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Dear Vitalie: We fear Obama, and here's why

Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:30 by William Watson
I recently got an email from a university professor in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova.  He was my colleague, when I was a visiting Fulbright professor to his country five years ago, and he visited CCU in 1998, debating me publically on wh... [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]

Totalitarian roots of political correctness

Friday, 12 February 2010 12:02 by William Watson
(CCU Faculty) In a graduate seminar at the University of California 30 years ago, I made the mistake of using the word ‘gals’ instead of ‘women’.   The feminists in the class verbally assaulted me at being insensitiv... [More]

Why I'm skipping 'Avatar'

Thursday, 4 February 2010 07:51 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) "Avatar" with its leftist plotline, where capitalism and America are villains, is amusingly debunked by Denver Post columnist Mike Rosen today. Reviews in National Review, Weekly Standard, and Commentary did likewise. I'll be s... [More]

Alinsky connection helps explain Obama's first year

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 02:33 by Natasha Starceski
(CCU Student) Since Barack Obama has entered office, the emotional state of the country has shifted from a polarized sense of hope to constant unease and skepticism.  To understand how and why this has occurred, it’s first and foremost a n... [More]

Black conservative: Reid is no racist

Friday, 15 January 2010 03:49 by Joseph C. Phillips
('76 Contributor) Harry Reid is not racist and Republican calls for his resignation are misguided.  There I said it.  The senate majority leader has recently come under fire for remarks attributed to him in the new book “Game Change.... [More]

A Socialist President? Thinking It Through - 1

Friday, 15 January 2010 03:41 by Tom Graham
('76 Contributor) During a recent “Meet the Press” the host, with feigned indignation, asked a Senator, “You’re not calling the President a Socialist, are you?” Without waiting for a response, he repeated the question fo... [More]

Tall Towers of Islam and America

Wednesday, 6 January 2010 15:06 by William Watson
What does Burj Khalifa, the world’s new tallest building dedicated this week in Dubai, have to do with the Twin Towers destroyed eight years ago?  In Islamic Law non-Muslim buildings are not allowed to be higher than Muslim ones, especiall... [More]

Christ's birth rebukes godless politics

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 06:24 by Hilmar von Campe
('76 Contributor) There is only one way out of the mess we are in: to face the truth of how we got into it and apply the proper medicine. How did the United States, the leader of the free world, get on to the road to a totalitarian system financed by... [More]

Al Gore and the Priests of Quetzalcoatl

Monday, 7 December 2009 02:46 by William Watson
(CCU Faculty) When the Spanish first arrived in Mexico, they discovered that Aztec high priests sacrificed 10,000 still-beating hearts to the god Quetzalcoatl every December 22nd in order to cause the days to stop growing shorter.  This religiou... [More]