Credit Card Debt
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month the Federal Reserve reported that credit card debt for Americans hit $870 billion as of December. That makes it the largest amount ever. Obviously, credit card debt...
Health Care Transparency
Kerby Anderson Last week I went to my doctor for a check-up and took my family out to dinner. My experience as a consumer was very different between the two. The restaurant had total transparency. The...
Two-Faith Nation
Kerby Anderson In a recent column, David French reminds us that not so long ago, “religious liberty lawyers were a quirky, somewhat cool, and tiny subset of the legal profession.” They were defending...
The Conservative Advantage
Kerby Anderson In a previous set of commentaries, I talked about the interview Nick Pitts and I did with Jonathan Haidt on his book, The Coddling of the American Mind. Then I saw an essay that quoted...
Is Health Care a Right?
Kerby Anderson The political justification for more government intervention into America’s health care system is the claim that health care is a right. Proponents of the Affordable Care Act in the pas...
Sweet Potatoes
Kerby Anderson For the last few decades, we have been scolded by everyone from radical environmentalists to simple back-to-nature advocates that we have an overly industrialized society. It must be di...
The Filibuster
Kerby Anderson Is it possible that sometime in the future, the US Senate will end the filibuster? When he was a Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid ended the filibuster for judicial nominees. That was...
Martina's Truthtelling
Penna Dexter Tennis great, Martina Navratilova is speaking out bluntly against the trend in which athletes who are born male but identify as female are increasingly allowed to compete in women's sport...
Americans in Debt
Kerby Anderson Not only is the US government in debt, but many of its citizens are in significant debt as well. Economists announced that credit card debt for Americans has now reached a new height of...
Borrowed Money
Kerby Anderson When the US debt officially reached $20 trillion, some listeners asked who owns this debt. In the past, we were assured that the national debt wasn’t a big deal since “we owe it to ours...
Millennial Trends
Kerby Anderson According to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, the millennial generation has been reversing some of the social trends that were true of previous generations. For example about one-third...
