It’s been said that gratitude is the mother of all virtue and ingratitude the father of all vice. We do well to reflect on that this Thanksgiving.

We find ourselves in a social and political moment of great self-importance attached to impatience, and an inability to recognize the wisdom of others. We have example after example where ego trumps reason—and “my truth” is preferred over the truth itself. With our political tendencies trending toward the extremes, we diminish the greatest set of social relations ever gifted, as they were by our Founding and Constitution.

This Thanksgiving, on the eve of our nation’s 250th anniversary, let’s consider a prayer at our tables for our country and those who delivered us such a great gift with their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

Let’s giving thanks for those who gave us so much.

Let’s give thanks to the God who showed His hand behind it all.

On behalf of Salem Media, I’m Seth Leibsohn wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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It’s been said that gratitude is the mother of all virtue and ingratitude the father of all vice. We do well to reflect on that this Thanksgiving.

We find ourselves in a social and political moment of great self-importance attached to impatience, and an inability to recognize the wisdom of others. We have example after example where ego trumps reason—and “my truth” is preferred over the truth itself. With our political tendencies trending toward the extremes, we diminish the greatest set of social relations ever gifted, as they were by our Founding and Constitution.

This Thanksgiving, on the eve of our nation’s 250th anniversary, let’s consider a prayer at our tables for our country and those who delivered us such a great gift with their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

Let’s giving thanks for those who gave us so much.

Let’s give thanks to the God who showed His hand behind it all.

On behalf of Salem Media, I’m Seth Leibsohn wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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The US Secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll, recently delivered to the Ukrainian government a 28-point proposed agreement for cessation of hostilities and at least some promise of enduring peace between Russia and Ukraine.

First: You need to state clearly: Russia is the invading force and Russia is at fault.

We also have to say The American government has finally come to a realistic assessment that there is no plausible argument that, given its military situation, Ukraine is going to be able to dislocate all Russians from its claimed territory.

And that brings us back to the 28-point agreement and political realism:

Realism means that sometimes that the best that you can achieve is the least-worst option. And let’s be honest, that’s what we’re facing here.

Short of NATO going to war with a nuclear-powered Russia, what has been proposed here is pretty much where any intelligent person knew this was going to have to end. And honestly, we knew this at the beginning.

We should be hoping that the war does, in fact, end and praying for that end.

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