Affirming bourgeois values.

The middle class is, by and large, an American invention. That said, it traces its roots to the teachings of the Catholic Church, which worked their way westward across Europe over 12 centuries until crossing the Atlantic and arriving on the North American continent in the 1600s.

Failure upon failure.

Will we ever learn? Every time liberal bureaucrats and politicians engage in the kind of social engineering that defies common sense, it ends in tears.

There are no simple answers.

A generation ago we did not have — indeed didn’t even imagine — mass murder at our schools. And that condition prevailed even though there were far fewer gun ownership restrictions on the books than there are now.

A remarkable lack of curiosity.

Journalism has been dominated by liberals for decades. But there was a time in American journalism when a story would get so juicy that reporters would go after a liberal anyway.

We deserve to know.

Save for matters of national security, when it comes to the operation of our government, and to the behavior of those in elected, appointed and staff positions within that government, we deserve to know.

The bull does his business.

Presidents like FDR, LBJ, JFK, Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon – go down the list – are all well-known for having turned the air blue in meetings at the White House.

Animal spirits unleashed.

Freed from the prospect of more regulation and more economic micromanagement, businesses have resumed hiring and investing and planning for a bright future.

Keep Christmas well.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.