Intact Families
Kerby Anderson Are single-parent families just as good for children as two-parent families? Some of the headlines recently in newspapers and newsmagazines seem to say so. But all you have to do is loo...
HHS's Commonsense Reform
Penna Dexter The US Department of Health and Human Services took steps, in recent days, to correct a troubling injustice initiated by the previous administration. Three years ago, HHS issued a rule,...
Cost to Raise a Child
Kerby Anderson One of the reasons the fertility rate in America has been dropping is due to the rising cost of raising a child. Every few years, the Department of Agriculture recalculates the cost to...
Closed Minds
Kerby Anderson Twenty-nine years ago, Allan Bloom wrote the book, The Closing of the American Mind. Charles Koch wrote an op-ed with the same title. There are some similarities between the two, but al...
The Martyr’s Oath
Kerby Anderson The plight of persecuted Christians is worse than ever. That is the conclusion of a recent report by Aid to the Church in Need. It documents that the persecution of Christians today is...
Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Kerby Anderson Two recent articles illustrate our uncertainty about the future of technology. One proclaims that “More than 70% of US fear robots taking over our lives.” Another is the special edition...
Criticizing Silicon Valley
Kerby Anderson In the past, I have written about how a few were starting to call some of the billionaires in the Silicon Valley “the new robber barons.” Most of the Silicon Valley companies seemed unt...
Alabama Abortion Ban
Penna Dexter When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the state's new Human Life Protection Act, she implied that the goal of the bill is to set up a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case...
Blue States Revenue
Kerby Anderson Astute political observers frequently notice the large gap between rhetoric and reality. That is certainly true of some of the Democrat governors in blue states. Their political rhetori...
Entitlement Cliff
Kerby Anderson Sometime in the near future, America will go over the entitlement cliff. That is the argument of Dr. Merrill Matthews, co-author of the book, On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlement...
Credit Card Usury
Kerby Anderson American credit card debt has now topped $1 trillion. And most of the people in debt don’t pay off their credit cards and thus pay very high interest rates. But never fear. Socialists S...