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Kerby Anderson Today is usually Tax Day, but the IRS says we don’t need to have our tax forms in until Monday. A more important date is Tax Freedom Day. That is the date when your tax burden is lifted. It is calculated by dividing the official government tally of all taxes collected in each year by the amount of all income earned in each year. Put another way, it is when you are no longer working for the government…

Kerby Anderson Yesterday, I talked about an academic study by Dr. John Lott. He concluded that Joe Biden received hundreds of thousands of “excess” votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election. But that may not sound that significant because we have been told by this president and the media that he had an electoral mandate. It is true that Joe Biden won the popular vote by a significant number. But if you focus on the electoral votes, you will…

Kerby Anderson An academic study conducted by Dr. John Lott concluded that Joe Biden received hundreds of thousands of “excess” votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election. In his research, he compared areas where Democrats are dominant to places where Republicans were dominant in the past two presidential elections. Looking at six swing states, he crunched the numbers and discovered that voter turnout in Republican areas increased from 2016 to 2020. Voter turnout among Democrats dropped, except in places…

Kerby Anderson A significant archaeological find in Israel should change the minds of skeptics about when much of the Old Testament was written. Archaeologists have found a fragment that includes the earliest reference to God (YHWH) ever discovered. The discovery is important because critics of the Bible assume that the first books in the Old Testament were written hundreds of years after the Exodus. The assumption is that Moses and the Israelites did not have the ability to write these…

Kerby Anderson The financial system in this country, and in the world, is based on trust. When you write a check, the shopkeeper must trust that you have money in the bank. When a major corporation sends ten million dollars to another company in another country, it assumes that the money being sent exists. Of course, there are checks in the system to make sure that the funds are transferred correctly. But some of the trust we have had is…

Penna Dexter The worst inflation our country has seen in 40 years is upon us. We all feel it. But inflation hits some communities harder than others. A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis states that, although we report a national inflation rate — currently 7.9 percent — different communities are impacted differently. “Covid-related” stimulus was sold, in part, to help lower-income households. Yet the ensuing inflation has hit them the hardest. Star Parker is president of…

Kerby Anderson President Biden recently suggested that the war in Ukraine will usher in a “new world order.” We have heard that before from other presidents, both Democratic and Republican. As I mentioned in a previous commentary, globalists are convinced that we need a “great reset.” Victor Davis Hanson believes a real reset is coming. It should arrive around November of this year, when American voters say no to all that has been taking place over the last few years….

Kerby Anderson Some social movements go through cycles. That is certainly the case with the latest outrage concerning “book banning.” Liberals have been at the forefront of college speech codes as well as cancel culture. It seems a bit hypocritical that they are suddenly outraged that some school districts have balked at putting certain progressive books in the school libraries. Some of the school districts that have been attacked are just down the road from where I do my daily…

Kerby Anderson Students at Yale Law School launched a protest and disrupted speakers on a panel last month. Of course, we have seen this before. But what made this mob protest so ironic was the fact that the panel was put together to show how lawyers from different ends of the political spectrum could agree on issues like free speech. One panelist was Monica Miller, who is a secular progressive associated with the American Humanist Association. The other panelist was…

Kerby Anderson The editorial board of the New York Times created quite a controversy with their editorial on free speech. One critic called for a correction followed by a mass resignation. Others wanted the editorial board to retract their statement and then resign. What caused this commotion? The editors argued the “America Has a Free Speech Problem.” You can read the editorial for yourself and will probably conclude that their argument had many salient points. “For all the tolerance and…

Kerby Anderson The Russian invasion of Ukraine is providing a lesson worth repeating. “Unfree societies are weak.” That is one of the comments by Kevin Williamson in his commentary on “Autocracy’s Fatal Flaws.” When dictators or other autocrats are in power, they may look strong. But they have an inherent weakness. These strong men never allow people with contrary information to talk to them. They surround themselves with people to flatter them and encourage them. Kevin Williamson asks, “Does Russia…