The Center for Vision & Values
Friday, November 05, 2010
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on November 5, 2010 at 06:46 am
Now that the elections are over, attention is turning to the economy. The stock market rose steadily from the end of August up to the elections. Since the stock…...
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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on November 4, 2010 at 10:27 am
Editor’s Note:The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This is the fourth of five installments in a series of weekly…...
Monday, November 01, 2010
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on November 1, 2010 at 08:32 am
Barack Obama’s supporters have been trying to create a narrative around his foreign-policy doctrine for several years now, even before he was president. The goal has been simple: to preempt…...
Friday, October 29, 2010
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on October 29, 2010 at 10:21 am
As is customary in the days leading up to an election, the campaign rhetoric is getting heated. Here in western Pennsylvania, Democrats have gained points in the polls by adopting…...
Friday, October 22, 2010
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on October 22, 2010 at 10:42 am
You’ve probably seen the headlines about major banks suspending foreclosure proceedings to reclaim houses from borrowers who have defaulted on their mortgages. This has the potential to be hugely disruptive—a…...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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on October 20, 2010 at 06:34 am
Editor’s Note:The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This is the second in a series of weekly interviews with Dr.…...
Friday, October 15, 2010
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on October 15, 2010 at 09:19 am
A few days ago, I received an email from the daughter of our congresswoman—a mass email, of course. She explained that because of healthcare reform, which her mother supported, she…...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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on October 12, 2010 at 08:53 am
Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This is the first in a series of weekly interviews with…...
Monday, October 11, 2010
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on October 11, 2010 at 09:53 am
The Tea Party Movement, otherwise known as the Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, has been greeted by the country’s ruling class with all the sympathy that Voltaire expressed toward the…...
Thursday, October 07, 2010
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on October 7, 2010 at 08:47 am
I recently wrote about President Carter’s “superiority” complex, where I objected to the former president’s rather conceited claim of “superior” ex-presidential service, as measured (by himself) against other ex-presidents. …...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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on October 5, 2010 at 07:20 am
Introduction This paper began as a series of conversations between myself and Dr. Shawn Ritenour of the Department of Economics at Grove City College. On the broadest level, Dr.…...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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on September 30, 2010 at 10:49 am
Last week, 13 Republicans released a “Pledge to America.” What is most surprising to me is its length. At 21 pages, it was many times the length of the GOP’s…...
Friday, September 24, 2010
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on September 24, 2010 at 09:32 am
Former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News on Monday that his work at home and abroad has been “superior” to other presidents. “I feel that my role as a former…...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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on September 14, 2010 at 07:08 am
Washington’s stunning economic power grabs—healthcare centralization, Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and Federal Reserve bailouts—are creating an unintended consequence: an increasing demand for freedom literature. Exhibit A would have to be F.A.…...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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on September 8, 2010 at 09:27 am
Editor’s note: A lengthier version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. It was 35 years ago this summer that the conservative movement found itself in a defining…...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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on August 25, 2010 at 10:06 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in USA Today. The recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life is generating much discussion over its provocative finding that…...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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on August 19, 2010 at 09:17 am
Mark it down. At 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, the U.S. Federal Reserve made a historic announcement. It signaled that the central bank was going to “preserve the…...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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on August 18, 2010 at 08:34 am
New media have shaped our political culture. Some, like talk radio and all-news cable stations, are developments of older, established technologies. Others, like internet blogs, are based on comparatively new…...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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on August 17, 2010 at 10:11 am
The blogosphere is burning red, consumed with fury over President Obama’s announcement—made at the end of the news cycle, with talk-radio on weekend break—that he supports the construction of a…...
Monday, August 16, 2010
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on August 16, 2010 at 08:10 am
“The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University” By Kevin Roose | Grand Central Publishing [Paperback] (June 3, 2010) | 336 pp. | List Price: $13.99 An emergency…...
Friday, August 13, 2010
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on August 13, 2010 at 10:35 am
Climategate is thorough, knowledgeable, timely, and very well written. I have been reading about global warming for 20 years, yet this book included important information and details that were new…...
Thursday, August 05, 2010
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on August 5, 2010 at 02:17 pm
The President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama's stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian…...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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on August 4, 2010 at 10:52 am
Editor’s Note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Historically, social justice has meant different things to different people, and equally so today, where the term…...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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on July 29, 2010 at 08:59 am
Call it another Twilight Zone moment; another ignominious contribution to the “you-can’t-make-this-up” category. First, Mao Tse-tung was honored by oblivious New Yorkers, with their Empire State Building aglow in red…...
Friday, July 23, 2010
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on July 23, 2010 at 03:36 pm
The grand lesson of the 20th century is that Big Government retards economic progress. The evidence of this lesson goes beyond the socialist countries and their dramatic economic failures. Several…...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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on July 21, 2010 at 09:01 am
In most, if not all, states, pupils must pass a course in American history to receive a high-school diploma. Unfortunately, when it comes to our country’s economic history, most students…...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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on July 14, 2010 at 02:12 pm
I’ve never participated in a Tea Party rally. My natural habitat is a classroom or behind a keyboard. That said, I’ve had a lot of contact with Tea Party people,…...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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on July 13, 2010 at 11:40 am
Recently, Bill O’Reilly interviewed John Stossel about the dangerous situation along Arizona’s porous border with Mexico. Stossel is probably my favorite reporter. I admire the way he demolishes popular myths,…...
Friday, July 02, 2010
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on July 2, 2010 at 10:07 am
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the bewildering array of economic data, statistics, charts, and graphs floating around. Often, we economists can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s hard…...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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on June 29, 2010 at 08:44 am
I was in Washington last week, meaning I was able to observe, on-site and up close, the reaction to President Obama’s remarkable switch in leadership in Afghanistan from the bizarre…...
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