Recent Viewpoints

July 27, 2018
Missing Jan Brady -Middle Child

Penna Dexter If you are a middle child — or a parent of one of more middles — you are becoming increasingly rare. Every child born after the first and before the last is technically a middle. In an article in New York Magazine, culture editor Adam Sterrnbergh makes the startling revelation that the American Middle Child is now an endangered species. He explains the demographics: “As the ideal number of children per family has shrunk to two…the middle child, in…

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July 27, 2018
Trump & Trudeau DO Shake Hands

Kerby Anderson Media critics have for years decried the proliferation of “fake news” and have been especially critical when quotes and comments were ripped out of context. J.J. McCullough recently wrote about another related issue that isn’t given enough coverage. A liberal press often runs photos that are “obviously ripped out of context.” Since he is a Canadian, McCullough begins his piece by talking about a deceptive photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump. They are…

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July 26, 2018
Hitler Saluting

Kerby Anderson Liberals have been engaged in Nazi name-calling for more than a half-century. It has been a way to vilify and marginalize Republican candidates and their conservative supporters. Harry Truman claimed his 1948 Republican opponent, Thomas Dewey, was a “front man” for fascists. During the 1964 presidential campaign, the governor of California suggested Republican candidate Barry Goldwater had “the stench of fascism.” Two years later Ronald Reagan replaced him as governor and was called a Nazi so many times…

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July 25, 2018
Bill of Rights - First Amendment

Kerby Anderson We seem to be witnessing the decline of governmentally sanctioned compelled speech. Three Supreme Court decisions and the prospect of a new justice on the high court are the reasons. As we discuss so often on the Point of View Radio Talk Show compelled speech is perhaps the worst form of anti-free-speech. It is bad enough to censor an American citizen from being able to express his or her opinion. But it is even worse to force an American…

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July 24, 2018

Kerby Anderson Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. The phrase used most often to describe what is happening to Christians in Nigeria is “pure genocide.” Nigeria is a country divided. The north is predominantly Muslim. The South has many more Christians. In the north and elsewhere, Christians have been killed and maimed in what Open Doors calls “religious cleansing.” Muslims are attempting to eradicate Christianity from the country. The greatest threat…

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July 23, 2018
Empty Chair on SCOTUS

Kerby Anderson There has been lots of fear mongering from the Left about how the newly constituted Supreme Court would rule on various social issues. Justices that attempt to apply the original intent of the Constitution to legal issues are called originalists. Here are a few suggestions about how an originalist court might rule on cases before it. Abortion – Despite the fears being spread that the next court would overturn Roe v. Wade, there isn’t any likelihood it will…

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July 20, 2018
ACLU_vs_Trump

Penna Dexter Prominent abortion-rights advocate, Cecille Richards, recently stepped down from the helm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Having served as the organization’s president for 12 years, she’s now pouring herself into electoral politics, especially the midterm elections. Ms. Richards solidified Planned Parenthood’s role as a political powerhouse. This year Planned Parenthood’s political action sub-groups are conducting their biggest-ever push to elect abortion-rights supporters in Congress and in key states. The American Civil Liberties Union, which recently honored Richards…

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July 20, 2018
Intelligence-Gathering-Processing-Open-Source-Threat-

Kerby Anderson Our nation’s intelligence gathering is in the news, so I read with interest a transcript of a speech Herbert Meyer did for a Hillsdale College leadership seminar. He served as a special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and was the Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. Meyer reminds us that “From the end of World War II until 1982, every president’s objective had been not to lose the Cold War.” When President Ronald Reagan…

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July 19, 2018
no cursing

Kerby Anderson Your children are facing an onslaught of profanity through the media. Movies are one place where profanity reigns. One survey has been tracking profanity in movies from the first swear word on film (1939’s Gone With the Wind) to The Wolf of Wall Street, which holds the record with 798 swear words. There has been a 500 percent increase over these many decades. The Parents Television Council has documented the fact that the number of expletives on television…

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July 18, 2018
Adulting is Hard

Kerby Anderson A library in Oregon is providing a six-part course called “Adulting 101.” If it becomes popular, I suspect we will be seeing more of these courses nationwide. Maybe I need to back up and define the term “adulting.” Last year, the term began to be used more frequently. It means to “behave in an adult manner” or it can also describe the attempt to “make someone behave as an adult.” It gained some attention because millennials often go…

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July 17, 2018
Biblical Worldview

Kerby Anderson More than 100 million American adults claim to have a biblical worldview, but actually a much smaller percentage of adults do. That is one of the striking conclusions of George Barna’s survey with the American Culture & Faith Institute. It is important to know how many people have a biblical worldview because belief drives behavior. And it was important for George Barna to get an accurate baseline to use in future comparisons. His survey asked 20 questions about…

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