DR. JOSEPH HORTON: GOOD NEWS: MARRIAGE IS CHALLENGING
I like good news, except when the good news turns out to be false. Recently it has been reported that we have been misled by social scientists for decades about…...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
Sunday, August 31, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: A HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM THAT TEACHES THE TRUTH ABOUT COMMUNISM - A Q&A
Vision & Values: Dr. Paul Kengor, you recently completed a curriculum that teaches high school students about communism—that is, an accurate portrayal of communism. Tell us about it. Kengor: The…...
Thursday, August 28, 2014
DR. MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA: DEALING WITH BARBARISM: V-J DAY AND BEYOND
On September 2, 1945, V-J Day, the funeral-like solemnity of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri was shattered by the thunder of 400 B-29 bombers flying overhead, accompanied by…...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
DR. GARY WELTON: CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING: SHOULD THE STATE HOUSE DECIDE
According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, 14 states have enacted laws against hand-held use of cell phones by all drivers. These 14 states include 11 blue states, two swing…...
Saturday, August 23, 2014
DR. EARL H. TILFORD: TIME FOR FACE TIME WITH VLADIMIR
President Barack Obama has spent a lot of TV face time opining on race relations in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009, on the George Zimmerman trial of 2012-13, on the riots…...
DR. TRACY MILLER: THE OBAMA ECONOMIC RECORD: THE WORST FIVE YEARS SINCE WORLD WAR II
Editor’s note: This article first appeared The Daily Caller. In spite of the claims by President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors regarding his administration’s economic accomplishments, the U.S. economy has…...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: BOGIE AND BACALL AND HOLLYWOOD’S COMMUNISTS
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at American Spectator. Lauren Bacall died this week at age 89. Her obituaries are paying tribute to a glamorous actress, a famed star from…...
Friday, August 15, 2014
DR. EARL H. TILFORD: THE STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE OF ISIS: DEAL WITH IT NOW OR DIE BY IT LATER
During the 2012 presidential campaign President Obama repeatedly boasted, “Osama bin Laden is dead and Al-Qaeda is on the run.” He is right on both counts: bin Laden is gone…...
Monday, August 11, 2014
DR. GARY WELTON: RETIREMENT: A NEW AND DIFFERENT FORM OF WORK
Both financial and physical well-being in retirement require foresight and planning. Although far too many people fail to plan their financial resources, perhaps even more people fail to plan how…...
Sunday, August 10, 2014
DR. JASON R. EDWARDS: VIVE LA DIFFERENCE! WHAT RAY RICE TEACHES US ABOUT CIVILIZATION
The public outcry over Roger Goodell’s failure to adequately punish NFL running back Ray Rice for knocking out his girlfriend in an Atlantic City hotel elevator is an encouraging sign…...
Thursday, August 07, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: DEATH’S PROGRESS: PART 2
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at American Thinker. In 2010, I wrote a piece titled, “Death's Progress,” which was widely published. What I laid out needs to be reiterated…...
Monday, August 04, 2014
DR. MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA: THE GREAT WAR AT 100: REVISITING THE GUNS OF AUGUST
On August 3, 1914, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey gave a speech before Parliament that “proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events,” according to…...
Saturday, July 26, 2014
DR. MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA: THE GREAT WAR AT 100: REVISITING THE GUNS OF AUGUST
On August 3, 1914, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey gave a speech before Parliament that “proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events,” according to…...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: KAL 007 AND MH17 ... A PRESIDENTIAL RESPONSE
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. This generation has its KAL 007. The stunning downing of Malaysian flight 17 is strikingly similar…...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
DR. DANIEL BROWN: PRIVACY BATTLES: AS OLD AS THE OLD TESTAMENT
Last month marked the beginning of a new campaign for Internet privacy with the unveiling of the “Reset the Net” campaign. Academics, tech companies, and civil rights organizations from around…...
Thursday, July 10, 2014
DR. MARVIN FOLKERTSMA: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ENVIRONMENTAL PURITY AGENCY
The rollout of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new draft regulation to limit greenhouse gases was accompanied by a brilliant political cartoon that showed a pair of hapless fellows with automobile…...
DR. PAUL KENGOR: HILLARY CLINTON’S MOVE TO THE FAR LEFT
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. A few years back I wrote a book on the faith of Hillary Clinton. To this day…...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: GOD AND DICK SCAIFE
I was saddened to wake up the morning of July 4 and learn that Richard Mellon Scaife, Pittsburgh billionaire, conservative philanthropist extraordinaire, and spearhead of Hillary Clinton’s ominous “vast right-wing conspiracy,”…...
Saturday, July 05, 2014
JOSEPH HORTON: CORRECTING HISTORY: HOW VIETNAM VETS WERE EMBRACED
Why is it that the American people rejected our troops who served in Vietnam? We know all about the protests not only against the war, but against those who served.…...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
DR. MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA: A DECENT RESPECT: RENEWING THE SPIRIT OF ‘76
July 4, 1776 gave birth to perhaps the most revolutionary political document in the history of civilization, submitted by men who proclaimed, “with a firm reliance on the protection of…...
DR. JOHN SPARKS: SUPREME COURT SLOWS OBAMACARE’S ABORTION AGENDA
The Supreme Court waited until the last day of its term to issue its highly anticipated opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties. The narrow 5-4…...
DR. JOHN SPARKS: OBAMA APPOINTMENTS NIXED
In a rare unanimous decision, all nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the outcome in NLRB v. Canning. The Supreme Court found that President Obama’s recess appointments…...
Saturday, June 28, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: WWI AND THE SECOND FALL OF MAN
On June 28, 1914, a Bosnian-Serb student named Gavrilo Princip killed Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the duchess. It was the shot-heard-round-the-world, unleashing a series of events that…...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
DR. GARY WELTON: THE TRAGEDY TO END ALL TRAGEDIES?
The Great War (sometimes in America it was termed the European War) was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 100 years ago this week, on June…...
Thursday, June 12, 2014
DR. GARY WELTON: DADDY, DADDY, ARE YOU OK?
I took my first CPR course as a young adult, as required by my employer. I had taken an entry level job as a residential manager (houseparent), working with handicapped…...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
DR. DANIEL BROWN: SQUAWK ON: U.S. CIRCUIT COURT GREEN-LIGHTS DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST THE IRS
Can the Internal Revenue Service silence a president’s political adversaries by using secret policies? It seems that we’re about to find out. The 17th century French politician and finance minister,…...
Thursday, June 05, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: RONALD REAGAN’S CORE PRINCIPLES AND WHAT THEY MAY LOOK LIKE TODAY
Editor’s note: A version of this Q&A was first published in the Values & Capitalism Blog of the American Enterprise Institute. V&C: How did you decide upon these 11 qualities…...
Monday, June 02, 2014
FELICIA MINERVA: 10 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH …WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF RONALD REAGAN?
WHAT IS A “REAGAN CONSERVATIVE? What Can Republicans, Democrats, and even President Obama Learn from Reagan? “No Reagan biographer or scholar knows Ronald Reagan and conservatism like Paul Kengor. If…...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE FIVE BAILEY BROTHERS OF WORLD WAR II
Every Memorial Day I attend a parade in the little town of Mercer, Pennsylvania. It’s pure Americana: flags, kids, the snow-cone stand, marching bands, local clubs and rotaries, and veterans…...
Monday, May 19, 2014
DR. GARY S. SMITH: AMERICA’S CIVIL RELIGION: PRESIDENTS AND MEMORIAL DAY
Throughout American history presidents have often used religious rhetoric for various reasons: to provide comfort and consolation, argue that God providentially directs our nation, celebrate our Christian heritage, defend democracy,…...
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