MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE LIMITS TO BERNANKE’S POWER
As chairman of our country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke is expected to put the economy on a sound footing and foster strong economic growth. Unfortunately, Bernanke…...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: OBAMA’S INALIENABLES
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article appears at today’s American Thinker. Each time President Obama addresses America’s inalienable rights, I get emails. “Did you see Obama left…...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: CHESTERTON’S STARS & STRIPES
Among those doing excellent work on G. K. Chesterton is Joseph Pearce, the brilliant Brit who is a scholar at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Pearce, like Dale Ahlquist,…...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: JEFFERSON VERSUS HAMILTON - THE CONTINUING CONTEST
This Fourth of July marks 235 years since the Declaration of Independence was published. In this immortal document, the Spirit of ’76 was given its fullest, most eloquent expression. The…...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
DR. TRACY C. MILLER: OUR HEALTH IS OVERINSURED!
The problem with many existing health-insurance plans is that they cover the cost of routine treatment for illnesses, such as colds and flu that occur frequently, or the cost of…...
Thursday, June 16, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THANKS, POP
Father’s Day is a poignant occasion for me, as for many. I never knew my biological father, who died in an accident. Mom and I lived near Detroit with her…...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
DR. STEVEN JONES: SAN FRANCISCO CONSIDERS CIRCUMCISION—AND PARENTAL RIGHTS
This November the citizens of San Francisco will decide whether to ban circumcision, a practice that dates from antiquity and is embraced by at least three of the world’s major…...
Friday, June 10, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: SWINDLING AMERICA’S YOUTH
We older Americans have saddled our youth with a mind-boggling public debt—over $20 trillion already spent ($14.3 trillion of “official” national debt plus various off-budget expenditures, according to the U.S.…...
Monday, June 06, 2011
DR. R.B.A. DI MUCCIO: WHERE HAVE ALL THE COLD WARRIORS GONE?
It was 24 years ago, in June 1987, that Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech calling on Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall.” In 1990, a year after the…...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE HIGH-STAKES SHOWDOWN OVER MEDICARE REFORM
The trustees of the Medicare system recently reported that the program will go broke in the year 2024—five years sooner than was projected just last year. The millions of…...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: AMERICA - THE GLOBAL ENERGY SUPERPOWER
Saudi Arabia has long been the dominant producer of petroleum on the planet. Nature endowed the Arabian Peninsula with gigantic deposits of this vital source of energy. Many of us…...
Monday, May 16, 2011
DR. JOHN A. SPARKS: TAX HIKES ARE COMING … IF OBAMA GETS HIS WAY
President Obama is now openly proposing tax increases on at least two important fronts as part of his “solution” to the growing debt crisis. The president’s favorite approach is…...
Friday, May 13, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: INFLATION: FOOD, FUEL, AND THE FED
As Americans increasingly feel the pinch of higher prices for food and fuel, the Federal Reserve’s QE2 policy of creating more money has been called into question. Asked if the…...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
DR. SHAWN RITENOUR: WHAT WOULD JESUS CUT?
That is the question asked by the left-leaning Christian organization, Sojourners, in its campaign of the same name. It is a most appropriate question given the battle over the budget…...
Thursday, May 05, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: BUSH, OBAMA, AND OSAMA: AMERICA’S HOUR OF CHOOSING
“In Bin Laden Announcement, Echoes of 2007 Obama Speech,” declared the headline in The New York Times. It’s difficult to find a newspaper that has demonstrated a worst pro-Obama and…...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: MILLIONAIRES IN AMERICA
Recently, CNN’s Money.com posted an article bearing the title, “U.S. Millionaires Population Expanded by 8 Percent in 2010.” According to the article, there are now approximately 8.4 million millionaires in…...
Friday, April 29, 2011
DR. SHAWN RITENOUR: PLAYING THE OSTRICH ON PRICE INFLATION
By the time you read this, there’s a good chance that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will have held the Fed’s first press conference following a meeting of the Federal…...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
FRED A. KINGERY: DOWNGRADING AMERICA - S&P DECLARES THE OBVIOUS
If you had been living on another planet the last three years, you would be shocked to learn that the credit-rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P), has placed the current…...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
DR. WARREN THROCKMORTON: THE SIGNING OF JACKIE ROBINSON - HOW FAITH HELPED RACIAL HEALING
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Crosswalk.com. For many Americans, April 15 marked Tax Day. But it also marked an event much more redeeming. On April 15, 1947,…...
Friday, April 15, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: ON MARGARET SANGER, THE SOVIETS, AND DEMOCRATS
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Spectator. “[W]e could well take example from Russia,” advised Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, “where birth control instruction…...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON : CHRISTIAN CHARITY AND THE WELFARE STATE
Introduction There is near universal agreement among Christians of all political stripes that one of our great privileges and duties is to do charitable deeds. Where we disagree is on…...
DR. SHAWN RITENOUR: MONEY CAN’T BUY YOU ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
Defenders of the Federal Reserve have been out in force recently declaring the triumph of Money Printing 2, James Grant's suggested more truthful term for “quantitative easing.” Some pundits point…...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THIRTY YEARS AGO: WHEN PRESIDENT REAGAN WAS SHOT
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a previous version published by the Reagan Centennial edition of Newsmax.On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan, president for merely 10 weeks, stepped outside…...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR- KENNEDY CHRONICLES: THE LATEST DECLASSIFIED FBI FILES
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at American Thinker. Another round of declassified FBI files on Senator Ted Kennedy has been released (click here and…...
Friday, March 18, 2011
DR. L. JOHN VAN TIL: THE GREAT LISBON EARTHQUAKE - THEOLOGY AND NATURAL DISASTERS
It was November 1, 1755, All Saints Day in the Roman Catholic faith. The churches were full as the faithful worshiped. Suddenly, the earth began to shake and continued for…...
Monday, March 14, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE TEA PARTY VS. NPR
“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian,” said NPR’s Ron Schiller to two undercover reporters. “I wouldn’t even…...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: WINSTON WARNED AMERICA - CHURCHILL’S ‘IRON CURTAIN’ AT 65
It was 65 years ago, March 5, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. It was a speech that rocked the world and changed history.…...
Friday, March 04, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: THE DEBT-CEILING DANCE AND THE ANNUAL BUDGET RITUAL
Once again it’s time to talk about raising the statutory limit on the U.S. government’s debt—the so-called “debt ceiling.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has estimated that Uncle Sam will reach…...
Thursday, March 03, 2011
DR. PAUL KENGOR: THE ‘PURPOSE’ AND ‘JOB’ OF GOVERNMENT: WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION?
A teachable moment on the purpose of government recently occurred on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” who has picked up the torch for the departed Keith Olbermann. It…...
Friday, February 25, 2011
DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON: WISCONSIN UNIONS VS. GOVERNOR WALKER: A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA
Editor’s note: A version of this article was first published by the Christian Science Monitor. It is hard to overstate what is at stake in the dramatic showdown between…...
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