Twenty Years Ago: A Giant Step Back from the Nuclear Precipice

December 28, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

The media is so obsessed with anniversaries that it almost seems a news story when the media misses an anniversary. That appears to be the case as December 2007 drifts away with no fanfare for a significant series of events … Read more>

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Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: Part II

December 27, 2007 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

There are those who say that the housing market is just one segment of our overall economy and bad loans are just a fraction of the housing market, so there is nothing to worry about. This viewpoint is wrong, because … Read more>

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Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: Part I

December 27, 2007 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

The U.S. housing market is hurting, as you undoubtedly know. Home foreclosures are the highest since record-keeping began 35 years ago. 1.69 percent of all outstanding mortgage loans have entered the foreclosure process. The median price of an American house … Read more>

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A Child’s Special Gift

December 20, 2007 | by | Topic: The DNA of Greatness

It is a statement of the obvious—both trite and troublesome—to acknowledge that most children today generally receive more than they need at Christmas, especially compared to children of times past, and particularly in America. They know the joy of receiving … Read more>

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Who is Missing? What Have We Lost?

December 18, 2007 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

A mother who has been taking medication finds that she is pregnant. She is told by her physician that the fetus has surely been irreversibly damaged. Her physician encourages her to have an abortion. Fortunately for college football fans, Pam … Read more>

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Heaven in the American Imagination: From the Puritans to the Present

December 17, 2007 | by | Topic: The Content of Character, White Papers

(Download the PDF white paper here.)

Editor’s Note: With the holiday season now upon us and with Christmas quickly approaching, people around the globe are preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. And with the birth of Jesus comes Read more>

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What Kind of President Do Christians Want?

December 13, 2007 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

In a recent radio interview I was asked the hypothetical question “If you had to choose between candidate A who did not profess to be a Christian but had extensive political experience and candidate B who was a devout Christian … Read more>

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VISION & VALUES CONCISE: Q&A with Dr. Charles Kesler

December 12, 2007 | by | Topic: Vision & Values Concise E-publications

Editor’s Note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere.  Read more>

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VISION & VALUES CONCISE: Q&A with Paul Kengor on “The Judge” (Part II)

December 6, 2007 | by | Topic: The American Story, Vision & Values Concise E-publications

Reagan’s Secret Weapon
in Winning the Cold War.

Editor’s Note: The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication and a regular feature from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. In this latest edition, the Center interviews its own Read more>

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VISION & VALUES CONCISE: Q&A with Paul Kengor on “The Judge” (Part I)

December 5, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge, Vision & Values Concise E-publications

Editor’s Note: “We never armed Saddam,” explains former Reagan top official, William P. Clark. “And to my knowledge, we certainly did not give him anything like WMD technology, or assist him in developing WMD.” The “V&V Q&A” is an e-publication Read more>

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Russia’s New October

December 3, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

“One man with one gun can control one hundred without one,” Lenin once said. The man who gave birth to Soviet Russia believed that strength is first and foremost a means of control, not of war. Exactly 90 years after … Read more>

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