Recent Viewpoints

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…

Kerby Anderson We have seen violence in the streets. Even though the legacy media often labels the protests as “mostly peaceful,” we have seen many evolve into riots. The targets of the violence are usually law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security released new data revealing that “ICE law enforcement is now facing a 500 percent increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”  When the report was issued, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pointed to the arrest of Roberto…

Penna Dexter Students at colleges across the country are increasingly using a relatively new tool for staying “safe:” the No Contact Order. No Contact Orders — NCOs – were originally developed to protect students who were victims of sexual harassment or assault on campus. A recent Wall Street Journal report states: “Over the past 10 years, however, the circumstances under which a student might request an NCO have expanded considerably.” Today, they are used for “roommate disputes, ruptures between friends,”…

Kerby Anderson Today is the 4th of July, and I thought I would take a moment to talk about the origin of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson said that many of the ideas in the Declaration came from John Locke. Jefferson also gave credit to the writer Algernon Sidney, who in turn cites most prominently Aristotle, Plato, Roman republican writers, and the Old Testament. Legal scholar Gary Amos argues that Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is simply Samuel…

Kerby Anderson Congress and the Trump administration are currently investigating who ran the U.S. while President Biden was in office. One key element of that investigation involves the use of an autopen. Merrill Matthews provides some historical background to the use of the autopen. The legacy press doesn’t see this as an important issue. One Associated Press headline reads, “Presidents have used autopens for decades. Now Trump objects to Biden’s use of one.” As someone who reads articles and books…

Kerby Anderson Ben Shapiro says the latest riots are evidence of a “scavenger mentality.” The term comes from his upcoming book, Lions and Scavengers. The scavenger mentality doesn’t build anything but instead seeks to tear everything down. He observes that mentality in everything from the riots over immigration to students who have taken over universities to support the terrorist group Hamas. Society, he explains, is constructed on success. “It is founded on achievement. It is reliant on those who actually…

Kerby Anderson Here is an encouraging statistic. The murder rate in our country is plummeting. We still have half of the year left, but if the trend continues, FBI Director Kash Patel says the U.S. is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever. John Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and has been on the Point of View radio program many times. He has two explanations. First, law enforcement matters. Second, deporting criminal illegal…