Daily Hope: You Can Relax in God’s Amazing Grace

Your failures don’t surprise God. In fact, he expects them!

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Editorial: Biden’s new border security plan won’t work. Here’s what will

President Biden just announced a plan to deal with the situation at the southwest border, which he attributes to “the broken immigration system.”

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Editorial: Time to defund NPR over porn for kids

As House Republicans overcome their differences and take power in the chamber there is an issue that they should take up immediately: defunding National Public Radio.

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Clarence Page: Today’s Republicans need to get out of their own way

As the House moved past a dozen ballots in failed attempts to elect California Republican Kevin McCarthy to be House speaker, a catchy refrain from the musical “Hamilton” grew louder in my mind:

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McCarthy is finally Speaker. But he’s not weak like you think. Now he can deploy the ‘crazy boss’ strategy

Stop the pearl-clutching, my fellow Republicans. This drama over the House speakership is the best thing that could have happened.

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Damar Hamlin’s recovery shows ‘we’re seeing God answer prayer in real time’

As we head into the final week of the NFL’s regular season, America is heartened by the encouraging news concerning the recovery of the Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin. Still listed in critical condition and in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, doctors have said the star safety is “neurologically intact” and showing “remarkable improvement.” 

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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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