Recent Viewpoints

Polls show that American society is becoming more and more pro-life and that’s excellent news, due in no small measure to the heroic work of the pro-life movement over the years. Technology that allows us an increasingly clear and awe-inspiring window into the womb means no one can deny this is a human life. This probably explains why expectant parents increasingly refer to their unborn children by name well before the actual birth. Washington Post columnist and former George W….

A new book on, The State of the American Mind, reminds us of the ignorance and anti-intellectualism on college campuses and in our popular culture. One of the editors of this work is Emory Professor Mark Bauerlein, who I have talked about before because he was the author of the book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. He was on my radio program recently to summarize what 16 different authors talked about…

The latest undercover videos concerning abortion released last week join the other abortion expose videos done by Lila Rose and Live Action. In the past, she and her group have caught Planned Parenthood officials taking money so they could abort more black babies and covering up the crimes of sexual predators who preyed on young girls. The latest videos of a Planned Parenthood executive illegally harvesting fetal organs should have been no surprise, but some people were actually shocked. One…

The HUD Secretary of the Obama Administration announced a government rule that will affect your family and community in ways you might not have imagined. Stanley Kurtz says that this is one of the most radical initiatives from this administration and has transformative potential. It gives the federal government power to impose “preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development” in the suburbs and cities. Stanley Kurtz wrote about this issue many years ago in his book,…

Today’s kids are disconnecting from parents while they are connecting to the digital world through their smart phones and other digital devices. That is why it is so important for parents and other adults to read the book, Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World, written by Dr. Kathy Koch. She was on my radio program to talk about the insights in her book. We began by talking about the five core needs that all of…

Is it time for Christians to give up on the culture? Is the culture war over? I got a fresh perspective on these questions when I heard Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association speak to the issue of Christian involvement in the political and cultural arenas. He had a great quote from Patrick Buchanan. I went home to find the quote in the column, and was surprised to find out that Pat Buchanan wrote it 16 years ago. At…

We ought not to relegate Greece’s problems to Greece or even just to Europe. It’s true that Greece’s economy is only about the size of Louisiana’s and comprises just about 2 percent of the euro zone economy. The markets could absorb a Greek default. Greece’s contagion will not be economic, but political. Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson advises that Americans look at the Greek crisis as “an elementary tutorial in what ails the world economy.” He points out that…

Whenever the subject of Social Security comes up in a political debate or campaign, you are likely to hear a candidate lament that the Social Security System is really the National Ponzi System. Is that an accurate description of America’s retirement system? Here are the facts. You decide. The name Ponzi Scheme comes from the illegal actions of Charles Ponzi who duped thousands of people in the New England area. He encouraged them to invest in postage stamp speculation. Originally…

Americans still believe in the First Amendment. The 2015 annual survey found that three-fourths (75%) do not believe the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees. That is a significant jump from the 57 percent last year brought about by the Boston Marathon bombing and questions about media coverage of the tragedy. Gene Policinski is the chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and the Institute’s First Amendment Center. He was also one of the founding editors…

Immigration is in the news these days, but not for the typical reasons. Usually, we are discussing immigration reform because a bill has been filed or a “Gang of 8” has decided to push legislation forward. Immigration is in the news these days for three very different reasons. Ann Coulter has a new book out with the provocative title, Adios, America. And speaking of provocative, we certainly have heard lots comments about Donald Trump’s statements in his campaign kickoff speech….

Mention the word appeasement, especially when talking about foreign policy, and most people rightly assume that appeasement leads to more aggression. But it can also be said that compromise with many homosexual activists becomes the same thing as appeasement. Jonah Goldberg illustrated this first with a children’s book and then with the fallout from the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage. He reads the book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, to his daughter. The theme is simple:…