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Workshop explores restoring Western Civ in classrooms

Monday, 19 April 2010 11:50 by John Andrews
"Best Practices in Teaching Western Civilization" was the topic for an all-day workshop hosted at Colorado Christian University by the Centennial Institute on April 16.  Over 30 educators from across the state, representing five colleges and thr... [More]

Leftist crowd at CU bullies a lone conservative woman

Monday, 12 April 2010 14:45 by John Andrews
Editor's Note: The annual Conference on World Affairs, hosted by CU-Boulder each spring since 1949, wrapped up last week with at least one conservative undergrad having a sour taste in her mouth from the liberal intolerance, intellectual bullying, an... [More]

Repeal and replace Obamacare, GOP candidate urges

Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:10 by John Andrews
Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, one of several contenders for the Republican nomination in Colorado's 7th congressional district, pledged Tuesday night at CCU that if elected, "I will fight to repeal this health care monstrosity and replace it w... [More]

How Easter ended

Saturday, 3 April 2010 07:55 by John Andrews
(Townhall.com, April 2) Dear Grandson: I risk writing you this letter in order to pass along some censored history.  Today’s America of 2050, officially atheist by law, is a very different place from the “nation under God” of m... [More]

Institute plans Western Conservative Summit for July 9-11. Plus other Centennial events on spring-summer calendar

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 11:08 by John Andrews
A regional summit of conservative leaders from 15 Western states, California to Kansas, headlines the Centennial Institute's crowded calendar of policy events for spring and summer 2010. "We'll take a July weekend and energize the Right for challenge... [More]

Classicist points listeners through 'gateway to civilization'

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:48 by John Andrews
The Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem of the founding of Rome, provides a "gateway to civilization" for every thoughtful reader through its exploration of timeless truths of the human condition, a CCU audience was told on March 15.   Dr. Michael P... [More]

Long road to November started at caucuses

Sunday, 21 March 2010 05:00 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Mar. 21) Political inexperience was the gold standard among 30 of my neighbors at a precinct caucus in Centennial last week.  Fellow Republicans viewed the 2010 contenders for senator and governor with the hard eyes of swindle vict... [More]

Business beware: Hick & Ritter are faking

Saturday, 20 March 2010 07:16 by John Andrews
How convenient, now that Bill Ritter is no longer running for governor and John Hickenlooper is hoping to succeed him, Hick suddenly discovers after months of silence that the incumbent Democrat was "anti-business" in brutalizing the oil and gas indu... [More]

He painted the true Colorado

Sunday, 7 March 2010 08:01 by John Andrews
(Denver Post, Mar. 7) “Isn’t it pretty to think so?” mutters a world-weary American to his paramour at the end of a Hemingway novel.  The acid dismissal of love typifies suspicion of idealism in any form, a timeless temptation ... [More]

Ex-radical warns of Islamist threat in CCU talk

Thursday, 4 March 2010 15:54 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Tawfik Hamid, an Egyptian medical doctor once recruited to a radical Islamist cell by Ayman al-Zawahiri (himself an MD in Egypt who has since become second in command of Al Qaeda), spoke on "Confronting Radical Islam" to a lunchtime audi... [More]