Daniel Darling and Richard Land

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Dec 24, 2021
How do we know the Christmas story is true?
As I write these words, Christmas morning is just a few hours away. In the U.S., Christmas is making something of a comeback. Where I live here in Middle Tennessee, the “Merry Christmas” signs and greetings outnumber “Happy Holidays” signs by a seemingly ever-widening margin.
Dec 17, 2021
The significance of obituaries
As I thought about this yesterday, a person came to mind who was a powerful example of this profound, but simple truth. This person was a prominent ophthalmologist and businessman who grew up in upstate New York and after medical school set up a medical practice in Alabama.
Dec 10, 2021
The Ukraine: A litmus test for Western civilization
Everyone needs to understand that Putin cannot fulfill his life’s ambition to rebuild the old Soviet Union under the banner of Russia without putting Ukraine once again under Russian control and rule.
Dec 3, 2021
Is communist China the new Third Reich?
The closest analogy to the Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945 that the world has seen since is the current Chinese Communist (CCP) government in China.
Nov 25, 2021
Why Thanksgiving?
These victims fleeing from religious persecution set out consciously to achieve what President Lincoln would later describe as government “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Nov 19, 2021
Is paid parental leave pro-family?
Why is parental leave legislation so important? I believe if you consider yourself to be “pro-family,” you should support some form of government-subsidized, maternity parental leave.
Nov 12, 2021
Veterans Day: The debt we still owe
All the men and women who were killed in defending America died before their natural time. Most of them were in their teens and 20s. My father, a World War II Navy veteran with 13 battle stars in the Pacific, to the day he died at 92, fondly remembered the men he served with, the men who died in their early twenties like he was, far from home.
Nov 5, 2021
What happened in Virginia and why it matters
This volatility was on full display last Tuesday in Virginia. Republican Glenn Youngkin won by increasing the Republican vote from 2020 in every county in the state. He won 13% of the black vote and received slightly more than half the Hispanic vote.
Oct 29, 2021
National defense: Playing catch-up again?
Unfortunately, as the Chinese missile tests demonstrate, we are behind in this one critical area, and we are being forced to play that most American of games, “catch-up”. We must do so with all deliberate speed, or the cause of liberty and freedom in the world will suffer a terrible defeat with tragic human consequences.
Oct 22, 2021
Colin Powell, The Art Institute of Chicago, and opportunity in America
According to General Powell, Prime Minister Yew replied, “Mr. President…you don’t understand. It’s not reversible. There is no other place where you can take a foreigner and plop them in and…five years later out pops an American of hyphenated background who can go as far as his talents will take him. It can’t happen anywhere else.”