Recent Viewpoints

Penna Dexter Flanked by a couple of female generals, President Biden spoke recently at an event marking International Women’s Day. In comments on the speech, Fox News host Tucker Carlson wondered how the military’s focus on placing women in combat and procuring maternity flight suits is really going to help us deal with the rising Chinese military threat. Considering this push, plus the Biden administration’s announcement that the Pentagon will pay for gender reassignment surgery for active-duty personnel, one does…

Kerby Anderson Today is Good Friday. On this day, believers around the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. We all understand that. What most of us don’t understand is why this dark day in which Jesus suffered and died is called “Good Friday.” Why isn’t it called Bad Friday or Dark Friday? Over the years, people have put forward various theories. Some argue that it is called Good Friday because something good came about because of the death, burial,…

Kerby Anderson Boys are in crisis. That should be obvious, but Dr. Warren Farrell still has to spend his first six chapters documenting it. He was on my radio program to talk about the book, The Boy Crisis, that he wrote with Dr. John Gray. First, there is the crisis of our sons’ mental health. For example, the increase in the suicide rate among white males led to as many white male deaths as were lost to AIDS. The rate…

Kerby Anderson There was a time in the past when political leaders of both parties talked about the importance of religion in the founding of this country. Terry Jeffrey found a speech by an urban northeastern Democrat that illustrated this so well. The candidate proclaimed that “a devotion to fundamental religious principles has characterized American thought and action.” He argued that the nation’s greatest leaders understood the “essential religious idea” of our founding. “Our earliest legislation was inspired by this…

Kerby Anderson John Stossel says the problem is “bad laws.” Rafael Mangual describes it as the “overcriminalization of America.” Both are talking about the same problem and teamed up to produce a video that highlights an issue that needs to be addressed. To put it simply, we have too many laws on the books, many of which are outdated and need to be removed. For example, there is a law in South Carolina that bans 18-year-olds from playing pinball. Taking…

Kerby Anderson Members of a very popular South Korean boy band were denied draft exemptions even though it would reduce revenue to the country. Why? Because there aren’t enough boys available to serve in the military. Lyman Stone uses this illustration to highlight the extremely low birth rate in South Korea. But that country is just one of many examples of what has become a global birth dearth. Fertility rates have been declining in all the developed countries of the…

Penna Dexter Studies are surfacing that show us how effective the shutdowns implemented in response to COVID-19 really were in saving lives.  Were the results worth the dramatic drop in private-sector employment, the lost businesses, the forgone dreams?  Are states with stricter lockdowns more effective in preventing deaths from COVID-19? Chuck DeVore of the Texas Public Policy Foundation points out that “this economic pain should have been rewarded with a lower COVID fatality rate — that’s what we were told…

Kerby Anderson Christians and churches are facing significant challenges in America. That is why Dr. Erwin Lutzer wrote his book, We Will Not Be Silenced. It is not only a call to action, but a practical manual on how to address the many challenges we face in a society that is growing more secular every day He takes some time to explain how we got to our current circumstances. Various forces are working to dismantle the core values that made…

Kerby Anderson America’s money supply has increased faster than at any time in history, and that should concern you and your family. The reason for the increase in the money supply should be obvious. The government has been pushing stimulus efforts after the economic devastation of the pandemic and the lockdowns. Nearly a quarter (23.6%) of all U.S. dollars were created last year. An equity strategist with Morgan Stanley said that “it’s fair to say we have never observed money…

Kerby Anderson How should we respond when spiritual heroes fall? That is a question Greg Koukl writes about and discussed with me recently on my radio program. The reason for the discussion centered around Ravi Zacharias, but his wise conclusions are appropriate for any time we see a pastor, elder, or ministry leader fall. He offered five principles to help us think biblically about the issue. First, guard your soul. We don’t have to dwell on all the sordid details…

Kerby Anderson It may be the most useless number you have never heard of in government. That number is what is called the “social cost of carbon.” The Obama administration created it years ago as an instrument to argue against fossil fuels and to argue for radical environmental policies. On his very first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order resurrecting the Obama-era social cost of carbon. When it was first created (back in 2010), the cost was…