A support group for families of US armed forces killed on duty will benefit from ticket sales and auction proceeds at Tribute to the Troops with Sarah Palin, May 2 at Colorado Christian University.
All revenue from the event is being donated to...
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(Editor: Venkatraj was invited to testify in the House Education Committee on Monday when SB-126, granting in-state college tuition to illegal aliens, was heard and ultimately rejected on a 7-6 vote. Here is his prepared testimony.) I am a Staf...
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(Centennial Fellow) There is not as yet – and may never be – a complete accounting of the human suffering and property losses that befell the people of Japan with the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
One thing everyone knows is t...
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(CCU Faculty) Thursday upon arriving on the CU Boulder campus, where I moonlight from CCU history professor job, I had a hard time finding a parking place to teach my 3pm Western Civilization class. Earlier that day I had received several ...
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(Denver Post, April 24) “To the Colorado renaissance.” That’s the oilman’s toast to the steelmaker and the railroad mogul in the new film version of “Atlas Shrugged.” As Ayn Rand’s epic novel of c...
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(Hilton Head, S.C.) Apparently unimpressed by the rumpled charm of GOP candidate Wendell Wilkie and untroubled that FDR was challenging the two term tradition set by George Washington, South Carolinians in 1940 gave Roosevelt a thunderous 96 % of the...
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(Centennial Fellow) It was the worst news I could get as an atheist: my agnostic wife had decided to become a Christian. Two words shot through my mind. The first was an expletive; the second was “divorce.”
I thought she was g...
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('76 Contributor) This evening, for the second time in a decade, I decided to add some of my own thoughts to our family's Seder. I love to hear myself talk of course, but I’m completely unqualified for actual sermonizing. Believe me...
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As conservatives, unlike the left with its belief that material causation is all, we know that ideas have consequences. To gird for the battle of ideas, I recommend not only Richard Weaver's 1948 classic by that title, but also Benjamin Wiker's...
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('76 Contributor) Lisa Wirthman writes that Planned Parenthood was bullied in the budget battle (Denver Post, April 15). Why does a billion dollar organization need a subsidy from U.S. taxpayers? Rather, Washington is using our tax money ...
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