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Lawrence Meyers

In Crisis, Faith and Reason Trump Atheism and Radical Islam

“I did a terrible thing and even though I know God will forgive me, I’ll never be able to forgive myself”.  How many times have we heard those words?  What do they really mean?  My book, Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow examines the issue of God’s forgiveness through the [...]
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Lawrence Meyers

The Veteran and Teacher That Demanded Individual Exceptionalism

Edwin David Barlow is dead.  This is a fact.  There are other facts, too.  One fact is that he died on December 17, 1990.  Another fact is that he taught at Horace Greeley High School for over thirty-six years.  Yet another fact is that he was the first recipient of the Teacher of the Year [...]
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Patrick K. O'Donnell

The U.S. Open, Flash Gordon, Inglorious Basterds, and the Commando Raid to Kill Bin Laden

This June 13—19, the best golfers in the world will walk the lush green fairways of Bethesda, Maryland’s Congressional Country Club during the 111th U.S. Open. These great athletes are heroes to many, but they aren’t the biggest heroes to stride across the club’s greens. That distinction belongs to a group that didn’t come to [...]
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Sam Weiss

A History of Nation Building – Part 5

Apartheid. If there is an 800 lb. gorilla looming over the legacy of colonialism, apartheid is a prime candidate for it. That it qualifies as morally evil is debatable only by invoking cultural relativism, which out of ideological prejudice hypocritically rejects it. Eight nations were eventually founded from the British colonies in southern Africa, all of [...]
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Peter R. Huessy

The New Terrorism: A Nuclear Iran and Future Arms Control

Now that new START has been ratified by the US Senate and is apparently close to ratification by the Russian government, it might be useful to ask “What is the Future of Nuclear Arms Control?” Most Americans would think that the two most urgent threats are nuclear weapons in the hands of the Pyongyang regime [...]
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Sam Weiss

A History of Nation Building – Part 2

I now turn to the other side of the coin, the efforts of the Soviet Union to create a power bloc in Eastern Europe, with a small aside into the Soviet Union itself. The Iron Curtain – Post-World War II Failures Although it seems outrageous on general principle, it remains that what the Soviet Union did with [...]
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Sam Weiss

A History of Nation Building – Part 1

We regularly hear the term “nation building” these days, but there is a woeful lack of discussion of the history of the practice. Given how rarely it has happened that is understandable, but there are valuable lessons to be learned from the history of the practice. Germany and Japan – Post-World War II Successes The best known [...]
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Sun Tzu

Big Dupes at Big Peace: Dupes of the Year

This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century is based on an unprecedented [...]
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John  Donovan

Sometimes, Making a Mistake Can Be the Best Thing You Ever Do…

Around here, we appreciate the efforts of volunteers, from the USO to Soldier’s Angels and beyond.  Here’s the story of another angel, in a different war, in an America most of us never knew, and those who did know it probably remember it only dimly. Not that the spirit hasn’t remained.  It’s just sometimes quiescent as the “cool [...]
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John  Donovan

December 16, 1944

On a cold, foggy morning, 66 years ago, there were panzers in the mist… All pictures courtesy the US National Archives. The first two come from captured german film of the opening phases of the Battle of the Bulge, and show a King Tiger of Kampgruppe Peiper moving through the Belgian forest, and a german Landser [...]
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