Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Preseason football has arrived, and one of the big questions is, how political will football players be this year? David French in a recent commentary observed that, “When players get political, it turns out that fans can get political right back.” The market-research company J.D. Power surveyed 9,200 fans. They found that “national anthem protests were the top reason that NFL fans watched fewer games last season.” Previous polls of fans (like the Reuters poll) came to similar…

Kerby Anderson Congress will once again take up the issue of tax reform. Although many of us would love for our taxes to be easy to calculate and simple to file, we know that won’t happen in the near future. What can be done? The editors of the Wall Street Journal published a few principles we can use to evaluate the current debate about tax reform. First, there should be a priority on growth. “After 12 years of a lackluster…

Kerby Anderson One of the reasons Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell postponed the August recess was due to “the backlog of critical nominations” he said “that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats.” Of course, nearly every administration and party in power complains at some time about the slow process of confirming nominations. But what is happening right now is unprecedented. During the first six months of President Trump’s administration, he made 257 nominations to important governmental position in his administration…

Penna Dexter The sad news of the death of 11-month- old Charlie Gard sparked something in my memory. Charlie Gard is the British baby who died last week after an unsuccessful months-long battle his parents fought with the British Health Service to take him to the U.S. for treatment. I rifled through some old posters and found what I was looking for — a poster that contains a picture of my husband and me in straight-jackets, blindfolded, with our mouths…

Kerby Anderson What if Christians and Christian institutions that provide so many social services went on strike? That is a question Addison Del Mastro asks in The American Conservative. He reminds us of the book by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. She poses the question of what would happen if entrepreneurs in America decided to go on strike because of an increasingly overbearing regulatory state. The book documents the dystopia the country falls into. While I doubt that Christians and Christian…

Kerby Anderson Cal Thomas begins his column by recounting his visit to Singapore a few years ago. He asked the cab driver about the unemployment rate. He was shocked to hear it was fewer than two percent. What was the reason for such a low rate? “We don’t have any welfare here,” the cab driver responded. “If you are able-bodied and don’t work, the government doesn’t send you a check.” The apostle Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 that, “If…

Kerby Anderson The Trump administration has been rolling back federal regulations at a significant rate. One report estimates that deregulation has removed more than 800 regulations. This would include 469 planned regulatory actions that were part of the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda and another 391 active regulatory proceedings actions that were reclassified as long-term or inactive. You may remember that Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a regulatory freeze. He also signed an executive order that required an…

Kerby Anderson Pastor Rick Stedman asks, “Is it reasonable to believe that God exists?” He says it is because of zombies, superheroes, music, sports, and science. That is his premise in his book, 31 Surprising Reasons to Believe in God. He begins his book by telling a true story of a family on rural property in northern California. They found a rusted can by a tree. They ended up finding eight cans containing 1427 gold coins worth an estimated $11…

Kerby Anderson We have heard quite a bit these days about fake news, but what about fake science? That is the title of the book by Austin Ruse. He has served as the president of the Center for Family & Human Rights where he testifies to our government and the United Nations about important issues. He was on my radio program recently to talk about some of the misinformation and false information presented in the media and in various governmental…

Penna Dexter It’s been over two years since the Supreme Court handed down its decision, in Obergefell vs Hodges, in which it found a sweeping “right” to same-sex marriage nationwide. Right away, my pastor preached a clear and concise sermon about what to do if you’re invited to a same sex “wedding.” He had already prepared the church to remain true to the biblical definition of marriage: the union between one man and one woman. But this shepherd, like many…

Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, Jonah Goldberg wrote a column and other writers are still quoting one of his lines. He said: “The more you sound like some cowbell-wielding street preacher wearing a sandwich board that says, ‘The End is Nigh!’ the more likely people will ignore you.” It’s a vivid image of a street preacher but he uses it to criticize the hysterical rhetoric being used by environmentalists these days. He says that one of the hallmarks of the…