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Kerby Anderson The leaders of many of the national sports organizations have been promoting social justice especially when it comes to the homosexual agenda and transgender issues. The primary target this last year has been North Carolina. The NBA pulled its All-Star game from Charlotte. The NFL said that it will continue to fight North Carolina’s bathroom privacy bill. The latest action by the NCAA shouldn’t come as any surprise. They decided to pull seven championship events from the Tar…

Kerby Anderson Sometimes I hear from a caller worried that our voting machines might be hacked and therefore should be monitored. Well, be careful what you wish for. Now some in the Obama administration are using the unlikely possibility that Russia could hack into our voting machines to justify putting federal agents in our voting areas. John Fund is a columnist for National Review and the author of Stealing Elections. Hans von Spakovsky is a former member of the Federal…

Kerby Anderson Most Americans are familiar with the comments last week by Hillary Clinton that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are a “basket of deplorables” that are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.” Few are probably aware of the statements by Martin Castro directed at an even larger portion of the American population. Martin Castro is the chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an institution that did good work in the past by ending racial discrimination. Lately is has…

Kerby Anderson As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, the Obama administration sent directives to all school districts requiring them to permit transgender students to use bathroom facilities and locker rooms of their choice. The president and his liberal allies in the press are unhappy that nearly half of the states are fighting this directive. That is why Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote a column defending what he and 23 other states are doing in challenging this administration. Even…

   Kerby Anderson Over the last few weeks on my radio program I have been talking about the plans by this administration to give away U.S. control of the Internet in less than two weeks. On October 1, the transition will take place even though Congress has twice voted to block this transition. Republican lawmakers have warned that the administration’s plan to relinquish its authority could give authoritarian countries like China and Russia an opening to make an online power…

Penna Dexter The official unemployment rate is low right now. In August, it was 4.9 percent for the fourth month in a row. The bad news is: there’s this huge pool of so-called missing workers, people who are neither employed, nor any longer seeking a job. People who have dropped out of the workforce, not because it was time to retire, but because they have given up on the possibility of finding a job they are qualified for. If there…

Kerby Anderson Although candidates have been talking about jobs and raising wages, they haven’t done as well talking about how they will accomplish that. John Goodman and Laurence Kotlikoff have looked at the economic proposals put forth by the campaigns and found one policy change that would make a real difference. Donald Trump’s campaign has a policy paper that has the potential of increasing the income of the average family by an estimated $4,000 within the next four years. Here’s…

Kerby Anderson Are conservative Christians being targeted for their beliefs? Many would say that they have been targeted, but can you really prove that? If you are a baker or a photographer or a florist who declines to participate in a same-sex ceremony, you will pay a price. If you cannot in good conscience prescribe an abortifacient, you will come under scrutiny. I have written about such examples in previous commentaries. Professor George Yancey is well aware of the penalties…

Kerby Anderson Donald Trump has said that he will build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it. Although that might sound extreme, if you look at a map of boundary walls and fences published in the Economist, you find that other nations have done the same thing. For example, Mexico announced it would create a barrier between its country and Guatemala. Brazil eventually could have a boundary barrier between it and every other country that borders it in…

Penna Dexter There’s a restrictive atmosphere that’s taken hold at colleges and universities across the nation. We have to ask, what happened to these institutions’ longstanding claims to provide environments for the open exchange of ideas? Increasingly, in response to protests and demands by students, only certain —mostly left-leaning — perspectives on things are allowed. Speakers are invited and then disinvited or shouted down when it becomes apparent their conservative positions will offend a segment of the student body. Reading…

Kerby Anderson If you want to understand why borders are important, all you need to do is look at what is happening in Europe. The chaos that resulted from a flood of refugees from Syria and other countries illustrates why borders and border security are important. Yet in the midst of this chaos, we have the head of the European Union declaring that: “Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.” Some believe his outrageous comment will make it…