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Marvin Folkersma


    Thu, May 06, 2010

    When Regimes Reach Insanity


    On August 25, 1914, in a spate of disorder, shots rang out from the Belgian town of Louvain, instigating its German occupiers to launch a frenzy of looting and destruction. Crazed soldiers butchered ...

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    Fri, March 19, 2010

    The Progressives' Destruction of Constitutional Rights


    Editor's note: This is one of many coming articles from The Center for Vision & Values dealing with the topic of our April 15-16 conference on "The Progressives." Click here for ...

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    Thu, March 04, 2010

    The Politics of Arrogance


    On the eve of the German offensive against France in August 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm confidently asserted to some departing troops, "You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the ...

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    Thu, January 28, 2010

    The Relevance of Scott Brown


    Republicans have greeted Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts with the sort of relief expressed by Winston Churchill when he learned that Pearl Harbor had prompted America to finally enter the war; ...

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    Wed, December 02, 2009

    Finally, An Honest Con Game


    "This is not funny, this is serious stuff!" intones a flock of furrow-browed politicos about that well-dressed couple who conned their way into a White House shindig. Yes and no, in that ...

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    Tue, November 24, 2009

    Barack and the Buchanan Precedent


    Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama's election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of ...

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    Fri, October 30, 2009

    Washington's Masque of the Red Death


    New administrations normally inspire commentators into rummaging through a thesaurus to extract that single phrase or word that is apposite to the times. Instead musing about a reincarnation of The ...

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    Thu, September 18, 2008

    A Tale of Two Narratives -- And the Palin Paradigm


    Reactions to Governor Palin's selection as Senator McCain's running mate ranged from laughter to incredulity and then from alarm to panic. Indeed, editorials on the danger she poses to Senator ...

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