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Penna Dexter Following the Biden administration’s admission that its Build Back Better Plan is dead, there’s an effort to resurrect parts of this massive social spending bill. One goal is the White House’s proposal for a “transformational investment” — $200 billion — for free universal pre-K for 3 and 4-year-old children. The plan is modeled on the Head Start program which was launched in 1965 to get kids from low-income families prepped for kindergarten. This push comes despite extensive research…

Kerby Anderson Stacey Lance has been a teacher in the Canadian public school system for the past 15 years. Her recent essay laments that “the kids aren’t alright.” She begins by saying that she isn’t a doctor or expert in virology. But she does know her students, and she is very sad about what they have experienced these last two years. Of course, there is the students’ loss of learning and their mental issues. But what is overlooked, she says,…

Kerby Anderson No doubt you have heard discussions about “herd immunity,” but now some doctors are talking about “super immunity.” Vaccine immunity and immunity from infection don’t seem to provide lasting protection for the Omicron variant. But it may be possible that the variant may give many of us “super immunity.” A study from the Oregon Health and Science University, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, documents that a breakthrough infection generates robust immune response against the…

Kerby Anderson Inflation may not be good for most Americans, but it certainly helps the federal government. The editors of the Wall Street Journal put it this way: “The country may be upset with inflation, but in many ways political Washington has never had it better.” The pandemic has been an “excuse for record government spending and the abuse of regulatory power such as vaccine mandates and an eviction moratorium.” But there is another reason. Increasing income tax revenues have…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about a coming tsunami in our culture. Today, I would like to talk about a red tsunami that may crash upon the 2022 midterm elections. Dr. Merrill Matthews was on my radio program recently to suggest that the coming red wave election may become a red tsunami. We began by talking about Professor Larry Sabato (Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) who has been looking at elections for decades and has made many…

Kerby Anderson Years ago, I was near a beach when a tsunami warning was issued. An earthquake miles away under the ocean threatened to send a wall of water in my direction. It turned out to be nothing, but that didn’t keep me from going to higher ground. Dr. Jim Denison warns us in his new book of a cultural tsunami brought about by four cultural earthquakes. The philosophy of postmodernism has created a post-truth culture where the truth becomes…

Penna Dexter There’s a development in the heart-rending case involving Christian bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein. The Kleins were the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, located in downtown Gresham, Oregon. Their bakery is closed now because Oregon officials imposed a $135,000 financial penalty on the Kleins for declining to create a custom cake for a same-sex union ceremony. When Melissa operated her bakery, she was especially honored when couples chose her to bake their wedding cakes. The Kleins are…

Kerby Anderson The current “progressive” agenda may push this nation back to a more primitive past. That is the conclusion of Glenn Ellmers who wonders if the current assault on reason and nature can last. He provides many examples. “Reinstituting racial segregation and replacing individual rights with group rights. Abandoning poor and minority neighborhoods to lawlessness by defunding the police and decriminalizing many offenses. Eliminating opportunities for women in sports by forcing them to compete against men. Impoverishing working-class American…

Kerby Anderson Some members of Congress do quite well in the stock market. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for example, has a stock portfolio that outperforms the S&P 500. But she isn’t the only member of Congress that does better in the stock market than most hedge fund managers. Ten years ago (December 27, 2011) I did a commentary based on the two-year-long research by Peter Schweizer. It took him some time to pull together the information because Congress…

Kerby Anderson The president and vice-president have been delivering speeches that effectively argue that America has significant numbers of domestic enemies. They aren’t talking about Antifa or Muslim radicals. They are talking about American citizens and state legislatures. Two recent speeches illustrate the point. On the anniversary of January 6, the president and vice-president compared the Capital riot to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on 9/11. This was supposedly the worst attack on our democracy since the…

Kerby Anderson Back in October and November, I did commentaries about the letter that was sent to the White House from the National School Board Association suggesting that protesting parents could be designated as domestic terrorists. It encouraged the administration to use any laws at its disposal, including the PATRIOT Act originally intended for Muslim terrorists. The school board letter led to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memorandum directing the FBI and the US attorneys’ offices to investigate parents protesting school…