Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, Dominic Pino wrote about “Milton Friedman’s Revenge.” His argument was that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got the economic policy they wanted and the voters hated. It’s worth looking back to understand why the election went the way it did. Milton Friedman was an economist best known for saying that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” He believed that inflation occurs when the money supply increases faster than output. Four years ago, candidate…

Kerby Anderson Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn into office, and yet governors in blue states and the legacy media are already criticizing a deportation program that hasn’t even begun. Unfortunately, some of the comments aren’t merely hostile but grossly inaccurate. If we are going to have a worthwhile debate about deportation, then let’s get accurate facts on the table. First, Tom Homan, the newly designated “border czar,” has made his three-step process very clear. The primary focus will be…

Penna Dexter Speaking last month before the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that he intends to submit documents to start the process of expelling Israel from the United Nations. His reason? Israel’s refusal to cede its territory to create a Palestinian state. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, discussing the threat on his podcast Verdict, said if Israel is removed from membership, the United States may, itself, withdraw from the U.N. Senator Cruz says, “If the U.N. expels…

Kerby Anderson Next week is Thanksgiving week. But many Americans are dreading the annual ritual of gathering families together because of the 2024 election. You might hope that the shock, grief, and anger would subside after this election, but this post-election distress continues. CBS did a story on “Post-election Emotions.” It offered expert tips and resources to manage a person’s mental health after the 2024 elections. Liberal women say it is “time to learn from the Koreans and adopt the…

Kerby Anderson Chuck Bentley is the CEO of Crown Financial and the host of the daily radio broadcast, My MoneyLife. He was on my radio program last week to talk about this question he received from a listener: “I am really concerned with what Elon Musk said about America heading toward bankruptcy. Do you think there is anything we need to do if he turns out to be correct?” Elon Musk has said this on a recent All-In Summit hosted…

Kerby Anderson Now that the 2024 election is in the rearview mirror, there are some steps we need to take to improve our future elections. Much of this needed to be done four years ago, but anytime you talked about improving our electoral process, you were usually accused of trying to change the election. Now that this election was more decisive, it provides an opportunity to make some needed changes. That’s why I invited Hans von Spakovsky to come on…

Kerby Anderson The election of Donald Trump will advance the cause of religious liberty. That is the conclusion of First Liberty President Kelly Shackelford. On my radio program he talked about Trump policies in his first term that offer hope for the future of religious liberty and then quoted from the speech Trump gave at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. We’ve provided a link to an article with a complete list of policies, along with a link to a video…

Kerby Anderson Donald Trump won, and Kamala Harris lost, for many reasons. Certainly, the economy was one of the major reasons. Pundits and economists tried to tell the voters that the economy was doing just fine. The voters didn’t agree. Neither did the financial markets. Stocks rose immediately the moment it was obvious that Trump won. The editors of The Wall Street Journal argued that the stock market rally suggested “a groundswell of growth optimism. Voters have taken off the…

Penna Dexter It’s been a long time since conservatives expected fair and balanced coverage of elections by the legacy media. But the Left counts on traditional news outlets to tip the scales with favorable coverage of its candidates and issues. True to form, major outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS covered the 2024 campaigns and handled debates and interviews in the biased way they always do. But in this election, the media’s…

Kerby Anderson Ned Ryun begins his article with these questions: What if I told you that the President of the United States doesn’t really run our government? Or that most people in Washington, D.C., don’t really believe in representative democracy? Or that a government of, by, and for the people is just an illusion? His article and his book, American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism, explains that we have moved from a republic to an…

Kerby Anderson Elon Musk noted on X that giving more money to homelessness charities in California did not seem to reduce the number of homeless people. In response, Konstantin Kisin reminded him about the Cobra Effect and was surprised to discover how many people hadn’t heard of it. The Cobra Effect is based on a story which may or may not have taken place during British colonial rule in India. According to the story, the British wanted to reduce the…