Sticking Around

Penna Dexter Often, successful people build lives, livelihoods, and reputations in one place with the goal in mind to retire somewhere else. They dream of living out their later years playing golf in Florida or enjoying a quiet life in a mountain community or a small town. Why not stick around in the place where you know people, carry weight…

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Make More Americans

Penna Dexter The U.S., like most first world countries, needs more babies. Wife, mom, and writer, Peachy Keenan (not her real name) addresses the population crisis in her book, Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. She told her audience at the 2025 Natalism Conference that the best and easiest way to raise birthrates is to “make…

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Defund Public Broadcasting

Penna Dexter President Trump recently told reporters he would ”be honored” to defund National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. He said they are “a waste of money.” But it’s worse than that. Both PBS and NPR have long exhibited a decidedly liberal political bias and, more recently, have advanced far-left positions on issues like gender ideology. Currently, PBS…

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Not Marriage Material

Penna Dexter It may not be their ideal life dream, but a Wall Street Journal analysis concludes that “American women have never been this resigned to staying single.” In response to major demographic shifts and also divergent beliefs about what a family should look like, today’s single women are less anxious to get married than they used to be and…

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Shut It Down?

Penna Dexter President Trump has signed an executive order directing U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to dismantle the Department of Education. The order recognizes the fact that the administration cannot shut down the department on its own. Congress must be involved. However, there is much the secretary can do to begin the process of closing the agency. She is…

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U.S. at the U.N.

Penna Dexter One of the United Nations’ largest annual feminist gatherings, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), is meeting in New York. Rebecca Oas from the Center for Family and Human Rights says, this year, there’s “a dramatic mood shift, largely because of the change in U.S. leadership.” A declaration adopted on the first day of the 2-week…

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Cleaner Elections

Penna Dexter Thankfully, the predicted long wait to learn the 2024 presidential outcome did not come to fruition last November. But results for many down-ballot races were delayed — some for weeks. Experts warn that we have much more to do to clean up our elections. The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas points to Germany’s recent election in which all votes…

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Ending Trans Tyranny

Penna Dexter As the transgender agenda began to unravel, author J.K. Rowling posted her summary of the damage it’s done, including this: Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. It’s also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids. Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree…

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Go To Church

Penna Dexter In a recent sermon, my pastor declared: “The most significant decision we make every week is whether we will go to church.” Church attendance is declining as the culture secularizes. Our pastor, Paul Donison, told us that during the pandemic, 40 million Americans stopped going to church and the numbers have continued dropping. Dr. Ryan Burge is Assistant…

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California Blameshifting

Penna Dexter Who or what is to blame for the scale of the wildfires that destroyed massive swaths of Los Angeles this winter?  Some politicians point to climate change and fossil fuels. Two California legislators have filed a bill to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Lawmakers hope to cover damages…

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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. Average NAEP scores in both grades are down 2 points since 2022. A third of eighth graders scored “below basic” in reading, a record low. And math scores continue…

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