The Center for Vision & Values
Monday, November 25, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 25, 2019 at 10:08 am
While all the rage in education, my hackles rise when an educator declares, “We learn from our students” or “Students should construct their own knowledge.” Granted, the 55 years since…...
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 21, 2019 at 11:45 am
Last week, my father-in-law came to visit for a few hours. He and my mother-in-law live relatively close, and one or both of them come to visit their young grandchildren…...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 13, 2019 at 10:14 am
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is promoting the “Prevent Government Shutdown Act of 2019.” The goal of the act is to prevent disruptive government shutdowns. Since Sen. Johnson arrived in…...
Monday, November 04, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 4, 2019 at 11:14 am
Raids, like Operation Kayla resulting in the death of Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi and other ISIS terrorist leaders, are usually small affairs with limited results. Nevertheless, such meticulously planned and superbly executed…...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 29, 2019 at 09:37 am
On the night of October 26–27, around 50 soldiers of Delta Force entered Idlib, Syria via helicopter, where they cornered Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State…...
Monday, October 28, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 28, 2019 at 09:45 am
A significantly lower percentage of young men are now obtaining college degrees compared to women. We have known this for some time now. As Jon Birger pointed out in his…...
Thursday, October 24, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 24, 2019 at 07:53 am
My family just visited Chocolate World at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania—the so-called “sweetest place on earth.” For those unfamiliar, it’s a giant candy-land. The primary attraction is a tour…...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 1, 2019 at 08:48 am
In November 1971, after serving a year as an intelligence officer supporting the secret American war in Laos, I returned to an assignment in the Intelligence Early Warning Center (INEW)…...
Monday, September 23, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on September 23, 2019 at 08:54 am
Front Royal, Virginia — Tulsi Gabbard, a war veteran and Democrat candidate for President, has described American policy for the last eighteen years as a succession of wars of regime…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on September 23, 2019 at 08:50 am
I feel badly for the people of the United Kingdom. Brexit – the move to withdraw the UK from the European Union – has left the United Kingdom anything but…...
Thursday, September 05, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 5, 2019 at 08:26 am
The Gottman Institute is one of the premiere organizations promoting evidence-based approaches to couple/marital relationships. The institute notes that it has“developed an approach that not only supports and repairs troubled…...
Friday, August 09, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 9, 2019 at 07:22 am
Last week, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a two-year budget deal that suspends the debt ceiling, and will raise federal spending $320 billion over amounts agreed…...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 31, 2019 at 08:52 am
The “hook” of the story intrigued me: “This hasn’t happened in all of modern history...” An email from “The Crux” last month blared, “Global population growth to virtually stop by…...
Friday, July 26, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 26, 2019 at 11:07 am
An apparent new litmus test has appeared among the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls: abolishing the Electoral College. Calls to abolish the Electoral College are not new, but the debate surrounding…...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 24, 2019 at 01:33 pm
Tony Wang, the general manager of Twitter, declared in 2012 that the company was “neutral as to the content” of speech, noting “[we] like to say that we are the…...
Friday, July 19, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 19, 2019 at 09:05 am
If you want to land on another world, map it first. Since the two Viking missions in the 1970s, we have extensively charted the surface of Mars and the Mars…...
Thursday, July 18, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 18, 2019 at 11:22 am
Nike courted controversy when it cancelled a new line of Betsy Ross flag-stitched sneakers just before the Fourth of July. The American shoemaker, valued at over $130 billion, pulled the…...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 17, 2019 at 08:59 am
A large cross erected in 1925 by Gold Star mothers in honor of their 49 fallen sons who gave their lives in World War I will be allowed to stand.…...
Monday, July 15, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 15, 2019 at 09:46 am
The largest cultural event of 2019 is the release of Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, a movie that culminates a decade of story-telling and that’s seemingly destined to make more money at…...
Friday, July 12, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on July 12, 2019 at 09:59 am
This will sound like the start of a bad joke, but please bear with me: What do Everett Dirksen, Otto von Bismarck, H.L. Mencken, and “the Preacher” in the book…...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on July 11, 2019 at 10:57 am
College students have racked up $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. These students take on staggering debt and blindly head off to college, hoping for the best. For many college…...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 27, 2019 at 10:06 am
For years China has been criticized by various human rights groups for its traffic in human organs for transplants. Reports indicate that organ availability for transplant far exceeds the number…...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 26, 2019 at 10:45 am
Yesterday, President Donald Trump imposed more economic sanctions on Iran. In response, Iranian officials denounced the sanctions. Does diplomacy have a chance in this situation? Or is war inevitable? Going…...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 11, 2019 at 11:55 am
There is a bipartisan tradition of naming bills such that no reasonable person would oppose them. For instance, changes to our tax system came with the passage of the Tax…...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 5, 2019 at 12:52 pm
Behind the scenes, John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, had another life. His secretive obsession was kept under wraps from his teammates. Most of them, he thought,…...
Thursday, May 02, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 2, 2019 at 03:18 pm
The motto of a college is a sacred thing—even more sacred, perhaps, than its mission statement. In its pith, its power, its appeal to ultimacy, the motto is a bold…...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 30, 2019 at 09:29 am
In case you haven’t heard of her yet, Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish girl who has been manufactured into the new face of climate change. Credited with being the…...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 25, 2019 at 12:33 pm
Periodically, those who do not think that the U.S. Constitution is “democratic” enough set out to repudiate the document’s genius. The Electoral College is often the recipient of such attacks,…...
Friday, April 12, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 12, 2019 at 08:07 am
Last week USA Today reported on the reaction of officials at Yale Law School to speakers and students who believe in and advocate for religious liberty. Their reaction wasn’t pretty. The…...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 3, 2019 at 10:09 am
The modern virtue-signalers are expressing outrage again. This time the opprobrium is aimed at State Representative Stephanie Borowicz and her actions this week before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. What was…...
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