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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 29, 2016 at 07:35 am
As we celebrate the 4th of July, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical “Hamilton” is lionizing the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton. “Hamilton” won 11 Tony Awards, including best musical, a…...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 21, 2016 at 09:07 am
Many Millennials are finding socialism attractive—at least as presented by Bernie Sanders. This is perplexing because there is ample and dramatic evidence of how a full-fledged socialist state fails its…...
Thursday, June 16, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 16, 2016 at 08:14 am
Father's Day invites us to ponder the father figures we have known—not just our biological fathers, but any man who has blessed us with fatherly action at some point in…...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 15, 2016 at 07:54 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at ConservativeReview.com. Many of Donald Trump’s supporters have compared him to Ronald Reagan. It is quite instructive that Trump himself picked up the 1980…...
Monday, June 13, 2016
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 13, 2016 at 11:56 am
President Obama’s address at Hiroshima, Japan on May 27 provides us with a good opportunity to examine his foreign policy attitude and contrast it with the views of one of…...
Friday, June 10, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 10, 2016 at 08:28 am
Five score and two years ago, Robert Frost wrote “Mending Wall,” a poem seeking to extract wisdom from stony New England soil. It begins: “Something there is that doesn’t love…...
Thursday, June 02, 2016
By
Beacon Author
on June 2, 2016 at 08:53 am
There were 2,709,918 Americans who served in the Vietnam War. Of that number approximately 850,000 are alive. The youngest is 54. Because there were senior officers and non-commissioned officers in…...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on June 1, 2016 at 08:12 am
Now that Donald Trump has locked up the Republican nomination, we can look more closely at his policy proposals. In April, when the two candidates were still battling for the…...
Thursday, May 26, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 26, 2016 at 06:01 am
The news could not have been worse. Starvation, malnutrition, diseases such as typhoid, smallpox, dysentery, and pneumonia, along with freezing temperatures that assaulted thousands of shoeless feet bloodying the snow,…...
Friday, May 20, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 20, 2016 at 06:30 am
I can't believe that I'm writing an article about using the bathroom. But then, I can't believe that at a time when our country is faced with immense challenges such…...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 19, 2016 at 06:54 am
The first job I ever wanted was to be a "garbage man," as that is what I called it at age five. I would run out to the curb each…...
Thursday, May 12, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 12, 2016 at 08:14 am
Do you remember the name Daniel Berrigan? Berrigan was a Jesuit priest well-known for his protests of the Vietnam War. He became a household name in the 1960s, along with…...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 11, 2016 at 08:05 am
The Armed Services Committee (ASC) recently approved a measure requiring American women aged 18 to 26 to register for the draft and sent it to the full House for consideration.…...
Monday, May 02, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on May 2, 2016 at 09:21 am
There is much talk and action right now on the issue of a minimum or “just” wage. Typically, those who favor raising the minimum wage tend to the liberal camp.…...
Friday, April 29, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 29, 2016 at 06:37 am
Students at Indiana University-Bloomington recently went into panic mode at the sight of a Dominican friar, who they mistook for a Ku Klux Klan member. Funny? Yes, but also sad.…...
Thursday, April 28, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 28, 2016 at 08:14 am
As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battle to become the Republican nominee for president, it is time to closely consider their policies. Although both propose cutting taxes, the details of…...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 13, 2016 at 03:58 am
“The mob is the mother of tyrants.” –Diogenes of Sinope In late August 1968, two months after an assassin killed presidential candidate Senator Robert Kennedy and shortly after Republicans nominated…...
Friday, April 08, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 8, 2016 at 08:26 am
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has finally announced that he will allow the budget passed by the legislature for the 2015-16 fiscal year to become law. It is now time for…...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 6, 2016 at 10:22 am
With Donald Trump now such a prominent voice, many of us are confronted with the necessity of explaining him and his behavior to our children. I recently wrote of one…...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
By
Selwyn Duke
on April 5, 2016 at 08:42 am
As our Great Sexual Heresy continues its march onwards and downwards, state governments have forced bakers, wedding planners, florists and other businessmen to service faux weddings. This is unprecedented, as…...
Monday, April 04, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on April 4, 2016 at 11:03 am
Donald Trump was, of course, famous long before he began his presidential run. That fame rested on his decades-long career in real estate. Though there are heated arguments currently between…...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on March 22, 2016 at 05:48 am
How can we explain the surprising electoral success of Donald Trump, especially in light of his lack of political experience, limited knowledge of and specificity about policy issues, and crude…...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on March 16, 2016 at 06:27 am
My parents originally named me “Victory Japan” because my slightly premature birth resulted from mom and dad dancing in the streets of Saint Petersburg, Florida on the night of August…...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 25, 2016 at 09:23 am
The Vietnam War provides lessons in how to lose. The United States never planned to defeat its opponents, the indigenous southern Viet Cong guerrillas and their northern supporters the Peoples’…...
Friday, February 12, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 12, 2016 at 11:59 am
As we celebrate Presidents’ Day in the midst of the 2016 campaign for the White House, it is fitting that we pause to ask why in the world anyone wants…...
Friday, January 29, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on January 29, 2016 at 09:22 am
The editors and writers of National Review recently did something extraordinary. They came out en masse against a Republican candidate during the primary. Their “Against Trump” symposium and accompanying “Editors…...
Monday, January 25, 2016
By
Beacon Author
on January 25, 2016 at 10:43 am
I expect that I confuse a lot of people at the gym where I work out. I have been asked more than once why I breathe so hard. The short…...
Monday, January 18, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on January 18, 2016 at 10:07 am
In what is being embraced by Hillary Clinton as the highest praise, Planned Parenthood, America’s longtime leading provider of abortion, is enthusiastically endorsing Clinton as president. Clinton can boast the…...
Friday, January 15, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on January 15, 2016 at 10:26 am
Donald Trump, who has been leading the national polls for the Republican nomination since this past summer, has strong support among evangelicals. Given Trump’s beliefs, lifestyle, crude language, and some…...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
By
Center for Vision & Values
on January 12, 2016 at 10:04 am
The Obama administration’s lack of understanding of the spiritual depth and commitment of private religious charities is shocking. The callousness of the federal effort to compel a noble Catholic religious…...
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