Dart-Throwing Chimps
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, I talked about the three hardest words for people to say. They are: “I don’t know.” It is especially hard for so-called experts to say those words. Often what we th...
Politicized Schools
Kerby Anderson Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. In a recent column, he asks, “Are Schools Really Politicized?” Most of us know that the answer to that questi...
Gaza Bombshell
Kerby Anderson President Trump is always full of surprises, but the biggest surprise so far was his bombshell announcement that the U.S. would take over the rebuilding of Gaza. This is not going to h...
Presidential Authority
Kerby Anderson Progressive activists often talk about the “long march through institutions.” For the last few weeks, we have seen a “fast sprint through institutions” by President Trump, followed by...
Better Off Without
Penna Dexter The Department of Education is not needed. More evidence surfaced recently in results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, given to 4th and 8th graders every two years. A...
Schools Keep Flunking
Kerby Anderson America keeps spending more and more money on public education. And all those tax dollars don’t seem to make a difference. Schools keep flunking. The National Assessment for Educationa...
Strong America
Kerby Anderson Tech CEO Chamath Palihapitiya on a recent interview reminded us why the world needs a strong America and what it takes to have a strong America. He began by saying that it was importan...
Spending Freeze
Kerby Anderson Once President Trump was back in office, he ordered a pause on federal grants so that the incoming cabinet could evaluate what was being pushed through in the last few months of the Bi...
Bye to DEI
Kerby Anderson On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an executive order with the title: “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The goal, of course, w...
Deep State Disempowerment
Penna Dexter A presidential transition always involves firing federal bureaucrats that populated the previous administration. The Trump team entered office motivated and prepared for this work — and r...