New Year 2025

As we celebrate a new year and revel in its possibilities, we are forced to contend with the unavoidable consequences of past decisions. There is no truly fresh start.

Only hours into 2025, an Islamic terrorist mowed down several dozen people on the streets of New Orleans. Although it took only a few seconds for these people to lose their lives or have them irrevocably damaged, the cause and responsibility for the carnage did not begin on January 1 of this year. To name only a few of the culprits with a long and storied history: open border policy, defund the police activism, and DEI hiring. Decisions have consequences, and the consequences are always destructive when the decisions deny reality that is staring us in the face.

Expect more of this—much more--not because the new year has ushered in bad people in positions of power but rather because the previous one, and the three before that, empowered bad people to encourage evil to saturate every institution of our nation. Those institutions remain fundamentally broken, and they will not be easily or quickly repaired.