Charles Wiley Lecture: “Modern Youth in a Time of Economic Crisis”

March 31, 2009 | by | Topic: The DNA of Greatness

Charles Wiley of Accuracy In Media will be speaking at Grove City College at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, March 31 in the PEW Recital Hall, on the topic “Modern Youth in a Time of Economic Crisis.”

Says the speaker-rating site … Read more>

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In Praise of Capitalist Exploitation

March 27, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

For well over a century, socialists, progressives, and even many Christians have railed against the capitalist exploitation of workers. They denounce capitalists—whether the Carnegies and Fricks of yesteryear or the Nikes of today—for paying low wages for hard work.

Their … Read more>

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More Bailouts, More Fed

March 25, 2009 | by | Topic: The Battle for the Mind

In the last week, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve each announced a major policy initiative for the stated purpose of reversing our economic woes. Don’t hold your breath.

The Treasury’s gambit is a proposed public-private partnership to remove … Read more>

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Communicating Obama’s Fiscal Disaster

March 23, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Newsflash, March 20, 2009: The Congressional Budget Office today forecast a U.S. budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for this year.

For many Americans, including some Democrats, there’s tremendous frustration over President Obama’s economic policies. Worse, they know that a huge … Read more>

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Anger at AIG

March 19, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

A raw nerve was struck this week. Reports that employees of the insurance giant AIG—the recipient of four federal bailouts totaling more than $170 billion—were now receiving $165 million in bonuses, caused an explosion of public anger, even bloodthirsty rage. … Read more>

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The Employee Free Choice Act—Why UNIONS Will Be Hurt

March 16, 2009 | by | Topic: The Law

The Obama administration is pushing again for the adoption of a bill with the misleading title, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). One of its major provisions would make employers recognize unions on the basis of “card checks,” that is, … Read more>

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The Ghost of John Maynard Keynes

March 13, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

The British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) turns out to have been something of a prophet. He once wrote that “practical men,” as opposed to theoreticians, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Ironically, the defunct economist who is … Read more>

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Who is Ayn Rand? Jennifer Burns’ Brilliant New Biography of a Controversial Icon

March 12, 2009 | by | Topic: The Persuaders

“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” By Jennifer Burns | Oxford University Press, USA (October 2009) | 384 pp. | List Price: $27.95

Prior to the 1990s, few scholarly studies of post-World War II American conservatism … Read more>

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Crisis—What Crisis?

March 11, 2009 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

“Dear Iranians, your children have put the first indigenous satellite into orbit…. [T]he Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space.”
—Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, February 3, 2009

If a tree falls in the forest, and the … Read more>

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2009 – Let Their First Word Be “Washington”

March 10, 2009 | by | Topic: American Founders Luncheon Series Lectures, Streaming Video

Dr. Steven Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology at Grove City College, talks about the Founders and public education.… Read more>

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Rush and Rick

March 9, 2009 | by | Topic: The American Story

I was in the third row as Rush Limbaugh spoke for nearly 90 minutes to a wildly exuberant audience as he closed this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. I was also in the third row to … Read more>

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Into the Fiscal Abyss

March 6, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

The U.S. Treasury recently released its “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government.” In case you had any doubts, our government’s finances are in a terrible mess. According to the report, under generally accepted accounting principles (the ones that … Read more>

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Where Have You Gone, Bill Casey?

March 5, 2009 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker.

“We win and they lose.”
—Ronald Reagan, January 1977

As an unprecedented, colossal “stimulus” package was passed by the new president and Congress, something rather extraordinary … Read more>

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Three Books for the Current Crisis

March 2, 2009 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

When my friend Paul Kengor, the executive director of The Center for Vision & Values here at Grove City College, asked me what three books I would recommend to students if they wanted to broaden their economic education, my answer … Read more>

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