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Sirico on Benedict XVI
Listening to the mainstream media’s reporting of Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical you would think that the Pope was several degrees to the left of Karl Marx on so called…
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Filling the opinion pages
Charlotte Observer readers learned this week some of the basic elements of annexation reform, thanks to an op-ed piece from John Locke Foundation Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst.…
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Acton Institute’s New Film: The Birth of Freedom
The Acton Institute has a new release due out this summer titled: The Birth of Freedom. From the Trailer it looks like a powerful film, and in the list of…
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Wal-Mart, leadership, and (hire) education
“Great leaders focus their followers on serving one specific core group. By serving this core group, the organization can better serve other groups as well. For example, an executive from…
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What Some are Saying About Lotteries
It’s a fact that revenue is down. Lottery advocates argue that a little tweaking here and there will improve the system. The highest per capita lottery sales come from the…
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Frankenstein’s Monster
Kevin Schmeising reviews a new book for the Acton Institute, titled The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932, by Douglas Slawson. This book tells of the National Education Association’s early efforts…
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The Pope on Individual Freedom
Over at the Acton Institute web page there is an excellent article by Atlas Foundation President Alejandro Chafuen on Pope Benedict XVI’s views on freedom and the individual. An important…
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Democracy, and Variations Thereof
While some of the problems with democratic societies can be traced to the peculiarities of democracy itself, this article from the Acton Institute offers some ideas to ponder when juxtaposed…
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Rejecting Secular Values
The June 2004 Southern Baptist Convention national meeting rejected a resolution that called on Baptist parents to remove their children from public schools, and instead place them in home schools…