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Kerby Anderson Will robots destroy jobs and put all of us in the unemployment lines? Some futurists seem to be predicting this scenario. Jay Richards disagrees. He says it is an old argument that is new again. He is the author of the book, The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines. One report predicts that “The future of robots appears to be a dystopian march to rising inequality, falling wages, and higher unemployment.”…

Kerby Anderson We are all aware of how a conservative speaker is treated on a college campus. Now there is growing evidence that even moderate and slightly liberal speakers or professors will be treated poorly. A law professor from another university speaking at the City University of New York School of Law was shouted down for 10 minutes before he could continue his remarks. And the President of Duke University was shocked when students commandeered the stage, shouting demands and…

Kerby Anderson Today is the 4thof July, and I thought I would take a moment to talk about the origin of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson said that many of the ideas in the Declaration came from John Locke. Jefferson also gave credit to the writer Algernon Sidney, who in turn cites most prominently Aristotle, Plato, Roman republican writers, and the Old Testament. Legal scholar Gary Amos argues that Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is simply Samuel…

Kerby Anderson The Starbucks CEO announced that he was going to close 150 stores. The argument given by the company was that these stores were hit with declining sales. While that may certainly be true, economists have noticed another reason why these stores may be closing. According to an article by Brandon Morse “The first stores on the chopping block are those located in cities where the ‘fight for 15’ crowd has had their victories.” If you are not familiar…

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….

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…