Kerby Anderson
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I suspect that you are doing lots of things to get ready for this special day. Let me suggest you add one more item to your to-do list. Visit our website and download a copy of my Thanksgiving Quiz.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to gather as a family, but I also believe it can be a great time to teach our children and grandchildren about America’s godly heritage. I created this short quiz to be a conversation-starter around the Thanksgiving table.
We used to go around the table before the meal and ask our children to tell us what they were thankful for. After a few years of hearing about how they were thankful for their cat, their doll, and their video games, I knew we needed to do something else.
The Thanksgiving Quiz was born out of that frustration. It has twenty questions and answers on the Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact as well as some questions and answers about the Christian heritage of America.
Who were the Pilgrims and why did they leave Europe for America? Why did they celebrate Thanksgiving? What is the Mayflower Compact, and why is it significant? What lessons did the Pilgrims learn about work and even free enterprise? How did the Christian faith influence America? These are just a few of the sorts of questions that you can ask around the table and give short answers.
Perhaps it is time to recapture the importance of Thanksgiving. On the bicentennial celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webster, on December 22, 1820, declared the following: “Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.”
It is my hope this quiz will help your family see the importance of Thanksgiving.

Kerby Anderson
Earlier this month, Dominic Pino wrote about “Milton Friedman’s Revenge.” His argument was that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got the economic policy they wanted and the voters hated. It’s worth looking back to understand why the election went the way it did.
Milton Friedman was an economist best known for saying that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” He believed that inflation occurs when the money supply increases faster than output.
Four years ago, candidate Joe Biden announced, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” Of course, Friedman wasn’t running the show even before Biden was elected. But once Biden was elected, he proceeded to spend money and run up deficits. By 2021, the New Republic proclaimed: “The End of Friedmanomics.”
First came the American Rescue Plan Act, followed by an infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and then finally the intentionally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. Biden spent more and more federal money. Democrats even invented the word “Bidenomics” to describe their economic theory. The Biden administration ran up budget deficits which as a share of GDP were greater than those in the Great Depression.
Rising inflation was inevitable. As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, economist Larry Summers warned that the American Rescue Plan would “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.” Someone should have paid attention to him since he served as Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary. But his warning was mocked. He was right, and the skeptics were wrong.
When voters were given an opportunity to express their opinion about Bidenomics, two thirds (68%) of voters in exit polls said the economy was “not good” or “poor.” That’s why we can call this “Milton Friedman’s Revenge.”