Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson So often we hear that the “vast majority of Muslims are peaceful.” While that is certainly true, the claim doesn’t go far enough. Many years ago, William Kirkpatrick wrote about “The Vast Majority Myth.” He countered this idea with three propositions. The first proposition is that “the vast majority of people are peaceful, until they’re not.” It is easy to find examples of people who were peaceful for a long time and then quickly turned violent. The vast…

Kerby Anderson Hate labels have been thrown around quite a bit lately. Much of that started with the Southern Poverty Law Center. As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, the group used to provide a valuable service but now throws the hate label around irresponsibly. Their “Hate Map” identifies groups that deserve the label (white supremacists, Neo-Nazis) with many others that do not (Family Research Council, American Family Association, Alliance Defending Freedom). Unfortunately, too many other organizations take them seriously….

Kerby Anderson Although I rarely write about who is leaving a government post, I wanted to make an exception with the departure of Sebastian Gorka. He served as a deputy assistant to President Trump and left the White House in late August. I wanted to talk about him first because he seems to understand the threat of radical Islam much better than many people who write about it or work in the government. That was evident in his book, Defeating…

Kerby Anderson Today is Labor Day. Although this day was set aside to honor trade and labor organizations, I believe it is a day when Christians can also consider how they view work and labor. The Bible has quite a bit to say about how we are to view work, and so I devote part of a chapter in my most recent book to a biblical view of work. First, we are to work unto the Lord in our labors….

Penna Dexter A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a school may ban a coach from praying silently, alone, on the field after a game. Coach Joe Kennedy served our country as a Marine. Upon retirement he went to work as a football coach for Bremerton High School in Washington State. After games, he would wait until the players had cleared the field and then walk out, take a knee, and…

Kerby Anderson Even if it won’t pass anytime in the future, we need to give credit to Senators David Purdue and Tom Cotton for drafting the RAISE Act and starting a needed discussion about immigration reform. Their bill would change some of the problems with our immigration policy that was implemented in 1965. The 1965 law gave preference to relatives of U.S. citizens over just about everyone else. At the time, it was thought that the beneficiaries would be small…

Kerby Anderson If the younger generation wants to know the keys to success, they need to follow the success sequence published by Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang. They say that the millennial generation is “more likely to flourish financially if they follow the “success sequence.” They say, you need to get at least a high school education, work full-time, and marry before having any children, in that order. Their recent study at the American Enterprise Institute has the title, The…

Kerby Anderson In a recent column, Victor Davis Hanson referred to the Silicon Valley billionaires as the new “robber barons.” The term was used in the 19th century to describe those millionaires who used their monopolies to crush competitors and to rig markets and even corrupt politicians in government. That’s a pretty strong term to use against these high-tech personalities and companies, but let’s look at his arguments. He reminds us that President Obama attacked Mitt Romney as a potential…

Kerby Anderson For the last year, we have occasionally seen violence on college campuses. Now, some of that violence had made its way into the streets and into city parks and neighborhoods. What can be done to end the violence? Former senator Jim Talent has some concrete suggestions. First, he says, “state laws must single out violence and disorderly conduct in the context of mass expression for special and certain punishment.” He also explains that the “punishment must be meaningful…

Kerby Anderson The mainstream media has done a respectable job of identifying the alt-right and explaining who they are. I have devoted time on my radio program to do the same. But another group hasn’t been given much publicity. That would be the group “Antifa.” In fact, Ben Shapiro calls it “The Group That Got Ignored in Charlottesville.” The group is a loosely connected band of anti-capitalist protesters on the far left that also designate themselves as anti-fascist. They have…

Penna Dexter When protests turn violent, as in Charlottesville, Virginia, we need thoughtful answers. Radio host, Erick Erickson, operates the conservative website, Resurgent. There, in a post entitled, “What the Heck Is Happening in America?”, he writes that both the Left and Right “are trying to build moral responses” to the vacuum that is left as the West leaves God behind. They are competing to place their ideologies in charge. Mr. Erickson explains that, “With the collapse of shared Christian…