China Threat
Kerby Anderson China is a national security threat. That is the conclusion of the Director of National Intelligence. John Ratcliffe begins his assessment by reminding us that he has access to more int...
Facing Testing
Penna Dexter As we enter 2021, many scholars I respect warn that things are becoming quite different in America. What’s being described as a ”soft totalitarianism” is taking hold in American public, e...
Messianic Prophecy
Kerby Anderson On this Christmas week, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the coming of the Messiah. The Old Testament contains hundreds of prophecies that give specific detail about the...
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Kerby Anderson The carol “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is an English translation of a Latin hymn that is sung during Advent and Christmas. The text goes back to at least the 18th century (and perhaps muc...
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Kerby Anderson It is estimated that Charles Wesley wrote over 6500 hymns. Perhaps his best-known hymn is “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing.” Over the years it has been edited slightly, but the meaning and...
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Kerby Anderson This is Christmas week, and I thought it might be worthwhile to spend a moment to reflect on the words to the hymn, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” It was written in 1867 by Phillips Broo...
Extreme Abortion Agenda
Penna Dexter Election battles have not delayed the rollout of the left’s agenda on abortion. Last week a hearing before a subcommittee of the powerful House Appropriations Committee considered a repea...
The New World
Kerby Anderson Our world has changed significantly since the November election, and that raises the reasonable question of whether we have been “played.” Victor Davis Hanson provides a few examples in...
Taxes and the Golden Goose
Kerby Anderson The finance minister for Louis XIV once explained that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest poss...
Pandemic Media
Kerby Anderson The mainstream press has done a very poor job of covering the pandemic. That is the conclusion of one research paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Scholars from...
Breaking Their Own Rules
Kerby Anderson One of the stories that keeps surfacing is how politicians who set down stringent rules for dealing with the coronavirus end up breaking their own rules. This has been standard fare for...
