Daily Hope: Work Six Days, and Then Rest

In the Bible, a day of rest is called Sabbath. It’s when you take a day off from work—not just from your job but from any kind of work.

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Random New Year’s Thoughts

My father’s wisdom:

White customer to my father in my father’s cafe: “Did you hear what your leader said yesterday?”

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Washington is failing in the face of immigration crisis. Here’s what to do right now to fix the border.

With its ruling to keep Title 42 in place, our nation’s high court granted the American people temporary relief from the Biden administration’s consistent pattern of misguided decisions. Yet the Supreme Court’s ruling did nothing to resolve the crisis at our southern border.

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Opinion: Most Catholic Voters Don’t Share Catholic President’s Priorities

President Biden walked on stage in the dark of the Howard Theatre and declared the coming midterms, then just three weeks away, “the most consequential election in our history.” Insisting that abortion was on the ballot this year, Biden promised that if Democrats kept their majorities, they would codify Roe v. Wade in federal law.

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Sean Davis: The Prolonged Battle For House Speaker Is Actually Good For Our Country

Co-Founder and CEO of The Federalist Sean Davis joins ‘Fox Across America’ With Jimmy Failla to share his reaction to all of the craziness surrounding the voting process for House Speaker: “To me, the scandal is not that we’re going to spend a couple of days or weeks picking a Speaker of the House.

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McCarthy’s path forward that even Republicans couldn’t screw up

Never mind all the swooning ladies, pearl-clutchers and screaming weenies in the Republican Party. Or the eye-bulging hysteria from the political press.

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America’s crime problem is real. Tackling it requires respect for cops

In law enforcement, our most fundamental duty is to ensure people can live free from fear—a task that has become more challenging over the past few years. FBI crime statistics released in October showed that in 2021, for the second year in a row, violent crime remained at alarmingly high levels. From conversations I routinely have with police chiefs and sheriffs every week, those violent crime trends have continued throughout 2022.

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Daily Hope: Four Steps to Help You Stop Worrying

It takes more than willpower to stop worrying—but you already know that, because you’ve already tried it. You’ve thought, “I shouldn’t worry about this,” yet it stays on your mind.

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Commentary: It’s been a year since we left New York for Florida. Here’s what we learned

On New Year’s Day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first full term. In the speech that followed she said “We must and will make our state safe … we have to make our state more affordable … And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere.”

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Editorial: A dysfunctional GOP can’t even pick a speaker. Bad for Republicans, worse for America.

It’s hard to find a better microcosm for today’s Republican Party than the self-inflicted debacle that America witnessed this week.

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