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Reed inspires students for political and spiritual leadership

Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:36 by Bela Franklin
(CCU Student) This past Tuesday evening, Ralph Reed, a conservative political activist, delivered a speech in a crowded room on the Campus of Colorado Christian University.  Reed spoke masterfully of the relationship between Christianity an... [More]

Why the left won't resist jihad and sharia

Tuesday, 12 October 2010 07:32 by Phil Mitchell
(CCU Faculty) Nick Cohen of The Guardian bemoans the “seduction” of left-wing academics by Islamic radicalism.  Professors who disparage, ridicule, and condemn every Jewish and Christian expression of spirituality can’t find it... [More]
Categories:   Free speech | Islam
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Is tolerance the highest value?

Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:37 by William Watson
(CCU Faculty) As a professor of European history, I often travel to where tolerance supposedly reigns supreme.  Many Europeans consider Americans to be very intolerant.  During my last visit to Britain, while in the social hall of an Anglic... [More]

Have the Colorado Republicans come undone?

Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:14 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Oct. 10) “Not so fast,” warns the movie hero.  He’ll make sure the cad or the con man doesn’t get away with it.  One side in American politics has always been the party of “not so fast,” put... [More]

Higher ed consumers amply protected by existing regs

Friday, 8 October 2010 11:04 by John Andrews
A story in today's Denver Post about the vigilant yet balanced regulatory monitoring of Westwood College by both federal and state authorities perfectly illustrates the point made by Krista Kafer's recent policy brief and Bill Armstrong's nationally-... [More]

If 2010 election chastens Obama, what's the 2012 outlook?

Friday, 8 October 2010 10:38 by Greg Schaller
What a "chastened" Obama might mean looking forward to 2012 With polls predicting a significant increase for Republicans in both the House and the Senate, political pundits have begun considering what this might mean for the Obama Presidency ove... [More]
Categories:   Elections
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Krannawitter's primer can help students exercise citizenship

Tuesday, 5 October 2010 11:04 by Matt Lenell
(CCU Student) I would suggest that every student of Colorado Christian University should read a copy of Dr. Thomas Krannawitter’s Introduction to Citizenship for New Americans. Regardless of a student's stance on politics, Dr. Krannawitter&rsqu... [More]

TEA parties key to conservative resurgence

Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:42 by Mark Hillman
(Centenial Fellow) The Republican Party wasn't always a conservative party.  Waves of conservative insurgency and resurgency during the past 50 years have transformed the Grand Old Party into the only major party with a core constituency that de... [More]
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Categories:   Conservatism | Tea Party
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Better Colorado schools at 70 cents on the dollar

Monday, 4 October 2010 11:30 by Bill Moloney
(Denver Post, Oct. 3) The 18th century English lexicographer Samuel Johnson famously discovered virtue in the prospect of being hanged in the morning because said circumstance "concentrated the mind wonderfully." Similarly, public officials all acros... [More]

Before you vote on those Colorado ballot issues

Friday, 1 October 2010 09:42 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Coloradans will begin voting by mail in mid-October, and a month from now the election will be over.  In addition to candidate races for local, state, and federal offices, there is a typically crowded ballot for statutes and constit... [More]