The Center for Vision & Values
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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on May 27, 2010 at 08:48 am
The explosion that sank British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling vessel/platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April was an unmitigated disaster. The accident killed 11 workers and has caused massive…...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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on May 26, 2010 at 05:11 am
I first met Levi almost 20 years ago. He was about 12. We had just purchased our land from his parents, Jake and Nancy. Being old-order Amish, Jake and Nancy…...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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on May 22, 2010 at 08:45 am
Good afternoon, thank you for joining us here today for our annual celebration of, “Wow, we survived another year!” In all seriousness, congratulations to all of you for another excellent…...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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on May 19, 2010 at 01:00 am
The sovereign debt crisis—centered on Greece for the moment, but bound to spread to other heavily indebted national governments—has taken an ominous turn. The European Central Bank (ECB), the…...
Monday, May 17, 2010
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on May 17, 2010 at 09:39 am
Wetlands Quality Assurance Project Plan Guidance Where’s Anita Dunn when you need her? Recall Anita Dunn, who resigned as President Obama’s communications director not long after Glenn Beck had the…...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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on May 12, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Economic error knows no partisan bounds. Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt both adopted foolish, harmful policies during the Great Depression. Republican George W. Bush’s stimulus plan made no…...
Monday, May 10, 2010
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on May 10, 2010 at 08:23 am
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Progressivism is all-the-rage nowadays, with liberals having jettisoned the “liberal” label for the less maligned tag of…...
Friday, May 07, 2010
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on May 7, 2010 at 07:06 am
On August 25, 1914, in a spate of disorder, shots rang out from the Belgian town of Louvain, instigating its German occupiers to launch a frenzy of looting and destruction. Crazed…...
Thursday, May 06, 2010
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on May 6, 2010 at 07:49 am
FGF: "Manipulated History of the Civil Rights Movement": T <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- In a recent syndicated…...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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on April 29, 2010 at 08:35 am
Imagine that you are governor of the state of Pennsylvania, and private enterprisers discover a new, clean source of fuel within the state's borders, a source which would help reduce the costs of energy,…...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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on April 28, 2010 at 07:35 am
President Obama signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague on April 8—and did so to global accolades. It was the culmination of years of negotiations and a…...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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on April 20, 2010 at 05:49 am
Financial markets function to discount the future. Usually, by the time you read about something in the newspaper, financial market pricing has already "discounted" that event weeks, months, or perhaps…...
Monday, April 19, 2010
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on April 19, 2010 at 01:17 pm
Editor’s note: This is one of many articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our two-day conference on “The Progressives,” which kicked off today on…...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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on April 13, 2010 at 10:02 am
Editor’s note: This is one of many articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on “The Progressives.” Click here for…...
Monday, April 12, 2010
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on April 12, 2010 at 08:19 am
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. This spring 2010 marks some sordid anniversaries: 65 years since the discovery of the Nazi…...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
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on April 8, 2010 at 05:27 am
Editor’s note: This is one of many articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on “The Progressives.” Click here for…...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
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on April 6, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Editor’s note: This is one of many articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on “The Progressives.” Click here for…...
Thursday, April 01, 2010
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on April 1, 2010 at 10:03 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared through the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. Permission to reprint in whole or in part…...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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on March 30, 2010 at 07:00 am
“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” By Jennifer Burns | Oxford University Press, USA (October 2009) | 384 pp. | List Price: $27.95 Prior to the…...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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on March 24, 2010 at 09:32 am
On Thursday, March 11, during Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel to herald the re-initiation of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Israel’s Interior Ministry announced the construction of 1,600 housing units in…...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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on March 23, 2010 at 09:39 am
Editor’s note: This is one of many coming articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on “The Progressives.” Click here…...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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on March 17, 2010 at 02:28 pm
Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This latest edition of “V&V Q&A” is an intriguing look at…...
Monday, March 15, 2010
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on March 15, 2010 at 01:37 pm
Should churches and individual Christians seek to help people with material problems and social needs, remedy social ills, and improve social institutions? Throughout history many congregations, Christian organizations, and individual…...
Friday, March 12, 2010
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on March 12, 2010 at 09:35 am
The media jumps at anniversaries of historical figures and events. For those of us who write about history, we, too, seize these opportunities to teach history, especially history Americans should…...
Monday, March 08, 2010
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on March 8, 2010 at 03:41 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. Some 2,000 years ago, the great Ancient Library in Alexandria, Egypt burnt to the ground, taking…...
Friday, March 05, 2010
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on March 5, 2010 at 11:57 am
The truly revolutionary American idea of government as the servant of the people may be fading away. Many of today’s so-called “civil servants” are a protected, privileged class. While Middle…...
Thursday, March 04, 2010
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on March 4, 2010 at 06:18 am
On the eve of the German offensive against France in August 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm confidently asserted to some departing troops, “You will be home before the leaves have fallen from…...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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on March 2, 2010 at 09:32 am
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in The Weekly Standard. A few years ago, I wrote a book on the faith of Hillary Clinton. Released in…...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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on February 25, 2010 at 10:16 am
You may have seen the recent story about the 41-year-old doctor who graduated from medical school in 2003 with student-loan indebtedness of $250,000 that has since swelled to more than…...
Monday, February 22, 2010
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on February 22, 2010 at 01:28 pm
Alexander Haig passed away over the weekend at the age of 85. A military man, a war veteran, no less than a four-star general, a chief of staff to two…...
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