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Is Reagan's moral clarity still relevant today?

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:54 by Greg Schaller
Twenty-seven years ago this week, speaking before a meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan spoke about the moral crisis that faced America.  His topic ranged f... [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]

Milestones of 1860 remind us who we are

Thursday, 4 March 2010 17:01 by Greg Schaller
(CCU Faculty) 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency.  It is fitting that we recognize this anniversary, as Lincoln’s election marked a huge turning point in our nation’s history.  ... [More]

America in Vietnam: The Hinge of Fate

Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:40 by Bill Moloney
Review Essay on Lewis Sorley’s A Better War(Centennial Fellow) In the sixty-five years since the end of World War II the most significant and formative single event in American history- beyond any question- is the Vietnam War.  It reshaped... [More]

Primer on America's political ills & steps to a cure

Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:33 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Two important articles published recently, along with a classic from the early Reagan years, remind us how deep and grave are the pathologies threatening American self-government -- and map out the fundamental change of thinking we must ... [More]

Honor him today: The greatest American who ever lived

Friday, 12 February 2010 11:38 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) This is Lincoln's birthday.  It used to be a holiday in this country; no more.  Yet some of us still revere Abraham Lincoln as the greatest American who ever lived. He is a hero to me because of the moral penetration of hi... [More]

Time for 'We the Posterity' to do our part

Saturday, 6 February 2010 07:41 by Bill Sterrett
('76 Contributor) A personal viewpoint is hereby submitted by William Dent Sterrett III, this date February 6, 2010. In honor of the Founding Fathers and the United States Constitution, and as a proud member of the Posterity, so eloquently referenced... [More]

How should an American college teach American history?

Wednesday, 3 February 2010 06:44 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Particularly a college such as CCU, devoted to the same biblical truths and principles as most of our Founders?  Centennial Institute asked for advice on teaching our country's history to college students, from a dozen of the most t... [More]

Mass. rebuke to BHO recalls the 1938 humbling of FDR

Sunday, 24 January 2010 15:29 by Bill Moloney
When praising his own “accomplishments” Barack Obama has an unusual fondness for the word “unprecedented” though invariably his assertions lack any historical validity.  In contrast the voters of Massachusetts can now cla... [More]

Forgetting the Founders

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 06:23 by Jonathon Seidl
There's a case of Founding Father forgetfulness creeping through the GOP. Sarah Palin recently showed the extent of the infection. But it seems Colorado is not immune, and may be in desperate need of the vaccine. In a recent interview with Glenn Bec... [More]