Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Tomorrow is Tax Day, and I would like to focus some needed attention on the significant cost of tax compliance. But before I get to those facts and figures, let’s start with some first principles. Many people refer to April 15 as “the day we pay our taxes.” But most of our taxes were already withheld from paychecks. Tax Day is when we file the more than 280 million tax returns to see if we get any money…

Penna Dexter President Trump recently told reporters he would ”be honored” to defund National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. He said they are “a waste of money.” But it’s worse than that. Both PBS and NPR have long exhibited a decidedly liberal political bias and, more recently, have advanced far-left positions on issues like gender ideology. Currently, PBS and NPR receive approximately $500,000,000 per year in federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Corporation for Public…

Kerby Anderson Corporate wokeness may be fading, and one illustration of that can be found in the change in corporate policies at one of the largest corporations in the world. Lathan Watts (Vice President of Alliance Defending Freedom) was on my radio program to talk about his article, “Will Walmart Be a Leader in Abandoning Corporate Wokeness?” Recently, Robby Starbuck and the rollback DEI campaign announced that Walmart distanced itself from its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Lathan Watts reported…

Kerby Anderson Pundits and political consultants warn that the Democratic party needs to reevaluate some of its policy positions. The editors at The New York Times argue “that the party moved too far left on social issues after Barack Obama left office in 2017.” They explain that the party not only lost the presidency, but also the Senate, the House of Representatives, and most governor’s races. Will Democratic candidates moderate their position on a topic like transgenderism? In a recent…

Kerby Anderson Last week the president launched tariffs and a trade war. Nearly everyone has an opinion about tariffs, but it is worth looking back at an article written in 1985. Why should we consult an essay that is 40 years old? We should pay attention to it because it’s talking about something that happened nearly a century ago. Ed Yardeni provided a reprint of his article, “The Protectionist Road to Depression.” He believes “the single more catastrophic cause of…

Kerby Anderson The procedure of de-banking is a problem that needs to be addressed. Unfortunately, the problem is often ignored because leaders of financial institutions maintain they do not deny banking services to individuals because of their political views. In previous commentaries, I have talked about how Nigel Farage lost access to banking services in the UK, which he believed was due to his previous involvement in Brexit. I’ve quoted Marc Andreesen, who in a Joe Rogan interview said he…

Kerby Anderson In previous commentaries, I’ve talked about the seven million young men who are not working but also are not looking for work. Generation Z behind them has four million who have been given the term NEETs. NEET stands for “Not in Education, Employment, or Training.” One article clarifies that “some Gen Zer’s may fall into this category because they are taking care of a family member,” but cautions that “many have become frozen out of the increasingly tough…

Penna Dexter It may not be their ideal life dream, but a Wall Street Journal analysis concludes that “American women have never been this resigned to staying single.” In response to major demographic shifts and also divergent beliefs about what a family should look like, today’s single women are less anxious to get married than they used to be and less interested in marriage than their male peers. In her piece, titled “American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage,” Rachel…

Kerby Anderson Rich Lowry proclaims that “Safety is the Worst Word in the English Language.” You might think that statement and commentary are strange unless you have been paying attention to the release of the “Twitter Files.” Safety has been used as a justification for the censoring of Twitter posts and the de-platforming of certain people who post tweets that some of the leadership at Twitter considered harmful or unsafe. He is not the only person to focus on the…

Kerby Anderson Merrill Matthews was in my radio studio recently to make the case that the “Axis of Evil” is now bigger, bolder, and more evil than twenty years ago. Back in 2002, President George W. Bush identified three countries during the State of the Union address that he designated as the “Axis of Evil.” Those countries were Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Merrill Matthews suggested that we now identify the countries that should be listed as part of the…

Kerby Anderson Doubt is a perennial concern for Christians. Every Christian has feelings of doubt at one time or another. Unfortunately, many Christians assume that doubt is the opposite of faith. They assume that wandering among the hard questions of faith will lead us further from a belief in God. Travis Dickinson is a professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. His latest book is, Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions. He was in my radio…