Or will they undo it? Enroute to a defeat for governor of Virginia, the Democrat blamed his loss on “the slogan from hell: ‘No Car Tax.’” That was Don Beyer when Jim Gilmore beat him in 1997.
Unseated as governor of Ark...
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Editor: Fire up a group blog and you never know who may want in. A Denver businessman asked me if his daughter and her college pal could try out as contributors for us. Three minutes into the first meeting, after getting past the unnerving ...
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The Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University maintains this online discussion forum as a group blog with reader comments moderated at the editor's discretion and the open invitation for friends of CCU to register and contribute their own...
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John Lennon’s 1971 lyrics to “Imagine” reflected the head Beatle's lofty idealism -- which was embraced by many, while others attacked the song's brazen, impudent, hardened, and bold promotion of socialism.
Imagine there's no...
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In the age of Obama, the arrest of a prominent Black Harvard professor on the steps of his own home was sure to ignite a discussion about the state of race relations in America.
Upon his return from an overseas trip Henry Louis Gates and his driver ...
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(Wellfleet, MA - July 20) This is a small Cape Cod community –about 500 people when I was growing up- now part of Massachusetts’ National Seashore Park. It's also home to a few hardy souls with whom I shared the experience of a one-...
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"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers," said Barack Obama in his inaugural address. You wonder why, in spite of the fact that there are reportedly 350 million Buddhists around the world making it the 4th ...
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Heading into the 2008 elections, the Democratic Party reeled in a whopper of a catch, $385,000,000, from 57 different organized labor unions. In Q&A at Issue Friday on July 17, I misquoted that figure as coming just from the UAW and just to...
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'76 Blog is an experiment in civic discussion, a new venture still finding its direction. Contributors from inside and outside the CCU community have come forward in the early weeks. Glad to have all of them.
But one thing we're mi...
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Government-run health care just keeps getting better and better. "One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a <!--more-->counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nur...
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