Recent Viewpoints

by Kerby Anderson Now that the two political conventions are coming to an end, it is obvious that both major parties and both major candidates want to ignore the looming problem: the national debt. Four years ago, it looked like the Republican Party might get serious about dealing with our indebtedness. Representative Paul Ryan was the vice-presidential nominee who had been promoting a plan to overhaul the nation’s entitlements. This year, House Speaker Paul Ryan was also the chair of…

by Kerby Anderson This is a commentary I should have written a week ago, but I had to think about it for a while and wanted to get the quotes right. I wanted to talk about Dallas Police Chief David Brown. In many ways his worst day on the force was also his greatest hour. We saw that in the press conferences he did, and we also saw it in the messages he delivered at the funerals of his officers….

by Kerby Anderson When George Wallace ran his presidential campaign in 1968, he had the slogan that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference” between his two opponents (Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey). Actually there was more the ten cents worth of difference back then, and there is a billion dollars worth of difference now. Most of the controversy surrounding the Republican Party platform last week focused on a few issues. It rejected many of the demands of LGBT activists…

by Penna Dexter Over the past few months we have witnessed the emergence of a controversy over an issue most of us never saw coming. We have seen local governments, and now the federal government attempting to force schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations to open the showers, changing facilities, locker rooms, and bathrooms designated for women and girls, to biological males and vice versa. No elected official I know of has asked to be faced with this issue. But I…

Recently conservatives concerned about an accurate view of American history won a victory at the College Board. The College Board is a massive non-profit organization responsible for the Advanced Placement Exam as well as the SAT. The College Board is in the midst of revising the various AP tests. Last year the College Board published new guidelines for the AP history test. Daniel Henninger says: “They read like a left-wing obsession with identity, gender, class, crimes against the American Indian…

By Kerby Anderson Most successful non-profit organizations try to run with business world efficiency, but they are limited in many ways because of the funding models they must rely upon. Most of the men and women who serve on a board of trustees come from a business background, and they often cannot understand why the organization cannot be run just like a business. Thomas Tierney recently tried to explain why non-profits often run differently from profit-making businesses. He used this…

by  Kerby Anderson Two weeks ago, the Dallas police used their bomb-disposal robot to end the standoff with the cop killer. Does this unprecedented use of a police robot signal a change in the way technology will be used to fight crime in the future? I think that is does. Police departments have been willing to embrace any technological advance that keeps officers safe and helps them more efficiently fight crime. GPS, cameras, and laptops can be found in most…

by Kerby Anderson One pastor in Iowa has accused the government of “meddling in religious affairs.” Pastor Cary Gordon is concerned that the Iowa Civil Rights Commission brochure on sexual orientation and gender identity defines churches as public accommodations. Thus, all the sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws may apply to his church and any other church. The brochure has a section titled, “Does this law apply to churches?” The answer that it gives is: “sometimes.” It goes on to explain that…

by Penna Dexter The federal government and state and local governments across the nation have been busy lately forcing upon businesses, schools, and public entities their version of non-discrimination which includes affirmation of all sexual orientations, and anyone’s chosen gender identity. Amidst all the controversy about these sexual orientation and gender identity bathroom laws, we have taken one thing for granted: Churches are exempt from these laws and requirements and their associated legal penalties. But an unprecedented mandate surfaced in…

by Kerby Anderson Is America great? Was America great? It looks like we will be having a debate about those questions for the next few months. During the Fourth of July weekend, many on the Left used the #AmericaWasNeverGreat hashtag on social media. While most of us were celebrating this nation’s founding, liberals and progressives were making long lists of America’s sins. Of course these critics have every right to do so. That’s what the First Amendment is all about….

by Kerby Anderson One of the themes that seems to run through my radio program and my radio commentaries is the sad realization that our laws seem to apply differently depending on whether you are the elite or just common folks. Earlier this week, I talked about how leaders in the European Union or in the United States are not affected by the laws and policies that influence the rest of us. We had another example last week when the…