Recent Viewpoints

Penna Dexter The United Nations is notorious for pushing radical gender ideology on member nations, even those who hold to the biological definitions of male and female. Thankfully, the top UN human rights official for women has a refreshing message for those traditional — and often religious— countries. Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, recently presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council calling on governments to use sex-based categories in their language, their data and their policy…

Kerby Anderson Mark David Hall is the author of the book, Did America Have a Christian Founding? He came to my radio studio six years ago to talk about his book. More recently, he was invited to speak to the first National Religious Liberty Commission meeting last month. Because of that, I thought I would go back and look at his book again. Early in the book, he suggests how to think about the founding of this country. One possibility…

Kerby Anderson A recent issue of World magazine asks, “Can Classical Liberalism Be Saved?” We are talking about classical liberalism that began with the Magna Carta and is found in its purest expression in the U.S. Constitution. Jenny Lind Schmitt attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference and wrote about it in this article. She heard from speakers like Arthur Brooks, Os Guinness, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (all who have been on my radio program to talk about…

Kerby Anderson As we enter the 250th anniversary of this country, you would assume that Americans would have pride in their country. But if you saw the recent Gallup poll, you would be discouraged. US adults were asked how proud they were to be an American. Those who were extremely proud or very proud hit a record high after the 9/11 attack on this country. By contrast, we hit a record low in June. If you dig deeper into the…

Kerby Anderson Ray Dalio is a billionaire hedge fund manager and founder of Bridgewater Associates. He was in Washington, DC to meet with senior leaders on the Republican side and the Democratic side about the budget deficit. He explained, “Virtually everyone agrees that you have to get the budget deficit down to 3 percent of GDP.” He then asked them a logical question: Why can’t you make a pledge that you will get it down to 3 percent? “They explained…

Kerby Anderson During debate on the domestic policy bill (that Trump named “the Big Beautiful Bill”) one number was constantly cited by critics and the media. Now that the bill became law ten days ago, we will still hear it cited in next year’s election in attack ads against members of Congress that voted for a bill they claim will be a budget blowout. The Congressional Budget Office claimed the bill would increase the federal deficit by $3.3 trillion over…

Penna Dexter It feels like common sense is flowing back into the country as the Trump administration goes department-by-department, unraveling much of the woke nonsense under which decision-makers have been operating. One absurd policy after another is being jettisoned and replaced with common sense directives like the one that says: “Sororities are for women.” In early June, the U.S. Department of Education announced: “A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the…

Kerby Anderson In previous commentaries, I have talked about woke corporations and the inevitable corporate backlash. It is worth discussing how some of this has occurred. Brittany Bernstein talks about some of the people and organizations that have brought pressure to these businesses and corporations. Two she mentioned have been on my radio program: David Bahnsen (a financial adviser) and Lathan Watts (VP of public affairs for Alliance Defending Freedom). Many of the companies have seen what happened with Target…

Kerby Anderson This year, we had two attempts at cutting waste in the federal government. President Trump formed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and put Elon Musk in charge. When Musk left after serving 135 days, DOGE claimed to have found “hundreds of billions” in waste. But the latest recission bill to pass the House of Representatives only listed $9.4 billion in savings. We have also had a budget battle with the so-called “big, beautiful bill.” While there were…

Kerby Anderson Heather Mac Donald asked an interesting question: “Is rioting acceptable?” She follows it up with the question: “If so, how much?” She focused her attention on two different pictures of what happened in Los Angeles. The first is the official one from California’s elected leaders and the media. The second is what she calls the ground-level view from law enforcement. The incident she discussed is what happened when “a crowd broke into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention…

Kerby Anderson Both sides of the political spectrum warn that we are facing a constitutional crisis. Liberals argue that President Trump’s actions constitute a crisis. Conservatives point instead to activist judges. Last month, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing titled “The Supposedly ‘Least Dangerous Branch’: District Judges v. Trump.” During the hearing, Senator Ted Cruz warned that the US is facing a “constitutional crisis—a full-blown judicial assault on the separation of powers.” He explained how these unelected district judges…