Millionaires in America

April 29, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Recently, CNN’s Money.com posted an article bearing the title, “U.S. Millionaires Population Expanded by 8 Percent in 2010.” According to the article, there are now approximately 8.4 million millionaires in the United States, and last year’s increase was due primarily … Read more>

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Bigger Than the Royal Wedding

April 26, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine.

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Playing the Ostrich on Price Inflation

April 26, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

By the time you read this, there’s a good chance that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will have held the Fed’s first press conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee—the Fed committee that controls monetary policy. Leading … Read more>

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Downgrading America: S&P Declares the Obvious

April 25, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

If you had been living on another planet the last three years, you would be shocked to learn that the credit-rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P), has placed the current AAA credit rating for the debt issued by the U.S. … Read more>

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Sterilizing Those Pesky Humans: Earth Day with Paul Ehrlich

April 20, 2011 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

Every April 22 is Earth Day. As one who studies Soviet Russia, I can’t help notice that the day coincides with the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. The inaugural Earth Day occurred April 22, 1970, no less than Lenin’s birth centennial.… Read more>

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The Signing of Jackie Robinson: How Faith Helped Racial Healing

April 18, 2011 | by | Topic: The Content of Character, The DNA of Greatness

Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Crosswalk.com.

For many Americans, April 15 marked Tax Day. But it also marked an event much more redeeming. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. The … Read more>

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Donald “Herbert Hoover” Trump

April 18, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine.

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On Margaret Sanger, the Soviets, and Democrats

April 15, 2011 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

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

“[W]e could well take example from Russia,” advised Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, “where birth control instruction is part of the regular welfare service of the … Read more>

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How “Radical” is the Ryan Plan?

April 14, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Question for those of you concerned about the size of federal debts and deficits: Would you endorse a plan which would add another five or six trillion dollars to the federal debt over the next decade while increasing Uncle Sam’s … Read more>

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Christian Charity and the Welfare State

April 13, 2011 | by | Topic: The Content of Character, The Path to Freedom, White Papers

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Editor’s Note: “When government confines itself to protecting each individual’s God-given right to be safe in his or her own person and property, then people are free to go about their business as Read more>

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Money Can’t Buy You Economic Prosperity

April 11, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Defenders of the Federal Reserve have been out in force recently declaring the triumph of Money Printing 2, James Grant’s suggested more truthful term for “quantitative easing.” Some pundits point to an 18-percent increase in the S&P 500 since last … Read more>

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SPECIAL REPORT: “Exceptional America?”

April 11, 2011 | by | Topic: Annual Conference Lectures, The American Story

A review of last week’s Center debate between Dinesh D’Souza, president of The King’s College and Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, written for The American Spectator.

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Nightmares and the Secret Tax

April 11, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine.

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“We Want to be Cowboys, Baby!”

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Jason R. Edwards speaks about the significance of the Frontier Thesis in the case for American Exceptionalism. … Read more>

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Bill Buckley’s America

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Lee Edwards talks about William Buckley at the America; Still the Last Best Hope? annual conference.… Read more>

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The American Entrepreneur

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Craig E. Columbus & Dr. Jeffrey M. Herbener speak about the American entrepreneur. … Read more>

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From the Mountains to the Prairies

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Andrew Harvey & Dr. H. Collin Messer speak at the America; Still the Last Best Hope? annual conference.… Read more>

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America – The European Perspective

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Joseph Pearce, writer-in-residence and associate professor of literature at Ave Maria University, gives the conference keynote address.… Read more>

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The American Century: From Henry Luce to Ronald Reagan

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Paul Kengor speaks at the America; Still the Last, Best Hope? annual conference.… Read more>

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Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Marvin J. Folkertsma & Dr. Mark W. Henderickson deliver a lecture at the annual conference.… Read more>

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America: Still Exceptional?

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

A Debate Between Dinesh D’Souza, president of The King’s College and Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners.… Read more>

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The Founders’ Republic

April 8, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Gillis J. Harp and Dr. Mark W. Graham speak at the Center for Vision and Values’ annual conference.… Read more>

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American Exceptionalism from John Winthrop to Barack Obama

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Gary Scott Smith outlines the history of the exceptionalism in America.… Read more>

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Journalism’s Last, Best Hope

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

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Science and Technology at the Heart of American Experience

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Stacy Birmingham and Dr. William Birmingham explain how technology and science are at the heart of the American Experience. … Read more>

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Does America Face Irreversible Decline?

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Michael Medved talks about why claims about the inevitable doom of our Great Republic constitute one of the ten big lies about America. … Read more>

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From Sea to Shining Sea: An Overview of American Exceptionalism

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

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America’s March of Folly

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: The American Story, The Path to Freedom

The budget deficits from the first two years of the Obama administration are of sufficient magnitude to spring Dr. “Billions and Billions” Carl Sagan from his grave. Sagan could sue for copyright infringement for misuse of astronomical numbers.

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Immigration and American Exceptionalism

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor and Jurisprudence & Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, give a lecture at the “America: Still the Last Best Hope?” conference.… Read more>

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American Exceptionalism Through the Eyes of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Grove City College President Richard G. Jewell ’67 talks about Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the exceptionalism of America.… Read more>

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From Washington to Eisenhower: From Isolation to Exporting Exeptionalism

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. Andrew Mitchell and Dr. J.D. Wyneken speak at the “America: Still the Last Best Hope?” annual conference.… Read more>

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Evangelicals and Tocqueville Together

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. P.C. Kemeny & Dr. Michael L. Coulter assess the religion of 19th century America. … Read more>

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Exceptions to Exceptionalism

April 7, 2011 | by | Topic: America: Still the Last Best Hope?, Streaming Video

Dr. T, David Gordon & Dr. Steven L. Jones discuss the exceptionalism of America.… Read more>

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Obama vs. the Bushes: Comparing Costs and Coalitions from Libya to Iraq

April 5, 2011 | by | Topic: The American Story, The Global Challenge

The Libya situation is complicated. I envy no president stuck with the task. Among the complexities, the most daunting unknown is what’s behind the opposition. We would all like to see Moammar Gaddafi tossed to the ash-heap of history, but … Read more>

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V&V FLASHBACK — The Supreme Court’s Private Life

April 4, 2011 | by | Topic: The American Story

Editor’s note: This Friday, April 8, noted scholar and professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, Dr. Robert P. George, will be speaking at a conference on American exceptionalism hosted by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, Read more>

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V&V FLASHBACK — A Scene on Rhode Island Avenue

April 4, 2011 | by | Topic: The American Story

Editor’s note: This Friday, April 8, noted scholar and professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, Dr. Robert P. George, will be speaking at a conference on American exceptionalism hosted by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, Read more>

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A Nation of Takers

April 4, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine.

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The Roots of Tocqueville’s American Exceptionalism

April 1, 2011 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Editor’s note: Dr. T. David Gordon will be a participant in an April 7-8 conference hosted by The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College on American exceptionalism: “America: Still the Last Best Hope?”

It is not uncommon … Read more>

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