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Kerby Anderson With all the current emphasis on the environment, you might be tempted to ask, what happened to the Green New Deal? The simple answer is that it’s being implemented under the guise of infrastructure. Don’t take my word for it. Consider what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about the bill before Congress. She laments that “some parts of the party try to avoid saying Green New Deal and really dance around and try not to use the term, ultimately,…

Kerby Anderson We seem to be transforming our world into a zero-risk society. That is the conclusion of Andrew Michta, who is the dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies. “A year of the COVID pandemic has transformed some of the freest and most affluent societies in the history of the West beyond recognition and in ways perhaps never imagined.” He’s not the only person aware of the psychosis…

Kerby Anderson When an issue surfaces that the progressive mob doesn’t like, you can bet a few woke corporations will swoop down and act like the fourth branch of government. The election law passed in Georgia is just the most recent example. Corporate influence and interference are now spreading to other states considering laws to improve election integrity. You might wonder why the country’s corporations don’t stop and consider the implications for their companies. Haven’t they learned the lesson from…

Penna Dexter Legislators in Alabama recently passed, and sent to their governor, a law prohibiting K-12 schools from allowing biological boys to participate in girls’ sports. That same week, North Dakota passed a similar bill. Other states — about 30 altogether — are considering or have already enacted legislation to protect girls’ sports and to prevent female athletes from losing medals, titles, and scholarship opportunities to males who identify as females. The legislation in Alabama and North Dakota sent a message…

Kerby Anderson The Biden administration thinks they may have found a way to promote higher corporate taxes to American voters. President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claim this is all about ending “the global race to the bottom.” It is obvious that the president wants to raise our corporate taxes, but who knew that he also wants to raise them across the world? He and the Treasury secretary want to establish a “minimum global corporate tax rate.” A…

Kerby Anderson Progressives in Washington, D.C. are supporting several measures that target the core values upon which this nation was built. Here are some examples. There are many dangerous elements of the Equality Act, but one of the most alarming is the way it targets religious freedom. There isn’t a more fundamental American value than religious freedom. The For the People Act is another dangerous bill before the Senate. Not only would this bill weaken our election security by subjecting…

Kerby Anderson Three major scientific discoveries in the past century point to God. That is the argument Dr. Stephen Meyer makes in a recent commentary in The Federalist, which is based on his new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. The first significant discovery is that the physical universe likely had a beginning. This is contrary to the expectations of scientific materialists who assumed that the material universe was eternal and thus self-existent. Scientists discovered that galaxies far from the…

Kerby Anderson We are headed for another month or two of gun control debate and discussion. The president is moving forward with executive orders concerning “ghost guns,” arm braces, and “red flag laws.” However, he has aimed his sites at assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. For the moment, let’s look at the rhetoric being employed in an effort to ban or significantly restrict the manufacture, sale, and distribution of semi-automatic rifles. Proponents of gun control frequently refer to these sporting…

Kerby Anderson Crime is dramatically increasing in cities where police department funding has been reduced. That shouldn’t come as a big surprise and is well documented in a commentary that “Violent Crimes Spike in Cities That Defunded the Police.” More than 20 major cities have slashed their police budgets. Let’s look at some examples. Murders in Portland tripled from July 2020 to February 2021. This took place after “city commissioners voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police budget…

Penna Dexter The president has released his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. He wants bipartisan buy-in and it’s true that infrastructure bills often pass with strong bipartisan support. But, when we think of infrastructure, we think of airports, ports, waterways, bridges, and highway systems. Only about 7 percent of the proposed spending for this plan is devoted to such projects. Add infrastructure-related projects like upgrading water systems, expanding high-speed broadband, modernizing the electric grid, and improving infrastructure resilience and you have…

Kerby Anderson The long-established rules in society seem to be changing. Victor Davis Hanson describes “Ten Radical New Rules That are Changing America.” Let’s look at a few of them. First, money is a construct. Politicians seem to believe that money can be created out of thin air and that the national debt no longer matters. Previous presidents and administrations at least acknowledged that the money was real and that the debt had to be paid back. Second, laws are…