Recent Viewpoints

Penna Dexter It’s been more than ten years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling extending same sex marriage to every state. Gallup polling shows that, in the five years following the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, public support for gay marriage rose from 60 to 70 percent. Then it plateaued. Gallup found that, among Republicans, approval of same sex marriage stands at 41 percent — down from 55 percent ten years ago. Perhaps more Americans now understand that when…

Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I have talked about it in previous commentaries. David Dunning and Justin Kruger identified it as a phenomenon that occurs when people who don’t know much, think they know much more. They tend to overestimate their own competence. As one person asked: Why do dumb people think they are smart? Columnist Jim Geraghty thought about this the other day when reading the coverage by the New York Times of how…

Kerby Anderson Ray Dalio is a hedge-fund manager, turned economic historian. He announced, “It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down.” As I write this, I am looking at his books on my shelf: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle. He begins by providing quotes from the recent Munich Security Conference that I mentioned yesterday. The German Chancellor warned, “The world order as it has stood for decades no longer…

Kerby Anderson Western civilization rests upon Christian values, and Western civilization is worth saving. That was the theme of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s message at the Munich Security Conference. He reminded the Europeans of our shared heritage. “The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.”…

Kerby Anderson “The problem with socialism,” Margaret Thatcher once said, “is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already facing that as he released his first budget The editors of National Review observe that “Mamdani’s Utopian Vision Faces Reality.” The Wall Street Journal editors warn “Mamdani Takes New York Hostage.” The mayor is threatening to raise property taxes unless Democrats in Albany raise taxes on top earners and business. Here are…

Kerby Anderson The perennial debate about voter ID illustrates the difference between how ordinary Americans view the issue and how political elites view the issue. Brian Lonergan writes about this because of the opposition to the SAVE Act. He reminds us, “Elections are the cornerstone of self-governance, and without verifiable safeguards, that foundation crumbles. Requiring a photo ID or proof of citizenship to vote is no more burdensome than showing ID to board a plane, buy alcohol, or open a…

Penna Dexter It’s been three years since Budweiser featured transgender personality Dylan Mulvaney’s face on cans of Bud Light. This was a horrible business decision from which Budweiser is still working to recover. Plus — it began a three-year death spiral for the corporate influence strategy employed by the Human Rights Campaign. Family Research Council applauds this collapse in its daily news outlet, The Washington Stand. Editor Suzanne Bowdey writes, America’s largest and loudest LGBT activist group, once feared by corporate…

Kerby Anderson Economist Jordan McGillis explains “Why the Middle Class Feels Poor” in his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. He discounts the claim by Michael Green that the new poverty line is $140,000. I also dismissed that idea in my December commentary. Jordan McGillis says the reason so many Americans in the middle class feel poor is due to the “Great Decompression.” This “is the phenomenon of incomes rising across the board but much faster for families above the…

Kerby Anderson Whenever someone talks about voter fraud, they are usually talking about non-citizens voting or citizens voting more than once. Columnist Cal Thomas describes another type of voter fraud documented in the latest book by Peter Schweizer, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. In his chapter on “Voter Mills,” Schweizer documents that 1.2 million new citizens were sworn in during the 1996 election year. To put this in perspective, this was…

Kerby Anderson Senator John Kennedy argues that the “Census Numbers Paint a Misleading Picture of Poverty in America.” When we discussed this op-ed on my radio program recently, I mentioned that we had a similar discussion with former senator Phil Gramm nearly six years ago. He made the same case in his book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate. When the Census Bureau does a calculation about a family income, they do not consider non-cash benefits…

Kerby Anderson During a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, we learned more about potential threats to America. But those threats differed based upon the political party of the member of Congress. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government focused on the influence of Sharia and is chaired by Representative Chip Roy. He also put together a Sharia-Free America Caucus that now includes 38 members from 18 states. One of the witnesses was Robert Spencer, who…