Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Dinesh D’Souza is ready to debunk what he calls The Big Lie, in his book by the same title. The Left have been saying that the president is a fascist and the Republican Party is akin to the Nazi Party. Street thugs and pundits throw around the Nazi card and the fascism card with abandon. He believes it is time to turn the tables and explain who the real fascists are. If you want to see a true…

Kerby Anderson When Google computer scientist James Damore tried to start a conversation about diversity and inclusion within the company, he and Google soon found themselves in a national conversation. His memo addressed “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” and explained that many ideas and viewpoints at the company could not be honestly discussed. Google’s Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance criticized the 10-page memo because it “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.” Then many of the employees at Google called for…

Kerby Anderson Where are the moderate Muslims? This a question I hear whenever there is a terrorist attack and there seems to be silence from the Muslim community. Christine Douglass-Williams tries to answer that question and many others in her book, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam. When she was on my radio program, she said the original title talked about reforming Islam. They concluded that wasn’t precise enough. She points out that currently there is a turf war within Islam…

Kerby Anderson When President Everett Piper wrote his commentary about an incident on his campus, he had no idea that it would go viral (with 3.5 million views). He told the story about one of the students who felt victimized after a university chapel by a sermon on 1 Corinthians 13, often known as the “love chapter” in Paul’s epistle. He explained the philosophy at Oklahoma Wesleyan University and ended it by saying, “This is not a day care. This…

Penna Dexter Because Americans did not participate or behave the way the planners of ObamaCare had expected, here we are in 2017 with an individual health insurance market that is collapsing. Insurance companies have to decide whether to drop out or raise premiums to stay in business. Members of Congress are desperate to keep premiums from rising. Yet the idea of bailing out insurance companies is politically unpalatable. The Left dangles its solution: Why not take the insurance company out…

Kerby Anderson When a Hollywood celebrity testifies before Congress, usually there is lots of fawning press coverage but very little of substance that can influence public policy. At the House Oversight Committee hearing on “Challenges to Freedom of Speech on College Campuses,” you had just the opposite. Some important things were said but it received little press coverage. Perhaps that is due to the fact that conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and comedian Adam Carolla were testifying. Adam Carolla talked about…

Kerby Anderson Philip Yancey begins with an admission: “I am going through a personal crisis.” He explains that he used to love reading. In fact, he understands that “books help define who I am.” But that is his past not his present. He has discovered that the Internet and social media have trained his brain “to read a paragraph or two, and than start looking around.” When he is reading an article online pretty soon he is looking at the…

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…