On Sunday, at the most widely viewed sporting event in America -- the Super Bowl -- the National Football League featured the singing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the song first known as the “Negro national anthem” and now known as the “black national anthem.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Josh Hammer is off this week. We hope readers will enjoy the following guest column by Ben Shapiro.

In 2021, United Airlines released the following statement: “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.”

In 2001, Rebecca Dowdy started Lampasas Mission in a storage closet of First Baptist Church in Lampasas. In 2004, the Mission relocated to a house at Fifth and Western streets.

President Joe Biden seemed a little confused when he gave a speech at a church in South Carolina last Sunday. First, he mistook the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution.

The primary slogan of the Trump movement is the simple, now-iconic appeal to “Make America Great Again.” Indeed, “MAGA” is so ubiquitous that it is now a metonym for the movement itself. But if the Trump movement has a second catchphrase after “MAGA,” it would be “America First.” Donald Trump routinely vows that he is an “America First” politician.

President Joe Biden -- wearing a brown leather jacket and a black baseball hat -- walked out onto the South Lawn of the White House on a recent Saturday morning on his way to Marine One. He was flying to Camp David for the weekend. But first he stopped to talk to some reporters.

Recently, I read about a high school in New York City telling students to stay home during regular school hours while their gymnasium is filled with thousands of illegal invaders from Africa, Iran, China and Guatemala.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, breaking records in both contests. In Iowa, Trump received an unprecedented 51% of votes cast -- more than 30 percentage points ahead of the runner-up, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In New Hampshire, Trump received a record 175,000plus votes and beat former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by 12-plus percentage points.

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that some taxpayers have received fraudulent letters claiming the state will seize their assets and property for unpaid taxes unless payment is made within seven days. These letters did not originate from the comptroller’s office, Hegar said.