Americans may not agree on much, but we agree on Social Security.

We all pay in. It ought to be there when we need it.

Social Security could face a funding gap in less than a decade, and I don't want to see a pay cut.

I'm with AARP in the fight to protect the Social Security we earned.

Pledge to protect Social Security at AARP.org slash we earned it.

That's aARP.org slash we earned it.

Paid for by AARP.

This is Seth Leapson for townhall.com.

Numerous media outlets had a difficult time with the Rededicate 250 celebration the White House sponsored this past Sunday.

One major paper reported, quote, until Trump's second term in office it had been virtually unheard of in modern times for U.S.

government officials to publicly tie the nation to a specific set of religious beliefs.

Trump's cabinet members have changed that norm. Close quote. Boy, that phrase in

modern times is doing a lot of work here. Calls to prayer and Thanksgiving may be new to the old media

staffed by too many young, but they'd raise no eyebrows from those who actually founded the country,

like John Adams, who wrote, quote, the general principles on which the father's achieved independence were the general principles

of Christianity, close quote.

We can go on and on with such language from John Adams to John Kennedy, never mind FDR's

D-Day prayer, the largest public prayer in history up to that point.

Just now, this country could use exactly what the White House sponsored and a lot less

of what the mainstream media is offering.

Life is a song.

And what if your faith could help you hit the high notes?

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