Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson You have probably heard about the Wall Street Journal and University of Chicago poll on American values. Many radio and TV programs have talked about it, and my radio guests on three separate days a week ago referred to it. If you haven’t heard, the survey documented a remarkable change in the values that built America. For example, only about a third (38%) of respondents said patriotism was very important to them. Back when the question was asked…

Penna Dexter The devastating murder of six at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee that cruelly invaded our Easter season, leads to some conclusions. First, a pattern of mass shootings by transgender individuals is emerging — In Colorado Springs, last November, south of Denver in 2019, and in Aberdeen, Maryland in 2018. Breitbart’s John Nolte points out that “In less than five years, we’ve had four people who identify as transsexual committing a mass shooting.” He adds, “that’s four mass…

Kerby Anderson Today is Good Friday. On this day, believers around the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We all understand that. What most of us don’t understand is why this dark day in which Jesus suffered and died is called “Good Friday.” Why isn’t it called Bad Friday or Dark Friday? Over the years, people have put forward various theories. Some argue that it is called Good Friday because something good came about because of the death, burial,…

Kerby Anderson “Barney Frank was right about Signature Bank.” The editors of the Wall Street Journal” never thought they would write that headline. But let’s give credit where credit is due. Barney Frank alleged a few weeks ago that regulators seized the bank (where he served on the board) “to send a message to get people away from crypto.” The latest action by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation confirms his suspicions. The banks that collapsed last month illustrate that we…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about “defining woke.” Today, I want to talk about defining words. Noah Rothman recently explained “How We Know That Woke Is Losing.” He begins by explaining that the media has been pretending that we no longer know what the word “woke” means. That’s a new tactic of the left, but it’s like their other tactic of redefining words. One example of this linguistic sleight-of-hand was the decision a decade ago to ditch the phrase “gun…

Kerby Anderson For decades, the left has been willing to redefine terms to win a debate and convince the public of their views. Tomorrow I will provide some examples of that linguistic sleight-of-hand. But today, I want to talk about a new strategy. Leftists claim that the word “woke” and “wokeness” cannot be defined since so many politicians and commentators are using those terms in a negative way. Are some people using the term “woke” without understanding what it means?…

Kerby Anderson The headline in the Atlantic proclaims, “The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic.” It goes on to say that a new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs. This is, of course, an attempt to argue that the virus came from the wet market in Wuhan, China and not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As I mentioned two weeks ago in my last commentary on this…

Penna Dexter The Biden administration is set to revoke a federal regulation that defends religious liberty on college and university campuses. Christian legal groups were elated when, in 2020, Education Secretary Betsy De Vos put forward a rule stipulating that colleges that receive federal funding cannot deny religious organizations of any right, benefit, or privilege that is allowed to other organizations. The 2020 Open Inquiry Rule allows the federal government to withhold federal aid from any college or university that, simply because of the…

Kerby Anderson Recently I mentioned the name of Shane Pruitt on my radio program, and it reminded me of his book that we talked about a few years ago. We live in a world devoid of much common sense, and so it is worth mentioning his book, 9 Common Lies Christians Believe. You have heard most of them before. They are little phrases and one-liners that people say to encourage you. You might be going through some tough struggles, and…

Kerby Anderson Who are the luckiest people on this planet? Dennis Prager said on his radio program something progressives would never say. As a Jew, he says that American Jews are the luckiest Jews in Jewish history. He also says that about many other ethnic groups. He has mentioned that his father wrote his senior thesis on anti-Semitism in America. Nevertheless, he taught his two sons that they were the luckiest Jews in Jewish history. Dennis Prager still believes that,…

Kerby Anderson It’s time to talk about William Shakespeare. In previous commentaries, I have documented that he coined or invented about 1,500 English words we use today. I have also talked about the phrases we use today that come from him. When we use phrases like “love is blind” or to “catch a cold” or you have a “heart of gold” or “it’s all Greek to me,” we are referring to scenes in Shakespeare. Of course, I have also done…