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Kerby Anderson Today is Tax Day. But I would suggest that a more important date is Tax Freedom Day. That is the date when your tax burden is lifted. It is calculated by dividing the official government tally of all taxes collected in each year by the amount of all income earned in each year. Put another way, it is when you are no longer working for the government but are now working for yourself and your family. This year…

Kerby Anderson Ben Shapiro says it is time to ask some serious questions. The key question is whether we are safe anymore? Of course, it is a question we have been asking for years given the crime rate along with an open border. He focuses his attention on the killing of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman in Rogers Park in Chicago. As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, she merely tops the list of more than a thousand Americans killed by criminals…

Kerby Anderson Let me start with a simple question: What is the price of a barrel of oil today? I recorded this commentary a week ago, so the price has probably changed. Over the weekend it was $140 a barrel. That is twice was it was before the Iran War. One insider tracked the price as high as $173 a barrel. The bigger issue isn’t just the price but availability. As I am recording this, energy markets in Europe and…

Penna Dexter In the mid-20th century, powerful societal forces were asking the question: ‘Does the culture really need religion?’ The Christian consensus lost ground to multicultural ideology and the ideas of the sexual revolution. A new secularist theology took hold. It turns out, society is not improved by our insistence on a naked public square. In an article for First Things, Gerard Bradley, Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, points out that the term “secular” means God…

Kerby Anderson Walmart has introduced digital shelf labels into many of their stores and plans to expand that technology to all its locations. They are doing this for ease and efficiency, but I also think it says something about our future economy. The pilot program began at its Grapevine, Texas supercenter. By the end of this year 2,300 locations will have this technology. Without paper labels, Walmart store associates will have time to perform other functions rather than running up…

Kerby Anderson The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not just the opinion of two economists writing in Fortune. This is what is on the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025. They lament that the numbers were released to near-total media silence. Here are the numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025. Then the authors add that the liabilities number doesn’t even include the unfunded obligations of…

Kerby Anderson The International Olympic Committee has ruled that male athletes will not be allowed to compete against women at the Olympics. The ban begins with the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles. The announcement came from IOC president Kirsty Coventry. She is the first woman and the first African Olympic president. She is also a former Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe. Many of us were introduced to her at the recent winter Olympic games. Here are a few of her…

Kerby Anderson A Jimmy Kimmel joke led to a Mike Rowe commentary. The joke was about Markwayne Mullin, the former Senator from Oklahoma who is the new Secretary of Homeland Security. Kimmel joked, “We have a plumber now protecting us from terrorism.” It was a funny joke, even though inaccurate since Mullin ran his father’s plumbing business for a time before heading to Congress (first as a representative and then as a senator). Nevertheless, Kimmel doubled down on the joke…

Kerby Anderson Two years ago, I wrote about Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament who was on trial. At the time, I argued that it was really the Bible that was on trial. Seven years ago, she tweeted Romans 1:24-27 to question her church’s decision to sponsor a “pride parade.” She asked how that decision aligned with Scripture, specifically those verses. Instead of a civil debate and a reasonable response, she was slapped with criminal prosecution. In the…

Penna Dexter Competitive fairness returns to the highest level of amateur sports. The International Olympic Committee has announced that, beginning with the 2028 games in Los Angeles, participation in women’s competitions is reserved only for biological females. IOC President Kirsty Coventry stated in a video that “The scientific evidence is very clear: male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that rely on strength, power, or endurance.” This is normal and fair, but critiques from the Left began immediately. I googled…

Kerby Anderson Today is Good Friday. On this day, believers around the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We all understand that. What most of us don’t understand is why this dark day in which Jesus suffered and died is called “Good Friday.” Why isn’t it called Bad Friday or Dark Friday? Over the years, people have put forward various theories. Some argue that it is called Good Friday because something good came about because of the death, burial,…