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Kerby Anderson Throughout the 2024 campaign, President Biden and his administration argued that the economy was doing well. Many voters did not agree with their assessment. And even in the waning days of his administration, President Biden has argued that he is “handing the Trump administration a robust labor market.” E.J. Antoni (Heritage Foundation) replies, “I’m sorry, I think that the Biden Administration’s own data contradicts that narrative.” He explains that the post-pandemic economic recovery wasn’t as robust as Biden…

Kerby Anderson A week from now, Donald Trump will take office and the Biden presidency will end. Jeff Crouere put together a few statistics that puts some of the Biden presidency in perspective. His legacy will last longer than his presidency since 235 federal judges have been confirmed while he was president. His total surpasses the total number of judicial confirmations during President Trump’s administration. Congress also passed a bill that would have added additional judgeships to relieve some of…

Penna Dexter Whenever there’s a new session of Congress, the House of Representatives adopts a new set of rules to govern the way it conducts business. Four years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced, and the House passed, a resolution aimed at making all House rules “gender inclusive.” The resolution expunged sex-specific words from House rules. So where the terms “father” and “mother” had previously appeared in the House Code of Official Conduct, they were replaced with “parent.”  “Husband” and “wife”…

Kerby Anderson We have learned over the last few years how the government and various media outlets have engaged in systematic censorship. It is one thing to talk about the problem of censorship. It is quite another to do something about it. A recent commentary by Katelynn Richardson provides a glimpse into what the incoming Trump administration plans to do about censorship. Andrew Ferguson has been nominated by Trump as the new Federal Trade Commission chair. He said in a…

Kerby Anderson The incoming Trump administration seems dedicated to reducing the size of government. What about reducing the size of the American waistline? Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent a letter critical of the food stamp program to Trump’s nominees to head the departments of agriculture and health and human services. When the food stamp program was launched, it was intended to address the issue of hunger in America. While it is still true that some pockets of hunger remain,…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about “debanking,” which occurs when an individual is denied banking services because of their political stance or business venture. What happens when this happens to a nation? We call that action “financial sanctions” and have seen many examples of that in the last decade. The U.S. and its allies were able to freeze Russian financial accounts and shut off the Russian central bank’s access to hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign reserves. The IMF…

Kerby Anderson More than a year ago, I talked about the phenomenon of “debanking.” This occurs when an individual is denied banking services because of their political stance or business venture. At the time, I talked about Nigel Farage who lost access to banking services in the U.K., which he believed was due to his previous involvement in Brexit. I also talked about Dr. Joseph Mercola, who was informed that his business bank accounts along with the bank accounts of…

Kerby Anderson Today is January 6. For the last four years, anytime you said the words “January 6” your mind went to the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and resulted in more than $2 million in damage. This year, the date, January 6, 2025, will have less drama. As one commentator put it, “Donald Trump’s victory has made January 6 boring again.” This date is when a joint session of Congress counts the Electoral College votes…

Penna Dexter On Christmas Day, as I rushed to set my dining room table, I felt a strange sense of gratitude — for the table. And for the dining room. More and more Americans don’t have them and, in my opinion, they’re missing something special. In an article for The Atlantic, city planner M. Nolan Gray wrote of the disappearing dining room: “Americans now tend to eat in spaces that double as kitchens or living rooms — a small price…

Kerby Anderson More than three decades ago, I wrote and recorded a week of radio programs on “The Decline of a Nation.” One of the days I focused on the decline of the family and quoted J.D. Unwin. I was encouraged to see that in a recent Breakpoint commentary John Stonestreet quoted from this Oxford sociologist who published a book in the 1930s summarizing his research. In it, he described 80 tribes and six historical civilizations over the course of…

Kerby Anderson Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being in America is wrong. Former senator Phil Gramm was on my program to make that case recently. He is the co-author of the book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate. I might mention that his co-authors hold very different political views than he does, but they do agree that we need to get the facts right before we have a policy…