Naming Shooters
Kerby Anderson Should the media refrain from providing the name of a mass shooter? I try never to mention the name of someone who has committed a horrible crime. They don’t need naming; they need sham...
Scarlet Letter
Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlet Letter. Students who read it today usually react with mockery and ridicule. They wonder how a society could be so...
Starbucks and Planned Parenthood
Kerby Anderson As we all know, Starbucks decided to close down their 8,000 stores for a time of sensitivity training in order to help their employees discover any unconscious racial bias. Some of the...
College: Worth It?
Penna Dexter Economist Walter Williams says it's dishonest to boast about the nation's highly touted 80-percent high school graduation rate. The National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2017 sh...
Marketplace of Ideas
Kerby Anderson When the Apostle Paul made it to Athens, he was able to present the Gospel to the Greek philosophers in a place known as the Areopagus. The Romans referred to it as “Mars Hill.” It was...
Why Mass Shootings?
Kerby Anderson As I have mentioned in various commentaries, mass shootings in America are on the increase. There are lots of theories that have been proposed to explain this dreadful phenomenon. Malco...
Intellectual Dark Web
Kerby Anderson A growing alliance of heretics now populates what has been somewhat jokingly called the “Intellectual Dark Web.” You have probably heard some of their names. For example, there is the n...
Progressive Justice in Seattle
Kerby Anderson Liberals are sleepless in Seattle. Apparently, there is little rest for Seattle progressives who want to right what they perceive as economic injustice. Three years ago, the Seattle Cit...
Stopping Active Shooters
Kerby Anderson The debate about shooting incidents in America can be divided into at least two categories: What can we do to prevent a shooting? What can we do to stop a shooting that is taking place?...
A Bright Line
Penna Dexter The US Department of Health and Human Services is issuing a rule that lines up with the principle that abortion is not health care. The Trump HHS is updating a rule to bring the Title X...
Dismantling the Electoral College
Kerby Anderson A recent vote in the state of Connecticut brought the country one step closer to the dismantling of the Electoral College. Ten years ago, I first wrote about states that passed the Nati...
Sports Gambling
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that barred state-authorized sports gambling with some exceptions. New Jersey plans t...
