Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson The percentage of teenagers suffering from hearing loss has jumped by a third in little over a decade. That is the conclusion of researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They drew numbers from the government’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Adjusting for factors such as age, race, and exposure to infections that could damage the ear, they found a slow but significant rise in hearing loss. The researchers were unwilling to jump to…

Kerby Anderson Politicians complaining about Ford’s decision to build small cars in Mexico might want to look at the government’s policies that forced this decision. Merrill Matthews in a recent column points to two issues that explain why Ford will be moving its small car production south of the border. First there are the CAFE standards. These are the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards that all car manufacturers must meet. U.S. automobile manufacturers sell many more light duty trucks and…

Kerby Anderson In just a few days, the nation’s strictest LGBT non-discrimination laws will go into effect in Massachusetts. According to the latest pronouncements from the state government, even churches and Christian schools will be affected since they are defined as public accommodations. Any accommodation must allow patrons to use men’s or women’s restrooms as well as locker rooms and changing rooms that are “consistent with their gender identity.” Moreover, it requires that these venues must also “use names, pronouns,…

Penna Dexter The Left expends considerable time, energy and money to marginalize and downplay the contribution of religion to the culture. The honest progressive might want to consider the latest research. A major new study shows that religion actually has a positive impact on the American economy. The research, released in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, shows that the country has never been more dependent on the contributions of people of faith to society, particularly from a socio-economic…

Kerby Anderson The leaders of many of the national sports organizations have been promoting social justice especially when it comes to the homosexual agenda and transgender issues. The primary target this last year has been North Carolina. The NBA pulled its All-Star game from Charlotte. The NFL said that it will continue to fight North Carolina’s bathroom privacy bill. The latest action by the NCAA shouldn’t come as any surprise. They decided to pull seven championship events from the Tar…

Kerby Anderson Sometimes I hear from a caller worried that our voting machines might be hacked and therefore should be monitored. Well, be careful what you wish for. Now some in the Obama administration are using the unlikely possibility that Russia could hack into our voting machines to justify putting federal agents in our voting areas. John Fund is a columnist for National Review and the author of Stealing Elections. Hans von Spakovsky is a former member of the Federal…

Kerby Anderson Most Americans are familiar with the comments last week by Hillary Clinton that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are a “basket of deplorables” that are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.” Few are probably aware of the statements by Martin Castro directed at an even larger portion of the American population. Martin Castro is the chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an institution that did good work in the past by ending racial discrimination. Lately is has…

Kerby Anderson As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, the Obama administration sent directives to all school districts requiring them to permit transgender students to use bathroom facilities and locker rooms of their choice. The president and his liberal allies in the press are unhappy that nearly half of the states are fighting this directive. That is why Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote a column defending what he and 23 other states are doing in challenging this administration. Even…

   Kerby Anderson Over the last few weeks on my radio program I have been talking about the plans by this administration to give away U.S. control of the Internet in less than two weeks. On October 1, the transition will take place even though Congress has twice voted to block this transition. Republican lawmakers have warned that the administration’s plan to relinquish its authority could give authoritarian countries like China and Russia an opening to make an online power…

Penna Dexter The official unemployment rate is low right now. In August, it was 4.9 percent for the fourth month in a row. The bad news is: there’s this huge pool of so-called missing workers, people who are neither employed, nor any longer seeking a job. People who have dropped out of the workforce, not because it was time to retire, but because they have given up on the possibility of finding a job they are qualified for. If there…

Kerby Anderson Although candidates have been talking about jobs and raising wages, they haven’t done as well talking about how they will accomplish that. John Goodman and Laurence Kotlikoff have looked at the economic proposals put forth by the campaigns and found one policy change that would make a real difference. Donald Trump’s campaign has a policy paper that has the potential of increasing the income of the average family by an estimated $4,000 within the next four years. Here’s…