Recent Viewpoints

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…

Kerby Anderson Newspapers learned the hard way that you can’t always trust AI generated content. A syndicated summer supplement that was full of AI lies landed in the Chicago Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The author asked AI to generate a list of must-read books for the summer. Apparently, the author and the editors didn’t “fact check” what the computer spit out. At least 10 of the books were fake, and they all leaned woke. For example, one phony book…

Penna Dexter It’s been ten years, almost to the day, since the United States Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision. The ruling instituted same sex marriage across the land because it struck down all state laws specifying that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. The opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, emphasized the good of marriage to a society, describing it as a “keystone of our social order” and “essential to our most…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about “defining woke.” Today, I want to talk about defining words. Noah Rothman recently explained “How We Know That Woke Is Losing.” He begins by explaining that the media has been pretending that we no longer know what the word “woke” means. That’s a new tactic of the left, but it’s like their other tactic of redefining words. One example of this linguistic sleight-of-hand was the decision a decade ago to ditch the phrase “gun…

Kerby Anderson For decades, the left has been willing to redefine terms to win a debate and convince the public of their views. Tomorrow I will provide some examples of that linguistic sleight-of-hand. But today, I want to talk about a new strategy. Leftists claim that the word “woke” and “wokeness” cannot be defined since so many politicians and commentators are using those terms in a negative way. Are some people using the term “woke” without understanding what it means?…

Kerby Anderson Recently I mentioned the name of Shane Pruitt on my radio program, and it reminded me of his book that we talked about a few years ago. We live in a world devoid of much common sense, and so it is worth mentioning his book, 9 Common Lies Christians Believe. You have heard most of them before. They are little phrases and one-liners that people say to encourage you. You might be going through some tough struggles, and…