Recent Viewpoints

July 2, 2018
Ragamuffins Coffee House

Kerby Anderson It is hard to imagine how a coffee house in Laurel, Maryland would be controversial. After all, the Ragamuffins Coffee House is known for not only serving coffee but also for serving up a special blend of community service and worship. Apparently, it is that last item that started all the controversy. The local church opened the doors to the coffee house and opened its arms to reach out to the homeless and needy families in the community….

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June 29, 2018
People Holding hands

Penna Dexter The Trump Administration has just made it easier for small businesses to offer health insurance to their employees. ObamaCare didn’t change the health insurance picture much for large companies. But it imposes rules and mandates on small businesses that have raised their costs and caused more and more of them to decide not to offer health insurance to employees at all. The Department of Labor has finalized a rule that will enable more employers to form Association Health…

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June 29, 2018
handcuffs & gavel

Kerby Anderson The president and some members of Congress have started an important conversation about criminal justice reform. But while we are having that conversation, it is crucial that we get some of the facts straight. At a recent conference, Senator Elizabeth Warren lamented this country criminalizes low-level drug offenses. She said, “More people [are] locked up for low-level offenses on marijuana than for all violent crimes in this country. That makes no sense at all.” She is certainly correct….

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June 28, 2018
Frankfurt School - Birthplace of Cultural Marxism

Kerby Anderson If you do an online search of the term “cultural Marxism,” you will see a Wikipedia entry that dismisses it as a “conspiracy theory” that is supposedly trying to take over Western culture. Actually it is the dominant form of Marxism in America and in much of the West today. Dr. Paul Kengor was on the Point of View radio talk show with me to talk about his recent article about cultural Marxism. He explained that cultural Marxism began…

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June 27, 2018
Flat-Line

Kerby Anderson Mention celebrity suicides and you immediately think of Robin Williams, Anthony Bourdain, and Kate Spade. Talk about teen suicides and you think of the lost potential of young people. After all, it is the third leading cause of death among 10-24-year-olds. Every day at least 123 Americans die of suicide. It is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. Depression is one reason, a psychological disorder that affects nearly a fourth of American adults in a given…

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June 26, 2018
one blue shoe and one red shoe

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, I talked about how many liberal progressives complained that Alan Dershowitz had changed. Actually, they are the ones who have changed. In a recent op-ed, Dershowitz explains about how the ACLU has abandoned its original mission. He should know, since he served on the national board in the early days of his career. He writes, “The director of the American Civil Liberties Union has now acknowledged what should have been obvious to everybody over the…

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June 25, 2018
is-climate-change-real-or-fake-default

Kerby Anderson This summer we will certainly hear that the warmer temperatures demonstrate that we are headed for a climate doomsday. That is why Vijay Jayaraj wrote an article with the provocative title, “Why Climate Doomsday Won’t Happen This Summer.” I suppose his predictions could be as accurate as any of the others we have heard. He has four points. First, the world just experienced one of its coldest recorded winters in history. Cities like New York registered record snowfall…

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June 22, 2018
whitehouse rainbow

Penna Dexter  This month is the third anniversary of the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell vs. Hodges. The decision brought us same-sex marriage across the land because it struck down all state laws that specified that marriage is the union between one man and one woman.    When a court hands down a sweeping ruling that changes something you have known to be true about the world, it’s well worth studying the dissenting opinion. Chief Justice Roberts, for the first time in…

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June 22, 2018
American Creed

Kerby Anderson What is the American Creed? That is a question David Gelernter asks in his book, America-Lite. He has been on my radio program to talk about his book and his op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. He is a fascinating individual. He received two degrees in classical Hebrew literature, but then became a professor of computer science at Yale University. Some have called him a “rock star” in the world of computing. You might also remember…

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June 21, 2018
Marriage-on-the-decline

Kerby Anderson The marriage rate in America has been in decline for many years. Consider that in the year 2000, married 25-to-34-year-olds outnumbered their never married peers (55% to 34%). By 2015, however, those percentages were almost reversed (40% to 53%). Young people are not getting married for a variety of reasons. Many economists argue that men are avoiding marriage because they have lower wages and want to increase their income before asking a woman to marry them. But the…

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June 20, 2018
1 baby - 7 empty beds

Kerby Anderson The US birth rate has been dropping for decades and has now reached an historic low according to the data published by the Centers for Disease Control. Response to this new data has been varied. An article in Vox  provides a number of charts to explain the phenomenon and then concludes that the historically low birthrate could be a sign of progress. Other commentators (especially Christian commentators) warn that we are headed for a “demographic winter.” The fertility…

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