DR: PAUL KENGOR: WHEN HOLLYWOOD CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS AND MARRIAGE
A few days before Christmas, I checked the schedule for Turner Classic Movies, one of the few TV channels I watch. I was looking for Christmas movies, maybe the 1938…...
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DR. MARK HENDRICKS: SECULAR FUNDAMENTALISM GOES AFTER LINUS AT CHRISTMAS
You may have heard about the Kentucky school district that ordered its administrators to scrub any religious references from its various Christmas productions. Most infamously, an elementary school in the…...
Monday, December 21, 2015
DR. L. JOHN VAN TIL: QUESTION OF SEMANTICS: WHAT DO “RADICAL ISLAM” AND “TERRORISM” REALLY M
President Obama and his administration’s spokespersons continue to explain the eruption of bombings and mass shootings as “lone wolf attacks” or “work place violence.” The cause, they often say, is…...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
DR. JOHN SPARKS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS
U.S. labor unions have long been experiencing a decline. In 1954, union membership for both public and private sector employees combined peaked at 28.3 percent. Today only around 11 percent…...
Monday, December 14, 2015
DR. MARVING FOLKERTSMA: TRIUMPISM AND ELITISM
In “The Myth of Sisyphus,” Albert Camus’s exploration of the role of suicide in the modern world, the philosopher of the Absurd states, “That universal reason, practical or ethical, that…...
Friday, December 11, 2015
DR. TRACY MILLER: CONGRESS USES “SLEIGHT OF HAND” TO PAY FOR HIGHWAY BILL
After much debate and considerable delay, the House of Representatives has finally passed a highway funding bill. A big question that delayed the bill’s passage was whether the federal fuel…...
Thursday, December 03, 2015
DR. JOSEPH HORTON: TEARS FOR GOSNELL’S HOUSE OF HORRORS
I recently saw the documentary “3801 Lancaster: An American Tragedy.” I went home and cried. I don’t mean tears of joy. No, I cried. The last time I cried was…...
Friday, November 20, 2015
PAUL J. MCNULTY: OBAMA’S COLLEGE ‘SCORECARD’ DOESN’T MEASURE UP
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The Department of Education has released its “College Scorecard,” a searchable college-affordability database that President Obama described as containing “reliable…...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
DR. EARL TILFORD: NOT LOSING IS A LOSER’S GAME
The Obama administration’s weak and failing Middle East policy—the struggle against ISIS and the ultimate fate of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria—revolves around a non-strategy of avoiding a major…...
Monday, November 09, 2015
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HOLLYWOOD’S BLACKLISTED COMMUNIST - THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMBO
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily. A long-touted motion picture on prominent Hollywood screenwriter and communist Dalton Trumbo debuts in theaters this weekend. I will see…...
Friday, November 06, 2015
DR. PAUL KENGOR: SURVIVING HITLER’S “HELL-HOLE”....REMEMBERING FRANK DRAVETZ
“Just existing became what was important.” So said Frank Kravetz, World War II veteran and former captive of Nuremberg Prison Camp, or what Frank called the Nazi “hell-hole.” “Yet even…...
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
DR. GARY WELTON: THE NEW AMERICAN VERB: TO CONCUSS
Of course, it’s not a new verb; it’s in older dictionaries. I have been hearing it much more frequently, however, and I am becoming alarmed. We as a society are…...
Monday, October 26, 2015
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE CRUCIBLE YOU NEVER KNEW….ARTHURE MILLER AT 100
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. October 17, 2015 is the centenary of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the literary left’s shining lights and…...
Thursday, October 15, 2015
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: TRACKING AMERICA’S SUICIDE
Amidst a plethora of sensational news reports elbowing each other to seize first place in America’s national consciousness, there is a story that has lurked beneath media radar that teaches…...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: FEELING GOOD ABOUT AMERICA ON A CHILLY AUTUMN EVENING
Don’t you love it when something heartwarming happens to you unexpectedly? That happened to me on October 1. My friend Ron invited me to go with him to Cleveland to…...
Monday, October 12, 2015
DAVID J. AYERS: TETHERED TO TECHNOLOGY—ESCAPING THE IT TRAP
Increasingly, we often expect each other to be smartphone-available nearly 24/7. Or we act as if this is the case. Over time, this can lead to feelings of exhaustion and…...
Monday, October 05, 2015
DR. GLENN MARSCH: AMERICA VISITS PLUTO
In 1989, America’s Voyager 2 spacecraft performed a reconnaissance flyby of Neptune, the distant ice giant planet that orbits about three billion miles from the sun. I was in graduate…...
Friday, October 02, 2015
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: BERNIE SANDER’S AMERICA
The raucous welcomes and thundering applause that have greeted America’s newest (and oldest) political rock star, the septuagenarian Bernie Sanders, have launched a cottage industry of puzzled pundits trying to…...
Thursday, October 01, 2015
DR. GARY WELTON: REFUGEES AND THE MORAL CRISIS OF OUR NATIONAL DEBT
As a college student, in an era when college tuition was much lower, I was able to pay my college bills without taking any loans. First, I had the support…...
Monday, September 28, 2015
DR. PAUL KENGOR: CHERRY-PICKING POPE FRANCIS
While papal visits to the United States are increasingly common, what is uncommon is to see political-ideological battle lines drawn around a pope. The tendency this time is especially acute…...
Thursday, September 24, 2015
DR.MARK HENDERSON: REMEMBERING YOGI BERRA, BASEBALL PLAYER EXTRAORDINAIRE…AND ECONOMIC PHILOSPHER
The word “icon” is overused these days, but it surely applies to Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, who passed away yesterday at age 90. His playing career was iconic, and he…...
Monday, September 21, 2015
DR.PAUL KENGOR: WAS MARGARET SANGER A RACIST?
When I write about Margaret Sanger’s May 1926 speech to the women’s chapter of the KKK in Silverlake, New Jersey—as I did again recently—liberals get upset. They accuse me of…...
Monday, September 14, 2015
FRED KINGREY: THE FEDERAL RESERVE PARKING LOT
Recent commentary by David Stockman, former Reagan Administration budget chief, is timely for investors because it focuses on the Federal Reserve’s internal debate about “policy normalization” in advance of Wednesday’s…...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
DR. GARY WELTON: QUEEN ELIZABETH: LONG MAY SHE REIGN
Barring the unexpected, Queen Elizabeth II, on September 9, 2015, will become the longest reigning British monarch, overtaking Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901. These historic 63-year reigns…...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
DR. PAUL KENGOR: BLACK PASTORS PROTEST MARGARET SANGER AT SMITHSONIAN
Margaret Sanger is a saint in the feminist church. She is a charter member of the progressive hall of fame. Liberals revere this woman who preached “race improvement” and denounced…...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
DR. MARK HENDRICKSON: HILLARY CLINTON’S “NEW COLLEGE COMPACT” - DID SHE EVER TAKE ECON 101?
Today’s version of “A chicken in every pot” is Hillary Clinton’s proposed plan to “make college affordable and available to every American.” This is political catnip, pure and simple. And…...
Monday, August 24, 2015
DR. GARY WELTON: A FAINT ANALOGY OF AN UNIMAGINABLE HEAVEN
A pastor friend of mine, not trying to be irreverent or sacrilegious, once shared with me his own faint analogy of eternal hell—waking up every day and discovering yet again…...
Monday, August 17, 2015
ROBERT T. SMITH: DEFINING THE WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES – DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers have released their final rule defining what they believe constitutes “waters of the United States.” This effort, in their…...
Thursday, August 06, 2015
DR. EARL TILFORD: WISDOM THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Late in the afternoon of December 25, 1991, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, declared his office closed, and handed over the keys to Russia’s nuclear deterrent to President Boris Yeltsin.…...
Friday, July 31, 2015
GARY WELTON: YOU CAN TRUST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH REPORTS (WE THINK; WE HOPE)
A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that Michael LaCour, a UCLA graduate student, has fabricated data for another journal article. Science magazine has retracted the article,…...
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