Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson If you type the words “tablet kids” into a search engine, up will pop all sorts of tablets for young children. If you look far enough, you will see a press report of a medical study that would warn you not to purchase one of those tablets. The Journal of the American Medical Association on Pediatrics documents such concerns in the article on “Early-Childhood Tablet Use and Outbursts of Anger.” The researchers found that children who spend 75…

Kerby Anderson Americans have been concerned about immigration, and particularly about the lack of border security. I wondered how the mainstream media would try to deflect the issue. The New York Times published a report with the headline, “In JD Vance’s Backyard, Conspiracy Theories About Migrants and Voting Abound.” The headline of a Washington Post report proclaims that “Republicans Flood TV with Misleading Ads about Immigration, Border.” In a recent commentary, Rich Lowry explains “all of this represents is not…

Kerby Anderson Charles Gasparino, a TV network business correspondent, begins his latest book on the radicalization of corporate America by talking about “The Great Goldman Chick-fil-A Debate.” A handful of young Goldman Sachs associates wanted to order chicken sandwiches from the local Chick-fil-A restaurant. Others felt it would be racist and bigoted to do so. An angry debate broke out. A business colleague of Charles tipped him off to the story. He was amazed that, as he puts it, “some…

Kerby Anderson Political campaigns become intense after Labor Day. You will need wisdom and discernment to evaluate the numerous proposals because much of the mainstream media doesn’t evaluate counter proposals with the same objectivity. Here are two examples. In June, Donald Trump announced a proposal to end taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers. At the time, CBS News reported, “Former President Donald Trump’s vow to stop taxing tips would cost the federal government up to $250 billion over…

Kerby Anderson Today is Labor Day. Although this day was set aside to honor trade and labor organizations, I believe it is a day when Christians can also consider how they view work and labor. The Bible has quite a bit to say about how we are to view work, and so I devote part of a chapter in my book, Making the Most of Your Money, to a biblical view of work. First, we are to work unto the Lord in…

Penna Dexter You’ve heard of sanctuary cities. These are municipalities that refuse to cooperate with the federal government in enforcing immigration law, thus providing a sanctuary, or safe haven, for illegal aliens, helping them to break U.S. law. Now, a California coastal town has declared itself a “sanctuary city for parental rights.” Huntington Beach is a great surfing spot. In WalletHub’s poll of “Best Places to Raise a Family,” it ranks number 10. The city’s school district is highly rated….

Kerby Anderson Are more Americans becoming unemployable? In previous commentaries, I have mentioned that we have 7 million men (ages 25-54) who are not working and not looking for work. Last year to coincide with Labor Day, Senator Marco Rubio issued a critical report on the working and non-working man. His research discovered that two-thirds of these non-working men “have never married” and nearly “a third live with their parents.” Also, half of them take painkillers daily. Steven Malanga concludes…

Kerby Anderson James Lindsay knows what the next big woke trend will be because he knows how the Left thinks. He calls it Critical Immigration Theory, which is not to be confused with Critical Race Theory. He says that critical theory is so flexible that you can stick any word between critical and theory and you have a new way of seeing the world. For example, Critical Colonial Theory argues that colonial exploitation by Europeans allowed them to get rich…

Kerby Anderson This month of August is the 53rd anniversary of our government going off the gold standard. Saifedean Ammous wrote his book The Fiat Standard to explain the impact that political and economic decision has had on our lives. His earlier book, The Bitcoin Standard, was a bestselling book that has been translated into more than two dozen languages. He argues that by first understanding the operation of bitcoin, someone can then better understand the equivalent operations in fiat….

Kerby Anderson Yesterday, I talked about why price controls are a bad idea, and I thought I might continue by looking at two policies being proposed to attract young voters: student loan debt and housing prices. Let’s start with a simple statement about supply and demand. If you want to lower prices, you need to increase supply and/or decrease demand. Unfortunately, colleges aren’t governed by a free market of supply and demand. That is why the cost of tuition has…

Kerby Anderson You only get one chance to make a good first impression. Americans were trying to get a first impression of Kamala Harris before the Democratic National Convention. Yes, they knew something about her as vice-president, but now she was running for president. Her first decision about personnel for her future administration was to pick Governor Tim Walz as her vice-presidential running mate. He was one of the most liberal governors or senators she could have picked. Her first…