James Tonkowich

Christmas is over and as a friend likes to say, “Ain’t nothin’ as over as Christmas.”

The phrase “If it feels good do it,” may be a relic of the seventies, but the sentiment is still with us and it’s on steroids. Our feelings and desires, we believe, cannot and should not be resisted.

The DC City Council seems to be working to eviscerate the religious freedom of pro-life groups and Christian private schools. When anyone’s religious freedom is stripped, everyone’s religious freedom suffers.

Most of the time we can (and many do) pretend our families don’t exist. Then along come “the holidays.”

We have been repeatedly told that men are not for women and that women are not for men, that men and women are interchangeable and that sexual differences are illusory.

Social media has its uses, but developing genuine friendship isn’t one of them. We have to move beyond social media, come face-to-face and hand-to-hand. Most often food is involved.

The right to die too easily morphs into their obligation to die, a fact borne out by the mounting death toll by euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands.

We have little confidence in the government's ability to solve problems and according to a new CNN poll, “Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed."

Our religious liberty and freedom of speech are too precious to cede because we caved in to bullies.

Jeffrey Goldberg’s title in The Atlantic says it all: “‘A Terrible Slaughter is Coming’: On the Turkish border, the world stands idly by as ISIS threatens a massacre in a Syrian town.”