The Center for Vision & Values
Friday, July 24, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 24, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Laura and Marvin Horne are raisin farmers. Early one morning in 2002, a truck appeared at their business and the drivers demanded a whopping 47 percent of their raisin crop.…...
Thursday, July 16, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 16, 2015 at 11:08 am
On 9/11, 2,977 people were killed by terrorists. In response, the American government, after a bipartisan vote, decided to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. As a consequence, a huge number of…...
Thursday, July 09, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 9, 2015 at 10:17 am
“I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.” So declared Larry Flynt, founder of the Hustler magazine empire that has made millions photographing nude women. Flynt proffered his enthusiastic endorsement in an…...
Thursday, July 02, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 2, 2015 at 11:43 am
As we celebrate our independence and astounding development from a fledging nation to the world’s superpower, we should applaud the extraordinary contributions of numerous founders. One of them whose accomplishments…...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 30, 2015 at 09:33 am
In his scathing dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia summarized the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell in two sentences: “The court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…...
Friday, June 26, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 26, 2015 at 10:32 am
“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.” —Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, June 19, 1815 The Battle of Waterloo—a series of bloody encounters between…...
Monday, June 15, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 15, 2015 at 09:58 am
It’s not too much to say that President Obama’s domestic legislative legacy could turn on the outcome of King v. Burwell, the landmark case argued in March before the U.S.…...
Friday, June 12, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 12, 2015 at 11:39 am
Dante, a serious rival to Shakespeare as the world’s greatest literary genius, was born in Florence, Italy 750 years ago. Italy properly celebrated the birthday of its national poet (indeed…...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 9, 2015 at 08:39 am
Editor’s note: The following is part one of a series of Q&As with Professor Paul Kengor about his new book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged…...
Thursday, June 04, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on June 4, 2015 at 11:03 am
Self-control is more important than self-esteem. The ability to control one’s activities is more predictive of success than is intelligence. When it comes to self-control, research supports Ralph Waldo Emerson’s…...
Friday, May 29, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 29, 2015 at 01:24 pm
When my daughter told me that Mark Ruffalo—an actor and leftist activist—would be receiving a prestigious prize at her 2015 commencement at Dickinson College, I was dismayed but not surprised.…...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 27, 2015 at 10:54 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Forbes.com. Dr. John (Jack) Marks Templeton, Jr. (February 19, 1940-May 16, 2015), lived an extraordinarily productive life. He made many contributions as a…...
Friday, May 22, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 22, 2015 at 09:53 am
This time last year I did a commentary on five brothers who served in World War II. Very impressive. Imagine my surprise when someone who caught the commentary sent me…...
Thursday, May 21, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 21, 2015 at 08:48 am
I’ve written in the past about how my Pop carried with him a haunting memory from his time aboard the aircraft carrier Essex in World War II. Anti-aircraft fire had…...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 20, 2015 at 01:12 pm
A recent profile of Justice Anthony Kennedy begins with this: “The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be…...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 12, 2015 at 11:40 am
A recent profile of Justice Anthony Kennedy begins with this: “The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be…...
Monday, May 11, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 11, 2015 at 09:03 am
Recently, many economists and politicians have expressed concern about stagnant wages and rising income and wealth inequality. Such concerns prompted 20 states and the District of Columbia to raise the…...
Friday, May 01, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on May 1, 2015 at 08:49 am
The Russian-built S-300 anti-aircraft/anti-ballistic missile (AA/ABM, carrying the NATO designation SA-10, codenamed “Grumble”), while not the world’s most advanced surface-to-air defensive weapon, roughly equates to the American Patriot system. Russian…...
Sunday, April 26, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 26, 2015 at 09:28 am
I have to admit that initially I was uninterested, even close-minded, about the negative yield being offered on a growing share of European sovereign debt. “It must be a short-term…...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 22, 2015 at 09:31 am
Few subjects have been as addled, muddled, and befuddled as the issue of communist penetration of the American film industry. Thanks to liberals and their control of Hollywood, media, and…...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on April 21, 2015 at 10:31 am
Editor’s note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. In this latest edition, professor of political science and executive director…...
Monday, March 23, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 23, 2015 at 01:38 pm
“A Great nation cannot wage a little war.” --Duke of Wellington to Parliament, 1838 In September 1964, shortly after Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing President Lyndon Johnson…...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Beacon Author
on March 10, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. As soon as a conservative Republican emerges as a serious presidential frontrunner,liberals in the media suddenly yank out the microscopes they’ve…...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 3, 2015 at 10:49 am
“The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one.” --T.E. Lawrence Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, President Barack Obama cautioned against…...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 25, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that its five commissioners will conduct a vote on February 26 to decide whether to grant itself the authority to regulate…...
Saturday, February 14, 2015
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 14, 2015 at 02:10 am
February 22 will mark the 35th anniversary of the upset victory by the U.S. hockey team over their heavily favored Soviet rivals in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Ever since known…...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 10, 2015 at 04:58 pm
At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, 52 of the 2,878 words spoken by President Barack Obama set off a firestorm in the world of journalism and social media. Many…...
Saturday, February 07, 2015
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 7, 2015 at 12:04 pm
“We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly.” -Gen. George C. Marshall,…...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 4, 2015 at 04:20 pm
Only a week after proposing to hit the middle class with a tax on college savings plans, President Obama dropped the assault on so-called “529 plans.” These plans have been…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on February 4, 2015 at 04:16 pm
Unemployment has been falling but the number of Americans not working—or working fewer hours—has remained stubbornly high since 2008. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” is part…...
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