Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson What if Christians and Christian institutions that provide so many social services went on strike? That is a question Addison Del Mastro asks in The American Conservative. He reminds us of the book by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. She poses the question of what would happen if entrepreneurs in America decided to go on strike because of an increasingly overbearing regulatory state. The book documents the dystopia the country falls into. While I doubt that Christians and Christian…

Kerby Anderson The debate and discussion about transgender issues will continue because of a transgender ideology that has developed that is actually harmful to kids. That is one of the conclusions of the book by Ryan Anderson with the creative title: When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. The transgender ideology promotes the opportunity for children to change their gender with surgery and drugs. And parents “are told that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones may be the only…

Penna Dexter The Left’s massive social spending bill may be pared back in order to pass. But proponents of the new entitlements created by this legislation are not letting them go. They are simply reducing the price tags of initiatives by shortening their duration, knowing that Congress will be afraid not to renew them down the road. The Left is not about to give up any of the socialist policies it is stuffing into this bill. One of these is…

Kerby Anderson The next time you go to your bank or write a check, imagine the IRS is looking over your shoulder. That’s how some have described the latest attempt by the Biden Administration to gain even more information about your finances. You would think that your annual tax filing would be invasive enough. No doubt you have heard about legislation being considered that would allow the IRS to review every account that has at least a $600 balance or…

Kerby Anderson Imagine dropping your daughter off at a Christian college. You help her set up her dorm room. As you give her a final hug goodbye, you learn that her roommate is a male. That is the scenario that attorney Julie Marie Blake describes. She, and other ADF attorneys, are representing Missouri’s College of the Ozarks. Their lawsuit is challenging the Biden Administration rule that forces faith-based institutions to abandon their beliefs. A little history is in order. The…

Kerby Anderson Carine Hajjar asks an important question: “Do Universities Still Care about Truth?” I suspect you already know the answer, but her commentary surfaced some interesting facts. She is a recent graduate of Harvard and even served on the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson. Although universities say they value diversity, intellectual diversity is not something they seem to value. She reminds us that only three percent of Harvard University’s faculty reported being “conservative.” Organizations that work on college…

Kerby Anderson What is the significance of YouTube deciding to ban all videos that are critical of the current vaccines? Dr. Michael Brown believes this was a bad decision, even though he explains that he is not an anti-vaxxer. He is more concerned with the issue of free speech and the free exchange of important information and ideas. He begins by talking about his positive experience with the COVID videos that his ministry has posted online. YouTube, he says, has…

Kerby Anderson Senator Joe Manchin sees the irony. “We have 11 million jobs that we haven’t filled, 8 million still unemployed. Something’s not matching up here.” Good, high-paying jobs are going unfilled. The National Federation of Independent Business did a survey of small business owners and found that half of them (50%) reported job openings that could not be filled. That is a 48-year record high. We all know what happens if you pay people not to work. But the…

Penna Dexter The massive social spending bill the Left is attempting to foist on America provides for free universal Pre-K for 3 and 4-year-old children. The proposal is modeled after the decades-old Head Start Program. Head Start was launched in 1965 to get kids from low-income families prepped for kindergarten. In 2012, after extensive research into results, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed its conclusion that Head Start, by then a nearly $8 billion program, had “little…

Kerby Anderson The marriage rate in America has been in decline for many years. Consider that in the year 2000, married 25-to-34-year-olds outnumbered their never -arried peers (55% to 34%). By 2015, however, those percentages were almost reversed (40% to 53%). Young people are not getting married for a variety of reasons. Many economists argue that men are avoiding marriage because they have lower wages and want to increase their income before asking a woman to marry them. But the…

Kerby Anderson The Environmental Protection Agency recently unveiled an online tool that is supposed to help local officials see the dangers of climate change in their community. The Climate Change Adaptation Resource Center provides a map that warns of the danger of climate change to each of the eight regions of the United States. These dire warnings were too much for Dr. William M. Briggs, who has been questioning many of the claims of climate change activists. In his column,…