Penna Dexter In his book, THE TRUE SAINT NICHOLAS, Bill Bennett tells the story of the precursor of Santa Claus. Bill Bennett spent years as a popular radio host. He’s also a former US Secretary of Education. He seeks, in this wonderful book, to teach us about Saint Nicholas and that he “matters to Christmas.” Nicholas was likely born in…
Read NowPenna Dexter A feminist writer and podcaster named Meghan Murphy recently had her Twitter account suspended due, she thinks, to her observation that “men aren’t women.” The notice from Twitter said this was “hate speech.” This reveals the conflict between two ideologies of the left: feminism and transgenderism. Ms. Murphy maintains that the transgender ideology undermines feminism because feminism depends…
Read NowPenna Dexter As America honors President George H.W. Bush, elected a mere thirty years ago, there’s a sense that we are much further removed than that from his time in office. He famously dashed off thousands of thoughtful communications to world leaders and ordinary citizens, not electronically, but via the handwritten note. It was a different century — really a…
Read NowPenna Dexter The midterms brought an interesting lesson in racial politics. Columnist and black conservative activist Star Parker says voting data reveals what she describes as “a fateful anomaly in racial voting in the governor’s race between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis, now Florida’s governor-elect.” Mr. Gillum is the former mayor of Tallahassee and was running to become the first…
Read NowPenna Dexter You’ve heard of helicopter parents. You know — the kind that hover over their children with too much fussing regarding the details of kids’ lives. They’re inclined to smother, to swoop in to rescue their kids often irritating coaches and teachers. A new trend in parenting has been identified — the rise of lawnmower parents. One college professor…
Read NowPenna Dexter The campaign season brought some alarming advocacy of socialist ideas. An organization called Democratic Socialists of America spawned candidates who brought a mix of progressive ideas to their primaries. Most DSA-endorsed candidates lost their primaries. But they got a hearing and pushed some others to the Left. Candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became a socialist poster child. She unseated a…
Read NowPenna Dexter We often hear that the War on Poverty, launched during the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, hasn’t reduced poverty. It’s true that, since 1966, the first year that saw significant spending in the War on Poverty, the poverty rate as reported by the US Census Bureau hasn’t budged. It remains at about 14 percent of the population. During…
Read NowPenna Dexter A really bad idea is bubbling up from the left. It stems partly from the idea that Artificial Intelligence and the resulting automation of jobs, from driving to technology, will displace so many workers, we’ve just gotta do something. The Universal Basic Income has been floated by Barack Obama and certain Silicon Valley titans, among them Bill Gates,…
Read NowPenna Dexter Cecile Richards stepped down last spring after more than a decade at the helm of Planned Parenthood. But she’s still speaking out for abortion rights. After the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she urged pro-abortion activists to “stay angry” because “you will need all your anger now.” Under Ms. Richards, Planned Parenthood managed to hold on…
Read NowPenna Dexter There’s a particularly nasty battle tactic being deployed in the gender wars. Women are blaming good men, as a group, for the sins of bad actors. A recent op-ed in the Washington Post provides a disturbing example of this. Victoria Bissell Brown, a retired history professor from Grinnell College in Pennsylvania, wrote her piece in a tone that…
Read NowPenna Dexter The divorce rate is falling in America. According to an analysis of US Census Bureau data, it fell 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. Even after controlling for factors such as an aging population, University of Maryland sociology professor Phillip Cohen found the drop was still 8 percent. Underneath this trend there’s both good and bad news. The…
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