Monuments to Obama
Kerby Anderson If I were to ask you to name a national monument, you would probably pick the Washington Monument or the Statue of Liberty. President Obama has a different idea. He designated vast acre...
Fallacies and Football
Kerby Anderson Economist Thomas Sowell filed his last column a little over a week ago. At the age of 86, he certainly has earned his retirement. We will miss his insight, but benefit from the books an...
Judicial Vacancies
Penna Dexter It’s widely expected that, not long after Inauguration Day, confirmation proceedings will begin to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. What is less-discussed, but highly...
Rinkonomics
Kerby Anderson In my Viewpoint commentary last week, I mentioned an article that profoundly influenced John Stossel. The title of the article was Rinkonomics: A window on Spontaneous Order by Daniel K...
Democratic Soul Searching
Kerby Anderson Now that Congress is in session and most state legislatures are in session, it would be a good time for some soul searching. At least that is what Representative Marcy Kaptur is saying....
Jihadists and Religion
Kerby Anderson Graeme Wood gives us a chilling picture of what Islamic jihadists are really like. His new book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, is the result of years of i...
Freedom of Association
Kerby Anderson Freedom of association has been the issue in so many of the religious liberty cases over the last few years. Should a baker, florist, or photographer be required to perform their artist...
Terror and Denial
Kerby Anderson As 2016 came to a conclusion, I wanted to cover some of the important stories of the year. One of the top stories, of course, was terrorism and the terrorist attacks both in this countr...
Scripture from Space
Penna Dexter Author and radio host Eric Metaxes told an important story in his column that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Christmas weekend. He wrote of a Christmas Eve, 48 years ago, when three...
Candy and Sugar Restrictions
Kerby Anderson This Christmas season we probably ate too much candy. Walter Williams in a recent column reminds us why so much candy is now produced in other countries. It is another example of why ma...
Skating and Rinkonomics
Kerby Anderson Throughout the years, John Stossel has been trying to find ways to simplify economics and illustrate the benefits of free markets. He has found that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is oft...
