Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Professor Gad Saad always provides great insights on a variety of topics when he has been on my radio program. In this case, I want to focus on an interview Charlie Kirk recently did with him to explain why so many Muslims were moving to Western countries. He began by acknowledging that many Muslims are moving to the U.S. and Europe for economic opportunities for them and their children. But he agreed with Charlie Kirk that a percentage…

Kerby Anderson President Trump has accomplished quite a bit in his six months, especially when you consider that he has had to do that without many of his nominees. As of late July, there were 256 nominations pending in the Senate. To put that in perspective, only 86 of his nominees have been confirmed. Not one U.S. attorney had been confirmed at that time. The confirmation process is taking too long due to many factors. I suggest it may be…

Kerby Anderson On a rare occasion, the electricity to our house goes out. But will such outages be more frequent in the future? Is the solution more alternative energy sources or more fossil fuel plants? Leaders in the Democratic party have attacked the recent Republican budget bill because it is phasing out subsidies for wind and solar power. They claim that this legislation will cause power shortages and higher electricity rates. However, the latest Energy Department study documents that just…

Penna Dexter Do you love to read books — but don’t do it enough? That’s me. The most interesting people in my life are those who read a lot of books. Why do I not read as many books as I’d like? Why do I have a stack of them on my bedside table that never seems to get shorter. It’s not that I don’t read. Computers and phones give us things to read all day. “Fear of Missing Out”…

Kerby Anderson Perhaps you have heard of the “heckler’s veto.” This occurs when someone who disagrees with a speaker’s message triggers actions or protests to disrupt the event and get the speech cancelled. We have seen this tactic on university campuses primarily used against conservative speakers. I thought of this tactic when I read about the controversy surrounding expensive security fees charged against Turning Point USA at a Texas university just thirty miles from my radio studio. The administration charged…

Kerby Anderson A recent poll by Pew Research Center discovered that 27 percent of Americans view evangelicals as the most unfavorable faith. They also discovered that Jews ranked as the most favorable religious group. The poll asked Americans to rank six of the mainstream religious groups. Those were Jews, mainline Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Mormons, and Evangelical Christians. The greatest number of unfavorable feelings were expressed toward Evangelical Christians and Mormons. By contrast, the most positive feelings were reserved for Jews…

Kerby Anderson Dr. Leonard Sax holds a PhD in psychology and has been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. He said he never saw a connection between politics and parenting, until now. “Left-of-center parents were no better and no worse parents, on average, than right-of-center parents.” He has now documented that children of politically liberal parents are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety and a lack of sense of life meaning and have substance abuse issues. He…

Kerby Anderson What is America’s greatest challenge? Former governor Bobby Jindal has a list that focuses on the challenges created by liberals in this country. Although he uses the term liberals, it might be better to realize his critique applies to leftists rather than liberals in general. Here are his four concerns. “First, liberals are undermining the rule of law that prevents the arbitrary exercise of power and protects law-abiding citizens.” Some of the examples he uses range from liberal…

Kerby Anderson Historian Nial Ferguson begins his PragerU video with a lament that few students graduate from college with any idea of what makes Western Civilization different from the rest of the world. In his video with the title, “Why the West Won,” he summarizes a few key points from his book, Civilization: The West and the Rest. He explained that western civilization succeeded because of six killer apps—competition, modern science, the rule of law, modern medicine, the consumer society,…

Penna Dexter School discipline policies in several states are changing for the better. The shift comes after President Trump issued an executive order last April aimed at restoring common sense to school discipline. The order states: “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology. In 2014, the Obama administration issued guidelines stating that districts must post…

Kerby Anderson The Trump administration recently unveiled their plans for the Golden Dome. I was intrigued by the response to this new missile defense system. As you would imagine, Russia and China condemned the plans. Most Americans didn’t have much to say about the plans. Go back a few decades, and nearly everyone criticized a similar plan. It was called the strategic defense initiative (SDI) and dubbed by critics as “Star Wars.” I remember prominent scientists like Carl Sagan ridiculing…