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Kerby Anderson Lots of controversial ideas get promoted during an election season. We are getting our share of them this time. Eliminate the Electoral College, regulate campaign speech, and end the filibuster are just a few. It occurred to me that the best way to respond to many of these proposals is to remind Americans that our country is a republic, not a democracy. The framers recognized that the country would be quite diverse. They wanted to create a government…

Penna Dexter President Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices with judicial philosophies like that of Justice Antonin Scalia. He has kept that promise, perhaps no more faithfully than in his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. After graduating first in her class from Notre Dame Law School, Judge Barrett held two clerkships, the second of which was for Justice Scalia. She was greatly influenced by him. And Justice Scalia would certainly be pleased by her nomination. He wanted the Court to…

Kerby Anderson More than three in ten households in our country’s four largest cities had to empty their savings just to survive the pandemic and lockdown. This is the economic devastation of the virus and the subsequent policy decisions. Researchers at NPR, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard Chan School of Public Health examined the most serious health and financial problems facing households in these major cities. Millions of families were already living paycheck to paycheck before the coronavirus….

Kerby Anderson Over the last few weeks, I have talked about various issues that are essentially on the ballot this November. Another issue is redistricting. Now that the census is coming to an end, it will be the responsibility of state legislatures and state commissions to redraw the boundaries of congressional districts and other legislative districts. The candidates you elect to the state legislature will determine how they draw the lines of those districts. It appears that seven states will…

Kerby Anderson Many Americans are concerned about the impact that social media and Big Tech are having on society. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of documentaries have been focusing on problems from this technology. One of the most important documentaries to come along is “The Social Dilemma.” It features an interesting blend of talking-head interviews with various Big Tech figures with a fictional dramatization of what happens when children in one family become addicted to social media….

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel federal training sessions on Critical Race Theory. Heather MacDonald argues that this first step should be followed by “removing identity politics from federal operations” in the sciences. The goal is to create a more “diverse” scientific workforce. Those of us who took undergraduate courses in math and science already felt that the scientific landscape was fairly diverse because we were taking courses taught by TAs from other countries…

Kerby Anderson When the Trump Administration decided to cancel federal training sessions on Critical Race Theory, you knew there would be criticism. What may be surprising is how easy it might be to respond to that criticism. For example, deans of University of California law schools signed an open letter criticizing President Trump and his administration. And then David Marshall wrote an open letter to these professors. Here are the first two points in his lengthy letter. First, the professors say…

Penna Dexter Recently President Trump addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held online this year. To the surprise of attendees, he said these words: “Today I am announcing that I will be signing the Born-Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive receive the medical care that they deserve. This is our sacrosanct moral duty.” It would be a lot better if Congress had enacted this as a law. Since they didn’t, the president acted. You may…

Kerby Anderson On our radio program, we provided a link to a video produced by the Internet Accountability Project with the provocative title “Google is Evil.” Watch the video and come to your own conclusion. It packs quite a bit of information into just a little over two minutes. If you feel you need to learn more, I might suggest the hour and a half long documentary-drama, “The Social Dilemma” that interviews people who have been in the Big Tech…

Kerby Anderson Dennis Prager had to admit that he had been wrong. All of his life, he has said that the left’s moral compass is broken. He has concluded that “in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the left doesn’t have one.” He doesn’t mean that conclusion as an attack. It is merely an observation that the left doesn’t really think in terms of good and evil. We…

Kerby Anderson Radical students and professors on college campuses claim that their schools participate in systemic racism. In order to appease these radicals, college presidents have been all too willing to agree with the charge with a promise to end systemic racism. But words have meaning. They also have consequences, as Princeton University is now discovering. The president of Princeton published an open letter promising to combat systemic racism at the school in an attempt to mollify progressive students and…