DR. EARL TILFORD: DROPPING THE BENGHAZI BALL
In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force’s self-descriptor for its capabilities was “Global Reach, Global Power.” On September 11, 2012, as Americans were being attacked and killed in the Middle…...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
DR. PAUL G. KENGOR: RONALD REAGAN: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ADVOCATE?
Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's daughter, recently speculated on where her father might stand on same-sex marriage. Politico published her thoughts under the headline, "Patti Davis says Reagan wouldn't have opposed…...
Thursday, April 25, 2013
DR. GARY L. WELTON: ACADEMIC FREEDOM, CIVILITY, AND THE NAME OF JESUS
Recently, a self-proclaimed Christian instructor at Florida Atlantic University asked his students to write “Jesus” on a piece of paper and step on it. The exercise was from a textbook…...
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A GREAT PRESIDENT
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Sunday, April 28, marks the 255th anniversary of President James Monroe’s birth in 1758. Recently, I had the pleasure…...
Thursday, April 18, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX TURNS 100
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily.Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be…...
Monday, April 08, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: WELL DONE, LADY THATCHER …THE PASSING OF THE IRON LADY
Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest leaders of the Cold War, of the 20th century, and of British history, has died at the age of 87. I’ve referred to…...
Friday, March 29, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: CLINTONS’ PROGRESS - BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON EMBRACE GAY MARRIAGE
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. Bill and Hillary Clinton have endorsed gay marriage, completely reversing their support of the 1996 Defense…...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
FRED A. KINGERY: MF GLOBAL AND THE CYPRIOT BANKING CRISIS
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. With MF Global (MFG) recently disclosing more details on its bankruptcy and liquidation, let’s quickly review the financial…...
Friday, March 22, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HILLARY CLINTON’S EVOLUTION ON GAY MARRIAGE
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in USA Today. Hillary Clinton supports gay marriage. This is a major shift. Yet, as someone who wrote a book…...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: THE HOPE OF HEAVEN
In response to recently being diagnosed with a rare and terminal type of brain cancer, sitcom star Valerie Harper declared, “we are all terminal.” In a cover story for “People”…...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: PRESERVING HUGO CHAVEZ
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. The gushing, almost angelic praise for Hugo Chavez by the left in America and around the world…...
Friday, March 15, 2013
DR. ALEJANDRO A. CHUAFEN: FROM AID TO ENTERPRISE: INTELLIGENT POVERTY CURES
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. We will always have the poor among us (Matthew 26:11), but over a billion living on less than…...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: MEDICARE: DID YOU REALLY PAY FOR THAT?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Last summer, Barack Obama riled a lot of entrepreneurs when he got carried away at a campaign event…...
Friday, March 08, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE POWER OF TRUTH: REAGAN’S “EVIL EMPIRE” TURNS 30
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared as an Exclusive Special Report for American Spectator. Today, Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire speech turns 30 years old. It stands as…...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HUGO CHAVEZ: FAITHFUL TO DEATH
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. There’s an old joke from the Cold War. It went like this: Hardline East German communist Walter Ulbricht…...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
DR. R.B.A. DI MUCCIO: WHAT IS THE POINT IF TAXES WILL NEVER STOP THE FEDERAL RED INK?
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Thinker. A wise man once told me that when any tax-levying entity operates at a deficit, the…...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE PENTAGON BUDGET AS POLITICAL FOOTBALL
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The Pentagon’s budget occupies center stage in the sequestration drama. Defense spending comprises approximately 18 percent of the 2013…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE PRESIDENTIAL BLAME-GAME
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. February is the month of presidents. It includes Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday, Ronald Reagan’s birthday, and, of…...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
FRED A. KINGERY: CROSSING THE RUBICON
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at RealClearMarkets.com. The current global debt accumulations are unprecedented. In fact, it can be observed that at no time in…...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GOD FOR OBAMACARE … DR. BEN CARSON’S HERESY
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. Liberals are apoplectic over remarks by Dr. Ben Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson, a…...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: ERASING REAGAN? THE ILLIBERAL WAR ON TRUTH
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The prospect of four more years of Barack Obama in the White House has caused several conservative voices…...
Saturday, February 09, 2013
DR. ALEJANDRO A. CHAFUEN: THINK TANKS: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. How do think tanks contribute to produce outcomes conducive to better public policy? Working for over…...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
DR. ALEJANDRO A. CHAFUEN: THINKING ABOUT THINK TANKS: WHICH ARE THE BEST?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The history of the London exchange dates back to 1698. John Castaing, a pioneer of a Starbucks of…...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: FINDING THE CITY ON A HILL
One of the most widely employed metaphors in today’s American political discourse is that the United States is a “city on a hill.” Especially popularized by Ronald Reagan, this phrase…...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
L. JOHN VAN TIL: IS AMERICA’S HOUSE DIVIDED AGAIN?
Having just viewed Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” and knowing that Lincoln’s birthday is approaching, it seemed fitting to ponder one of Lincoln’s most famous speeches, and perhaps a lesson for Americans…...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE END OF THE REAGAN ERA?
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan…...
Friday, January 18, 2013
DR. T. DAVID GORDON: FIREARMS DISCUSSION (PART IV): REASON OR EMOTION, MR. PRESIDENT?
As I wrote this article, my most recent among several on firearms policy, I anticipated the president addressing the nation on the matter at any moment. What I say here…...
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: “SO HELP ME GOD” - THE SECOND INAUGURAL OF BARACK OBAMA
On Monday the United States will celebrate one of its great festivals of civil religion as Barack Obama is inaugurated for a second time. Although nothing in the Constitution mandates…...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
DR. JOHN A. SPARKS: OBAMA’S MEDICAL DEVICES TAX … IT MAY BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in The Washington Times. With the start of the New Year, one of the little noticed but potentially harmful features of…...
DR. T. DAVID GORDON: FIREARMS DISCUSSION (PART I) - GETTING FIREARMS “OFF THE STREETS”
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan rightly said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” He might just have rightly said, “Everyone is entitled to his…...
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