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Young skulls full of green mush

Friday, 20 November 2009 10:54 by Lafayette Paoli
('76 Contributor) As any visitor to Cuba will tell you, slogans like "Hasta la victoria siempre" (towards victory, always) or "Socialismo or muerte" (socialism or death) are dotted here and there all over the Caribbean island for fear that the long-s... [More]

232 Years of Thanksgiving Proclamations

Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:06 by Greg Schaller
Editor's Note: Today was the last day of classes at Colorado Christian University, prior to a ten-day Thanksgiving break.  As students headed home, Prof. Greg Schaller compiled the quotations below to remind them of our country's cheri... [More]

How I became a Christian and a conservative

Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:00 by William Watson
(CCU Faculty) My conservatism is not due to either nature or nurture.  Neither my parents nor my grandparents were religious or conservative.  In fact, everyone in my family was Democrat until the Reagan administration, yet now none of them... [More]

Stuck in 9/10 mentality, Dems don't 'get' interrogation

Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:52 by Greg Schaller
(CCU Faculty) Interrogation in normal police procedures is intended to gain information about a crime, with the ultimate goal being to gain a conviction.  When police question a suspect or person with knowledge of a crime, they are trying to bui... [More]

On fast-changing landscape, a tale of three Novembers

Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:00 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) What sets America apart from other countries is the extraordinary reservoir of idealism that has been a constant in our  national life from the  very beginning.  The national narrative-a.k.a.  The American Drea... [More]
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Centennial hosts Western legislators conference

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:28 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Recovering the Founders' Constitution in American state and federal government, and reviving the civic virtues and character our Founders saw as indispensable to liberty -- one huge challenge in the political realm and another in the cul... [More]

Health care the capitalist way: Part 2

Sunday, 15 November 2009 07:33 by Jimmy Sengenberger
(Regis Student) Ronald Reagan once said, “Individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything we’ve accomplished.” Indeed, everything that has made America great has come from empowering the people, including and esp... [More]
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Let's stop warping words

Sunday, 15 November 2009 07:28 by Peg Brady
('76 Contributor) Rhetoric often manipulates our understanding through bias-laden misuse of language.  We all have encountered this.  "Progressive, " for example, suggests innovative, visionary and benevolent.  But most "progressive" p... [More]

Booklists on faith & freedom

Saturday, 14 November 2009 05:36 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Hearing from Greg Schaller, my CCU professor pal, about an online book club starting up at Redstate.com, I compared their list with mine as compiled a few years back at the suggestion of Kevin Teasley, my school-voucher activist pal.&nbs... [More]

Videos now posted on candidates for Senator & Governor

Friday, 13 November 2009 06:20 by John Andrews
('76 Editor) Tom James of People's Press Collective.com was at CCU to film the Nov. 10 senatorial forum as well as the Nov. 3 gubernatorial forum.  Below are the links for both video files.  PPC, as they call themselves, will partner with C... [More]