The Equality Act is a direct attack on religious liberty. The legislation, now working its way through the House, stands little chance of becoming law, but if passed, it would amend elements of the Civil Rights Act to include “sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity)” as a protected legal class, alongside race, color, religion, […]

Recently, I came across a video calling for the US to maintain its, “Mexico City Policy.” In the video, a variety of folks from across the continent speak out against American money coming overseas to fund abortions in Africa. This policy blocks funding to family planning organizations that direct people to or provide funding for […]

I don’t think Billy Joel had today’s example of cognitive dissonance in mind when he wrote his song. Whatever he meant, reality is now in the eye of the beholder, and it’s sliding in the most ironic way possible. Today, New York Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, since “Throughout the historic pandemic, […]

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.” Dave Ball, chair of the Washington County GOP, unloaded on U.S. Senator Pat Toomey’s (R-PA) vote to convict former Pres. […]

Earlier this month in Cedarville University’s Chapel, Kevin Jones challenged CU students and faculty to take some time this month to read or watch a movie about a prominent African-American in their academic discipline to understand their contributions to the broader field. That challenge was a delight to me, and I quickly shared a video […]

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. Whatever your political persuasion, I think most of us could agree that Donald Trump’s biggest harm to our country was manipulating a subset of his supporters to believe that what was in his interest, was the country’s deepest political need. At the […]

In the “take any good news you can” category, the $15/hr minimum wage proposal was dropped from Democrat’s $1.9T stimulus, but let’s not think it’s dead. Nor is the damage of its proposal not going to be felt, as employers are on notice they need to pursue more automation as labor cost increases will be […]

So many important political and economic issues are filling the air. Things feel very tense as 2021 seeks to prove that it will be just as memorable as 2020. It is time to take a break for a second from that because there is still fun to be had. I would encourage anyone who gets […]

On my most recent post, one commenter took us a bit off the direct path with a comment about the need for 21st Century education. While I agree that education is important, and indeed, investment in human capital is the best thing we can do to help the poor, the minimum wage is an additional […]

In my last post, one anonymous commenter challenged me on the data of minimum wage. Rather than burying what is an important response deep within a post, I will first copy the critique, and then provide a detailed response. Dr. Hammond, You paint a pretty alarming picture of the effects of a minimum wage increase […]