What’s funny about growing up in a deaf family? Almost everything, if you ask Craig Gass, who was the only hearing member of his household.

April 19 marks the anniversary of the clashes at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, between colonial militia and British regulars in 1775 that opened the Revolutionary War.

Communion services are held twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Singing is usually done for the first hour or so. 

A data-driven breakdown of the five most damaging tax myths in American politics – from billionaire taxes to corporate rates – and what the actual numbers show.

These church leaders seem to be engaging in a kind of immoral equivalency. Do they not know that the Islamic regime hates Christians and Jews and believes their deity demands they be killed?

While EV tax credits were dismissed as wasteful "rent-seeking," they were actually subsidizing America's economic competitiveness, energy independence and technological future – advantages China is already seizing.

April 14 marks the 180th anniversary of the departure of the Donner expedition, which took off from what is today the south side of Old Capitol Plaza in downtown Springfield in 1846.

Granddaughter Jennifer (daughter of Susan and Ervin) wrote the column for me while she was at our daughter Verena’s.

Whatever one thinks about our national security needs, this budget commits the country to trillions in additional cumulative spending layered atop existing obligations.