This weekend, Glen talks with Dr. Paul Kengor (Executive Director of the Center for Vision and Values) about the importance of virtue and morality in popular government.  Glen also talks with Sara Mohsin (of Mohsin Mortgage Corporation) and Brian Kapp (of Kapp Scanlon Financial) about current economic trends and headlines.
Sara and Glen also share the [...]

Recent reports demonstrating increasingly unsafe public schools in Pennsylvania, and systemic cheating in Atlanta’s school system are just two more examples of America’s failing public education system.  Parents and students across the nation are begging for safe alternative educational systems.  The Wall Street Journal reports that 13 states passed school choice legislation that empowers individuals [...]

(Dave B.)
Blue Collar Commentary
With Dale McCoy
America’s workforce is suffering from a growing disconnect between labor and management, and part of this problem lies in our system of higher education.
When I graduated from high school and started working in 1979, the world was a much different place. The percentage of college graduates in the workforce [...]

“It shows, at great length, how the extreme left—namely the communist left—deliberately, cynically exploited the softer left, primarily progressives / liberals; the latter were unaware of the communists’ true, full intentions, or even that the communists were communists. … That said, not everyone on the liberal left was duped…. My heroes in the book are the liberal Democrats who weren’t suckered, or who, once fooled, repented, admitted their mistakes, and, in some cases, became excellent anti-communists. Really, this book is for liberals. I hope they will read it.”

“I’m convinced, from study after study, and years of observing public policy, from the New Deal to the Great Society, to (on the plus side) the successful decentralization / block-granting of welfare done by President Clinton and the Republican Congress in the 1990s, that addressing poverty in the federal way preached by modern progressives—secular or non-secular—is counter-productive, fostering dependency.”

Professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Paul Kengor—weighs in on the issue of “social justice.” The “most enthusiastic practitioners of social justice,” he notes, “tend to advocate Big Government collectivism, pursued via a single, seemingly ever-expanding federal government. And although ‘social justice,’ in its origins, does not mean socialism, many liberal Christians have veered to that extreme.” “Really,” Dr. Kengor concludes, “the debate is over means, not ends. Liberals must realize that conservatives are hardly lacking in compassion when they oppose transferring poverty solutions to a single authority in Washington. Conservatives simply have a different prescription they feel works better.”

This is a great policy brief that explains how gaming revenue actually increases Government Spending.  In the long run, it also increases property tax rates as well, making Pennsylvania less competitive and a more expensive place to live.
via the Allegheny Institute.
Has the availability of gaming money weakened the resolve of officials to make the hard [...]

Health Care “Swing Votes” are here!
One of the main tenets of the political left is that the United States is fundamentally flawed and needs to be “fixed.” According to liberals, the best way to fix our nation is to constantly increase the size and scope of government. Liberals believe that a larger and [...]

By Lindsey Burke
from The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry
March 2, 2010
This is a great question.
From the article…
While China rings in 2010 as the year of the tiger, American families and taxpayers might soon be able to refer to 2010 as the year school choice became the norm. Five states in particular are worth watching: Illinois, Indiana, [...]

By Dr. Mark Hendrickson
Originally published by The Center for Vision and Values
February 24, 2010
You may have seen the recent story about the 41-year-old doctor who graduated from medical school in 2003 with student-loan indebtedness of $250,000 that has since swelled to more than $555,000. She is now scheduled to pay $990 per month until she [...]

From the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
February 16, 2010
The bottom line is that property taxes will increase.
In this budget forecast scenario a Mt. Lebanon household with the municipality’s 2008 median income of $77,167 and owning a home with the median value of $190,000-that is correctly assessed-will see school real estate taxes go from the current [...]