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Thursday, February 22, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 22, 2024 at 08:23 am
Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z. Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way…...
Friday, February 16, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 16, 2024 at 10:15 am
Ivy League alumni and donors are disgusted and demanding change. They have had enough. The good news is that there is a way forward and it’s buried in a bit of…...
Friday, February 09, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 9, 2024 at 08:07 am
How times change. I once read that in the 1950s a professor at a major state university was fired when an interview in the student newspaper quoted him as saying…...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 7, 2024 at 09:33 am
The Hail Mary pass. It’s a desperate, last-ditch attempt by a football team to score a touchdown in the waning seconds of the game. The pass usually comes from near…...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 31, 2024 at 10:28 am
I used to be an environmentalist. I once wrote that “scientists are right about climate change.” I long opposed logging clear-cuts and excessive drilling. I even voted for the…...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 18, 2024 at 09:40 am
Suppose that you owned a manufacturing business for which the government prescribed certain production regulations, and suppose, further, that the government demanded that you provide office space for a federal…...
Monday, January 15, 2024
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 15, 2024 at 02:22 pm
Nikki Haley recently provoked a firestorm of controversy for failing to name slavery when asked by journalists what caused the Civil War. A chorus of critics, including President Joe Biden,…...
Thursday, December 28, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on December 28, 2023 at 12:56 pm
Imagine being the new coach of one of the worst Division III football programs in the country. The program sat at zero wins and 20 losses after back-to-back winless seasons…...
Monday, November 27, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 27, 2023 at 10:27 am
Good parents do everything in their power to protect their children. But what happens when the government takes that power away? Once again, the United Kingdom has given us the…...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 14, 2023 at 10:26 am
On previous Veterans Days, I have remarked that the unseen scars borne by some of our veterans are more traumatic than visible scars. That tragic truth has an added poignancy…...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 26, 2023 at 03:33 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the The American Spectator. As part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gained the…...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 12, 2023 at 12:00 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the National Catholic Register. For the last 22 years, Sept. 11 has become a somber day to memorialize the thousands of victims…...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 23, 2023 at 10:09 am
When Lorie Smith, owner of a Colorado website design business, thought about expanding her business to include websites for those planning traditional weddings (one man and one woman), she was…...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 16, 2023 at 08:21 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of…...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 15, 2023 at 06:59 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The following article is excerpted from a speech delivered by the author in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Grove City College’s Institute…...
Monday, August 14, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 14, 2023 at 09:26 am
Earlier this month the King’s College in New York City announced it was canceling classes for the fall semester, laying off most of its faculty and staff, and struggling to…...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 9, 2023 at 08:18 am
On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man driven by…...
Thursday, August 03, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 3, 2023 at 08:14 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. The Dobbs decision striking down Roe v. Wade has led to shrill outcries by providers of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy. Both are lucrative, high-growth commercial industries…...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 27, 2023 at 11:35 am
The latest abysmally low birth rates from North America, Europe, and Asia continue to alarm business leaders and policy makers, as well they should. In Europe, only France is within…...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 19, 2023 at 02:04 pm
Undoubtedly you heard that several days in early July were the “hottest days ever” for good old Planet Earth. The source of that story was an entity called Climate Reanalyzer,…...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 18, 2023 at 09:02 am
As you reached for the alarm this morning what were your first thoughts? Did this endless work ritual conjure up depressing emotions causing you to bury your head in the…...
Friday, July 14, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 14, 2023 at 07:16 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Crisis Magazine. “More children, less pets” was the catchy takeaway in worldwide coverage of Pope Francis’ joining Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on stage…...
Thursday, July 06, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 6, 2023 at 08:30 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. In its last three terms, the Supreme Court has received a great deal of public attention — both positive…...
Monday, June 05, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 5, 2023 at 06:39 am
These are alarming numbers: In its recent State of the Global Workplace 2022 report, Gallup concluded that only 21% of workers are engaged and invested in their work. Over 70%…...
Friday, May 12, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 12, 2023 at 08:34 am
Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world’s largest beer company with over 400 global brands. Among these brands is one of America’s leading light beers, Bud Light, known for its sophomoric, fun,…...
Monday, May 01, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 1, 2023 at 06:49 am
Anne and Paul Ehrlich’s prediction in the late 1960s of the global overpopulation bomb has certainly fizzled out like a lot of doomsday predictions of the last few decades. Yet,…...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 25, 2023 at 07:37 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. “I feel only sympathy for the Russians. No people have suffered as much death.” That was…...
Monday, April 24, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 24, 2023 at 08:23 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Crisis Magazine. “This is not communism. It is pure Christianity.” Yes, even Pope Francis, a man often accused of…...
Monday, April 17, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 17, 2023 at 06:53 am
Today, April 15, is Jackie Robinson Day. This annual commemoration by Major League Baseball of its first black player, the man who broke the “color barrier,” began on April 15,…...
Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 13, 2023 at 08:30 am
In January 2019, Gerald Groff left the Holtwood Post Office in the small rural community of Holtwood, Pennsylvania, located in Lancaster County. When he left, he figured it was likely…...
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