originally accepted slavery. It's good that we can amend ...

Some birthdays are better or worse than others. America's 246th was a lot like 1863. In a dark gloom, a civil war without cannons is now on, full blast. On one side, we have a relentless truth-seeking missile, the Jan. 6 committee. I was in the stately room when Cassidy Hutchinson testified ...

Will the Jan. 6 committee issue a "criminal referral" to the Justice Department for Donald Trump? Committee members can't give an interview without being asked that question. Pundits can't stop talking about it, cable TV anchors can't stop asking legal experts for their predictions. It's ...

The price of gasoline is not Joe Biden's fault, nor did it break records. Adjusted for inflation, it was higher in 2008 when Republican George W. Bush was president. And that wasn't Bush's fault, either. We don't have to like today's inflation, but that problem, too, is not Biden's doing. ...