Deana Chadwell

A couple of nights ago, as I was following the latest on the L.A. fires, I ran across a satellite picture of the tragedy. I could see the vastness of the conflagration, not closeups, not here and there a burning house or car, but the…

Throughout human history mankind has either produced or imagined heroic men (and sometimes women) who fought not for themselves, but for their people. St. George killed the dragon, Joan of Arc held back the English, Davy Crockett opened the…

There’s no doubt that Christmas is, for America, the most thoroughly celebrated holiday of the year. We close our schools for a couple of weeks. We spend an astounding amount of money on gifts that we wrap with elaborate paper and ribbons…

America is just coming-to after a near-death experience. We came within a hair’s breadth of ceasing to be America. If November 5th hadn’t been so decisive, we’d still be counting (and manufacturing) votes. If Trump hadn’t been so…

Schadenfreude can be delightful, but like chocolate, should be taken in small doses. There’s work to be done; "Election-mas" is over and while we’re still unwrapping presents in the form of cabinet appointments, we still need to look…

This last week has had all of us analyzing the results of the election. Most of us are doing so with glee and gratitude, but the Left is left scrounging up excuse after excuse, explanation after explanation, trying to avoid the truth. The…

In 1170 King Henry II and Thomas a' Beckett, the Archbishop of Canterbury, got into an intense argument. In the Middle Ages the Church and the Crown had almost equal power. Either entity could arrest, try, imprison, or execute. Either could…

We watch Washington D.C. like we’d watch a ship steaming way too fast toward a crowd on the pier. Our nation’s capital is so filled with corruption, ladder-climbing, and plain stupidity that it’s embarrassing to watch. This is…

Cause-and-effect is one of the first abstract ideas the human brain learns to deal with. The tiniest baby knows within his first few hours that if he cries, his mom will feed him. Even my little dogs know that if they bring me one of their…

I was about ten years old when I first learned about Joan of Arc, the 14-year-old peasant girl who, against all odds, led the army of France against the British in the Hundred Years War. I had checked out from our school library a little…