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Kerby Anderson After many long hours on a road trip, I decided to stop at a McDonald’s to use the restroom and get something to drink. As I entered, I saw their new self-service kiosk. Immediately I thought, “this is what happens when you demand a $15 minimum wage.” I was not wrong. Ed Rensi, is the former president and CEO of McDonald’s USA. He explains that increasing the minimum wage is why we will be seeing more of these…

Kerby Anderson For more than six years, Republican politicians have been repeating the mantra of “repeal and replace” concerning health care. But they were never very clear about what the replace part of the equation would look like. Now we have a much better idea. When Donald Trump tapped Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, he signaled that the proposal by Dr. Price would most likely be the Obamacare replacement plan. For the last…

Kerby Anderson The CEOs of major corporations may be smart people when it comes to business, but many of them apparently don’t know when to keep their comments to themselves after the 2016 presidential election. Their public rants against Donald Trump’s election and their criticism of voters aren’t likely to encourage people to buy their products. Matt Maloney is the CEO of Grubhub. The company offers take out, but lately seem more intent in telling its conservative employees to get…

Kerby Anderson A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finds that teenage virgins are healthier than other students who are sexually active. At first, you might think that is merely an obvious conclusion since virgins are not likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD). But the conclusions are based on many other factors as well. Students who are virgins actually rate significantly and consistently better in nearly all health-related behaviors and measures than their sexually active…

Kerby Anderson Should Christian doctors be purged from the U.S. medical system? The question is absurd. Even so it is seriously asked (in a less offensive way) in a recent bioethics journal article. The two authors argue that Christians (and other people who hold to traditional religious beliefs) should not be given the right to refuse to perform services that the physician believes are ethically questionable. They believe that Christians (and others who hold to traditional views) should not be…

Penna Dexter It looks like we’ll end the year with a final defense bill that provides more money for military and defense operations than requested by the administration. It’s normal, in December to find lawmakers working hard to get the National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA, finalized and to the president’s desk. There are lots of pieces and parts to this bill and members of the conference committee appointed to reconcile the House and Senate versions had their work cut…

Kerby Anderson Dr. Anne Bradley has been on my radio program and in a recent article talks about her first trip to the Soviet Union. Even as a teenager she could see through the attempt to make Russia look more prosperous than it was. In fact, her visit was one of the reasons she became an economist. She ends her article by telling the true story of what happened when Boris Yeltsin visited the United States. He was newly elected…

Kerby Anderson Back in September I talked about the number of fake news sites used by left-leaning bloggers in order to trick conservatives into sharing it so they can then ridicule them. Now things have changed. Various news operations and commentators are now saying that certain conservative groups are promoting fake news because they are fake journalists. In just two months, the whole discussion of fake news is completely reversed. I supposed we shouldn’t be surprised. The Oxford Dictionary just…

Kerby Anderson Today is December 7 – a day that President Roosevelt said would be “a date which will live in infamy.” On that fateful morning of December 7, 1941, America was attacked without warning. More than 2,400 Americans died and 1,100 were wounded. Our country was changed forever. This attack led us into war, and the citizens of America responded with courage and resolve. So it may be well to reflect on what took place and how we today…

Kerby Anderson Americans in general, and even evangelicals in particular, seem confused about important details of their faith. A study done by Lifeway Research found that Americans don’t know much about theology, and many evangelicals seem confused as well. Tyler O’Neil wrote about the 12 Lies American Evangelicals Believe. Here are a few of them. Americans generally believe that their personal salvation depends on good works. The survey found that three-fourths (77%) agreed with the statement that people must contribute…

Kerby Anderson Dr. Tim Keller was on my radio program recently to talk about his new book, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical. In many ways, it was a prequel to his earlier apologetics book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. His earlier book, The Reason for God, deals with two large issues: doubt and the reasons for faith. For the skeptic, he attempts to answer the major questions that keep skeptics from…