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...
Not by Lies
Kerby Anderson Two months ago, I interviewed and wrote two commentaries on the book by Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies. I wanted to revisit this book for a number of reasons. More Christians are making p...
Remote Schooling
Penna Dexter Millions of America’s students may have fallen behind during months of remote schooling. But parents have learned a lot. Some have discovered the benefits of homeschooling. Others found o...
Rigged Election 144 Year Ago
Kerby Anderson Earlier this week I talked about a study by Dr. Robert Epstein who documented that Google bias may have shifted at least 6 million votes to Joe Biden. It turns out that this is not the...
Social Media Censorship
Kerby Anderson Most of us are aware of how pervasive social media censorship has become over the last few years. But a recent commentary by Daniel Gelernter illustrates how bizarre some of the censors...
Chaos Upon Chaos
Kerby Anderson This year of 2020 has been full of chaos. Therefore, it’s not surprising that Victor Davis Hanson wrote about “A Time of Chaos Upon Chaos atop Chaos.” And he wasn’t even talking about t...
Media Bias and the Election
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about a study documenting that Google bias may have shifted at least 6 million votes to Joe Biden. Today I would like to feature one more study that demonstrates the...
Google Bias and Election
Kerby Anderson Recent studies of media bias in the last election are a reminder that we need to have discernment when we read, hear, and watch the news and visit websites. A number of studies for the...
Decriminalizing Drug Possession
Penna Dexter One disturbing result of the recent elections was a vote in the state of Oregon to decriminalize the possession of all illegal drugs. Roughly sixty percent of Oregon voters supported Meas...