JOSEPH J. HORTON: FREE TO BE HEALTHY
So how is that New Year’s resolution diet going? Will the long-term results be better than the last diet? For the majority of us, even successful diets are unsuccessful. We…...
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
CHRISTOPHER MANION: CLIFF NOTES
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- With the passage of the Cliff Fix, Obama has completed the de facto abrogation of the Constitution. In that document, Congress holds first priority: Article One,…...
Saturday, January 05, 2013
DR. PAUL KENGOR: SLOUCHING FROM GOMORRAH - REMEMBERING ROBERT BORK
It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork…...
DR. MARK W. HENDERICKSON: A NOSTALGIC NEW YEAR’S LOOK AT THE 50’S
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. New Year’s observances blend recollections of the past, celebrations in the present, and anticipation of the future. For…...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
DR. SYLVAIN CHARAT: FLEEING SOCIALISM - ACTOR GERARD DEPARDIEU WANTS HIS FREEDOM BACK
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. “I am leaving because you consider that success, creation, talent, anything different, must be punished.” This quotation from…...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS, 2012
The gentle spirit of Christmas brings a sense of fresh promise and renewal every year. The remembrances and commemorations of the birth of an innocent baby have a softening effect.…...
CHRISTOPHER MANION: CAN YOU SEE THE BABY?
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Another December, another War on Christmas. Every Advent, it seems, we must slog through a barrage of anti-Christmas noise commandeered by the usual suspects. Full of…...
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: TESTIMONIES OF HEAVEN
Earlier this year I went to the WPXI television studio in Pittsburgh to tape an interview. The technician who escorted me inquired, “What are you here to discuss today?” When…...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR AND MICHAEL REAGAN: THE FISCAL CLIFF - WHAT WOULD REAGAN DO?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at FoxNews.com. As President Obama and Democrats urge Republicans to increase taxes, some liberals are curiously invoking the name of Ronald…...
Monday, December 17, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: AMERICA’S GROWING GOVERNMENT CLASS
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. The latest unemployment figures are again depressing, but not for the usual reasons. They provide further confirmation…...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: COMPROMISE OR GRIDLOCK IN WASHINGTON:TWO UNPALATABLE ALTERNATIVES
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. As soon as the elections were over, a wave of commentaries extolling the virtues of compromise appeared in the…...
Monday, December 10, 2012
DR. SYLVAIN CHARAT: WELFARESHIP: FRANCE’S STATUS QUO, AMERICA’S FUTURE?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Welfare has become a characteristic of President Obama’s domestic policies. There has been a surge in American citizens on…...
Friday, November 30, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: LONG LIVE THE TWINKIE! (TWINKIE KILLERS, PART 2)
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Can the Twinkie and other famous Hostess brands be saved? I hope so, and I’ll offer my own two…...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: REVEREND RUBIO? THE MEDIA BEGINS ITS ATTACK ON MARCO RUBIO
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. In a recent interview, Senator Marco Rubio, effectively the Republican front-runner for 2016, was asked, “How old…...
Monday, November 26, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: IT’S THE HOLIDAY SEASON—WITHOUT ANDY WILLIAMS
It was shortly before Thanksgiving. I was in the kitchen washing dishes when I heard my first music of the holiday season. Sick of talk radio and sick of election…...
Friday, November 23, 2012
DR. EARL TILFORD: THE GAZA TRAP
Even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Israel-Gaza ceasefire, it’s apparent that Gaza still holds many traps for Israel. For example, there’s the media trap. Hamas, like…...
Friday, November 16, 2012
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF AMERICA
A few days after the election of 2012 the very talented Michael Ramirez published a political cartoon that perhaps conveyed a more profound meaning than he anticipated. He depicted a…...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: OBAMA: THE SECOND FDR RATHER THAN THE SECOND CARTER
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. I’ve thought a lot over the last few years about an axiom attributed to Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat…...
Monday, November 12, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: THE 2012 ELECTION AND THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY
Mitt Romney lost the presidential race by only two percentage points. If the election had been held just a week earlier, when he was up in the polls, things might…...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: - V&V FLASHBACK - THE 40-PERCENT PRESIDENT: OBAMA’S CRUISE TO ELECTION
Editor’s note: A version of this piece was written for the American Thinker on January 26, 2011. We're at the halfway mark of Barack Obama's first term as president. I…...
Thursday, November 08, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: AMERICA’S FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION
Timing is everything in politics. For four years, I angered conservatives by insisting Barack Obama would get reelected. I figured that an electorate willing to elect a man with ideas…...
Friday, November 02, 2012
DR. SHAWN RITENOUR: TWO PERCENT ECONOMIC GROWTH: REAL OR APPARENT?
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has just announced that GDP grew at a rate of 2 percent…...
Thursday, November 01, 2012
DR. ANDREW JAMES HARVEY: “ALL HALLOWS’ EVE”—READ IT
“On the vigil of the hallows, it was gloomily and steadily raining.” And so it is. I am quoting from a story set in 1945 London, but here we are…...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
DR. GARY SCOTT SMITH: PROOF OF HEAVEN
“Heaven is Real,” a Newsweek cover proclaimed last week. Renowned neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s scientific worldview had previously led him to view near-death experiences as having plausible scientific explanations. However, spending…...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS? …THE HOMELESS THEN AND NOW—OBAMA AND REAGAN
As a biographer of Ronald Reagan, I’m constantly asked to compare today’s fiscal/economic situation to what Reagan faced in the 1980s. Today’s record debt/deficits remind of the 1980s, though today’s…...
Monday, October 15, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: ALEX KARRAS, RIP
Alex Karras, the former Detroit Lions All-Pro defensive tackle and later a successful actor, died on October 10. I have vivid memories of him before he ever gained immortality as…...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
DR. PAUL KENGOR: PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE “INTELLIGENCE BRIEF” SCANDAL
The last few weeks have produced many intriguing political moments, but none as shocking as the revelation that President Obama has been absent from the vast majority of his daily…...
Monday, October 08, 2012
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT BILLIONAIRE
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Two news items about “the rich” recently popped up online within a couple of hours of each other. Story…...
Thursday, October 04, 2012
DR. JOSEPH J. HORTON: SAME-SEX PARENTING: CAN WE HONESTLY PURSUE TRUTH?
When discussing the possible effects on children of being raised by same-sex parents, I have told my students that the best evidence we have is that there are no negative…...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: MITT ROMNEY AND THE POLITICS OF VIRTUE
When Mitt Romney blurted out his now notorious 47-percent lament, liberal gaffe-o-meters went ballistic, acting as though he were an American Ebenezer Scrooge who had just shoved Tiny Tim Cratchit…...
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