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Penna Dexter Amidst a push to bring manufacturing back to our shores, many communities are bringing shop classes back to their high schools. According to the Wall Street Journal, as baby boomers retire, companies are looking for workers in the skilled trades, but there simply aren’t enough young adults trained in plumbing, electrical work, and welding. Some businesses are beginning to look at high school students — and not just as future hires. Some companies want them now, or at…

Kerby Anderson It should come as no surprise that the U.S. faces a housing crisis. Over a year ago, President Biden promised during his State of the Union address to lower housing prices. He blamed “rent gouging” landlords and greedy realtors. He promised to build two million more homes. In the end, there was accusing and lots of fiery rhetoric, but little changed. Miranda Devine cites a Heritage Foundation study that documents the following: “During his presidency, the cost of…

Kerby Anderson In his new book, The Big Print, Larry Lepard provides an overview of the economic history of America but also issues a warning. We are headed for a “big print.” He means the only way out of our current debt cycle will be for the government and the Federal Reserve to print more money. He demonstrates this with his chapter “Nothing Stops This Train.” The phrase was first popularized by Lyn Alden, who is the author of another…

Kerby Anderson Larry Lepard has seen this before. In fact, three generations of his family over a 100-year period have been adversely affected by the Federal Reserve and federal agencies. In the 1920s, his grandfather nearly lost his furniture business when the 1929 crash came. He and his wife spent years pleading with their bank not to foreclose. Decades later, his father came dangerously close to bankruptcy when the Fed Chairman raised the Fed Funds rate to 20 percent. Then…

Kerby Anderson During the pandemic, we unfortunately learned how much of our medicine was manufactured in China. As a recent article reminds us, the current trade war with China is yet another reminder of China’s chokehold on U.S. medicine. Five years later, not much has changed. It is time to plan for a future that isn’t so dependent upon China. Rosemary Gibson explains this is “a man-made problem, but a fix is possible.” She is the co-author of China Rx:…

Kerby Anderson Mike Rowe (host “Dirty Jobs”) warns that if President Trump’s tariffs bring manufacturing jobs back to America, those positions will be hard to fill. He was on the Theo Von program to talk about the manufacturing industry. He explained that if President Trump can reinvigorate the manufacturing sector, the increase in new jobs will pose a problem since we presently have 482,000 open positions in manufacturing already. Adding another 2 or 3 million new jobs will pose a…

Penna Dexter The Institute for Family Studies recently released its latest American Family Survey which revealed that liberal women are unhappier and lonelier than their conservative counterparts. Only 12 percent of them said they are “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared with 37 percent of conservative women. Psychology professor Lucian Hanks explains in an essay in The American Spectator that “Two factors accounted for roughly half the gap between liberal and conservative women” in this study: “Church attendance and marriage.”…

Kerby Anderson Last week I talked about a John Stossel video that takes on climate myths. He dispelled three myths: Artic will be ice-free, polar bears are going extinct, and climate change has created a food shortage. Today I want to address a few of the other myths in his latest video. Myth number one is: Climate change is making droughts worse. Even the latest news from the EPA acknowledges that the last 50 years have generally been wetter than…

Kerby Anderson Former member of Congress Mike Gallagher argues that it is “Time for Accountability on the Covid Lab-Leak Coverup.” He reminds us that after millions have died and the world suffered billions in economic value lost, “the West can claim zero lessons learned.” He also says that Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) “should have come clean about the pandemic’s laboratory origin [and admit] the Wuhan lab’s risky gain-of-function research.” Of course, none…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about the question Victor Davis Hanson asked: “Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?” In his commentary, he unveils a half dozen problems at universities that might cause American taxpayers to reconsider how much money should be given to them. The first two problems we talked about were the rising cost of a university education and the lack of any intellectual diversity on campus. A third problem is the Supreme Court ruling…

Kerby Anderson The conflict between Harvard University and the Trump administration has been in the news. Victor Davis Hanson uses this news story to ask an important question: “Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?” In his commentary, he unveils a half dozen problems at universities that might cause American taxpayers to reconsider how much money should be given to them. The first problem is well-known. “Over the past half-century, tuition has generally risen at twice the…