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Kerby Anderson Today is Flag Day, and it’s worth taking a moment to document its history. This holiday commemorates the date when the United States approved the design for its first national flag. When the American Revolution began, the colonists weren’t fighting united under a single flag. Most regiments fought under their own flags. The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to create a unified fighting force (the Continental Army) that would fight under the first US flag (the Continental…

Penna Dexter June used to be Gay Pride Month. Now it’s LGBTQ Pride Month, or simply Pride Month. Really though, there’s no special month needed. The “T” — the transgender push — is marketed to kids and young adults all year long. However, every June we see an uptick, and this month is no exception as iconic corporations roll out special products to celebrate Pride Month. There’s an LGBTQ Lego set. A tweet from the LEGO Group says the playsets…

Kerby Anderson President Biden wants to raise taxes. His plan is to repeal and replace the Trump tax cuts, which not only will affect corporations but your income tax liability. So let me give you a brief history in order to put some of this into perspective. After the Civil War, nearly all the taxes (including the nation’s first income tax) were repealed, and the federal government relied mostly on tariffs for revenues. This income was more than enough to…

Kerby Anderson Earlier this week I talked about the rising crime rate, but there is an element that is different. Lee Smith explains that sometimes street violence has been used as a political tool. To understand this, we need only look to Arab countries where street violence is used to keep the “faithful” in line. That may be an explanation for what has been happening in America. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators were attacking Jews in major cities like New York and Los…

Kerby Anderson Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier served in the newly created Space Force until recently. He was relieved from his post because he wrote a book denouncing Critical Race Theory and Marxism in the US military. Conservative pundits and politicians have been warning of the influence of Critical Race Theory in education and parts of the federal government. This new book warns that there has been a woke takeover of sections of the military. Those who serve in the military…

Kerby Anderson A crime wave has hit America, though many politicians are in denial of its existence. For example, the murder rate increased by more than 25 percent in the last year. That makes it the biggest jump in 60 years. If you are looking for an explanation, you don’t have to look any further than the riots and rhetoric in the streets. A year of protests and a year of “defund the police” are two factors that can be…

Kerby Anderson What is the origin of the virus from China that gave us a pandemic? A year ago, it was hard to find a virologist who would go on the record and say that it was possible that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. FactCheck.org dismissed the “bogus coronavirus conspiracy theory” while National Public Radio reported that “there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as a result of a laboratory accident in…

Penna Dexter I recently attended a breakfast sponsored by Alliance Defending Freedom. Attorney General William Barr was the speaker. The room was filled with prominent conservatives of a mind to turn the tide on the Left’s takeover of the federal government and culture. He could have talked about anything: politics, woke law enforcement, corporate bullying. He chose education. The former Attorney General said, “We must confront the reality that it may no longer be fair, practical, or even Constitutional to provide…

Kerby Anderson Conspiracy theories exist because they “create meaning, reduce complexity and uncertainty and emphasize human agency.” That is one of the insights in the book, The Nature of Conspiracy Theories, which was first written in German and has been translated into English. Earlier this week I talked about some of the clues we can use to evaluate news narratives. Although this is an academic book, the author does provide some clues we can use to evaluate conspiracy theories. Although…

Kerby Anderson Is America a force for good? The answer to that would have been obvious a few decades ago to not only Americans but to many other people around the world. But years of criticism in the media and in schools have convinced generations of Americans that America is not a force for good but a great evil in the world. Dennis Prager takes on this issue by reminding us that for all our flaws, which he says were…

Kerby Anderson For the last few months on my radio program, we have been talking about the need for discernment in our current news environment. We have even printed a booklet on media bias citing some of the studies and books documenting the need for us to exercise wise judgment. A recent commentary by Rob Jenkins on “How to Know When the Narrative is False” provides another tool for your discernment toolbox. A narrative is a story that may be…