Penna Dexter Amidst a push to bring manufacturing back to our shores, many communities are bringing shop classes back to their high schools. According to the Wall Street Journal, as baby boomers retire, companies are looking for workers in the skilled trades, but there simply aren’t enough young adults trained in plumbing, electrical work, and welding. Some businesses are beginning…
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Penna Dexter The Institute for Family Studies recently released its latest American Family Survey which revealed that liberal women are unhappier and lonelier than their conservative counterparts. Only 12 percent of them said they are “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared with 37 percent of conservative women. Psychology professor Lucian Hanks explains in an essay in The American Spectator that…
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In the first hour, our host, Kerby Anderson welcomes co-host Penna Dexter. They’ll talk about our Viewpoints commentaries. Then he will speak with Robert George. Their topic is Professor George’s dialogue with Cornel West and about the book they’ve written together, Truth Matters. In the second hour, Kerby’s guest is Lee Strobel. Lee is bringing us his latest book, Seeing…
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Penna Dexter The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley says, “American waistlines have ballooned in tandem with government welfare.” Her recent column addresses the connection. She points out that “About three quarters of adult food-stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese.” She points to studies which show that “people on food stamps eat less healthily than other low-income Americans.” One such report,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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