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Deck The White House Halls

WASHINGTON (AP) — Step inside the White House during the holidays by walking beneath the branches of a Christmas tree. Stroll along a hallway decorated with oversized holiday candy and other sweets. See Santa’s sleigh and his eight reindeer suspended above the grand foyer in dramatic fashion. Jill Biden wants everyone who visits the White House during the holidays to feel like a kid again. “Each room is designed to capture this pure, unfiltered delight and imagination” so visitors “see this time of year through the wondrous, sparkling eyes of children,” the first lady ...

Anxiety Meets U.S. Dynamism

Victory in World War II filled some economists with foreboding. Today, many people on the left, including some who insist that they are on the right, proclaim an urgent need for government to supplant markets in allocating capital to rescue the economy from doldrums. So, remember the postwar calamity that did not happen. Anticipating the dismantling of the government’s encompassing direction of the wartime economy, and restoration of a market-driven economy, Cassandras thought that vast reductions of military spending, coinciding with millions of demobilized soldiers flooding the ...

Evangelicals Conforming to World

More than 150 Iowa “faith leaders” have announced they are supporting Donald Trump in the state’s forthcoming caucuses. At the same time, Bob Vander Plaats, an influential Iowa evangelical leader, is supporting Ron DeSantis. Predictably, Donald Trump slammed Vander Plaats as a “ scammer.” You stay classy, Donald. These endorsements came days before the release of Tim Alberta’s book “The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.” Alberta, a writer for The Atlantic and other publications, and an evangelical Christian, quotes ...

Terrible Things Can Happen When You Reward Bad Behavior

The “ceasefire” in Gaza continues while Hamas dribbles out hostages (who depart the territory amid the bellowing and threats of Palestinian civilians calling for their deaths.) How long will this go on? As long as Hamas can stretch it out. John Hinderaker at Powerline blog has expressed concern that Israel may be losing its momentum in the war against the terrorists who attacked on Oct. 7, slaughtered 1,200-plus people and took hundreds more hostage. As well he might. If one wonders why Hamas (and their sister group Hezbollah) keeps up the relentless attacks on Israel, the answer ...

Ron Retzer Trio Performs For Christmas at the Strand

MOUNDSVILLE — Full Moon Productions presents a stellar Christmas Concert in the Ohio Valley featuring the Ron Retzer Trio at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8, at the Strand Theatre in Moundsville. “Christmas at the Strand” will feature all the great Christmas songs that you love and some new renditions of old favorites. Ron Retzer is known around the Ohio Valley for his tremendous piano skills and powerful voice and as being a member of the Jamboree's house band. Retzer's talent combined with the soulful, compelling voice of Jennifer Galownia and the dynamic and moving sound of ...

Israel, Hamas Release More Prisoners

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel released another group of Palestinian prisoners early Thursday in exchange for 16 hostages freed hours earlier by the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza. The releases came on the sixth day of a temporary truce in the Israel-Hamas war. The latest swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel under the Gaza truce comes as international mediators raced to seal another extension to allow further exchanges and prolong the halt of Israel’s air and ground offensive. A bus carrying some of the Palestinian detainees was seen arriving in the West Bank city of ...