Political Commentary & Opinion

So apparently it’s now a partisan value to be against pedophilia? I was all for opposition to “Cuties,” a film that curiously thinks the best way to argue against sexualization of children is to … sexualize children. I saw it as a matter that united left, right, and center. But apparently that’s too much to…

It’s time to talk about Jacob Blake and policing reform. No, I mean the other half of that conversation. The part where we ask what Blake did wrong and why it matters. We cannot have meaningful policing reform if we pretend that law enforcement officers do not see our actions as civilians from a very…

As a new generation of entrepreneurs has rekindled interest in outer space the issue of private property has moved from the margins to center stage. In 1967, more than 100 nations signed onto the Outer Space Treaty, introduced to help govern the nascent Space Age. Created 10 years after the Soviet Union’s  launch of the…

Greenland plays an important role within America’s economic and military interests. Carla Sands, the U.S. ambassador to Denmark, joins the show to explain Greenland’s significance in U.S. Arctic policy.  Sands also explains the history between Greenland and America, and how relations between the two countries have grown stronger over the past several years.  We also…

Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published “The Devil and Karl Marx,” a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. The book has come out during an important time in our history since so many Americans, particularly our youth, have…

As a group of American apparel companies noted in a letter last month to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act expires at the end of this month.  As the letter to Lighthizer noted, Haiti is one of the biggest beneficiaries of programs operating under the act, and extending the act…

The 13th Amendment abolished the evil institution of slavery in 1865, but debate continues over the relationship between slavery and the Constitution in 1789 and afterward. Was our founding document protective, antagonistic, or neutral toward slavery? Here are three arguments that will be examined during a Preserve the Constitution event to be held Sept. 29…

A beautiful aspect of American democracy is the separation of powers. The different branches of government are assigned specific functions, and are limited to the exercise of certain, specifically outlined powers. For example, Congress, which is directly accountable to the people, is charged with legislating on a national level. Executive agencies, which are not directly…

Political and racial polarization, combined with the rejection by some of founding principles and faith, don’t bode well for America’s future, says Cal Thomas, author of “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers … and the Future of the United States.” Thomas, one of the nation’s leading syndicated columnists and political commentators, joins…