Obamacare Meltdown

Penna Dexter It would be nice if the current presidential campaign were more about issues and less about personalities. Then maybe we’d be hearing more from the campaign trail about the collapse of what was supposed to be healthcare reform under the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare. Former President Bill Clinton did bring up one aspect of this in a…

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Discouraging Desistance

Penna Dexter Walt Heyer is a former transgender who lived as a woman for eight years. He took hormones and had surgery. After returning to being a man, he wrote, “I wish the guy who approved me for gender surgery had told me about the risks.” He says medical professionals are too quick to prescribe hormone therapy and “irreversible reassignment…

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Military Transgender Training

Penna Dexter In June of this year, the U.S. Department of Defense lifted longstanding regulations preventing people who self-identify as transgender from serving. CNN reported that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter had been “studying the issue for nearly a year.”  Secretary Carter held a press conference at the Pentagon to announce the change which will mean, that in cases where…

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Religion’s Economic Contribution

Penna Dexter The Left expends considerable time, energy and money to marginalize and downplay the contribution of religion to the culture. The honest progressive might want to consider the latest research. A major new study shows that religion actually has a positive impact on the American economy. The research, released in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, shows that…

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Unworking Men

Penna Dexter The official unemployment rate is low right now. In August, it was 4.9 percent for the fourth month in a row. The bad news is: there’s this huge pool of so-called missing workers, people who are neither employed, nor any longer seeking a job. People who have dropped out of the workforce, not because it was time to…

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Rethinking ‘Safe Spaces’

Penna Dexter There’s a restrictive atmosphere that’s taken hold at colleges and universities across the nation. We have to ask, what happened to these institutions’ longstanding claims to provide environments for the open exchange of ideas? Increasingly, in response to protests and demands by students, only certain —mostly left-leaning — perspectives on things are allowed. Speakers are invited and then…

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Obamacare Gender Transition

Penna Dexter The Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, keeps on offering us new surprises. Throughout the ACA that Congress passed in 2010 was language granting the Secretary of Health and Human Services discretion to formulate rules to implement the law. In the years since, HHS has rolled out one radical implementing measure after another. The Department announced a…

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Affordable Care Dysfunction

by Penna Dexter The Affordable Care Act is proving to be a disappointment to individuals and insurers alike. The more people have to pay for the insurance offered by ObamaCare, the less attractive they are finding it. Americans who don’t have employer coverage were supposed to win with the Affordable Care Act. And some are winning because their incomes are…

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California Reprieve

by Penna Dexter A dire threat to the religious liberty of Christian colleges and universities in California has been avoided — sort of. I guess you could say the schools ‘dodged a bullet.’ But the gun is still aimed at them. A piece of legislation that had passed the California state senate was headed to the assembly. If passed and…

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Working Mother Politics

by Penna Dexter During the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ivanka Trump gave a well-received speech introducing her father, Donald Trump. In it she proposed a policy that’s not a typical stance taken by Republicans, nor is it part of the official GOP platform. Citing statistics regarding the differences between the pay of men and women in the workforce, she…

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California Religious Colleges

by Penna Dexter In oral arguments last year in Obergefell vs. Hodges, the case that struck down the laws against same-sex marriage in every state, the Obama Administration’s lawyer made a very accurate prediction. During the proceedings, Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli a question about how the religious liberty of religious schools that oppose same-sex marriage might…

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