By Paul Kengor
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values
February 6 was the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. It comes at an appropriate time. February is also the month of Presidents Day and the birthday of Lincoln, the other Republican standard-bearer. Every Republican presidential candidate tries to claim the mantle of Reagan: “I believe [...]

 
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By Dr. Paul Kengor
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

America’s Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They’re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe—like, say, eternity. They tend not to have knee-jerk reactions to issues of the moment.
And so, [...]

by Dr. Mark Hendrickson
as posted at The Center for Vision and Values

On Tuesday evening, I had the honor of attending the State of the Union address as the guest of Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-03). Here are my impressions in abbreviated form:
The address seemed more like a rewrite of previous speeches than [...]

By Paul Kengor
As posted at The American Spectator
Obama strategist David Axelrod set his sights on capitalist pig Mitt Romney long before Newt Gingrich did.
Conservatives are upset with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry for their criticisms of Mitt Romney and his work at Bain Capital. Some of the statements smack of classic left-wing class warfare — [...]

By Dr. Paul Kengor
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at American Thinker.
This past Christmas, the people of North Korea were without their messiah. That is, their self-anointed messiah.
For a sense of just how bad was Kim Jong-Il, I thought I’d share a few [...]

By Dr. Paul Kengor
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator today.
Vaclav Havel is dead. Among other forces and powers, he is among the seven individuals most responsible for peacefully ending the Cold War; the great liberators who brought freedom and democracy. They [...]

By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
As posted at the Center for Vision and Values

In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.”
Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior to what?
Mr. [...]

By Dr. Paul Kengor
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

This week hunters across America storm the woods loaded for deer. For yet another indication of how times have changed, consider this account of Deer Season a half century ago:
My mother’s family lived in Emporium, Pennsylvania, as did dozens of their [...]

As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

Whoever takes the oath of office as President of the United States in January of 2013 will inherit an economy facing multiple challenges:
Undoubtedly, still-escalating federal spending will have the government bumping up against the debt ceiling again. By then, total federal debt will [...]

by Randy Cole
As posted at The Center for Vision and Values

When the world learned of the capture and subsequent death of Muammar Gaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, academics and pundits and political leaders looked to official responses before framing their own. The United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, and the National Transitional [...]