The Center for Vision & Values
Thursday, November 07, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 7, 2013 at 09:01 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at American Thinker.Despite everything you’ve gleaned from spy novels and movies, the most important raw material for a successful intelligence service isn’t information; it’s…...
Saturday, November 02, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 2, 2013 at 09:38 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Forbes.com.If there is one truth that became apparent during the financial panic five years ago, it is that Big Government and Big Finance…...
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 2, 2013 at 01:31 pm
As we celebrate Veterans Day this year, it is instructive to consider the contributions of our presidents to our nation’s defense and military. Of America’s 43 presidents, 31 have served…...
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 2, 2013 at 01:13 pm
I recently took my two teenage sons to a talk by Frank Kravetz, a 90-year-old World War II veteran who survived Hitler’s Nuremberg prisons. Frank published his story in a…...
Friday, November 01, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on November 1, 2013 at 02:29 am
It’s evident in recent elections and day-to-day political clashes in Washington that there is a substantial divide between traditional Republicans and what we may term “new conservatives.” Oh yes, it’s…...
Monday, October 28, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 28, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Editor’s note: Another version of this article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.My cousin Drew is a 45-year-old veteran of the first Gulf War (1991), which he served aboard a…...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 23, 2013 at 12:14 pm
From the moment I clicked on C-SPAN to watch Senator Ted Cruz’s quasi-filibuster, I’ve been trying to make sense of the defund Obamacare/government shutdown effort. It didn’t take a rocket…...
Thursday, October 17, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 17, 2013 at 11:29 am
According to research published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, our teens may have more wisdom than we give them credit for when it comes to sex education.…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on October 17, 2013 at 11:29 am
According to research published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, our teens may have more wisdom than we give them credit for when it comes to sex education.…...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 16, 2013 at 02:15 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com.The behavior of the National Park Service during the government shutdown has been truly shocking. As has been widely reported,…...
Friday, October 11, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 11, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Editor’s note: Dr. John A. Sparks is the retired Dean of the Calderwood School of Arts & Letters at Grove City College. He is one of the co-founders of The…...
Saturday, October 05, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on October 5, 2013 at 02:40 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily. Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be celebrating right…...
Friday, September 27, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 27, 2013 at 04:32 am
Once again there is panic running through the halls of Congress, the Oval Office and in the chattering classes that make up mainstream media over the prospect of shutting down…...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Editor’s note: This column first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.In my previous column, I underscored the 1920s lessons that President Obama and fellow “progressives” need to learn. These include the…...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 17, 2013 at 03:05 pm
Editor’s note: Richard M. “Dick” Larry, one of the conservative movement’s most influential grantmakers, died on July 6, 2013, at the age of 77. Larry, who worked quietly behind the…...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 11, 2013 at 03:45 pm
On Sept. 11, most of us will take time to reflect upon and remember the events of 9/11. Some of us will also take time to remember the Sept. 11,…...
Monday, September 09, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 9, 2013 at 03:07 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.If there be (no virtue among us), we are in a wretched situation.— James MadisonThis isn't a year for complaints about…...
Friday, September 06, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 6, 2013 at 01:13 pm
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) frequently airs public-service announcements suggesting that parents should be talking to their children about the dangers of drugs. This is based on evidence…...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on September 3, 2013 at 06:10 pm
November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Camelot. During its tenure, President John F. Kennedy’s administration set national security precedents that have influenced the way Washington has…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on September 3, 2013 at 05:45 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The Washington Post. One cold evening in Dixon, Ill., in the early 1930s, a young man known as Dutch Reagan brought home two…...
Thursday, August 29, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 29, 2013 at 10:07 pm
The following is an interview between National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez and Paul Kengor, executive director of the Center for Vision & Values, concerning the recent death of Judge Bill…...
Sunday, August 25, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 25, 2013 at 07:16 pm
August 28 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at that great rally is rightly honored as one of the greatest speeches…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on August 25, 2013 at 05:42 pm
In a classic psychological study, hungry four-year-olds were offered a marshmallow. They were told that if they could wait about 20 minutes before eating, they could have two marshmallows…...
Saturday, August 24, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 24, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Editor's note: This three-part series commemorating the 150-year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg first appeared at TheBlaze.com.DPart one-Gettysburg: Day oneIn the first week of July, tens of thousands of…...
Monday, August 12, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on August 12, 2013 at 02:59 pm
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator.The most important adviser to President Ronald Reagan in his takedown of the Soviet empire has died at the age of…...
By
Center for Vision & Values
on August 12, 2013 at 02:04 pm
What I find somewhat surprising in the gay-marriage discussion is this: By the evidence of most polls, nearly half of Americans favor gay marriage, even though only 3-5 percent of…...
Monday, August 05, 2013
By
Center for Vision & Values
on August 5, 2013 at 01:34 pm
It happened on a cold of day during the last French presidential campaign in a small industrial town called Florange, in Eastern France. On February 12th, 2012, the campaigning and…...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 30, 2013 at 11:58 pm
During Mother’s last few months, conversations were extremely difficult to follow because her mind seamlessly switched from one decade to another. Isaac Singer writes, “Sometimes she’d tangle one story with…...
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 25, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Editors note: This opinion editorial first appeared at Forbes.com I’m sad. Detroit is my native city. It’s decline from being arguably the world’s richest city to being America’s “first Third…...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on July 23, 2013 at 11:42 am
There’s an intense debate right now over “Common Core,” a major effort to implement a set of federal education standards in public schools nationwide. The Common Core State Standards thus…...
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