In his inaugural address, the President said, “For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.” He didn’t trot out his usual “women earn 77 cents on a man&r...
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, once said, “It cannot too often be stated that the issue of welfare is not what it costs those who provide it, but what it costs those who receive it.”
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('76 Editor) The other day I had got an unusual email from a young student whom I don't know. Nor do I know how she happened to write me. The email said this:
"My name is Margaret and I'm a 7th grader at [name omitted] middle school in O...
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(CCU Student) On Monday night three Colorado legislators came to the Centennial Institute in Lakewood and discussed hot issues of 2013 that will arise in the legislative session this year. Guns, gay marriage, and health care heated up much of th...
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(Centennial Fellow) One of the peculiarities of American politics is the astonishment that washes over some people when they realize the politicians they elected intend to act like they’ve been elected.
Elections, as the oft-quoted (and just as...
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Editor: On today's 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, many perspectives could be offered on the immense cost of abortion on demand in American life. Paramount is the one-by-one tragedy of millions of babies killed in their mothers' ...
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As we recently concluded the spring semester’s first week of classes here at CCU, it dawned on me that in all of my Political Science classes we were, in some respect or another, talking about the troubles of our country and the decline of our ...
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(Boston) Beyond the extravagantly and justly praised Lincoln the best of the holiday movies is the riveting Ben Affleck vehicle Argo based on the true story of the daring rescue of six American Embassy employees hiding in the Canadian Embassy during ...
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Since Connecticut's strict gun control didn't prevent the Newtown horror, policymakers shouldn't impose new restrictions that disarm the law-abiding, says John Andrews in the January round of Head On TV debates. Just do the math, replies Susan ...
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Since the voters thought Mitt Romney could not save us from the fix we're in, who's going to do it? The fiscal cliff is just one of many cliffs that has threatened us with a mighty tumble over its edge, and Congress is more nearly the sneak wh...
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