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My Best Pal in the Whole World is Phil Lanier. For 60-plus years, we use Woke Math and identify as 8-year-olds. Christmas can’t officially commence without our phone call. We

Happy New Year to the Santa Clarita Valley! On to what will prove, one way or another, a monumentally important year.  Americans have long thought of themselves as an exceptional

Your typical activist college student nowadays, eager to change the world, will tear through a variety of texts on subjects like Black liberation, feminism and socialist theory. They’ll learn all

By David Hegg Every new year brings the promise of improvement. Our great hope is that this year will be better than the one just past. We hope for better

Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Pentagon recently ended their social-policy war, and all Americans should be grateful to see this needless debacle come to an end. Sen. Tuberville’s blockade of

Who. The heck. Am I kidding. We’re starting the hopefully illustrious New Year of 2024 shortly. Well. At least I am. If it isn’t just like me, I believe this

The baseball world was surprised to hear that the Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani to a staggering $700 million contract. That is 70% of a billion dollars just to play baseball!

With Christmas joy and that special time with friends and family behind us, I wonder what the New Year will bring. If you were granted some wishes for 2024 that

By David Hegg This morning finds our society at the start of two important nights. Just seven days separate them, but how we see them couldn’t be more different.  Today

I have always loved this time of year! The weather continues to cool as we look forward to seeing snow fall on the hills around us.  Lights and holiday decorations

Christmas is not just around the corner, it’s here. Salivating and chest heaving, it’s pounding on the front door like the Tasmanian Devil in a Daffy Duck cartoon. I can’t

I missed the War on Christmas.   Where did this annual wringing of conservative hands go? Did COVID wipe out the War on Christmas, too? Until just these past few

By David Hegg It is the 5th century B.C. Greek philosopher Plato, who gets the credit for both creating and promoting what has become known as the “noble lie.” In

I was back in Sacramento recently for a meeting, where I got to enjoy the beautiful crisp fall weather and colorful leaves that I normally miss out on when the

All y’all! Merry Christmas to all on the Palmdale family tree, which, some wiseacres in our link like to point out is more like a limbless stump connecting directly to

As Governors Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom debated, we were in Florida visiting my daughter’s in-laws who live in the Orlando area. Although we enjoyed a fabulous week, we concluded

Amid simultaneous wars in Europe and the Middle East and mounting tensions with China, calls to strengthen our nation’s defense have only grown louder on both sides of the aisle.

It’s the season of celebration. A time for people to come together with those they love and reflect on the year. However, that’s tough for so many people I know,

By David Hegg In logic there is a fallacy known as non sequitur. This Latin phrase simply means “does not follow” and describes a situation where a supposed “effect” actually

As I write this article it is the start of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights, a Jewish holiday commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and the overthrow of the Seleucid Empire