Criticizing Silicon Valley
Kerby Anderson In the past, I have written about how a few were starting to call some of the billionaires in the Silicon Valley “the new robber barons.” Most of the Silicon Valley companies seemed unt...
Alabama Abortion Ban
Penna Dexter When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the state's new Human Life Protection Act, she implied that the goal of the bill is to set up a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case...
Blue States Revenue
Kerby Anderson Astute political observers frequently notice the large gap between rhetoric and reality. That is certainly true of some of the Democrat governors in blue states. Their political rhetori...
Entitlement Cliff
Kerby Anderson Sometime in the near future, America will go over the entitlement cliff. That is the argument of Dr. Merrill Matthews, co-author of the book, On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlement...
Credit Card Usury
Kerby Anderson American credit card debt has now topped $1 trillion. And most of the people in debt don’t pay off their credit cards and thus pay very high interest rates. But never fear. Socialists S...
Break Up Facebook?
Kerby Anderson Should the government break up Facebook? In a previous commentary, I quoted Senator Ted Cruz who observed that the current big tech companies “are larger and more powerful than when Sta...
Socialism Not Cool
Penna Dexter Socialism is disturbingly cool these days. Obviously, we haven't learned enough from history. There are generations of voters who weren't even born yet when the Berlin Wall and Soviet co...
Why Shootings?
Kerby Anderson Shootings in schools and synagogues always bring the inevitable question, why? The most recent shootings illustrate that there is no single answer. Although there are some common patte...
Voting Felons
Kerby Anderson Should convicted felons be allowed to vote? Senator Bernie Sanders believes they should not have that privilege taken away from them. Critics rhetorically ask whether anyone really beli...
Voter Suppression
Kerby Anderson Since a number of presidential candidates are warning about “voter suppression,” it seems like a good time to accurately define the term. Let’s start with a simple issue. Cutting back e...
Light Green New Deal
Kerby Anderson Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out his version of a Green New Deal in a video from Yosemite Valley. It doesn’t call for such draconian action as the legislation sponsored b...
