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Kerby Anderson “If you don’t do what I say, I’ll take your lunch money.” You can imagine a bully saying that to a student in school. But you probably can’t imagine the federal government saying that to public schools. But that may happen. The Biden administration’s Department of Food and Nutrition Service (an agency within the USDA) announced that it will strip funding for school lunches if the school does not adopt the administration’s transgender policies. This would require trans…

Kerby Anderson Earlier this week, I talked about gun background checks and provided what I thought were some shocking statistics about the lack of prosecution of potential gun buyers who lied on a government form. Today, I would like to talk about what could be done to improve the system. But before we get to solutions, I need to explain that whatever laws Congress passes will only be a two percent solution. According to the Department of Justice, less than…

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…

Kerby Anderson Members of Congress are talking about passing legislation to expand gun background checks. That’s why I decided to study the issue in more depth. In the process, I found a one statistic that shocked me. Kevin Williamson cited an audit of the Government Accountability Office of the effectiveness of gun background checks that are performed by a licensed firearms dealer. A potential gun purchaser must fill out Form 4473 honestly and accurately. If you lie on the form,…

Penna Dexter There’s new research into the magnitude of the decline in children’s achievement that resulted from Covid-19 school closures. Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says the learning loss is “far greater than most educators and parents seem to realize.” He’s part of a team from the American Institutes for Research, Dartmouth College, Harvard, and NWEA, an educational assessment non-profit. The team is investigating how student learning was affected by the remote…

Kerby Anderson We find it difficult to clearly see inflation increasing in our world because of what could be called “the money illusion.” Steve Forbes and his co-authors talk about this in their new book on inflation. We tend to misinterpret inflation’s distorted prices by believing that they reflect “real world” values. We like to believe the value of our house is increasing each year when often the value is increasing merely because the dollar is decreasing. The dollar may…

Kerby Anderson Although prices have been going up for years and have been increasing even faster this last year, the reason for most of this price inflation is due to a declining dollar. The US was on a gold standard until 1971. The value of the dollar has been eroding each year. A new book by Steve Forbes and others on inflation provides some ways to measure our declining dollar. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the dollar’s purchasing…

Kerby Anderson A reoccurring topic on my radio program is what is called “stakeholder capitalism.” The phrase was promoted by the founder of the World Economic Forum and is used by many business leaders as well as by progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Former Senator Phil Gramm argues in a recent op-ed that “stakeholder capitalism is a war on the Enlightenment.” Proponents argue that big businesses get more than they deserve. But he reminds us that nearly…

Kerby Anderson What should pro-life Christians do after Roe v. Wade is struck down? John Stemberger tries to answer that important question with “5 Pro-Life Strategies for Post-Roe America.” He put his article together after being asked what the legislature would want him to do. Dissatisfied with his original answer, he put together a series of strategies that all of us need to read and apply. First, to care for women and children. A significant change will be the increase…

Kerby Anderson For more than a century, the Supreme Court and Congress have ruled against any policy that discriminates based on race. Therefore, the current attempt by this administration to pursue such a policy seems at odds with our laws, Supreme Court decisions, and the Constitution. Let’s start with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It prohibited the federal government from modifying property rights and contract rights solely based on race. The 1964 Civil Rights Act further prohibited discrimination based…

Penna Dexter When are America’s established, successful and reliable corporations going to stop generating PR disasters for themselves by wading into woke gender politics? State Farm Insurance Company operates on the franchise model with thousands of agents serving tens of millions of customers. The company is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Until last week, State Farm’s famous claim, “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” seemed a pretty good fit. Then the company made headlines when a consumer…