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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read Nowby 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…
Read Nowby 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…
Read Nowby 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…
Read Nowby 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…
Read NowThe Supreme Court term that ended earlier this summer was a brutal one for Christians. The death, in February, of Justice Antonin Scalia brought about disappointing decisions in cases involving restrictions on abortion and upholding religious liberty. Justice Samuel Alito took on Justice Scalia’s role as dissenter in some of these decisions. He was very critical of the Court’s decision…
Read Nowby Penna Dexter Over the past few months we have witnessed the emergence of a controversy over an issue most of us never saw coming. We have seen local governments, and now the federal government attempting to force schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations to open the showers, changing facilities, locker rooms, and bathrooms designated for women and girls, to biological…
Read Nowby Penna Dexter The federal government and state and local governments across the nation have been busy lately forcing upon businesses, schools, and public entities their version of non-discrimination which includes affirmation of all sexual orientations, and anyone’s chosen gender identity. Amidst all the controversy about these sexual orientation and gender identity bathroom laws, we have taken one thing for…
Read NowBy Penna Dexter In 1960 5.3 percent of all births in America were to unmarried women. In 2015 40.2 percent of births were out of wedlock. These facts are pretty persistent recently and — well — they’re just disturbing — and depressing. Among non-Hispanic blacks the out-of-wedlock birthrate is 70.4 percent. Hispanics had a 52.9 percent out-of-wedlock birthrate for 2015….
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