Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about the leftist impulse to censor. But you might wonder why the left so frequently promotes censorship. Dennis Prager recently provided some insights into “Why the Left Has to Suppress Free Speech.” He begins by stating a fact from history. The left always suppresses speech going all the way back to Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He explains that this is an important difference between liberals and the left. Liberals and conservatives…

Kerby Anderson All factions, at some time, can succumb to the impulse to censor, but liberals have almost made it a religion. That’s the argument Glenn Greenwald makes as he talks about the attempt by the left to remove podcaster Joe Rogan from Spotify. Greenwald would likely describe himself as a liberal, but he is talking about people on the left who don’t believe in free speech. He says they “are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor adversaries….

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…