China and Defense Secretary Nominee
While members of the House of Representatives usually do not have a say in confirming an incoming administration’s personnel, the Biden team’s decision to name Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense has...
Lockdowns - Penna's Viewpoints Commentary
Conservatives oppose lockdowns because we think they do more damage than good.
Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking: Finding God's Presence in Your Pain
At the crossroads of grief, one road will lead to hope and healing. The other, to more hurt. Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking is an honest look at both roads, and how your greatest loss can lead to...
Challenging Conversations
When was the last time you had an honest, heartfelt, yet kind and productive conversation with someone about depression, mental illness, substance abuse, pornography, premarital sex, racism, divorce,...
Why 2020 was the Worst Year
When 2020 passes into the history books, it will carry more superlatives than a high school yearbook — and none of them good. Most deadly, hottest, most stressful, worst.
Lockdowns: A Failed Experiment
The country this year which has been most ravaged by Covid-19 – losing a shocking 1,600 people in every million to the virus at the time of writing – is Belgium.Source: Lockdown: a deadly, failed expe...
ER Physician Confident the Vaccines are Safe
I am an ER physician married to another ER physician, and COVID-19 has rocked my world. With two small children to care for at home, we had to draw on new skills as we contemplated and prepared for th...
Lockdowns Are The Great Unequalizer
Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no act in modern times has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the...
Vaccinate Older People First
Medical bioethics is treacherous territory. At the extreme, it involves a person deciding who should live and who should die. Simply engaging in this calculus is morally damaging, and so, when present...
Congressional Spending – COVID bill and Omnibus Bill
Congressional leaders introduced on Monday a fiscal year 2021 omnibus appropriations bill that would provide $1.4 trillion in spending for government agencies as well as a variety of unrelated legisla...
Coming War with China
There was a time where there appeared to be a lot of hope for China and its relations with the West. However, the current Chinese leadership has chosen a course so boldly and clearly, that, barring a...
Trump’s Election-Fraud Lawsuits
Now that Joe Biden has won the Electoral College vote, many readers have asked us how lawsuits challenging the presidential results were rejected by dozens of courts. We’ll try to explain a few reason...
