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Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on March 5, 2013 at 11:33 am
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Thinker. A wise man once told me that when any tax-levying entity operates at a deficit, the…...
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 28, 2013 at 02:38 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The Pentagon’s budget occupies center stage in the sequestration drama. Defense spending comprises approximately 18 percent of the 2013…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 19, 2013 at 01:09 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. February is the month of presidents. It includes Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birthday, Ronald Reagan’s birthday, and, of…...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 17, 2013 at 09:04 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at RealClearMarkets.com. The current global debt accumulations are unprecedented. In fact, it can be observed that at no time in…...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 14, 2013 at 01:32 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. Liberals are apoplectic over remarks by Dr. Ben Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast. Carson, a…...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 12, 2013 at 01:01 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The prospect of four more years of Barack Obama in the White House has caused several conservative voices…...
Saturday, February 09, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 9, 2013 at 03:33 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. How do think tanks contribute to produce outcomes conducive to better public policy? Working for over…...
Thursday, February 07, 2013
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Beacon Author
on February 7, 2013 at 03:54 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. The history of the London exchange dates back to 1698. John Castaing, a pioneer of a Starbucks of…...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on February 6, 2013 at 01:51 am
One of the most widely employed metaphors in today’s American political discourse is that the United States is a “city on a hill.” Especially popularized by Ronald Reagan, this phrase…...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 27, 2013 at 07:37 pm
Having just viewed Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” and knowing that Lincoln’s birthday is approaching, it seemed fitting to ponder one of Lincoln’s most famous speeches, and perhaps a lesson for Americans…...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 22, 2013 at 10:38 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan…...
Friday, January 18, 2013
As I wrote this article, my most recent among several on firearms policy, I anticipated the president addressing the nation on the matter at any moment. What I say here…...
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 18, 2013 at 12:03 pm
On Monday the United States will celebrate one of its great festivals of civil religion as Barack Obama is inaugurated for a second time. Although nothing in the Constitution mandates…...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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Center for Vision & Values
on January 16, 2013 at 04:18 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared in The Washington Times. With the start of the New Year, one of the little noticed but potentially harmful features of…...
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan rightly said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” He might just have rightly said, “Everyone is entitled to his…...
Friday, January 11, 2013
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Beacon Author
on January 11, 2013 at 01:56 pm
So how is that New Year’s resolution diet going? Will the long-term results be better than the last diet? For the majority of us, even successful diets are unsuccessful. We…...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
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Beacon Author
on January 9, 2013 at 03:00 pm
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- With the passage of the Cliff Fix, Obama has completed the de facto abrogation of the Constitution. In that document, Congress holds first priority: Article One,…...
Saturday, January 05, 2013
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Beacon Author
on January 5, 2013 at 03:20 pm
It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork…...
By
Beacon Author
on January 5, 2013 at 03:20 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. New Year’s observances blend recollections of the past, celebrations in the present, and anticipation of the future. For…...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 30, 2012 at 02:10 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. “I am leaving because you consider that success, creation, talent, anything different, must be punished.” This quotation from…...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 23, 2012 at 12:59 pm
The gentle spirit of Christmas brings a sense of fresh promise and renewal every year. The remembrances and commemorations of the birth of an innocent baby have a softening effect.…...
By
Beacon Author
on December 23, 2012 at 12:42 pm
FRONT ROYAL, VA -- Another December, another War on Christmas. Every Advent, it seems, we must slog through a barrage of anti-Christmas noise commandeered by the usual suspects. Full of…...
By
Beacon Author
on December 23, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Earlier this year I went to the WPXI television studio in Pittsburgh to tape an interview. The technician who escorted me inquired, “What are you here to discuss today?” When…...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 20, 2012 at 02:06 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at FoxNews.com. As President Obama and Democrats urge Republicans to increase taxes, some liberals are curiously invoking the name of Ronald…...
Monday, December 17, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 17, 2012 at 07:11 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. The latest unemployment figures are again depressing, but not for the usual reasons. They provide further confirmation…...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 12, 2012 at 01:40 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. As soon as the elections were over, a wave of commentaries extolling the virtues of compromise appeared in the…...
Monday, December 10, 2012
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Beacon Author
on December 10, 2012 at 03:10 pm
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Welfare has become a characteristic of President Obama’s domestic policies. There has been a surge in American citizens on…...
Friday, November 30, 2012
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Beacon Author
on November 30, 2012 at 11:03 am
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. Can the Twinkie and other famous Hostess brands be saved? I hope so, and I’ll offer my own two…...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Beacon Author
on November 29, 2012 at 03:20 pm
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Spectator. In a recent interview, Senator Marco Rubio, effectively the Republican front-runner for 2016, was asked, “How old…...
Monday, November 26, 2012
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Beacon Author
on November 26, 2012 at 07:47 pm
It was shortly before Thanksgiving. I was in the kitchen washing dishes when I heard my first music of the holiday season. Sick of talk radio and sick of election…...
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