Good Thinking and Good Citizenship
Good thinking can lead to good citizenship because it imbues a culture with courage, justice, and morals. ...
Opinion
How Great Is “The Great Gatsby”?
Baz Luhrmann’s direction of The Great Gatsby wonderfully depicts on screen the grandeur that epitomizes the setting throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel...
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Christians Rebuke God
One of the primary justifications for the welfare state comes from Christians. Yet the welfare state, with its system of coercion and compulsion,...
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If Thinking Is Obsolete, So Is Virtue
Columnist Thomas Sowell recently opined that the ability to think is being lost, and if thinking is lost so are other virtues. ...
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Honest Examination of Race
If one is strategizing on how to improve the lives of the poorest black people, he wants to leave off his to-do list...
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Words That Replace Thought
If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, "diversity" should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. ...
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Bouncing Ball Politics: From the Housing Bubble to Middle East Democracy
If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to...
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Book Review: Glenn Beck’s “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”
Glenn Beck's latest book, Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns, exposes plenty of the myths being promoted by the "controllists" as he calls...
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GOP Doesn’t Have a Hispanic Problem
Looking at Byron York's belated discovery that Romney's defeat was due to a lack of white, not Hispanic, voters. ...
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Is Thinking Obsolete?
It is always amazing how many serious issues are not discussed seriously, but instead simply generate assertions and counter-assertions. On television talk shows,...
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Liberal Suffering and Confusion
The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work. ...
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The Art of the Impossible
Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of...
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Fashioning a Prison of Twisted Words
Only a blockhead can unlearn the dictionary. But this is, increasingly, what many Americans have done on marriage, war, sexual relations — and...
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Stop Washington’s Latest Tax Grabs
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is so eager to get an Internet sales tax bill passed that he has skipped the normal committee...
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Question for Stephen Hawking: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Though scientist Stephen Hawking said in a recent speech at Cal Tech that general relativity and quantum theory can enable us to account...
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