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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…

Kerby Anderson Jerry Newcombe recently wrote there is “No Sanctuary in the Sanctuary.” He was describing what took place in Minnesota, which is a Sanctuary State. But the members of Cities Church in St. Paul discovered that was no sanctuary for those in the church sanctuary. The scene inside the church was chaotic. Just glance at the affidavit filed on behalf of the victims of the anti-church protest. Agitators “intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including children.” The justification…

Penna Dexter According to Fortune magazine, Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley “thinks America needs a wake-up call.” Mr. Farley told Monica Langley, host of Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, his company has 5000 open jobs for mechanics. He said these jobs pay six-figure salaries. It’s not just Ford that’s having trouble finding people to fill manual labor positions. Mr. Farley said, “We are in trouble in our country…We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking,…

Kerby Anderson The founders of this country believed that civic authorities should protect, promote, and encourage religion and morality. Mark David Hall explains that in his book, Did America Have a Christian Founding? The framers of the Constitution were skeptical of established religion but also wanted to provide a space where religious ideas could promote morality and civic virtue. That two-fold concept can be found in the First Amendment. They did not want to establish a national church, even though…