Electing Obama: How Religious Conservatives Can Help
June 30, 2008 | by Warren Throckmorton | Topic: The American Story
Religious conservatives can help Barack Obama win in November. Here’s how: stay home or go to the voting booth and cast ballots for Obama in surprising numbers. It could happen. First, let’s review.
Last year, religious conservatives were sweating over … Read more>
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Ms. Hillary’s Comeuppance
June 27, 2008 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The American Story
It was springtime. The year was 1969. The spirit of la revolucion was in the air.
Ms. Hillary Rodham and her Wellesley sisters sat in the crowd awaiting words of inspiration from their speaker. The commencement speaker that year was … Read more>
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America’s Debt Problem
June 25, 2008 | by Mark W. Hendrickson | Topic: The Path to Freedom
Thrift used to be a virtue in America. In Asia, thrift remains a way of life—for example, it is estimated that the average Chinese family’s thrift rate is 30 to 40 percent—which helps explain the rapid growth rates there.
A … Read more>
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On Cap Weinberger and Civility
June 20, 2008 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The American Story
Last week, the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College ran another of its “V&V Q&As,” this one with Peter Schweizer, whom I interviewed on his new book, Makers and Takers. As noted in the interview, Schweizer … Read more>
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Rising Food Prices: Who is to Blame?
June 18, 2008 | by Tracy Miller | Topic: The Path to Freedom
An Indian government official recently criticized the Bush administration for blaming the growing middle classes of developing countries, such as India and China, for rising food prices. Although he may have misinterpreted the president’s remarks, his and other Indian critics’ … Read more>
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Seduction by Air: Then and Now
June 16, 2008 | by Earl H. Tilford | Topic: The American Story
Air power is seductive. From the Army Air Service’s Col. Billy Mitchell’s Winged Defense, written in the aftermath of the slaughter fields of the Great War, to U.S. Air Force Colonel John Warden’s The Air Campaign, first published … Read more>
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V&V Q&A: Makers and Takers with Peter Schweizer
June 12, 2008 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The Content of Character, 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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The Cynical Politics of Global Warming and Its Hobgoblins
June 11, 2008 | by Mark W. Hendrickson | Topic: The American Story
“Cynical politics” may be a redundancy, but it is hard to imagine a mo1re cynical political issue than global warming (GW). In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, Al Gore called for a “wrenching transformation of society.” Leftists, … Read more>
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RFK and RR: United in Life and Death
June 9, 2008 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The American Story
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article first appeared in National Review Online.
Last week, specifically, June 5, 2008, was the 40th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy, one of the most beloved politicians of his … Read more>
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Signs of Poor Governance: Is America Becoming One of the Worst?
June 6, 2008 | by Mark W. Hendrickson | Topic: The Path to Freedom
A recent International Monetary Fund research report listed the countries expected to suffer the worst currency depreciation—that is, the worst inflation—this year. Zimbabwe (a mind-boggling 300,000 percent-plus), Venezuela (25.7 percent), Bolivia (15.1 percent), Nicaragua (13.8 percent), and Argentina (9.2 percent) … Read more>
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Devouring the Clintons
June 3, 2008 | by Paul G. Kengor | Topic: The Content of Character
The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is a raucous place. Not long ago, during the Christmas season, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—stepping back from his repeated proclamation that “God d— America!”—paused to damn the former president of America: As … Read more>
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How to Avoid Being Bamboozled
June 2, 2008 | by Marvin J. Folkertsma | Topic: The American Story
What a difference a century makes, specifically a turn of the century. Shortly after the 19th century ended, the United States had a president who was the real deal, whose honesty, sincerity and courage would be challenged only by those … Read more>






