Stem Cell Politics: Advantage, Republicans
July 27, 2006 | by Joseph J. Horton | Topic: The Content of Character
As I watched the latest debate over stem cells in Washington, I was struck by the Democrats’ confidence that this could be a winning issue for them in the fall elections. Yes, in recent years public support for stem cell … Read more>
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Minimum Wage Freezes Out the Young
July 17, 2006 | by Tracy Miller | Topic: The Path to Freedom
A few days ago, I told my teenage daughter, who works at the local Dairy Queen, that the minimum wage in Pennsylvania is going to increase. Since she makes a little less than $6.25 per hour, which is the amount … Read more>
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Sheep for the Slaughter: Christians and Jews in the Sights of Islamic Jihadists
July 14, 2006 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The Global Challenge, White Papers
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Editor’s note: Dr. Earl Tilford is Professor of History and Fellow for the Middle East & Terrorism with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He enjoyed an extensive military career … Read more>
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Why Terrorism? Because it Works
July 14, 2006 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The Global Challenge
When Hamas terrorists tunneled from Gaza into southern Israel, killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted Corporal Galid Shalit, that probably put the nail in the coffin of any prospect for a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority. … Read more>
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The Bible is Unabashedly Pro-Immigrant
July 12, 2006 | by Jerry Bowyer | Topic: The American Story
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has been reprinted here with the author’s permission.
President Bush has proposed an immigration reform plan. It toughens border enforcement, but also creates incentives for illegal immigrants to come … Read more>
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Pennsylvania Legislature Raises Wages Again
July 11, 2006 | by Jeffrey M. Herbener | Topic: The Path to Freedom
Nothing exposes the ignorance or insincerity of policy makers more than support for the minimum wage. If wages could be set by government decree, then why stop at paltry $7.15 an hour as the Pennsylvania house recently did, and wouldn’t … Read more>
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Reasonable Patriotism
July 7, 2006 | by James R. Harrigan | Topic: The American Story
G. K. Chesterton, an Englishman, remarked in 1922 that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.” That creed was given 230 years ago by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration … Read more>
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Readings Outside the Box
July 7, 2006 | by Jason R. Edwards | Topic: The Persuaders
A joint book review of Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Cons and Bill Kauffman’s Look Homeward, America
Over a decade has passed since the fall of Soviet Communism, but in America, the two political parties essentially defined by their approach to the … Read more>
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VISION & VALUES: Threatening History
July 1, 2006 | by Richard Pipes | Topic: The DNA of Greatness, Vision & Values Mailings
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Sept. 27, 2005, Dr. Richard Pipes, the acclaimed Russian historian and Harvard professor of Sovietology, visited Grove City College at the invitation of The Center for Vision & Values to deliver the annual J. Howard Pew Lecture. … Read more>
